QuoteI guess Evan McMillan was part of the coaching staff at that point? Really rated him as a footballer. Shame about his knee injuryOriginally Posted by pineapple stu
Sorry, yeah. There was a thread in the LoI forum about it at the time. But I forget how disjointed this place is - there's not too many do be (there we go!) in both forums. And then the junior forum is another dimension altogether!
I guess Evan McMillan was part of the coaching staff at that point? Really rated him as a footballer. Shame about his knee injury
So what are our chances of having John-Joe Finn come on board? Appearing on the bench of a La Liga side aged 17 surely would merit a call-up to the U19s next year - would be a coup if the FAI could get him and Odubeko into the squad
To be fair, I'm not sure Spain will be looking at him for their underage squads unless he's actually playing. Even at U17 level a few of them are playing regular first team football and those that aren't are at the big academies.
Surely ours to lose with a name like that and a Mayo father. And to CD's point, if he were released by Real there must be a volume of players there alone that could be on a Spanish under 17 squad.
His mother's French/Cameroonian (which is why he's black), so there's two other countries he's presumably eligible for.
France have lots of players so, like Spain, a teenager making the bench in La Liga probably isn't a big deal.
Aye, and if his mother is dual national then maybe (hopefully) the identification with one or the other country in her case isn't as strong as the father's with Ireland. That may also be borne out through the fact that the aul lad convinced her to call him "John Joe"!
I'm a little surprised there wasn't anything in the papers about him yesterday, or about Ryan Nolan on the bench last week
Aymeric Laporte is uncapped for France, I really wouldn't be worrying about them!
It'll be interesting to see if the FAI get him involved with the U19s now
Interview in the Athletic
https://theathletic.com/2224929/2020...ers-west-brom/
Not really getting any Ireland vibes from it to be honest. Think things will have to go a fair bit off the road for him before Ireland comes into the picture.
Glad you explained that Stu!
It was either his mother was French/Cameroonian or his father was Paul McGrath or Phil Lynott. There could be no other explanation in modern multicultural Ireland.
I can see a new chapter of the soap opera "Ryan Johansson" is getting to the tabloids very soon
Not much of a story there seeing as he's more than likely still not eligible and has happily declared for Sweden. Oh look at that, an actual reference and not mindless babbling
https://punditarena.com/football/ois...ay-for-sweden/ - January
https://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/202...ng-for-sweden/ - July
According to a poster on the journal Ben cottrell who played for arsenal last night has an Irish granny .https://www.the42.ie/arteta-determin...96065-Dec2020/ similar age and position to mceneff
How is her form?
Im watching this guy Patrick B at Leeds very good player but not too much better than Scott Hogan in my opinion.
Question.... Does this guy Bowen have some irish in him? Such a nuissance player to play against, very clever!
Bowen is more of a Welsh name than Irish so if he has non-English ancestry it's more likely to be there.
But then again, he's older than 16 so they'd have capped him by now if he had.
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