That's not true at all.
The few matches he played were mostly if not all were under CH
CH himself was always or the opinion that Gyokeres was more likely to step up permanently into the first team set up despite a lot of pressure around him for him to play Connolly because of the abundance of...
Not sure Connolly himself made a fuss but I think there might have been undertones from others to play Connolly based on his goal return in the youth sides.
It's always hard to tell how someone might step up from youth level to first team.
I also remember seeing on here when Alzate made the...
CH rated always rated him more highly than Connolly. But you are right. The stakes were always too high for him to break into the side. He was only young then and needed to go out on loan.
He has massively improved from the 18 or 19 year old he was when he was at Brighton.
He will definitely...