Motherwell manager Mark McGhee will have to plan for the new season without being able to call on the services of Ben Hall who has signed for English Championship club Brighton & Hove Albion. Hall had been with Motherwell for just over three years, and McGhee was keen for him to stay and had offered several new deals over the last five months after he broke into the first team. However, despite the clubs’ best efforts to keep the Northern Irish Youth International, he has headed south to sign a two-year deal at the Amex Arena.
McGhee said: "We are obviously disappointed Ben has chosen Brighton, but this is further vindication of our policy at the club of developing young talent and should give hope to the youngsters currently at the club and in the Academy. We have been in discussions with Ben for the best part of five months, however, we have always been conscious that this may happen and as such, have been working on a replacement, which we hope to announce soon. Ben has done well, and we wish him well in the English Championship, but his departure provides an opportunity for someone else to hopefully make a similar sort of impact."