Whatever happened to this likely lad?
ASSESSES REECE BROWN’S SITUATION
WHEN looking through the fans’ reaction to the Terriers’ retained list, we noticed quite a few asking about the future of midfielder Reece Brown.
Having spent a season and a half on loan at Peterborough, he was not included on the retained list because he is still under contract at Town until summer 2022.
But ‘what about Reece Brown?’ is a good question to ask nonetheless. Once a bit of a wonderkid at Birmingham City, the creative midfielder was signed in summer 2019 following Town’s relegation from the Premier League, and after a positive spell at Forest Green Rovers.
Karlan Grant was signed from League One Charlton and sold at a £14m profit. Josh Koroma arrived from non-league Leyton Orient around the same time as Brown; he’s been top scorer this season. Harry Toffolo has consistently been one of the Terriers’ best players since arriving from League One Lincoln City.
But when it comes to lower league acquisition, Reece Brown is very much the odd one out. After a couple of eyecatching performances in pre-season under Jan Siewert, he made just one competitive appearance – in the League Cup defeat to Lincoln – and was only included in a single Championship squad before being shipped off on loan in January.
Brown came back for pre-season under Carlos Corberan last summer, but again the decision was taken to send him out to London Road, where he has been a regular in their successful promotion campaign.
Peterborough’s director of football Barry Fry was unequivocal that he will not be back with them next season, though, telling Peterborough Today: “Reece has been brilliant for us, but we think we can do better for the money.”
Fry also indicated that Town offered to swap Brown for striker Mohamed Eisa in the January transfer window as part of their search for a new centre forward, which eventually resulting in the signings of Yaya Sanogo and Oumar Niasse.
Town do need a creative midfielder, but the fact a newly-promoted side don’t think he is worth keeping around does not speak highly of his prospects of breaking into the Terriers first team.