Off to Galway on €4k a week apparently
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
Season screwed now,Watts is going to Rovers according to the Sun.(Aaron Greene as well)
https://www.thesun.ie/sport/football...r-dylan-watts/
Is this the same Aaron Greene that Shamrock Rovers released for free in 2012 and then goes and pays the player a signing on fee to come back?
Letting players walk out the door and then taking them back again after talking gibberish about others can make a club look foolish. I hope no English clubs find out about this
I probably should be more worried than I am really, in the short term yeah this squad investment is very worrying but when I'll really start to worry is when Dundalk invest in their stadium,training ground and academy too. I'm not saying just investing in those, obviously the team needs investment too but it's no coincidence that the clubs that have split their investments between structure and squad during their periods of success (Man United, Rosenborg, what city are doing now) have fared far better in terms of prolonged success than those that have just invested in their squads.
I've no problem with Dundalk spending all their money on their squad it's theirs to do as they wish with, still stupid to buy back a player you lost for free 6 months ago after him doing very little mind, but thats reliant on a good deal of luck to be sustainable so if I were a Dundalk fan I'm not sure I'd be too happy.
It' would be nonsense for anyone so say that it is stupid for Dundalk to sign McEleney and simultaneously imply that it would be intelligent for Rovers to sign him.
Is there a time limit on the 'stupidity' of re-signing a player after he has left?
Your claimed confusion and empathy for the emotional contentment of being a Dundalk fan are truly touching
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Dundalk gave Oldham money, Rovers wouldn't be giving Bray any so I've no idea what you're ****eing on about here Ez apples and oranges. Not sure how I'd feel about signing Greene though, prefer the look of Coughlan and Galvin from what I've seen this season in fairness.
Rovers didn't lose Mceleney for free in the first place though. It'd be like me giving you my phone for free then coming back 6 months later and giving you a 10er for it back, a bit stupid, whereas if someone else gives you a tenner for it that's not as stupid because they never gave it away for free in the first place.
Please keep up there RH - read the post again. There is no effective difference in Signing-on fees or Transfer fees or Training Compensation fees; they are all payments that are part of the cost of signing a player in addition to any wages or bonus payments in a contract
Of course I don't know the terms of any proposed deal for Aaron Greene, no more than I know the terms of the deal struck for Patrick McEleney. But I am sure that even you will agree that he is unlikely to be coming in on amateur terms.
In any case the good news is that Aaron Greene has experience of winning the FAI Cup
Is this a new rule? First time I've noticed it.
From https://www.derrycityfc.net/2018/07/...-banish-blues/
"Kenny’s son Dean was expected to be in the squad for the visit of the Shannonsiders, however the club confirmed this morning that the FAI have notified them that Shiels junior will be suspended for the game having only served one of two games handed to him in Scotland last season."
Strange one.
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