ANDREW MORAN HAS joined Blackburn Rovers on a season-long loan from Brighton.
The Republic of Ireland U21 international has already made his Premier League debut for the Seagulls and will now spend this campaign with the Championship club in a bid to play regular first-team football.
Moran’s performances at underage level in England since signing from Bray Wanderers have marked him out as one of the club’s rising stars.
✍️ We are delighted to complete the capture of highly-rated midfielder Andrew Moran from Premier League leaders Brighton & Hove Albion.
— Blackburn Rovers (@Rovers) August 26, 2023
The Seagulls starlet joins on a season-long loan deal and becomes our fifth summer signing.
👋 Welcome, @AndrewMorannn!#Rovers 🔵⚪
The 19-year-old penned a new four-year contract at the Amex Stadium in April having scored 13 goals and notched up six assists in 23 games for Brighton’s U21s last term.
Brighton Technical Director David Weir explained: “Andrew is really highly thought of here – he has been a key player for the under-21s in the last year and that has seen him be involved in the first team.
“The next step for him though is to get regular minutes in senior football and we’re confident he’s ready to test himself in the Championship.
“We will be keeping a close eye on his progress throughout the season.”
Moran’s Premier League bow came in Brighton’s 4-1 win at Everton in January and he also got off the mark for Ireland’s U21s with a goal in the 2-2 draw with Ukraine in June.
Earlier this week he found the net twice for Brighton’s U23s as they beat Walsall in the EFL Cup, and he has now become Rovers manager Jon Dahl Tomasson’s fifth signing.
Rovers’ Director of Football, Gregg Broughton, added: “We are delighted to welcome Andy to Blackburn Rovers. He is a player that we have worked hard on all summer to attract to the club.
“Andy is one of the many talented young Irish players to have been recruited by Brighton and he will bring a great attacking threat to our squad.
“He is capable of playing centrally and in wide areas, he is very comfortable in possession and he is aggressive without the ball. We would like to thank Brighton for their support with this loan deal, which we hope will be very successful for all parties.”
They have been ordered by managent to focus on their remaining games eh..management really cracking the whip there! the games that clearly do not mean a whole lot to them. I think this series is beginning to lose its appeal to the public. Obviously being treated as end of season party by the aussies.shame really, it used to be really good.
It’s just a free holiday for the Aussies
Nonsense. Lions players got into a spot in a night club in New Zealand but I don’t see anyone saying scrap that series. Same with the Irish soccer team on numerous occasions. Should we disband them too? They’re young lads with a week until their next game, it happens in every sport.
Yea it’s not like the British lions were facing an Australian team that were no good ……..equally pointless jolly but more money in it and the hype from $ky is swallowed whole by the egg chasing brigade
Time to knock these test series on the head. No genuine interest in the games and they usually turn into a farce. When players like gooch and Cluxton want nothing to do with it I think it’s indicative of the whole series.
I don’t know where this anti scrap the series sentiment is coming from. For many of the players it’s a privilege to wear the Irish shirt, especially those from the smaller counties. Also, looking at the match on Saturday Breffni Park looked pretty much at capacity. So it still appeals to many of the public.
Ahh the ‘knock it on the head’ bandwagon appears… give it a chance lads, just because some people don’t like it doesn’t mean you have to copy what they’re saying. If you don’t like it, then don’t read the article, you obviously have no interest in it. I have no interest in Association Football, but I don’t go on and comment about how the players are little diving pansies.
Hoy, I see what you did there!
Who cares
I hear they were celebrating their applications for Irish citizenship coming through…
Shock horror….the boys on tour go out for a drink. What ever next….chatting up the local talent? What is the world coming to.
It’s a joke,it’s a free end of season piss up for the ozzies.
A lot of the irish players are still in club champo, and games are been
Moved around to suit everybody.
The only way interest will be generated is if it turns into a brawl with a ball… It should be just AFL no mix.
Must be a quiet day for the journo’s if this is what they call sports news!!
At least the poor indigenous aussies were’nt slumming it in dromoland castle ! They behaved in limerick tho !
“Complaints of noise disturbance by the Australian players”?
Does this not mean the Australian players were the ones complaining about the noise disturbance?
Welcome to Ireland no fun allowed
Their at the Inn at Dromoland not Dromoland Castle or at least that is were their bus is parked up. None of them about when I was in the gym. Their heads must still be sore!!
Aussie Brendan in Galway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFZ9p9L2b4