QuoteReading a few West Ham sites and Josh Cullen seems to be set to stay with them. He was on a list of players to be moved on but is after impressing Pellegrini in training so far.
Aiden McGeady out of Sunderland's pre-season action for another couple of weeks - calf injury (Sunderland Echo).
Reading a few West Ham sites and Josh Cullen seems to be set to stay with them. He was on a list of players to be moved on but is after impressing Pellegrini in training so far.
Came on after 60 minutes so well done to him - https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2018/j...t-liverpool-h/ - not only that, within fifteen minutes of coming on, Liverpool had scored twice - the outfielders must have felt more secure with him between the sticks than Karius! Suddenly that GBP66.8m is starting to look like an unnecessary panic buy!Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
On the other side, Derrick Williams and Darragh Lenihan helped keep Liverpool scoreless for an hour, and within 15 minutes of them going off, Blackburn had conceded twice!
Brighton played a 'behind closed doors' friendly against Harry Kewell's Crawley Town on 20 July. 30 mins each way, Brighton won 3 -0, Richie Towell played the full hour.
Burnley split their Irish sextet between two friendlies today. There was a welcome return for Robbie Brady, who played alongside Stephen Ward and Jon Walters against Curzon Ashton. Walters was on the scoresheet, while a Brady corner set up another goal: https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/...ton-v-burnley/. Meanwhile Jeff Hendrick, Kevin Long and Jimmy Dunne lined out against Macclesfield - good to see young Dunne continuing to play a part: https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/...-on-20-jul-18/
Great for Dunne. I know Accrington were (and maybe.are) very keen to get him back for their season in League One. It will be interesting to see if he ends up there, a Championship club or maybe Burnley for the season.
Preston NE v West Ham 21 July
Browne and Horgan start for PNE, Maguire and Burke on the bench. Rice starts for for West Ham, Cullen and Coventry named as subs.
Up until now, Dunne, Hoban, Cullen and Nolan seemed to be the young players to watch in top tiers this pre-season, but then today Chris Hughton gave sub appearances to Daniel Mandroiu and Aaron Connolly, with Connolly winning the penalty that Brighton scored from. Richie Towell also came on in the second half. Unfortunately, Shane Duffy went off with an injury after 21 minutes: https://www.brightonandhovealbion.co...-on-21-jul-18/
Meanwhile, Tyreke Wilson did make it to the bench for Man City's tie with Borussia Dortmund, but didn't come on - still quite an achievement, given that there's about a million players in the squad - hopefully it's a sign that he's close to a breakthrough, if not with City themselves, then via a decent loan: https://www.mancity.com/news/first-t...report-21-july
Speaking of Ryan Nolan, he was an unused sub in Inter's 3-3 draw with Zenit St. Petersburg: https://www.inter.it/en/news/63461/i...st-petersburg-
And in other news about young Irish footballers called Ryan, Ryan Manning scored a late equaliser for QPR against Champions-League-Bound Hoffenheim: https://www.qpr.co.uk/fixtures/first...fenheim-v-qpr/
Conor Hourihane started for Villa in their 4-0 win over Burton, Glenn Whelan and Jake Doyle Hayes were introduced in the second half
The game is available on YouTube if you really want to watch it
I work with Tyreke Wilson's aunt and he got an infection in his toe so they were all worried he might not get game time over there. They seem like a lovely family and he sounds like a really good lad too. She doesn't know much about football but reading between the lines from what she was saying City want to get him a loan to a championship team and they seemed to have turned down offers from some clubs.
Caoimhin Kelleher was on the bench again for Liverpool. This time, though it was their other underage keeper, Kamil Grabara, who got to replace Karius - shipped three goals though (that said, it was against Dortmund) - https://www.theguardian.com/football...log-navigation
Preston: Robinson, Burke and Maguire start, Browne and Horgan are on the bench.
(Boyle, Doyle, O'Connor and O'Reilly missing)
Burnley: Hendrick and Ward start, Walters, Long and Dunne are on the bench.
(Brady missing)
GOAL PNE!
Really well worked goal from the Lilywhites as Graham Burke regained possession wide right with an interception before feeding Maguire on the opposite flank. He cut back inside and played Josh Harrop into space in the box, who converted coolly into the far bottom left corner!
Goal Burnley.
Aaron Lennon the goalscorer after Burnley got to the byline with Hendrick having his initial shot blocked from closer range, before the ball fell nicely for the winger on the edge of the box and he lashed it home with an emphatic first time strike.
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Doesn't look like this trio are part of Alex Neil's plans - Boyle and Doyle should probably be looking for a move to a decent League One team; O'Connor, as he's still only 23, could try to get another loan move to build on.
3-2 win for Burnley - Callum Robinson scored Preston's second, while Jon Walters set up Burnley's: https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/...end-v-burnley/
Not sure. The Arsenal team of the 1970s had 5 or 6 Irish players which could have been facing another team with 3 Irish players.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Something tells me Tets isn't just going to treat that as a throwaway reply and will revert with the appropriate statistics.
Was ever so slightly tongue in cheek
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