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Ben Doherty off to Glenavon a year long loan.
https://www.derryjournal.com/sport/f...mpression=true
Nathan Gartland moves from Watford to Derry.
Could be a replacement for Gerard Doherty.
https://www.derrynow.com/sport/kenny...ry-city/242887
Sam Byrne has joined Glentoran on loan until the end of January
https://www.dundalkfc.com/byrne-join...toran-on-loan/
St Pat's have signed Achille Campion
what was his last club Nigel?Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Cork.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2018...bazunu-report/
Man City agree €400,000 + addons for Gavin Bazunu
Another ex Leicester Celtic lad, good man Gavin.
Maxi Kougoun from UCD to Warrenpoint, slightly surprisingly.
Come a long way from two exceptional away European performances three years ago
www.thesun.ie/sport/football/3049528/tottenham-hotspur-could-sign-shamrock-rovers-goalkeeper-gavin-bazunu-despite-agreeing-deal-in-principal-with-manchester-city/
Spurs still in for him you would imagine he'll go for more than the previously reported €400,000.
Didn't see it mentioned anywhere else on here, Robbie McCourt has signed for Bohs. A defender formerly of St Kevin's Boys, he spent the last three years at West Brom.
He was a stand out player with St Kevins before he left. Good to see a steady stream of good young players coming back to the league who were just not ready to go cross channel , but will do a good job here. Bohs left back Leahy, Dylan Watts , Stokes spring to mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by marinobohs
Bizarre to see Fuad Sule on loan to the hell hole that is Larne though.
Unless there was a July release agreement, any loan or permanent move back to League of Ireland would have to have taken place before the end of July. That may not have suited Barnet as they were probably still trying to finalise their squad at that point, with the UK transfer deadlines extended into August.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
A loan move to free spending Larne might have been the most attractive choice among limited options for a player who has only made one league appearance for Barnet last season.
If he does well for Larne, there may be a queue of interested LOI managers checking him out.
I'd be certain he ended up at Larne because they were the only club willing to pay all of his wages, he needed a loan move no lower than Conference South or LOI Premier Division, the NI First Division is about the same standard of the top division in LSL. Larne despite their money is a regression for a very decent young player like him
Apart from Birmingham Alabama I can think of no place worse than Larne for a Muslim of Nigerian heritage with a Dublin accent.
Maybe he'll live in the Tiger's Bay area of Belfast and just hitch up and backQuote:
Originally Posted by Dalymountrower
Quite a good comparison and probably not far out, what would the Irish League top division be compared to then?Quote:
Originally Posted by total hoofball
I often think maybe the top 4 would be mid to lower table LOI Prem, the rest 100% FD. I still enjoy watching the goals highlights on bbc no at 5pm on a sat, the defending is always good fun.
I suspect Barnet were just not ready yet to 'cut the ties' and release him fully.Larne may have been the only realistic offer willing to cover his wages. he had a great half season or so at Bohs but always felt he jumped too quickly in accepting Barnet offer.Another season here might have generated better offers, long term. good player and hopefully this loan will grant him more time on the pitch and get his career back on track.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
Bazunu signs for Man City for £420,000.
https://www.mcfcwatch.com/2018/09/06...-gavin-bazunu/
What's funny is that at the bottom of that page, there are picture links to two other articles, both of which are basically the same article about Bazunu, with 2 different prices...you can see the price going up.
Bazunu signed for Man City for £420,000 according to the Telegraph. Least that’s what I saw on fb. Good bit of business if accurate.
They keep referring to him as a non professional but the whole reason he can't sign until he's 17 is because he is a professionalQuote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
You’re not allowed sign pro in England until you’re 17. Not sure about here.
If he wasn't pro they could sign him to scholar forms but since he's pro here they can't so have to wait until he's at least 17Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
Just checked its 16 here with a max contract length of 3 yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
Point taken, I see what you meant now.Quote:
Originally Posted by RathfarnhamHoop
saw in one of papers today that shamrock rovers are saying the move to man city for Bazanu isnt concluded which strikes me as extremely strange to say the least!
Possibly because he's under age to sign a professional contract nothing he signs at this stage can be legally binding. There was something along those lines mentioned when the rumors he had agreed to sign for City first surfaced.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
Fee for Bazanu seems to be over 500k going by this quote
"Specifics on the transfer details are not being disclosed, however it is fair to say that this is the biggest transfer by an Irish club in the professional era."
https://shamrockrovers.ie/2018/10/03/bazunu_transfer/
Irish Times suggesting it may be 400k
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soc...medium=twitterQuote:
Talented teenage goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu will stay with Shamrock Rovers while he completes his Leaving Certificate next year before joining Manchester City.
Although the Tallaght club have not revealed what fee they have received for the 16-year-old, it is believed the initial fee is €400,000.
Considering the current record is 500k and the club are saying its the biggest deal in Ireland during the professional era I'll take the clubs word rather than the papers who've been making stuff up as they go on throughout the transfer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ezeikial
Rovers may be including add ons in their reporting of it.
They're saying it is the biggest, not it may become the biggest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
How do Rovers know the ins and outs of other deals? The Roy O Donovan move to Sunderland was around €500k for Cork City.Quote:
Originally Posted by RathfarnhamHoop
That statement from Rovers reminds me of the scene in American Psycho when Patrick Bateman is looking at himself in the mirror while he's rattling yer one. 'We're great, best transfer ever and no other club in Ireland even comes close to us'.
Jaysus lads this is good for all clubs . UK club paying proper fee and kid getting a proper contract....hopefully the srart of a new reality
It's all in the wording. When did 'The Professional Era'start for Shams? At the time Roy O'Donovan got sold, were they not relegated / in Div 1, with a shell of a new Stadium, court battles with Thomas Davis? and if so, might not have been in a quote 'professional capacity'. All good news from their point of view, whether it's 400 grand or more. Instead of some young lad of theirs going to Shrewsbury Town for 20 quid and no education, and never being heard of again, this transfer shows a clear pathway for young lads to have a proper education, attain a higher skill level at the same time, and the club makes circa half a million from it as a reward, as he goes to a club that took his skill level seriously enough to pay that sort of money. SRFC deserve a fair bit of credit for their educational investment of young lads.
Hopefully the next time an English club come sniffing around bohs dundalk cork whoever they can point to Gavin as the benchmark
No chance. The players they tend to sign already have an exit strategy in mind, with clauses to leave mid season or end of season for little or no money.
I meant to add,
The statement is a little cringeworthy and full of bombast.
Roy O'Donovan didn't go for close to half a million. It was reported as such as the chairman at the time wanted to inflate the value of all LOI players but that was flawed as English clubs knew exactly what was paid. The Alan Bennett deal was inflated in media too.