QuoteIt doesn't Mata to Sligo fans who are delighted to welcome him back to the club!Originally Posted by oriel
Mata only scored 1 goal in 21 or 22 games in England, not a good return, but he should score a good few at this level, I think they have him until June only, still a good signing for Sligo.
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It doesn't Mata to Sligo fans who are delighted to welcome him back to the club!
Will be interesting to see how much of an impact Mata can make. I didn't really fancy him being a hit over the water, he was on a hot streak early last season but I think 4 of his 11 league goals came in two games against UCD and he'd something like 2 in 10 before moving, obviously a handy player but one of those where when you scratched below the surface it didn't feel as impressive as it seemed at face value. Still and all, an issue this Sligo team looked like it was going to have is a consistent threat of goals, so he'll be a boost to that if he can recapture some form.
Totally agree with this statement, overrated.
Also agree, decent at linking play though.
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If this average/overrated Mata bloke finished the season with Sligo he almost certainly would have finished as last seasons top goalscorer
He's probably no Geoghegan, Morley, Crowe, Byrne, Twigg or Hoban etc. but that's a good signing for any LOI team even for a short term loan especially for relegation tipped Sligo
The Leinster Senior League needs a strong Bohemians
He's a decemt footballer, as well as goalscorer, and gives te team a good platform. I like him, although I don't think he'll play all that many games.
Romeo Akachukwu moving in the summer to Southampton for €500,000 …
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It was bound to happen, a nice chunk of cash to spend on buying more players sure, be grand.
Just a bit of idle speculation of a Sunday afternoon,but is the Evan Ferguson bubble in danger of bursting (thus denying lambert's puppet theatre at dalymount untold €€€€'s).
He's still only a chiseler in age terms but in a free scoring Brighton side,his goalscoring in conspicuous by its absence.. He has a multi-year contract there but the possibility of a £100M+ transfer doesn't look inevitable at present.
Ferguson is still only 19 I think Bohs will get a nice payday out of him sometime in the future. Brighton clearly have not been running him into the ground this season similarly to when Southampton famously managed the gametime of a developing Alan Shearer until he was about 20 and then the goals regularly followed
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The Leinster Senior League needs a strong Bohemians
ACL injury for Rob Cornwall,Bohs will need to dip into the market for a CB.
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Bohs didn't buy badly, they didn't buy at all. Shows the importance of buying wisely and early. But it's now a case of taking what you can get and expecting inexperienced Byrne and the new boy to be rock solid, because frankly when Cornwall went off on Friday the rest of the sh1t themselves.
Bit of chatter around Novak coming back. He is without a club. I know he was as quick as an oil tanker but he was solid enough to retain in the squad. Given the deadline is the 20th, I’d bring him back.
The cup final goalscoring hero himself! Was he hoping to secure a club back in Poland or elsewhere that fell through? Always think it’s strange when a player goes 4 months without a club
Paaatrick's Agletic
Harps signed Luke O'Brien on loan from Pats.
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It's going to a busy exciting week for a lucky bunch of unemployed Estonian centre-backs whom Devine/Fenlon will claim they have been tracking for a number of months and not panic signings at all
The Leinster Senior League needs a strong Bohemians
Really unfortunate for Cornwall. Hope his recovery goes as well as possible.
Bohs have had a shocker to be in this position though. Injury to Cornwall or not you're asking for trouble going into the season with only two recognised centre backs, and it's not like Byrne is the most proven either. Don't doubt that they tried for the like of Keeley, Turner and whoever else but still no excuse for being this unprepared.
Even Dundalk had a plan B and C with siging keepers after plans to extend Sheppard's contract were scuppered. Progress for us, teams affairs playing second fiddle to Thin Lizzy at Bohs!
I think people conflate the successful marketing arm of Bohs with their so so footballing side. Without that stuff we'd have a first division budget and a lot if good causes would be worse off. We're a different model and people need to move away from the lazy narrative of priorities gone arse ways
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