(Very early) Transfer gossip/squad retention

**disgruntled** · 19/12/2013, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by Fivesilver

Ventre having a go in the Mirror. One might suggest he has a bit of a cheek going on about loyalty after the stunt he pulled this time last year.

He has his diehard fans in Sligo, but he has no business going on about how he loves the place and in the next breath trying to undermine the club in the media.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/socc...g-shot-2941408

"He’s (Roddy) laying solid foundations at the club and I feel wanted. There’s incentive bonus structures in place at the club and if you do well, you’ll be rewarded, but Sligo wasn’t like that.”

He says he feels wanted.
I'd say the underlined bit had a lot to do with how much he felt wanted

**Fivesilver** · 19/12/2013, 12:07 PM

Entitled my backside. Teams and players discuss the future all the time - the impression he took is his business. He spent most of the off-season last year trying to get a deal in England.

There are Rovers fans who'll disagree, but he's a very limited player - albeit effective enough when surrounded by quality - who owes a lot of his popularity in Sligo to a rapport with the fans. If Derry are expecting him to be anything more than an adequate defensive midfielder, good luck to them.

**avvenalaf** · 19/12/2013, 2:01 PM

Fivesilver sums it up adequately. He was never in anyone's plans for this season - he burned all bridges with his behavious at the start of last season. Can be brilliant and can be pure ****e . Semi against Shams brilliant, final against Drogs, ****e. If Roddy fires him up, he'll spend most of next season suspended. BTW, Roddy has a fantasy about talks with us re job. Most of the season tickets at the club would not be renewed if he ever set foot in the home dug out,

**poster** · 19/12/2013, 2:31 PM

Originally Posted by oriel

Well to be fair, if he was given the impression that a contract was going to be offered, then to be told it wasn't, he would be entitled to feel let down.

He was offered a deal after the cup final.

As has been pointed out, I find it hilarious that he should be the one talking about commitment given the amount of offering himself about that he did last year.

**seand** · 19/12/2013, 3:52 PM

Glad to hear Roddy's building solid foundations again. Like he did at Monaghan. And Cork. And Rovers. And Dublin City. And Carlisle. Lucky Derry.... did you not know he turned down Sligo to go there? And Bohs. And Barca. And ManU.

**bluewhitearmy** · 19/12/2013, 4:00 PM

Originally Posted by seand

Glad to hear Roddy's building solid foundations again. Like he did at Monaghan. And Cork. And Rovers. And Dublin City. And Carlisle. Lucky Derry.... did you not know he turned down Sligo to go there? And Bohs. And Barca. And ManU.

Discovered Derry didn't he?

**oriel** · 19/12/2013, 6:52 PM

Originally Posted by poster

He was offered a deal after the cup final.

As has been pointed out, I find it hilarious that he should be the one talking about commitment given the amount of offering himself about that he did last year.

Well that changes things obviously, plus I do recall now he tried to punt himself about to lower league clubs in UK last pre season?

**redobit** · 19/12/2013, 7:20 PM

Whoever signed Ventre realises they are taking a gamble, a pretty big one too. The recurrence of a Stress Factor is fairly high I'm told .. Ventre had a stress factor in his shin twice last season! He only started 8 games for us last season and a sub 7 times.

Best of luck to him all the same. He really enjoyed playing for the club and will go down as a Rovers legend. No captain has lifted as many trophies at the club as him.

**Fivesilver** · 19/12/2013, 8:07 PM

I've a lot of time for Danny. During most of his time with Rovers he was massively committed. I was very annoyed at him slagging off the club, but don't want to give the impression he was being deliberately sneaky - that wouldn't be fair on him given what he put in over the years.

At the same time, I think the club's decision to let him go was absolutely the right one.

**avvenalaf** · 20/12/2013, 12:31 AM

Originally Posted by poster;1728415[B

]He was offered a deal after the cup final[/B].

As has been pointed out, I find it hilarious that he should be the one talking about commitment given the amount of offering himself about that he did last year.

Just for the record, he was not.