Connolly and Adeniran bid farewell to Everton

2 more in a long list of not quites, still, if you don't buy a ticket you won't win the raffle. Best of luck to both, still a tidy living to be made a bit lower down.

Connolly maybe like another Peter Clarke, young blue doesn’t quite make it but has a very good career at the lower levels. He’s done very well on loan, and he had his World Cup winners medal as a great memory.

Adeniran I never really saw much of but it sounds like he has a good attitude and good luck to him too.

Connolly's profile shows an incredible 8 seasons as an Under-23 player. And yet it is only this season (back in September) that he became 23.

It's all too easy to look back with hindsight and wonder why he was given not one but two successive 3-year contracts in that time. Perhaps his recognition as an England International at U20 and U21 played a part certainly in the second of those contract decisions, made under Marco Silva.

Maybe Kieran sums it up: a young blue born in Liverpool who doesn’t quite make it but goes on to have a solid career at the lower levels.

Good luck to them both.

I’d rather take a chance on keeping them for a couple of years too long on very low wages hoping that they could develop enough on loan, than signing someone like Cuco Martina who will sit around doing nothing and collecting decent wages.

The Wycombe fans seem to like Adeniran, so he must have made an impression of some kind in the Championship. I remember Connolly getting rave reviews on loan, but that was a few years back now. They'll both be fine I should think.

What I loved about Connolly was his great attitude, he’d play anywhere across the back four and do a decent job without ever looking like he’d challenge for a first team spot in any one position. He had a great knack of scoring headed goals too , despite not being the tallest of defenders.
Adeniran always seemed to have the build and energy at U23s level, but again never showed that extra ingredient that marked him out as a potential first team player.
I see Matty Pennington has been offered a contract by Shrewsbury. Another in the same category, great attitude but we should have moved him on years ago as he never looked like holding down a squad place for us.
Good luck to all three, hopefully they can make their way up the leagues in future years.

Remember when we tried to make Connolly part of the trade for Sig?

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/who-callum-connolly-everton-youngster-13406459

As I told you, these players are not good enough to play for Everton, Bowler and Broadhead etc will be next. Unsworth and the Echo have been talking shite about these players for years, so called superstars!!

Antony you are correct. However, and just like most PL teams, it is rare that a player “rises through the ranks” from youth to first team/squad.
It’s not just us though - it’s true of most PL teams. So few players break through you have to wonder why they bother with an Academy / U23 system at all.
Where I live I’m surrounded by Chelsea fans. They make the point that until last season (Mason Mount), the last first team regular their system produced was John Terry - who retired several years ago.

Mike (9),

I think Chelsea have three or four young players in their squad now who have a good chance of being Premier League regulars: Abraham, James, Hudson-Udoi?

Along with Mount and a young 19-year-old who will definitely be a first-team favourite with the fans: Billy Gilmour, the young Scottish central midfielder.

Dave (10),

Correct. James looks like following Mount in establishing himself as a regular. In the last couple of years, they have had more success in graduating players to the first team squad than in the previous 20.

Ironically, they have been assisted in this by their 2019 transfer ban which created a number of opportunities that would normally have been filled by incoming transfers.

Mike (11),

Yes, I think the transfer ban helped them to bring those young players through. I wouldn't mind betting that Mr Moshiri wishes Everton had had a transfer ban since he bought the club, he'd have saved a lot of money!

God knows where Everton would be if that had happened though!!

Dave (12),

Of course Mr Moshiri could always impose his own ban on incoming transfers!

Over the road, Fenway Sports Group seem to be tightening Mr Klopp's purse strings.

Mike (13),

I think, in the near future, Fenway Sports Group will sell Liverpool and make a massive profit on the meagre outlay it cost them to buy the club. Mind you, Satan will want his cut to let them, and he doesn't come cheap.

I'm sure you are right, Dave. Given our association with The Holy Trinity, I always wonder why we always seem to come second to Satan's disciples. Maybe God is playing a long game?

Chelsea had a policy of identifying and getting all the best young talent, grooming them and lending them out to other Premier League clubs.

By comparison, I don't think any of our young lads have had loans at other Premier League clubs, althought Holgate did have a spell with West Brom in the Championship.

Good luck to them both, I’m sure they will both have decent careers in the game at some level.
In my mind playing footy all week is still the best job you could have, unless you really don’t like the game!