I have seen him play against Iranian teams in the Asian Champions League. Would be very surprised if this is true.
He's definitely one of the best if not the best Striker currently playing for an Asian team, but certainly not EPL level. Doesn't have the pace or the intelligence required. Also...
I don't understand how anyone can watch that, and still think Connolly has any business playing in the Premier League. At least with Maupay's misses, half of them can be chalked up to bad luck/great defensive positioning... Connolly is just bad at finding the net.
This is turning out to be an Eddie Howe situation (youngish English coach who the media is obsessed with), and might just end up with the team sleep walking into the Championship.
The squad is regressing and Potter is too stubborn to acknowledge that he doesn't have the right players to deploy...
They were okay. The gave Brighton plenty of space to shoot from outside of the box and put in crosses, but the boys failed to capitalize on that.
This was definitely more a Brighton playing crap, rather than Newport playing exceptional.
I've watched him in the Belgian league a couple of times the last two seasons (against different Iranian players), and he isn't going to be the saviour some people think he is. A back up at the EPL level at best.
This sucks man. :(
As an Iranian who moved to the UK around the same time as Alireza and started following Brighton because of him, I grew to liking the team as a whole (who doesn't like an underdog) and watched almost every match since 2018, even those which Alireza was injured for. I even got...
Not sure what's so funny about those options.
Carlos Q managed some of the world's biggest clubs, and did very well with Iran given the limited resources available to him. The football won't be attractive, but he will get results.
Pearson has experience at this levelz and started off well with...
With Trossard it's laziness. Most matches he looks like he's going for a midday stroll in a park.
Same goes for Welbeck to a lesser degree.
For Maupay, it's a combination of not being that good to begin with and a lack of confidence.
Bissouma and Webster 7
Maupay, Dunk, Trossard 5
White 4
The rest 6.
Maupay's goal doesn't make up for poor performance otherwise. Especially when it's put in the context of his poor form recently.