I don't know if there's any truth to this story, but the 2 journo's who published, Sami Mokbel from the Mail and Matt Law from the Telegraph both published at around the same time last night.
Weirdly Mokbel's Twitter picture has a caption that says Matt Law Special!
Odd.
You're assuming Connolly is still Maupay's understudy.
I'd argue now we have added 2 new options, he is now 3rd or possibly 4th choice. That's why he didn't make the bench.
I don't get the mystery?
He's been crap for a couple of games and so he gets dropped. No conspiracy.
We now have enough alternatives to leave him out and give him a kick up the arse.
Good management.