Something in my eye.
Isn’t it ? Videos like this crop up all the time.Fair play to him opening up, not an easy thing to do
No, this cant be right. All the stories about him being out in Brighton getting smashed all the time were completely made up. There is no way any normal citizen would ever come across a Premier League footballer in Sussex. Must be some mistake.
Been talking about his 'problem' brave to speak out and get help.
This is really, really frustrating to watch because EVERYONE called it. It was so obvious, even from the outside. You can't live people's lives for them and he needs to learn this lesson for himself, but obviously the talent is there and there's still time for him to fulfil his potential and be a Premier League and Irish International striker.
Good luck to him, terrible shame how it played out with us.
He needs to kick the booze habit.
If he can, I think he can get back to the Premier League. Must be last chance saloon at the Makems.
Best wishes to him. I thought he came across very well in that interview.
I'm hoping getting released by Hull was his wake up call and he can get back on track
Been talking about his 'problem' brave to speak out and get help.
I’m sorry, exactly HOW are the club to blame? You can’t just throw statements like that about without backing it up with facts.Fantastic from him. Sounds like he has finally turned a corner in his life. I still think the club hold some of the blame here. I’m sure we’ve learnt from it.
I really, really hope it works out for him.
It wasn’t a statement, it was an opinion.I’m sorry, exactly HOW are the club to blame? You can’t just throw statements like that about without backing it up with facts.
Well it was a statement but never mind semantics. It’s ‘just an opinion’ but you then build on it with even more wild speculation.It wasn’t a statement, it was an opinion.
I think the club are PARTLY to blame by not managing him very well. Giving him a bumper contract based on 2 goals against Spurs. Keeping him massively in the limelight when it was clear he couldn’t cope with it.
This may well be completely wrong, but I get the feeling that we were so desperate for the new academy to produce someone, and with the long running ‘we need to sign a striker’ debacle that when we thrust Aaron into the limelight and he took Spurs apart, we thought ‘here he is, it’s all come together’. He wasn’t ready for that at all, and needed a first team pathway plan similar to Ben White’s.
I would bet money that in the exact same situation in 2024 Brighton & Hove Albion, we would manage it very differently.
I might be miles wide of the mark, but I’d love to hear Bloom’s take on all this.
But as I said, it’s just an opinion, based largely on speculation. Not a fact.
The club can’t live anyone’s life for them, but they can do all they can to protect their asset.Well it was a statement but never mind semantics. It’s ‘just an opinion’ but you then build on it with even more wild speculation.
The club can’t live people’s lives for them. Aaron was young but an adult. Where was his agent in all this? Bloom and Barber are both parents themselves.
Crucially at no point in that interview did he lay ANY blame on ANY club or indeed on ANYONE but himself. Fair play to him. Is that not good enough for you?