Haydon Roberts has announced his departure from Brighton after nearly a decade with the club.
The defender joined the Albion back in 2015 and worked his way up the youth ranks before making his first-team debut in 2019 in a 3-1 Carabao Cup defeat to Aston Villa - a game he scored in.
But after making that breakthrough at 18, the Brighton-born youngster, who was previously linked with Leeds United, struggled to kick on for the Seagulls, making just six appearances overall.
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Loan spells at League One sides Rochdale in 2020/21 and Derby County this season allowed him to play regularly but with the Sussex outfit rocketing up the Premier League, his chances to get game time looked remote.
Now, the 21-year-old, who is out of contract at the Amex this summer, has posted on Instagram that his time with his boyhood club is coming to an end.
"Thank you for everything over the last eight years. I'm looking forward to what God has next for me," he wrote.
All of Roberts' games for the club came in the League Cup, so he still awaits his Premier League debut. While the defender did not state where his next move would take him, Derby manager Paul Warne hinted in April at the possibility of signing him after saying he was "my kind of player".
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