Worth adding that VG was/is 18 months older than AC, so a direct comparison between them back then would have expected the former to be performing considerably in advance of the latter. That really wasn't the case. All the noise was around Connolly, whose scoring rate was much better in the u23s...
Most posts on here are hindsight-driven. When they were both coming through at the Albion, it was Connolly that looked the likeliest prospect. This was based on a far superior goalscoring record in the u23s and being two or so years younger than Gyokeres.
Since C's breakthrough into our first...