Martinho II
20/12/2004, 10:12 AM
THE Sun 20.12.04
longford town are hot on thetrail of lithuania midfeilder tomas daumantas. daumantas who has being capped five times by his country is set to hook up with the midlanders for preseason with a view to a permanent move. And he could be joined by lance cronin who has fallen out of favour with ian dowie and is looking for a loan move.
longford boss alan matthews said of the daumantas link" his brother in law knows our club doctor and alerted us that this player is available.he is keen to come to ireland and we are going to have a look at him."
the29 year old is with german third division outfit sportfreunde spiegen but is out of contract in january. daumantas started his career at bundesliga giants schalke 04 and has since had spellsin belgium holland andaustira.
matthews added " i have being on the lookout for a central midfeilder. he has a good cv and maybe he could provide a solution for us."
goalkeeper cronin was a regular on the bench for palace last season but he did not play singleminute of first team football. any move is unlikely to happen until shortly before the new season but john mcnicholas should be on board before then.
athlone town boss stephen kelly is resigned to losing central midfielder. kelly said "johnhas being offered a deal by longford town on the say of aaron callaghan. this is a far better financial offer than i could even begin to compete with."
meanwhile it looks as though clyde has emerged as paul keegans preferred option. keegan moved to scotland on a temporary basis last week for personal reasons and trained with several clubs.
longford town are hot on thetrail of lithuania midfeilder tomas daumantas. daumantas who has being capped five times by his country is set to hook up with the midlanders for preseason with a view to a permanent move. And he could be joined by lance cronin who has fallen out of favour with ian dowie and is looking for a loan move.
longford boss alan matthews said of the daumantas link" his brother in law knows our club doctor and alerted us that this player is available.he is keen to come to ireland and we are going to have a look at him."
the29 year old is with german third division outfit sportfreunde spiegen but is out of contract in january. daumantas started his career at bundesliga giants schalke 04 and has since had spellsin belgium holland andaustira.
matthews added " i have being on the lookout for a central midfeilder. he has a good cv and maybe he could provide a solution for us."
goalkeeper cronin was a regular on the bench for palace last season but he did not play singleminute of first team football. any move is unlikely to happen until shortly before the new season but john mcnicholas should be on board before then.
athlone town boss stephen kelly is resigned to losing central midfielder. kelly said "johnhas being offered a deal by longford town on the say of aaron callaghan. this is a far better financial offer than i could even begin to compete with."
meanwhile it looks as though clyde has emerged as paul keegans preferred option. keegan moved to scotland on a temporary basis last week for personal reasons and trained with several clubs.