Gross: I am loving being back with Albion

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Midfielder reflects on return to Albion.

Nick Szczepanik

2026-04-22T00:00+01:00

Pascal Gross returned to Albion in January after 18 months with Borussia Dortmund. 📸 by Paul Hazlewood.

Pascal Gross believes that his own performances have reached a new level now that he is fully integrated back into Brighton life after his return from Borussia Dortmund in January.

And he has enjoyed rediscovering the togetherness that he insists is behind the team’s good recent performances.

“I feel so comfortable here,” he said after the 3-0 victory over Chelsea. “I love my life here. My family loves it. Like my kids, I feel really comfortable, that helps. I know that there are so many good people here. There are so many good people I knew from before, team members, staff members. We do a lot off the pitch.

“I try to just be a really good team member and I think we are a strong team. When I was here before, that's what made us strong and made us achieve something special and that's needed as well.

Pascal Gross is loving being back at the Amex. 📸 by Paul Hazlewood.

“We always have talent but it's more needed than talent in the Premier League. You need talent plus mentality, plus togetherness, plus you really want to fight for each other. If someone is outplayed, the next one is there. If you make a mistake, everybody sprints back to help his teammate not to look bad. We have this at the moment and we are really hard to beat, I feel.

“And then talented moments will come out always but it doesn't work the other way around. It doesn't work if you want to show your talent without all the basics you bring to a football game and that's what we're doing, I think, really good at the moment.”

And he believes that a return to European football is a strong possibility. “I believe a lot, I always do,” he said. “I said today before the game, you first have to believe that you can do it before you can do it.

"If you don't believe, it's a waste of time because it's so tight. It doesn't mean until now we didn't achieve anything, but now the last four games really matter. So I said we really have to believe every single game we go in, we can win it and try our best. The point in Tottenham now is even nicer with the three points against Chelsea.”

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A feature of the Chelsea game was Pascal’s midfield battle with another former teammate, Moises Caicedo, which led to a warning to both players from referee Craig Pawson.

“Moises is for me probably one of the best if not the best defensive midfielders in the world,” he said. “He was incredible when he was here and the way he developed, I think he can be really proud of himself.

“But when we're on the pitch, I fight for Brighton, I fight for my [team] and he's fighting for his club. So before and after, we are friends, we shake hands, it's really respectful but on the pitch there's no friendship.”