Potentially eligible players thread

**seanfhear** · 23/08/2022, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by Eirambler

Once Irish eligible Anthony Gordon looks to be going to Chelsea for £60 million. Crazy money for him, he's probably not that much better than Jason Knight in reality, just has been given better opportunities. No wonder these lads don't declare for us.

Slightly adapted from a tweet I saw about it:

Anthony Gordon (ENG) £60M
Antony Gabriel (BRA) £40M
Antonio Gordoba (ESP) £20M
Antonio Giorgio (ITA) £10M
Anthony Gormley (IRL) £1M
(€100k if signed from League of Ireland)

A lot of money for a guy that has done relatively little yet. Chelsea must need to lay down a marker after a bad result at the weekend. The money at that level is crazy. Obviously not saying the fella would do it but he could lay back and do nothing for the next few years and he would still leave football a very wealthy man.

**seanfhear** · 23/08/2022, 1:01 PM

A lot of very good players are going to get little or no England Caps over the next years. They do seem to have a lot of good players these days ~ ~ It must surely have something to do with the wealth of so many of these clubs these days and that they are now using that wealth to actually develop players ~ ~ When you have the wealth that these clubs have now, they can afford to do it.

**third policeman** · 23/08/2022, 5:58 PM

Originally Posted by seanfhear

A lot of very good players are going to get little or no England Caps over the next years. They do seem to have a lot of good players these days ~ ~ It must surely have something to do with the wealth of so many of these clubs these days and that they are now using that wealth to actually develop players ~ ~ When you have the wealth that these clubs have now, they can afford to do it.

Maddison will be very lucky if he gets more than a handful of caps for England. I reckon if we started looking like qualifying for tournaments, we’d begin to pick up a better class of 2G recruits for better or worse.

**paul_oshea** · 13/09/2022, 8:33 PM

Whats the story with that Charlie McNeill. He's eligible

**Olé Olé** · 13/09/2022, 8:49 PM

Originally Posted by paul_oshea

Whats the story with that Charlie McNeill. He's eligible

https://roscommonherald.ie/2022/09/1...-united-debut/

I bit and googled. Seems like one that could come about if he doesn't make it for England. His grandfather didn't spend much of his life in Ireland.

**SkStu** · 13/09/2022, 8:57 PM

Roscommon blood though? The worst kind.

**John83** · 13/09/2022, 11:27 PM

Originally Posted by SkStu

Roscommon blood though? The worst kind.

We're looking for footballers, not safe candidates for a mortgage.

**Eirambler** · 14/09/2022, 6:25 AM

Interesting one, didn't know he was eligible. Hasn't played competitively at all for England that I can see. But he'd have plenty of competition up front for us in the next Under 21 campaign if he did make himself available - Ferguson, Odubeko, Armstrong, Okoflex, Cannon, Costelloe and Kavanagh all already in that group.

**Fixer82** · 14/09/2022, 8:14 AM

Originally Posted by John83

We're looking for footballers, not safe candidates for a mortgage.

Depends on how much road frontage is involved

**JR89** · 14/09/2022, 10:43 AM

You'd figure the FAI have already talked with him and he's happy to remain in his current situation while a Man United player.

**JR89** · 01/11/2022, 12:43 PM

Lovely ball from Jack McGlynn who came on at half time after starting the quarter final, and Union went on to win 3-1 to progress to the final. They play LAFC in the final and McGlynn came on for captain Alejandro Bedoya so there's a chance he could start if Bedoya isn't fit.

Interesting to see whether the U21s have a training camp to call in fringe players and eligible lads to train this month. McGlynn was called in to an U19s training camp last season but Union wouldn't release him.

**elatedscum** · 01/11/2022, 11:38 PM

Could be wrong but I heard there’s nothing planned till March.

Maybe Crawford’s contract situation and who will be managing the next campaign is what’s stopping a training camp or friendlies going ahead

**JR89** · 02/11/2022, 9:07 AM

Would assume the job is Crawford's unless he gets a better offer to coach somewhere else. Probably will be looking at March, and a training camp in the summer like two years ago. Wasn't many guys in the team that are underage again for the next campaign so might have been a good option if a camp this month was possible.

**Demesne Lad** · 29/11/2022, 2:34 PM

Has Charlie O'Connell, 20 next month, Peterborough centre-back/defensive midfielder, been mentioned before? Formerly with the West Ham Academy; Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich all supposedly interested in him.

**JR89** · 29/11/2022, 2:54 PM

With a name like that you'd assume the FAI have talked with him already to see whether he was or not.

**tetsujin1979** · 29/11/2022, 3:03 PM

David Connolly talking about the Welsh FA making requests for players with Welsh heritage from 12 year olds, and the FAI are not

**Eirambler** · 29/11/2022, 3:10 PM

Desperate times calling for desperate measures from the Welsh - they don't seem to have any quality coming through domestically at all.

They had an Irish qualified lad, Luke Harris, in their extended world cup squad, though he's actually from the Channel Islands. He pulled out in suspicious circumstances, he doesn't seem to be committed to Wales at this point in time.