Do we really have to start this "flight risk" conversation every time a dual-eligible player does anything of note?
He does look very promising at the moment. I wouldn't be surprised if he's playing first team football either at West ham or on loan in the Championship by the end of the coming season.
He's another striker though so while it would be disappointing if he doesn't want to play for us its not likely to be a disaster. In fact in all the central positions on the park we seem to be stacked with potential talent waiting to burst through. Unfortunately in the wide positions there's much less to get excited about.
Do we really have to start this "flight risk" conversation every time a dual-eligible player does anything of note?
Unfortunately, it's going to be a question that every dual national player will face from now on, and not just Irish players. Are you going to stay with Turkey/Morocco/Ireland, or are you thinking of declaring for Germany/Belgium/England?
We've benefited and lost from the rules, as have most other countries, and it's just something we're going to have to get used to.
Wilf Zaha?
misread it as "lose every international that we wanted to keep"
There's a list of players who've been capped by two associations here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...national_teams
His former club-mate Sotona has left United, having rejected a 3 year pro deal with them. Disagreement over the wages he was looking for and what the club were prepared to pay.
Probably not the worst thing to leave. If they valued him highly enough to give him a realistic shot of a breakthrough, they probably would have been willing to give him £10k per week. United clearly isn't the worst place to develop right now with the likes of Greenwood, Williams, Gomes and Chong all progressing well last season - but you'd imagine he could go to another premier league side where there's a genuine pathway to first team football.
So the U23 season is officially up and running as of today with five Irish lads in the squads:
Will Ferry set up the winning goal for Southampton against Arsenal, while Thomas O'Connor also played for The Saints. Mark McGuinness lined out for The Gunners, with Jordan McEneff on the bench: https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2...ague-2-2020-21
Meanwhile Oisin McEntee played for Newcastle against Middlesbrough: https://www.nufc.co.uk/news/latest-n...ugh-under-23s/
Wondering if Ferry and O’Connor are being kept around because they’re potentially considered to move closer to the first team like Smallbone and Obafemi or if loan moves will arrive in the future...
Interesting that the likes of Ledwidge in particular and Keogh weren’t involved...
Good to see McGuinness captain Arsenal. Weird to like a player and think he has a chance while also only rating him as our 20th best centre back prospect or something...
McGuinness should benefit from Mavropanos's loan move to Stuttgart and see regular action for the U23s this season.
Mark Travers between the sticks against Blackburn.
Interesting to see Derrick Williams back in the Blackburn team. He'll be centre half beside Lenihan.
Who’s this Sean Roughan chap? Anyone with insight? Makes his league one debut at 17 with Lincoln City
Sounds like both Bazunu and Travers are having absolute howlers today unfortunately. They've shipped 5 between them so far and almost all should have been saved by the sounds of it.
On the plus side Idah has scored for Norwich.
Last edited by Eirambler; 12/09/2020 at 3:43 PM.
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