Seems to be spending most of his time warming the bench. Concerning given that Crawley have been on the slide.
Share your concern. At a top club, captained us at underage level, even called up to the senior side, and yet can't secure a regular starting spot at a League One club. Can't say I know what is happening with him. Anyone able to enlighten me?Originally Posted by Carrigaline
Clifford would be better signing for a LOI team and rebuilding his career from there. Perhaps he is just not good enough. Amazing he gets selected for Irish panels ahead of the likes of Hendrick, Garvan, McCann, Dicker to name just a few.
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We have Gibson, McCarthy, Whelan, Andrews, Meyler, Hoolahan, Fahey, Tabb, A.Reid....Green ahead of him as well as the lads you mentioned. It is bizarre how Trapattoni picked him. He must have been impressed watching a DVD of Clifford sitting on the bench in League 1.
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Garvan, McCann, and Clifford (from what I've seen of them) are more ball playing central players than the rough and tumble destroyers that a lot of British managers want. Garvan in particular would be more suited to Continental European football.
It would be something I would like to see the FAI encourage more at the developmental stage, particularily for the kids that are destined to get moved abroad, is to focus on a bit of foreign language and not just herd the children to Britain
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
We get to see if continental is better over the next few years wit those 2 10/11 yo kids at barca and real. Hopefully 2 classy strikers playing in laliga in 6 0r 7 years!
What I would like to see from the FAI is proper money put into development of football at home so they didn't have to leave the country at all. But that's just my opinion.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
I would say that CC was the most overrated on here by some of the more respected posters which i wish was not true.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
Why? Because he hasn't developed fully on the potential he has shown throughout his career so far?
I remember watching him at the Kennedy Cup and he was the best player I've seen play at that tournament, or schoolboy level, since Steven Ireland at the same competition or Daryl Kavanagh at u16 level.
He was miles ahead of anybody that year, think it was 2004, and every scout around was there to watch him play.
I've followed his career closely since and been to a couple of Chelsea games when I was in London and again, even when he played at reserve level, he looked the real deal.
Unfortunately, and it seems to be a common trend for Irish players at the bigger clubs, he didn't move on when he should have. Chelsea didn't offer him a new contract because they expected him to make it with them, they did it to try cash in on their investment over the years and any loan move hasn't been designed to benefit the player, it is more to get him in a shop window and hope someone offers a few quid to take him away.
Overrated? I'd second any respected posters view that he could have, and still could if he gets a good break, a brilliant player for Ireland
So what's the deal here? He's gone from pushing to get into the Chelsea senior team to playing non-league football in about two years?
... Crawley aren't non-league.
playing in a trial game at Sheffield United today, according to twitter: https://twitter.com/search/conor+clifford+sufc
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Sheffield United lost 2-0: http://www.sufc.co.uk/news/article/2...rt-624989.aspx
The clock is ticking Magic Man.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
I hope he can get his career back on track and play at a decent level. After losing James McClean and Shane Duffy already in the past few months, it would be an awful shame if Clifford was finished too.
Not to mention Frankie Sutherland, who we recently lost to some kind of indeterminate stress disorder. Dark days.
Interestin piece in star pointing out 5 of the biggest schoolboy moves to england. Cliffords move they say was a 1million package, bradley is 400k, stokes 1.1 million, rob brady 750k, masterson 1.25million
Have to admit I didn't know who Masterson was, one quick google turns up this article about his move to Liverpool: http://www.herald.ie/sport/other-spo...m-3186509.html
Another player mentioned in the same article. Brandon Payne, has just signed for Celtic: http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=3614
Masterson was in my brothers' school I think. From what he says (if it is him) he's a cracking player.
There was an even younger lad from Lucan last year I heard being scouted... anyone remember or know?
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
I remember chatting to a scout at the Kennedy Cup the year Clifford was playing and he was the name on everybody's lips. I remember talking to a Newcastle scout who said Clifford was good, but the hottest Kennedy Cup prospect he'd ever seen had to be Christy Fagan...
I wonder if many of these clubs felt it was money well spent? Arsenal made about a million i think on stokes, utd made a million on brady, chelsea woont make any money on clifford, bradley unfortunately didnt become the player he seemed he might be so cost arsenal and fagan if he was that highly thought of must have cost utd a good bit and they got nothing for him
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