QuoteMarch will be interesting
& there it is. First half hat trick.Originally Posted by CraftyToePoke
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March will be interesting
This January transfer window will be too. Must be a few twitchy for goals clubs in the division above about to take panic punts.
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Fair point. 19 goals for an average Championship team now. Doesn't have to be division above either I guess - a side looking for a boost in the promotion run-in might fancy a chance too
Anything can happen, remember Wigan dropping 3 million on Davey Connolly one time ? I had a season ticket at Leicester at that time & most fans couldn't stand him, if it wasn't inside the width of the goals and within the penalty area, he wasn't interested. One game a ball visibly held up in mud that was rolling out, and stopped. Connolly looked at it and just didn't move. Took some balls. Three million soon after
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After losing Ben Brereton Díaz on a free they might feel some pressure to sell if a good fee comes in for Sammie. They got him cheap enough too at €2m.
You'd have to wonder why Hungary aren't all over him for the euros.
Maybe he's said no already or maybe they want to stick with the lads that got them qualified.
But he must be good enough for their squad
Not in the Blackburn squad today, ill for most of the week (Lancashire Telegraph)
According to John Fallon of the Examiner he has been.
Not sure he’d be interested. There would be a language barrier.
I think if England came knocking it might be a different story though
Folding my way into the big money!!!
You lost me at "John Fallon"
I'd be surprised if a major finals didn't interest him at 28 years of age & Callum Styles of Barnsley in L1 is doing ok with the language barrier, he's going to the finals with them. I'd also be surprised if Hungary haven't spoken to him.
But as tets says ... John Fallon
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Yeah basically what Tets said. Fallon is more often wrong with stuff he reports that might happen. Think Cathal Heffernan to Newcastle was the only things he's been right about lately.
Think if a switch was happening it would have happened already. Hungary have a League One player starting in midfield for them so isn't like Szmodics was a level beneath the standard of players they have until he started scoring goals.
Presumably he would need to go through the process of gaining Hungarian citizenship, which might take a while. Although Orban is a football enthusiast so could probably push it through if it was deemed important enough.
A bit mental that we're in a position that we haven't capped him in the last three years. I know he left a recent squad for personal reasons, but there were plenty of opportunities before that and we capped plenty of League 1 players and bang average lads like Curtis and Hamilton, but somehow not Szmodics.
But probably not worth dragging up the last three years again, we just have to work from where we now are as best we can.
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He only got his passport back in March.
He was called up back in 2021 though?
https://m.independent.ie/sport/socce.../40480359.html
Not necessarily saying you're wrong, as I wouldn't rule out us being badly enough administered that we'd call up an ineligible player to the senior squad, but that would have been a story in itself at the time surely?!
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Yeah, there isn't a Kenny blame claim to be had here however you spin it but that wont stop people taking lazy shots like the one two posts above. He was called up soon as we could and chose not to show up once and to go home the next. He paperwork seemed to take an age and if he does decide to go elsewhere, that and the squad no shows and go homes will become much clearer as to why.
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Yeah and more recently:
It was Szmodics’ first call-up since the summer of 2021 when he missed out on the chance of a debut due to a shoulder injury. Since then, there had been some administration issues surrounding the paperwork submitted for his Irish passport, which were resolved earlier this year.
https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...ireland-squad/
Stephen Kenny Saviour, Leader, Winner, An Autobiography - In All Good Bookstores Now
The bit in bold is a contradiction in itself though surely? Or else we fortuitously avoided an absolutely massive administrative balls up?
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The call up in 2021 I'd assume he was either only gonna train or one of the matches (likely Andorra) was gonna be non competitive to allow him play in it. Definitely would have been a massive **** up if he played in those games and then turned out he was ineligible to play.
*laughs in Tony Cascarino*
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