Millwall sign midfielder Jayson Molumby from Premier League Brighton & Hove Albion
BY JAKE SANDERS
Millwall have signed Republic of Ireland Under-21 international Jayson Molumby on a season-long loan deal from Brighton & Hove Albion.
The 19-year-old, who was named as the fourth best player at the 2019 Toulon Tournament in France as he captained Ireland Under-20s to a 4th-place finish, becomes the Lions’ seventh summer signing after completing his medical at Calmont Round earlier today before training with his new teammates for the first time.
Molumby joined the Seagulls from Railway Athletic in 2015 and after spending two years in their academy, made his senior debut in a Carabao Cup second round victory over Barnet in August 2017. His next and only other first-team appearance for Brighton came in the following round, a 1-0 defeat at AFC Bournemouth where he played 120 minutes.
He was named on the bench four times in the Premier League under Chris Hughton – and has also signed a new two-year contract at Brighton, keeping him at the club until 2021.
Speaking to Millwall’s official website, Molumby said: “I’m absolutely over the moon. I would’ve liked to get here a little bit earlier in fact, but I had a little injury to begin with. But now I’m here, I’m buzzing to get going with the season coming along quickly.
“What I wanted coming into the season was to get out on loan, and Millwall seems the perfect fit for me.
“To be honest, when I first heard Millwall were interested, I thought about how much of a big club it was to come into. When I spoke to the gaffer, I felt it was important to come here. He was great with me.
“I’m buzzing to play in front of the fans. All around the world, people know how passionate the Millwall fans are and I think that’s the same being Irish – we have that passion too. I’ll work hard and hopefully show them what I can do.
“It’s definitely nice to have fellow Irish lads around me as I settle in here. I can get to know from them more of what the club’s about and it’s great to have the connection with them. With Shaun Williams being a midfielder, he’s particularly someone I can look towards and learn from to try and improve.
“I can’t wait to train with the lads every day and I’m raring to go. It still hasn’t sunk in yet, and I don’t know if it will until I play my first minutes – I’m just buzzing to be here.”
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