Transfer Rumours 2015

Sean Gannon will sign a new contract with @DundalkFC today but manager Stephen Kenny says that Patrick Hoban is likely to leave the club.

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

You could hardly call that eejit a journo.

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Sean Gannon will sign a new contract with @DundalkFC today but manager Stephen Kenny says that Patrick Hoban is likely to leave the club.

Are you hatching on the eejit's twitter again?

• Live at Oriel ‏@LiveatOriel 27m27 minutes agoLouth
  Sean Gannon is staying on at Oriel

The lad from the Dundalk Democrat

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Sean Gannon will sign a new contract with @DundalkFC today but manager Stephen Kenny says that Patrick Hoban is likely to leave the club.

To Oxford United apparently. He could do a lot better.

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

The lad from the Dundalk Democrat

LOL - Gavin McLaughlin is an excellent and reliable journalist. However,you could have posted the news on Gannon a bit earlier if you had more faith in the Live at Oriel account that you were so dismissive off

Originally Posted by White Horse

To Oxford United apparently. He could do a lot better.

Not Luton Town? Struggling to see the logic in that, but who am I to question Dolan's wisdom?

Originally Posted by Ezeikial

LOL - Gavin McLaughlin is an excellent and reliable journalist. However,you could have posted the news on Gannon a bit earlier if you had more faith in the Live at Oriel account that you were so dismissive off

Well Gannon wasn't the reason I posted it, but tell your man I said howya.

Sean Gannon confirmed

http://www.dundalkfc.com/gannon-pens-new-deal/

Originally Posted by White Horse

To Oxford United apparently. He could do a lot better.

If thsts where he's going then I believe he is selling himself short. They are towards the bottom in league two. He could definitely play at least one level higher if not the second tier.

Maybe they're the only club making a solid contract offer at the moment? He's said he doesn't want to go on trial at a club lower than the Championship.

Originally Posted by Longfordian

Maybe they're the only club making a solid contract offer at the moment? He's said he doesn't want to go on trial at a club lower than the Championship.

Rumoured to be stg£ 80k

Originally Posted by Ezeikial

Rumoured to be stg£ 80k

I can now see the attraction.

Originally Posted by ger121

I can now see the attraction.

That's a serious wedge for a team that is close to the bottom of league football in England. Hard to compete with that really.

Rovers offered him ten times that.

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

Rovers offered him ten times that.

How much was offered to Rory Gaffney?

Fenlon better work faster - Stephen Kenny will be after his signature shortly

Originally Posted by Ezeikial

How much was offered to Rory Gaffney?

Fenlon better work faster - Stephen Kenny will be after his signature shortly

Have heard since before the season ended that if Gaffney heads to Rovers there will be more to the deal than just money. Something to do with work in whatever field it was he graduated college in.

I thought a deal would have been wrapped up by now to be honest. Hopefully we can still convince him to stay.

No idea what's happening with Gaffney. People on both ends seem sure a deal will be done but nothing official. If Hoban is leaving, would Gaffney be Dundalk's target then?

The word is that Stephen Kenny tried to sign him previously, but his studies took precedence over moving to Dundalk.

Many see him as an obvious replacement who could fit seamlessly into the current style

So, Pat Hoban ends up moving to the bottom of League Two, with a real chance of relegation out of the Football League altogether....I wonder does he consider this a step up?

He may see it as a better shop window and significantly better money.

I'd say English lge 2 clubs could probably offer more than a lot of spl clubs, but I would agree he could have aimed a little higher than the reported link or move to Oxford.

Good news having O'Donnell and Gannon back though, I really thought the latter was best placed from our squad to make it across the water, maybe next season for him. That's the first choice back four all back now and in my view a much stronger keeper in Rogers.

We now need two strikers if he does definitely leave, one to replace him obviously, and a third striker, I'm not sure he will go for 4 strikers next year. At the minute we only have McMillan signed up as a forward.