Niall Canavan, former Republic of Ireland U-21 defender, has signed for Bradford City, after two and a half years at Plymouth Argyle. (Yorkshire Post)
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Niall Canavan, former Republic of Ireland U-21 defender, has signed for Bradford City, after two and a half years at Plymouth Argyle. (Yorkshire Post)
Simon Power (Norwich) has signed for Harrogate Town in League 2 (BBC)
Warren O'Hora (Brighton, ex-Bohs) has signed a permanent deal with MK Dons. (BBC)
Interesting - a level up from King's Lynn, where he had been playing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Demesne Lad
Mayn't threaten the international set-up, but always like to see the ex UCD guys doing well for themselves, so touch wood he kicks on with this move.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2021...ve-to-mk-dons/
Not sure the fee but O'Hora turned his loan into a permanent deal with MK Dons. Hopefully Keogh's departure doesn't impact him negatively.
Seen reports of somewhere in the region of £200-250k. 10% of that to Bohs as well. Another handy few quid for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olé Olé
Looks like Conor Masterson (QPR) is on his way to Swindon for the rest of the season. He has made 16 appearances for QPR since joining from Liverpool in 2019.
The much travelled attacking midfielder Jamie Devitt has signed an 18 month contract with Barrow (EFL2), having left Blackpool (BBC). Barrow will be his 11th club, and following decent spells at Morecambe and Carlisle suggests that he is settled in the North-West of England. He has one Republic of Ireland U-21 cap (Wikipedia).
Corey Whelan is back from his stint in the States in the USL. He has signed for Wigan until the end of the season. Wigan are struggling but it's good going to get onto the ladder of English football at League One level.
Rob Elliot (ex-Newcastle and Republic of Ireland) has signed for Watford until the end of the season. (Ben Foster has a broken finger). Elliot is 34, but I always thought he was a decent, if not outstanding, keeper. I'm glad he is staying in the EFL.
Decent move at this stage of his career.
Aaron McEneff has signed for Hearts! Improves his chances of making another ireland squad I guess...
Fair play to JBM's young lad. He's consistent in his signings. Conor Shaughnessy has signed for Rochdale: https://galwaybayfm.ie/sports/soccer...-for-rochdale/
Barry-Murphy strikes again. He has signed Conor Grant from Sheff Wednesday now too. Permanently.
Joe Mason is to join Cavalry FC in the Canadian Premier League upon the expiry of his contract at MK Dons.
https://cavalryfc.canpl.ca/article/j...ith-cavalry-fc
Fair bit of movement so far this pre-season - most of it bad, although early doors tends to be about players being released of course. Summary here.
Keiran Westwood (Sheffield Wednesday), Robbie Brady (Burnley), Conor Sammon (Falkirk), Shaun Williams (Millwall), Stephen Quinn (Burton), Glenn Whelan (Fleetwood), Alan Judge (Ipswich), Stephen Ward (Ipswich) all released and all capped.
Also Dan Crowley (Birmingham), Rene Gilmartin (Bristol City), Shane McLoughlin (Wimbledon), John-Joe O'Toole (Burton), Ian Lawlor (Doncaster), Anthony O'Connor (Bradford), Ryan Sweeney (Mansfield) and Gary Dicker (Kilmarnock) released, and capped at underage level.
I might have missed a couple of names there too. Really only Robbie Brady stands out in that list - maybe Alan Judge as well, who had a couple of great seasons but never really lived up to his full promise I think. But it's still a bit unnerving to see solid internationals like Westwood, Quinn, Whelan, Ward, etc, dropping towards retirement while we still await anyone to really replace them. There's a lingering feeling that we could still use them...
It did seem like Alan Judge was on the cusp of getting a decent move just around the time he broke his leg = = No good time to break your leg but the timing for Alan Judge could Not have been worse. Football is a cruel game be-times. Alan Judge was very very unlucky.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Yeah, the injury he got was horrible alright and really took the wind out of his sails at the worst possible time.
