Aaron Connolly

You Tell Me wrote: Serie B is probably the equivalent of bottom half Championship/top half League 1. So, after how the Middlesbrough loan went, it seems about the right level for him to try to rebuild from. He really does need his next move to be a success, whatever it is.

Left field but his options were looking like lower Championship, SPL or League one. New environment in Italy at a decent level in nice city, it might not be a bad thing. 

t_rAndy wrote: Left field but his options were looking like lower Championship, SPL or League one. New environment in Italy at a decent level in nice city, it might not be a bad thing.

There's nightlife, women and distractions there too.

i mean if he plays every week and finds some form i dont think this is a bad move, compared with his likely options which as mentioned are prob bottom of champ/top of league 1 or maybe spl or something. i think its a decent move, hopefully he can get back on track

Trying to figure out the backstory on Venezia. They seem to have an American chairman who I assume is a shareholder because they are owned by an LLC. There is a handful of American players there too, amongst other nationalities. Ivan Cordoba that played for Inter is sporting director. They have a manager called Ivan Javorcic that had a fairly short and patchy playing career in Italy. But he seems to have worked his way up the ladder in Italy in management having brought a club up to Serie C and another to Serie B. 

amccarten313 wrote: Eoink21 wrote: Trying to figure out the backstory on Venezia. They seem to have an American chairman who I assume is a shareholder because they are owned by an LLC. There is a handful of American players there too, amongst other nationalities. Ivan Cordoba that played for Inter is sporting director. They have a manager called Ivan Javorcic that had a fairly short and patchy playing career in Italy. But he seems to have worked his way up the ladder in Italy in management having brought a club up to Serie C and another to Serie B.  No obvious connection I can see for Connolly.  looked into it a bit- per transfermarkt, connolly has the same agent as aaron hickey (just left bologna for brentford) and josh doig (just left hibernian for hellas verona). the agency is called PLG and it seems that trent alexander arnolds brother is the founder/in charge, they have a few big names including taa, andy robertson, jarrod bowen, as well as jayson molumby. they have a lot of scottish players, but seems that with hickey, doig, and now connolly, there is some sort of italian connection maybe

Bukowski wrote: There's nightlife, women and distractions there too. - Banjaxed There are of course, but I think there is a no nonsense realism about much of Italian culture, and there is certainly less of the beers! chips! burgers! that is in England. Let's hope he can do a Troy Parrott and realise you have to put in the hard yards.