Not above criticism at all, and as joey says, he's getting plenty of criticism from Harps fans on social media and I'm hearing plenty of it locally too.
Fact is, he couldn't sign many proven Irish players. Some went elsewhere for better money, and we just don't have the budget to compete with other clubs for signings.
Lot of the players brought in are on peanuts. Might be a lot of lads training full time, but they're certainly not on full time wages. The lad who came over from Colorado is from Donegal, he is as local as it gets, as he's from ten minutes from Finn Park and grew up a Harps fan. Nobody arrived from Brazil, Filip Da Silva arrived from Norway.
Think a fair few fans are simply realistic about where we are, and the rebuild at hand too. We've an average squad age of 21, and only 18 so-called senior players, some of whom actually still qualify for the clubs under-19 team. It's a very small squad, a very tight budget, and a pretty unenviable task trying to put a team out there given the money blown last season.
We'll be grand in the long run.
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