Originally Posted by
pineapple stu
The flip side is there was an article in When Saturday Comes this month about youth development at European leagues, and it noted that players who left their home country at 16 generally performed worse than those who waited until 21/22 before joining a foreign league.
Football in Ireland needs to recognise that this is the point of the LoI. And in fairness, the article recognises that to an extent. I think if the senior side goes backwards, Brexit is at most an indirect cause. The main cause will be our complete failure to develop a sustainable domestic league.