Yeah, were gonna pay him whatever he wants.
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Oman may head back to Derry yet
If we did get Oman I think we could at least be in the top three come the end of the season.Kenny seems to have a great squad put together but still need one or two defenders.We're looking really strong in the midfield area.
Derry do look strong this year especially in the midfield area. Like Dundalk if they get in a few good defenders they could be a good outfit this year.
yes would like to see derry and dundalk up there fighting in what looks a very good top 5 or 6:ball:
Ian Foster confirmed today that trialist Gareth Whelan formerly of Shels wont be signing for us.(thank god)!
Bolger linked back to us, if its true I wonder will we be offering him the same deal before he picked the higher wage but higher risk of going with Fingal.
He is a very decent player, but if its effecting our tight budget, I`d much prefer some of their defenders.
I'm sure Shaun Williams will be the most sought after of the Fingal players. I'm sure a number of clubs abroad will be after his signature.
According to the Sun(I know!!!) We are tracking Bolger, Rovers-Oman, Williams and O'Neill, Derry-Hawkins and Maher, Sligo-Fitzgerald and Quigley and Pats-Conan Byrne.
Mick Wallace is looking for high transfers from the Fingal players.
Yes, and its outside the British window so he won't be going outside the country
For the record I think Finn is the best midfielder in the country
they would have had to have been free agents on the 31st of January to move to the UK I think
Its been confirmed that we have signed Greene, great signing.
Oman should be a good signing for Shamrock Rovers. They seem to be putting a good squad together. I hope it's all based on sound finances. Enough champions have gone down that road.
going on the optics of it alone and without knowing how much all these players are being paid per week, i'd be somewhat worried if i was a Rovers fan. (not meant as a dig at all)
i hope we can pick up some of the Fingal scraps on the cheap once Rovers and everyone else have had their fill.
id be pretty confident that from now on what Nutsy wants, Nutsy wont get.
Oman was offered a deal within our budget, he rejected it. Was set to join Fingal. Now it looks like that deal that is ok for our budget is also ok for Oman. The difference was we didn't get in a bidding war with Fingal for him, if the deal wasn't ok for us we washed our hands of the player. Just like we did for Gary O'Neill at the start of the pre-season. And just like we did with Steven Gray last year, we could have offered him a bigger deal than what you offered but that would have broke our budget, so we were happy to walk away from him, whereas Bohs made repeated, better offers to him to outbid us for the player.
Our turnover is huge compared to Bohs when you were paying several players 2-3k a week. Don't worry, members at SRFC don't blindly agree to budgets just to win trophies and bankrupt the club. Players sign within the budget or don't sign, simple as that. Don't know how many times this has to be explained on here to those of the envious nature. Ps, the budget will also be intact when 2 Fingal players come on board soon.
In fairness I can see where Stu's coming from - any club with as formidable a squad as Rovers' as it the moment sets alarm bells ringing. When we've seen squads like them in the past it's usually meant financial oblivion is only round the corner.
It's only natural that eyebrows might be raised, though I certainly believe you when you say it's all within budget. And I'm certainly envious when it comes to Oman, didn't think he ever come back up north but he'd have been a big coup...
The Oman situation gives probably the best example of how Rovers do their business. Last week we watched him choose Fingal, now he's decided he wants to do business within our budget. It'll lead to a much more stable way of doing business once the last of the over spending clubs bite the dust.
Just to point out we let 11 players go from last years squad including senior players on relatively large (part time) contracts (Baker, Barrett, Price, Bradley, Fenn etc.) So far we have only signed six players to replace the eleven we let go at the end of last season. No alarm bells required just yet...
thats fair enough HH. Not jealous by the way, not concerned either. Just wondering. And you have cleared it up for me.
Shaun Maher in Oriel tonight, expected to sign pending a medical.
Colin Hawkins also apparently in Oriel tonight.. not 100% certain of that though source is normally reliable..
are both looking gto sign for us
What happened Karl Bermingham of Monaghan?