Seriously un feckin believable, how do you not leave it with the boys who have done such a job since Morris left.Originally Posted by joey B
When do Waterford stop shooting themselves in the head
Good piece on RTE about Lido Lotefa, seen sticking on the U21 game in Italy. A really sound and grounded young lad when at Oriel. Not sure if there is a past player thread but maybe not so long since his transfer from Dundalk dont think its been posted already.
https://www.rte.ie/player/movie/lido...l/287400488374
Yeah saw piece online about Lido Nesta. What on earth are Waterford playing at ?Surely to God we will overtake them in the table!
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
Essex lads sticking together! Braintree nearly relegated out of the National League so 8th tier?? Waterford fans cant be happy with that when a good job was being done by the interim lads. Its a wait and see but odds are on a falling out when the side goes backwards again.
The definition of stupidity...when you keep doing the same thing over and over again and keep getting the same crappy outcome
Josh Kerr, a defender who had a spell on loan at Derry a few years ago signed for Bohs.
Might prove me wrong but I remember him as a mediocre midfielder at Fourth Division level in England. As mentioned above jobs for the boys.
Anyhow the reason I’m here, do Shamrock Rovers get a cut of Southampton’s £12m+ they are paying for Gavin Bazunu?
Apparently 15%, but as of yet, that's unconfirmed.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
About €2m + what other clauses have been met already, nice money on top of a European run. The Project has its 1st major success. The new project is sustaining this sort of level semi regularly at least. At this rate Rovers could buy their own ground rather relying on the SDCC stadium bailout project!!
Ah Nesta, we have a racehorse to feed here.
I was hoping for a bigger deal but obviously we'd all have taken the 3m+ we look to be getting over the course of the entire deal when he left for City first. I don't know how many Bazunu's we can realistically produce as he is potentially world class but this is the blueprint for future negotiations. There are some really talented groups coming through, particularly at the younger ages where the kids have been in the Academy for longer.
It's great to see Robinson, Bradley, McPhail and the others involved getting to see the pay off already. And great for Gavin obviously.
21 leagues and 25 cups.
Talbot out for the season for bohs.
Won't get the chance to wear a dublin bus seat
The City buy back clause could be an interesting one especially if Bazunu himself or Rovers required as part of their clauses have another add on. It'd be a much smaller percentage but on a larger transfer fee. A total guess but going on other similar type arrangements the buy-back could be in the 35mil mark if Bazunu keeps hitting his targets and could be a bargain for Man City down the line.
Would've taken him some effort to wear it as a keeper too
I thought this was a really interesting article (paywalled) in The Athletic with English based scouts commenting on what the attitude is towards players in Scotland. https://theathletic.com/3346810/2022...hip-transfers/
I'd love to read the equivalent of the Scottish clubs scouting the LOI. There's clearly been an uptick in Scottish interest in the Irish market but I'd love to actually see what are the pros and cons they see in the market.
I'm not sure if it's something that's actually tracked anywhere but I'd like to see a (estimated) history of annual income from transfer fees to the LOI. Between Doherty (to Spurs), Bazunu, Johnny Kenny, Alex Murphy and co. it's been millions coming into the LOI in recent years.
It feels like it was closer to a 5 figure sum prior to covid/brexit, but it's more likely I just wasn't following things as closely then.
Many reasons why (Brxit/ more 'foreigners' in English youth teams/ league improvement here)
But also important is that the players are not leaving from DDSL clubs. LOI clubs are in a much better position to get the proper fees for our talents
Hopefully the shameful days of the "white slavery" trade perpetuated by those in ddsl clubs is coming to an end. In my honest option those people are as guilty as that gob€hite Delaney for the woes of Irish football.
The best thing to come out of Brexit is that you don't have DDSL clubs sending kids over at 15 years old for 5k fees (or less) even though they know they aren't good enough.
Seeing the likes of Kevins and others trumpeting their "success" of kids going over to play for League 1 and 2 academy's was a disgrace.
These kids 95% + of them then come back with no education worth talking about and branded as failures.
Thanks to Brexit these kids are staying here and only the best will go at 18 with an education and for a fee.
Two lads return from Drogheda to Lincoln. Big losses. Will put Drogheda right in the relegation battle.
Also, Dundalk need to tie up their loan signings. Will be a fight for Europe if they leave.
those 2 lads are a massive loss. great loan move by drogs that has them in a great position to avoid the play offs at mid stage of the season
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