Not a stretch at all. He was never going to get anything remotely like that offer from Waterford from exiting LOI under 19 football.
He was offered a decent pro contract with Waterford without making even one LOI appearance. That is unheard of in the LOI for a club to offer decent pro terms to an Under 19 player from another club without any first team appearances
If the trial doesn't work out with Ipswich he was highly unlikely to get anything near the same terms offered by Waterford, if Waterford even offered again as Waterford's percentages of getting compensation of out him from another future trial would have been reduced. He wouldn't be guaranteed to even get the same terms with Cork and that's without any guarantee of First Team football to progress his footballing development, I'm sure he was looking at how things panned out for Conor Ellis there
The Leinster Senior League needs a strong Bohemians
Athlone to announce their squad tomorrow night as per their Twitter account
Dundalk supposed to be getting a former Ireland u21s striker in on loan from a prem club this week
Sean Scannell??
Along with Murray, Hoban and Adorjan that's an extremely strong attack
With Dundalk playing only one striker for the last 4 -5 years, I'm not sure how many forwards Kenny wants at this stage, we have two so far in Hoban and Murray, but I see the latter as a 10, even though Murray will probably lead the line v Cork on Sun as Hoban is injured.
Anyway local sources today suggest two more strikers will be arriving this week, one possibly on loan.
#DundalkFC - First Irish club to win an away game in Europe (1963), first Irish club to win points in a group stage in Europe (2016).
John Caulfield ruled him out as a potential City player at a foras q and a last week. We had him on trial last summer. Sounded like he thought he could walk into the LOI and be the best player without any effort. Maybe he's learned from that experience
He's young yet, you'd hope he'd be able to get his head right even if it wasn't a few months ago. It's very tough psychologically on lads who have always been the best as kids, gone to England thinking they'd be the next big Irish player, and not made the grade. It's a tough one to come back from and get the head right for the next part of your career. They're built up from such a young age.
Stephen Kenny was very interested in signing him this time last year, but for some reason appeared to have no interest at all 12 months on when he was released by Leeds. Curious turnaround - particularly when he is on record as saying that he wants at least one more attacker.
It will be interesting to see if Rovers sign him.
when is the market closing and what players are yet without team?
I can think of Connor Winn, dunican, kinsella, flood
Out for a spell, got neglected, lay on the bench unselected.
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