Aaron Connolly

Does anyone think Aaron will be cut from Brighton at the end of the season , either drop down to the championship with the Seagulls or sold on ? 

Claret Murph wrote: Does anyone think Aaron will be cut from Brighton at the end of the season , either drop down to the championship with the Seagulls or sold on ?

Perhaps a loan move... perhaps Brighton get relegated.

coyne wrote: Loc wrote: coyne wrote: People are mistaking Connolly for a natural #9 which he is absolutely not, the only concrete #9 Brighton have in their squad is Maupay so the comparisons are completely unfair. Potter requires his players to be versatile in their positions which Connolly is, he's served on the left as he's done for Ireland so far and he's also served behind the striker requiring him to close down on the left. People are assuming he's their absolute vocal point of attack and should be scoring every week, his finishing needs to improve but he's not the next Robbie Keane people are expecting him to be.  I think he's a very talented player and will be our main source of goals under the system Kenny plays, it probably doesn't fill people with hope based on the sitter's he's missed but he'll never be a centre forward for Ireland, much like Brighton he'll always be on the left. I think there is a misconception that Connolly plays on the left because of the Toulon Tournament. Connolly consistently plus CF in every other game that I have seen him. Even playing for Brighton, Maupay often is the deeper forward and Connolly is always the furthest up top. Think most strikers at 21 are flaky and hopefully they persist with him centrally because we need a striker!  Or maybe's that's where he's played most of his games for Ireland and Brighton. It's very uncommon for Brighton to pair up with 2 strikers, the last 4 games alone they've played  4-2-3-1, 3-4-2-1, 3-5-2, 4-5-1, basically every variation of a 5 man midfield possible, only 1 of them which has 2 strikers which makes it impossible for Connolly to have played there if Maupay occupied the spot!

Edited by djhegzy - 27 Feb 2021 at 8:12pm

I have to say I wouldn't be devastated if Brighton were relegated from an Irish point of view. I think there would be a clear out of the higher paid players and the likes of Connolly and Molumby would have more of a chance to firmly establish themselves in the team. Who knows, maybe even earlier chances for the likes of Evan Ferguson and Andrew Moran over the course of a Championship season. Would also probably mean the end of Graham Potter's time at the club, which might be no harm either.

 5.41 today, Terri ' I dunno nothing bout Connolly'.  Above he's an expert.

Edited by cardwizzard - 27 Feb 2021 at 11:39pm

Territorial wrote: Nialler wrote: He really should have gone to a Norwich, or a Bournemouth this year. Brentford after selling Benrahma would have been the perfect place on loan Not in a million years. Until Brentford took Winston Reid on loan from WHU in January - an emergency replacement for the injured Pontus Jansson - they hadn't borrowed another player from anyone for 3 seasons. It simply isn't in their model to develop young players for the benefit of their parent clubs. Besides which, he wouldn't get near their 1st team. BFC are the highest goalscorers in the Division by a street (61 in 33 games), with new No.9 Ivan Toney having got 25 of them. And his replacement-in-waiting is Marcus Forss (21), who looks a real prospect. Nor would Connolly get close to playing on either side of either of them in a front 3, when they already have the far more experienced Mbuemo, Canos and Fosu Henry for that role. I don't know about those other two teams you name, but when you look at who they already have (Norwich), or have signed (Bournemouth), I'm not sure they'd have been interested either? P.S. I think you meant BFC selling Watkins? Benrahma is a completely different sort of player to Connolly.

Edited by Nialler - 28 Feb 2021 at 12:40am

Jimmy Raggatip wrote: Banjaxed wrote: Potter strikes me as the worst fears people have of Stephen Kenny. Knocking the ball around, but how much progress have they made compared to the Chris Hughton era? BTW, my point isn't why bother try knock the ball around, it's that Potter is a bit of a charlatan.  considering they are now playing teams off the park as opposed to clinging on every match and getting battered I'd say that's a lot of progress. The missing piece of the jigsaw is just a finisher Getting any sort of top level side to create chances at the rate Brighton do is extremely difficult and he deserves a lot of credit for that, the next step has to be better recruitment to find someone to stick the ball in the next. The £5m or so in wages that Welbeck is stealing for this season could certainly have been put to better use

Edited by EdisonCavani - 28 Feb 2021 at 9:26am

Loc wrote: Maybe it would be better if Brighton stay up but he got a loan to a mid championship team.