Plenty of managers have been unable to get the best out of him, so it's huge credit to Liam Rosenior for his man management.
A PL manager in the making
With some players it just needs someone who knows them and how to manage them. It's early days but i'm confident that Liam knows how to make the lad feel wanted and get the best out of him. Aaron has many years to make the most of his obvious talent
But you never know do you. And ask yourself what's worse.
You give an up and coming youngster a long contract and he doesn't develop as you hoped and you end up having to subsidise loans for a couple of years then lose him on a nominal fee
Or
You don't give him a contract, he turns out to be...
My thoughts ....
We don't know the whole story of anything going on at Venezia
But his goal record isn't great
His loans spells have been unsuccessful
He appears not to have helped himself with attitude problems
However a ton of bollocks appears on social media so i'm not 100% on that
He was...
I like that he's been man enough to take a backwards step and take a move way out of his comfort zone to rebuild his career and man enough that he's fronted up about what was holding him back.
There's obviously a player there. He's still very young, especially for striker. There's every...
A totally new culture and environment might be good for the lad. I'll wish him well if he does go. I didn't get every decision right at that age myself
I still think Connolly will go onto have a decent career. But not in the timescales that we are looking at. I reckon he'll get to 24, 25 and start banging them in down the leagues and might get another tilt a the top league. He has the talent and he has time on his side to get his head right...
Even waiting for two seasons, I'm not seeing any 19 year olds with good goalscoring records in the Premier League. Between 26 and 30 is the peak striker age and there's barely anybody providing any output at all, before about age 23. Broja is about the only one doing anything and I think...
There's nothing wrong with giving young players opportunities. If we don't, players like Evan will never come to us in the first place. We've done it with players like Lamptey and Sarmiento
The trick is, how they are managed through this time and whether they are mature enough, like Tariq, to...
I think a foreign loan is the best bet. It might remove some of the distractions and open the lad's eyes to the world a bit.
As for USG, well it fits given we'll be raiding their forward line. It's a possibility