I seen this on BBC Newsline last night and I was genuinely shocked. Any idea what wages he'll be on?
Keith Gillespie joins Glentoran and gives the Setanta Cup an extra boost.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/foot...sh/8202669.stm
"..Irish Premiership champions Glentoran plan to parade their star signing at the Oval on Tuesday night before the derby clash with Linfield.....
"When asked on Tuesday about the player's rumoured move to the Irish League side, Northern Ireland manager Nigel Worthington said it would not enhance his international prospects.
" I'll go right up to here,
it can't possibly hurt.
All they will find is my
beer and my shirt."
I seen this on BBC Newsline last night and I was genuinely shocked. Any idea what wages he'll be on?
Rumour has it £2k.
But it is a rumour, I have no hard evidence to back it up.
This could be a fantastic signing of massive proportions or he could come in with the attitude 'i'm better than everyone else' and not perform to his abilities.
I think the fact he was unable to get a team in England/Scotland speaks for itself.
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He will be getting just und £1k
The fact that it made the news shows it can be a decent signing. If he brings an extra 100 people to the games he'll pay for himself
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A signing that surely represents a bit of a gamble.
#NeverStopNotGivingUp
Alll the better.
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I heard it was William Hill.
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Probably good for the Glens for a season but surely the end of his Northern Ireland involvement.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
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He's 34 now and very much an average footballer at this stage of his career. Signing for Glentoran seems more to be a marketing gimmick than anything else. Obviously you don't need to be much of a footballer to play for Northern Ireland but there's a few players ahead of Gillespie now on the international scene so it's unlikely that he'll play for NI again.
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Agree with what you are saying but I didn't read Lionel's post that way - ie I read his post as questioning the circumstances behind why Gillespie has signed for Glentoran rather than knocking the status of Glentoran as a club and IL football in general. Glentoran have done a lot of cost cutting since the end of last season so a sponsor coming in to pay Gillespie's wages suggest that this is no more than a marketing gimmick rather than Gillespie trying to further his career and get back into the NI international setup.
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