Dicker was similar as well. Brighton were riding high and he looked to have potential for an international call-up and then he did his knee.Quote:
Originally Posted by seanfhear
Speaking of injuries, Darron Gibson released by Salford after 10 games in two years. 27 caps - he's only once managed more club games in a season than that, and that was in the Belgian second tier in 2006/07.
Paul McShane released by Rochdale, and Eddie Nolan (who to be honest I can't remember playing for us at all, but he has three caps) let go by Crewe.
I remember Eddie Nolan playing in, I think, the same games as Sean St Leger made his first couple of appearances. Might have been Nigeria in London or something.
Stephen Quinn (35) has signed a one-year contract with Mansfield Town (L 2), having spent last season on loan from Burton Albion. (www.the42.ie)
Dylan Connolly has turned down an offer to stay at St. Mirren and opted instead for a 2-year contract at Northampton, recently relegated to EPL 2. Not an obvious move if he had any ambitions to play at a higher level - presumably a simple matter of financial benefit. After 39 appearances for St Mirren in 2020/21, it can't have been about game time either.
So much for the attraction of Playing Celtic / Rangers ? !Quote:
Originally Posted by Demesne Lad
Alan Judge hasn't always enjoyed the best of luck in his career; nice to see that he has signed a two-year contract with Colchester Utd., one of 4 Ipswich 'old boys' who are moving from Suffolk to Essex.
God, that's more of a step down that I thought he'd take. With Ipswich you'd think he was on the fringes of the national team still - and we need a midfielder who can score - but Colchester is effectively international retirement.
Couldn't find a thread for him but according to reports, Jack Bonham is close to joining Stoke City on a free transfer, his contract at Gillingham having expired:
https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/st...ld-free-agent/
U21 centre-half Mark McGuinness leaves Arsenal for Cardiff
Potentially a very good move.Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
Conor Sammon joins Alloa. Was surprised to see that they were in the Scottish second tier the last three seasons, and have only just been relegated
Maybe they poached him.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
So if he breaks into the first team quickly that could mean that our young centre-half options could look like this next season:Quote:
Originally Posted by elatedscum
Premier League: Omobamidele, Collins (depending on rumoured transfer)
Championship: McGuinness, O'Shea, Masterson (if he can re-establish himself at QPR)
League one: O'Hora
Plus hopefully Jimmy Dunne will establish himself at a high level
Tom O'Connor, former U-21 international at Southampton, has been on loan at Gillingham. Burton Albion website announced this evening that the defender/midfielder will be joining Jimmy Floyd Hasslebank's Albion when his Southampton contract expires this summer.
Burton Albion or Burton Hibernian? Conor Shaughnessy (24, ex-Leeds Utd, Hearts, Rochdale) is signing for Burton on a two-year deal. (BBC Sport, 24 June)
After seven and a half years and 295 appearances for Millwall, Shaun Williams looks set to join Portsmouth (The News, 24 June).
Zack Elbouzedi (ex-Waterford, more recently on loan with Bolton Wanderers) has been told by Lincoln boss Michael Appleton that he can leave if he gets an opportunity of regular football elsewhere. (Lincolnshire Live, 25 June)
Aaron Drinan (23, ex-Waterford) is the 20th contracted pro to leave Ipswich Town since the end of the 2020/21 season. After various loan spells in England, Ireland and Sweden, 8 starts and 16 sub appearances (1 goal) for the Tractor Boys, Aaron is to join Leyton Orient in EFL 2. (www.twtd.co.uk 27 June)
That's Ward, McGuinness, Judge, Parrott and now Drinan as Irish first-teamers from last season who've since left Ipswich.
Drinan is expected to sign for Leyton Orient:
https://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co....drinan-8090902
Meanwhile, Corrie Ndaba is named as one of only 11 designated first-team players for next season:
https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/ipswich...o-u23s-8082572
That is positive for Ndaba given that he is under 23 next season. If he had been allocated to the 23s, you'd wonder if he was in pergatory.
Jack Bonham to join Stoke on a one year deal.
https://www.stokecityfc.com/news/202...m-to-check-in/