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Ah I thought there was a bit of a run before that game.
Wonder how he ended up on Udinese's radar?
They have had a good reputation over the years of identifying young players from abroad that they think they can sell on in future so they probably have quite a few scouts throughout Europe. Bruno Fernandes and Alexis Sanchez would be two high profile ones that spring to mind but there are plenty more no doubt.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
The winners of the tie was to play Empoli. Id be surprised if there is any connection as he wasn't involved in the games. We did ok in the home leg against Red Star and should have got a better result. I wasn't that hopeful for the away leg.
drogs signed 2 lads on loan from lincoln, roughan should be a v good signing. think they'll be ok , bit of a gap there now between themselves and harps/ucd
Going to be interesting at the bottom alright. I think Whelan is the only player we're likely to lose in mid-season. Seems everyone else is still around. That's a rarity for us lately, and given that we did reasonably well against the Premier sides in the Cup (including Shels), that has to give us a chance at staying up.
Does anyone know what is going on with Athlone? I can only make out 4 players re-signed and they have recently lost Adam Wixted, Dylan Hand, Dan McKenna and Ray O'Sullivan who all signed for the struggling Warrenpoint Town
And on that related point Warrenpoint basically look like the 20th LOI club going by my count at least 15 ex-LOI players from Dublin they have in their squad. Do they train in Dublin and are they paying crazy expenses?
The Leinster Senior League needs a strong Bohemians
ya id expect there to be interest in himself and kerrigan throughout the season tbh 2 cracking talents. big job on but ye will have always have a chance when whelan is involved. great experience for some of the younger ones in the squad too for the inevitable rebuild that'll be needed when ye get raided
https://www.westmeathindependent.ie/...rts-in-trials/
Russell mentioning trialists from the UK in that article and others training but it dosent seem to be optimal having very few players signed at this stage of pre-season.....
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
€400k up front fee approx according to Paul O'Hehir in the Mirror - https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soc...wsApp_AppShare
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And the scope to double it with add ons.
Its really shows you how small we are as a league (all of us inc Rovers) when a transfer of this size is game changing in terms of budget for a LOI team.
Its the kind of money that would almost be classed as a free transfer in the UK.
Anyway long may it last , we need the likes of McGrath, Scales etc to do well and build confidence in the LOI over there as well as further afield.
Saw a picture on twitter that the management agency of Cork City's Cathal Heffernan posted with him having just played for Bayer Leverkusen (presumably a trial game for a youth side), with a 'Soon ->' emoji so looks like he could be on his way to them. Good to see so many of the young expat Irish lads playing in Spain/France/Italy/Germany etc these days as opposed to just solely the UK in the past.
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