Transfer rumours

**pineapple stu** · 06/12/2010, 1:18 PM

Originally Posted by marinobohs

Yep ,the fact we offered them three months pay to leave clearly indicates our "determination" to hold on to them

You sign them back on smaller contracts obviously.

We've told all our non-scholarship players they're free to leave. Doesn't mean we don't want to keep them; just can't offer them the same contract as the year gone by.

**Lim till i die** · 06/12/2010, 1:25 PM

I'll put this here as it doesn't really merit its own thread but:

Anyone know of any bookies taking odds on the First Division yet?? There's money to be made!!

**Shannonsider** · 06/12/2010, 1:38 PM

Originally Posted by avvenalaf

Robbie Keane today signed a five year contract with Sporting Fingal. He said 'this is a dream come true for me. I've been a massive fan of Sporting since I was a child and my father used to bring .....wait a minute, Sporting Fingal?, I thought my agent said Sporting Lisbon'.

Next....

Anyways,

Limerick rumoured to be looking at Barry Ryan of Galway to replace his younger brother David Ryan who is supposed to be not signing back with the club.

**Trainee** · 06/12/2010, 1:51 PM

Originally Posted by Shannonsider

Next....

Anyways,

Limerick rumoured to be looking at Barry Ryan of Galway to replace his younger brother David Ryan who is supposed to be not signing back with the club.

Yeah Barry Ryan wont be playing with GUFC next year, so there is a great chance he will be at limerick next season

**Lim till i die** · 06/12/2010, 1:54 PM

He's still fairly good ya?

**pineapple stu** · 06/12/2010, 2:07 PM

Galway's end of season form -

D W L W W D L D L L L L W D W

Guess which four games Ryan was suspended for?

He'd be an excellent signing for a Div 1 team. Would believe it too cos he seems happy to play close to home these days.

**marinobohs** · 06/12/2010, 2:22 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

You sign them back on smaller contracts obviously.

We've told all our non-scholarship players they're free to leave. Doesn't mean we don't want to keep them; just can't offer them the same contract as the year gone by.

If we keep any of them it will be on vastly reduced terms and probobly only as part of a settlement to terminate the contracts already there. In fairness there are certainly some of our squad we would like to keep but I suspect we would let them all go if we could afford the "get out" fee.

**peadar1987** · 06/12/2010, 3:47 PM

Originally Posted by Rafa B

Tarzan deserves one to.

Yup, one of Devo and Tarzan high-fiving while Daz gives them the thumbs up!

**hoopy** · 06/12/2010, 5:07 PM

Originally Posted by Nesta99

Hoopy are you Ray Houghton?? if not your mutual abilities to state the obvious are striking
...love child even..

I'l put it another way smart hole. He was offered a contract by us, went back to Bucko to see if he would top it. Fact is it's sad when a player would rather play for Fingal than Rovers for a few extra quid.

**Dodge** · 06/12/2010, 5:31 PM

Are you for real? You think any of you players wouldn't move for the money? I guess they're all amateurs there?

**hoopy** · 06/12/2010, 5:43 PM

So are you telling me Dodge that if you played for Fingal you rather stay there for the same money or very slightly more than what you'd get at Rovers?

**SkStu** · 06/12/2010, 5:45 PM

very, very few players have an affinity to any team in Ireland, hoopy, youre kidding yourself that any club holds a particular attraction over another.

Money talks - whether its 50euros or 500euros.

**Ezeikial** · 06/12/2010, 5:46 PM

Originally Posted by hoopy

Fact is it's sad when a player would rather play for Fingal than Rovers for a few extra quid.

That is a really hilariously blinkered view of the "beauty" of playing for Rovers. Imagine the spiel -

" We can't pay you as much as the other club, but you get to play with icons of decency like Chris Turner and Neale Fenn"

**Charlie Darwin** · 06/12/2010, 5:48 PM

A few extra quid adds up to a lot of extra quid over the course of 40 weeks.

**hoopy** · 06/12/2010, 5:52 PM

My point is lads, nothing to do with the fact it's Rovers, but let's be honest we're a lot more likely to win trophies in the near future than Fingal are, I'd have the same attitude if it was Sligo who tried to sign him and he stayed at Fingal. Do players value 50 quid a week more than looking back on a career with medals to show for it?

**SkStu** · 06/12/2010, 5:55 PM

probably. Whether it is admirable or not is another matter entirely.

**Nah Nah Nah Nah** · 06/12/2010, 6:52 PM

Originally Posted by hoopy

My point is lads, nothing to do with the fact it's Rovers, but let's be honest we're a lot more likely to win trophies in the near future than Fingal are, I'd have the same attitude if it was Sligo who tried to sign him and he stayed at Fingal. Do players value 50 quid a week more than looking back on a career with medals to show for it?

If players were getting paid a fortune then I would think your view would hold up but players are not that well paid and I would expect any of them to move to whoever offers them the most money. They have bills to pay and aren't going to be in their 'job' until they're 66

**Dodge** · 06/12/2010, 8:23 PM

Originally Posted by hoopy

My point is lads, nothing to do with the fact it's Rovers, but let's be honest we're a lot more likely to win trophies in the near future than Fingal are, I'd have the same attitude if it was Sligo who tried to sign him and he stayed at Fingal. Do players value 50 quid a week more than looking back on a career with medals to show for it?

O'Neill has medals. He, likem every other player in the league, looks after himself first before thinking about his 'memories' (and BTW in now way am I knocking O'Neill or the others)

**osarusan** · 06/12/2010, 9:49 PM

Originally Posted by hoopy

My point is lads, nothing to do with the fact it's Rovers, but let's be honest we're a lot more likely to win trophies in the near future than Fingal are, I'd have the same attitude if it was Sligo who tried to sign him and he stayed at Fingal. Do players value 50 quid a week more than looking back on a career with medals to show for it?

No club in the league offers near enough to allow a player the luxury of that decision. We're not talking about a player wanting 70,000 a week at Man city instead of 65,000 at Barca.

50 quid a week (if that's the difference) is 2,600 a year, and more if Rovers would only be paying part-time and Fingal offering full-time. In this league and this economy, it's significant.

**Charlie Darwin** · 06/12/2010, 10:02 PM

I don't know if it's been confirmed but Fingal appear to be going part-time as well. Stephen McGuinness said something to the effect that no club is offering more than 40 weeks.