Aaron Connolly

His injury record really isnt that bad prior to last season. He managed to play 20 games in his 6 month loan at Boro prior to that - he was out of favour at Brighton in the opening half of that season, but played 4 times. Previous season he played 17 times for Brighton, mainly due to not being favoured rather than injury, season before that he played 27 times for Brighton (24 in the PL). 

Agree that he needs to find a consistent run of form at a decent level, but let's be honest here, so do Idah, Obafemi and Parrott. There's as much evidence that he can as there is that any of the others can. Bar Obafemi's 6 month spell at Swansea, none of them have really produced and Connolly has done more at the highest level than any of them.

Well he's played 45 times in the Premier League and scored 5 goals. PL debut 19/20 season.

Idah 29 PL apps - 1 goal - PL debut 19/20.

Obafemi - 32 PL apps - 4 goals - PL debut 17/18

Parrott - 2 PL apps - 0 goals - PL debut 19/20

In total AC has scored 12 in 85 senior games - TP 16 in 114 (10 of which were in League One) - Idah 10 in 81 - Obafemi 22 in 105.

As I said previously, asides from Obafemi's "purple patch" 12 in 32 in the Ch'ship in 21/22 (most coming in the 6 months after Christmas), none of these lads have produced and Connolly has played more PL games and scored more PL goals than the others.

Connolly has 0 in 8 (robbed in Portugal by a Cancelo foul that should have resulted in a penalty btw), Idah 0 in 14, Parrott 4 in 18 (2 vs Andorra, only 1 in competitive games), Obafemi has 2 in 9. 

Far too early to call time on Connolly's career. I'm just pointing out that he hasnt really done any worse or better than his competition, bar perhaps Obafemi. His performance away to Portugal was outstanding and he was the best Irish player on the park in the 2 x U21 play off games vs Israel (showed a good attitude to step down to that level imo). I'm not going to die in a ditch over him and he has clearly had issues, both physical and perhaps mental in coping with his relative success at such an early age. I still retain high hopes for him and would like to see a front 3 with him off the left, and Ogbene off the right of Ferguson.

At Connolly's age, Ogbene was just coming off the back of his first full campaign in League One for Rotherham where he scored 1 in 27, the following season, he scored 0 in just 12 appearances in the Championship (admittedly playing as a RWB/RW at that stage). Things can change quickly in football, let's just hope Aaron gets a good move that works out this time around.

Is it? At the end of the 20/21 season, Gyokeres was just off the back of two mediocre Championship loans (11 games no goals at Swansea; 19 games 3 goals at Coventry). It was only the following season as a 23 year old (ie Connolly's age now) that he found some form, hitting 17 in 45 games for Coventry.

Sure the exact same would have been said about Gyokeres (and so many other strikers who take some time to get going)? Based on Connolly's form for Hull last year, if he can stay fit a good haul of goals this year is far from out of the question.

The issue with Connolly isn't that it's taken him time to get going, he was going very well, and has since gone backwards.
 

He has the talent, lets hope he can find the application.

Ultimately, what your trying to insinuate is that if he stays fit he could replicate that and over the course of the season score approx 16 goals.

He's highly unlikely to replicate that form throughout the season and his injury record is poor.

The focus should be staying injury free for the season.