Loan to Burton Albion is mentioned on Twitter
He's 23 now so time for him to be leaving Old Trafford, he's obviously got no chance there.
Did well in League 2 last year so a permanent move to League 1 or a higher rated League 2 team will probably be next for him.
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Loan to Burton Albion is mentioned on Twitter
Burton were top half of League 1 last season so that would be a good step up for him from last year. A good season there would leave him well placed to get a decent permanent move next summer.
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handy list of pre season fixtures for Premier League clubs here: https://www.football365.com/news/eve...n-fixture-list
Jason Knight working hard with Derby seniors preseason trying to impress new manager, although he’s struggling with the heat in Tampa https://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/2019/07/...re-season-camp
Irish midfielder gets chance to impress on Bournemouth's pre-season tour https://the42.ie/4720295
Gavin Kilkenny joins Harry Arter and Mark Travers on Bournemouth's pre-season tour. Not sure whether Arter is back in or not. I don't think Jefferson Lerma had the impact they had hoped would match or exceed the outlay. Gosling and Surman are not out of his league.
Connolly appears not to have started or come on at half time in Austria (despite wholesale changes); not sure if he came on towards the end. Molumby did not travel due to minor injury, hopefully he will get some game time in England preseason wise
Collins played the second half for stoke vs Duisburg. 1-1 draw
Jason Knight starts Cocu’s first game in charge of Derby, vs Bristol City in Florida. Keogh also starts
Aaron Bolger came on with 20 minutes to go for Cardiff in their 1-0 win vs San Antonio tonight, Cunningham played 45 minutes.
Dara O'Shea got 90 minutes for WBA in their first pre- season game, apparently played well. Good reports as well from Knight at Derby who should break through there this year and also Connell's first start for Celtic. Probably not enough to get him into the champions league squad for now, though I suppose he may get a run at home to the Bosnians as the tie is effectively over.
Conor Coventry sent back to West Ham's under 23s, doesnt go on their tour to China. So really no justification for them pulling him from the under 19 squad for the Euros. Poor form from them.
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Idah made his senior debut coming on after 75 minutes in 2-2 vs Bielefeld. A few photos of him failing to force a ball home by the looks of it. Not much else reported on his performance https://www.pinkun.com/norwich-city/...port-1-6159242
Okay, here we go:
David McGoldrick scored the only goal for Sheffield United against Real Betis. Egan and Stevens played a half each: https://www.sufc.co.uk/matches/fixtu...ndly-20190712/
Shane Long played the first half for Southampton (and I think gets credited with an assist) while Michael Obafemi and Will Smallbone both played the second half (is Smallbone one to watch for next season) https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2...-friendly-1920
Josh Cullen played the second half for West Ham recently - would be great if he still has a future there: https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/...season-austria
Adam Idah got 15 minutes action at the end of Norwich's draw with Arminia Bielefeld: https://www.canaries.co.uk/News/2019...-on-14-jul-19/
Kian Flanagan an unused sub for Palace against BSC Young Boys: https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/2019/jul...rystal-palace/
In The Championship:
A hat-trick for Sean Maguire in Preston's game against AFC Fylde. Browne and Rafferty played an hour; Adam O'Reilly was an unused sub:https://www.pnefc.net/news/2019/july...-match-report/
Two goals for James Collins in Luton's victory over Welwyn Garden City: https://www.lutontown.co.uk/news/201...-on-06-jul-19/
Ryan Manning and Olamide Shodipo both played the full 90 for QPR against Austria Vienna, Masterson came on for the last quarter hour: https://www.qpr.co.uk/fixtures/first...enna-friendly/
Smallbone seems to have been given the 18 jersey for the new season - would suggest he's in the manager's plans. Obafemi is 20 - obviously squad numbers don't mean an awful lot but they suggest they should both be getting some game time at least.
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Big thanks to Sammy for his work up above. Great to see Didsy get a goal against Betis, especially with their Irish connection in Patrick O'Connell winning La Liga with them.
I've never, ever bought the "we don't have the players" argument, but right now I feel giddily optimistic about the future of Irish football. It's great.
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