Genuinely thought that was a done deal. Well at least yous have him for another season! Tidy player.
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Valerie Dolia to Kerry is quite a coup.
Pat's still busy in the transfer market:
Bolton Wanderers' Arran Pettifer joins St Patrick's Athletic | The Bolton News
Absolutely no idea if Pettifer is a good signing as there's not much of a track record to go off, but happy to have another midfielder in all the same. More depth there was needed.
Greg Sloggett signed for Cheltenham Town.
Should prove to be hopefully.
I think all three can hit double digits. If they can and Dolia does as well, Kerry should have a reasonable improvement from last year, especially if Kerry also improve defensively and stop conceding sloppy goals that let opponents back into the games, and even worse, gifting opponents easy 3 points.
LOI deadline is like February 22nd I think. There’s never been any actual link to Fleetwood loaning him to Waterford other than people assuming a loan will happen as Waterford tried and failed to sign him and the two clubs are linked. I’d be surprised if a loan happened in his window anyway Fleetwood milked the signing a bit when they announced him, the Fleetwood manager was even tweeting about the signing.
And Coughlan's off the mark for Fleetwood this afternoon.
I'd say what more likely to happen in the Fleetwood/ Waterford link up is Waterford sign players that Fleetwood scout in the LOI. Waterford signing the player improves Waterfords squad and gives Fleetwood additional in depth scout reports that you just won't get without day to day contact with the player. If the player lives up to or exceeds what Fleetwoods initial report says the player will be "sold" to Fleetwood. No reason Lonergan wouldn't be loaned to Waterford but I think if Fleetwood sign someone straight up they may as well keep him and see what they have.
Kerry have now signed a 19-year-old striker called Victor Udeze, if either Galway or Athlone fans can enlighten us about him?
Former Scotland U21 international Scott High has joined Dundalk on loan from Huddersfield, becoming the 5th Scottish player in their squad. You could say that the squad certainly is Scot high ;)
And another one in tonight for Dundalk, this guy looks decent as Lincoln had just signed him from Ipswich.
https://x.com/DundalkFC/status/1754588200503259169?s=20
Was playing for Woking the first half of last season in the Conference; that's as high as he's ever played.
Fair play to Dundalk for not bowing to Andy Burton’s ridiculous mid season free transfer clause for such an important position. The man is acting like a massive child in the public domain, presumably in an attempt to cover up how bad he is at his job that he’s failed to secure a club (let alone a #1 spot) for a very talented player up to this point
https://x.com/itsandyburton/status/1...222278138?s=20
True, but sometimes you can strike gold with players from lower leagues, Archie Davies is one that springs to mind. Scott High albeit on loan is coming from a much higher standard having played 60 games or so in championship over the past few seasons, agreed with Outspoken post there are shades of Sean Murray about him when he arrived.
However these all need to perform at LOI, often it can be hard to adjust plus could take a long time to gel, with so many new intakes this season for Dundalk, def 8 + now they all need to hit the ground running as they say and that won't be easy.
Oh it was the agent here who fxxx'd it up, poor old Nathan had even travelled over on the ferry it seems, expecting a deal to be sorted, then the clause was added in last min dot com by all accounts, the club said no, most feel so sorry for Shepperd on how things panned out in the end. Even at our levels here in Ireland football can be tough on young guys trying to earn a living.
Petty and unprofessional stuff from Burton, saw he was liking tweets as well about the new keeper Munro making an error vs Drogheda. There's only one party being reflected poorly upon in this situation and it isn't Dundalk, Shepperd would be within his rights to be mortified by the carry on.
Will be interesting to see how Dundalk go this season. More than any other side they're going to be relying on a lot of unknown quantities to the league which has always proved a difficult one to gauge.