Yeah spot on Jack B he would have played under Ian Holloway at Blackpool around 2010 or so!
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Great player. Assume just a complete falling out with Clancy when he doesn’t even have anything to say about him and it’s just Bermo and Kelleher quoted
https://www.stpatsfc.com/news.php?id=9231
https://mobile.twitter.com/McDonnell...89445179498503
UCD’s John Ryan heading to Sassuolo in Serie A….
That's a mad one
It's a shame how his final season has gone but it's not as though that's what will be remembered anyway. Record appearance holder with several cups to boot will have him go down as a legend of the club, he's a great fella and professional too. Could definitely still do a job somewhere if his (few, granted) performances this season are anything to go off, though it'd definitely be weird seeing him play for anyone else.
He hasn't really stood out like. Dan McDonnell says he's played "sporadically" and that's correct. Very roughly, started one-third of our games, came on as a sub in one-third, didn't play at all in the other one-third.
Obviously with UCD, you're going to have lots of young players and while as a team they may struggle, there'd be some decent prospects there still. But it's not one I would have expected!
PS - What sort of fee do you think UCD might get?
No idea. Dan McDonnell says he's signing "a one year deal with the option of another. He is moving for a small undisclosed fee with the potential for significant add-ons." So that sounds fairly nominal up front.
There has to be some agent or rep doing a great job for his player, doesnt sound like he was extensively scouted or someone like Dan would have known. Unless the scout is internal to UCD with connections to Italy or has been on a radar before senior football.
He's played for Ireland u19s apparently? They could have seen him then.
Another 2 short term signings for Waterford announced today. Timi Sobowale who is the brother of first team player Tunmise and also Raul Uche, a Spanish striker who last played in Canada.
Is he on loan from Rovers Stu or signed to you guys?
I saw him playing for Rovers (admittedly only a couple of times) and thought he was very good, was disappointed when he left.
Rovers just tweeted "it would be disappointing if we didn't get involved in transfer deadline" day so i assume we have a new signing :) .......Robbie Keane to make sure he doesnt take the bohs manager job maybe
Edit: i should have waited a few minutes Victor Serdeniuk from the Ukrainian second division.
Seems a bit random but apparently he has been in training for a few weeks so he must have impressed.
Maybe we will get some Ukrainian supporters now.
Not sure. I know the likes of Dylan Duffy, Tommy Lonergan, etc, were announced as new signings at the start of the season (with no mention of loans) but Ryan wasn't announced at all at the time. I think he might have joined quite late in pre-season or even after the season started, in which case he could be a loan and there might be a kick-back for Rovers in the fee as well. But don't really know.
Something weird going on at UCD, apparently the top 3 u19 players (albeit it's a poor team) have been told they are being sent to the LSL team in January. So Myler must be readying another bunch of Rovers players to come in and top up his already heavily non UCD student squad for next season.
Cummins is some spoofer isn't he? Not a single mention that for better or worse most of the Bohs squad is under contract for next season already. Those who aren't won't exactly have clubs queuing up to sign them outside someone like Burt either after their performances this season. https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/...-40972271.html
Bitter ex-pro working in media. Now there is something you don?t see very often.
Whatever about bitter ex pros working in the media, there's a surfeit of bitter ex loi managers in the modern Irish media currently, clogging up the airwaves with their grievances.
Most players out of contract at end of season by now would be starting to test the waters what is out there for them and there is nothing against the rules about it by the player or any other prospective club, not exactly groundbreaking advice from Cummins on that one
Supposedly Junior and Phoenix are signed up for the Blues for next season and possibly for the next two years.
I?d be shocked if either are playing football in this country next year.
Collie o neill joining Rovers as the new senior womans team manager for next season.
Serious statement of intent to take the womans game seriously
Bucko had signed back with the club for next season. 3 year contract. Badly needed someone to bang a few heads together off the pitch and get stuck in on it.
This is hopefully the start of some good signings. He was sorely missed this year. He'll put some bite, boot and bollo* into the team, but Bohs need more high end signings to replace the snowflakes who want to leave and the ones who just aren't good enough.
Promise, Georgie, Dawson, Ross, Rob and Bucko were not replaced by players of equal quality and it showed all season.
That's a good resigning for bohs. I hate him.
Basically in the cup final last year he got given the runaround by Chris Forrester and was substituted immediately after. Some say the embarrassment drove him to leave Bohs and flee to Australia for a year
https://youtu.be/2aBCuCmRXQU
The same reason he left the first time around. He thought he'd find something better somewhere else, this time it was Australia instead of Bray, and was shocked when he didn't find what he was looking for.
As a fan I'm actually not enthusiastic about him re-signing. In his last season he was frequently off the pace and kept his position in the squad by virtue of being a favourite of Long and the club captain. He's coming back in now and being gifted the captaincy in a dressing room he'll likely know very few of the players, a new coaching staff who again he'll only know a few of and the club going full time which is something he has struggled with each time he attempted it. On top of that he's a very limited player when you watch him week in week out. He can take someone out of the game but if you have any hopes of him making incisive passes or being progressive with the ball you're going to be disappointed.