2025 Arrivals and Departures

[nr637]

So, i'ts slowly becoming Who....bin!

[2 Year Contract]

Harry Nicolson is the only player I can make out signed by Finn Harps in 2022 who may have met the criteria for Under 23 training compensation, he made two cup appearances for Inverness and only 7 appearances for Harps

Details are indeed vague in the article but the quote on the sum being 'not insignificant' suggests a very tricky dispute for Harps to deal with at all angles

Wouldn’t surprise me if Nicholson was the player in question. He was with Inverness before Harps and Inverness were in administration up until yesterday so it makes sense that they’d go down every possible avenue for money through desperation. Seem to have been in financial bother for a while now, the way they treated Aaron Doran last year was disgusting. Club captain with nearly 400 appearances for the club and ended up leaving him high and dry without required surgery that they were supposed to pay for before his contract ended

[joey B]

What kind of fee would be have to be paid in this kind of situation?

[ToberonaTornado]

Kilduff has said there's no chance of Hoban being back at Oriel this Summer. You tend to take managers denying such rumours with a pinch of salt but ye dont really get that messing with Kilduff, O'Kane loan ruled out too if it was ever ever even a rumour.

Seen that craic alright about rumours surrounding both hoban & o"Kane returns and he (killer)fairly shrugged those aside and proper too to make it clear that the club remains with a huge debt and that some guys are playing here for basically nothing(expenses & experience) and how he thought it would be difficult to bring in players on big wage even on loan while we have player getting sfa for their efforts.
Breath of fresh air to hear to hear especially when we're celebrating a €65,000 government grant for a toilet!!
Lots in the press also about former kit guy taking a wrc case😁
Got what he was offered in the first place 🙄


Anyway, as this is a rumours page -
JR Wilson to dundalk from Athlone

[outspoken]

Seen that craic alright about rumours surrounding both hoban & o"Kane returns and he (killer)fairly shrugged those aside and proper too to make it clear that the club remains with a huge debt and that some guys are playing here for basically nothing(expenses & experience) and how he thought it would be difficult to bring in players on big wage even on loan while we have player getting sfa for their efforts.
Breath of fresh air to hear to hear especially when we're celebrating a €65,000 government grant for a toilet!!
Lots in the press also about former kit guy taking a wrc case������
Got what he was offered in the first place ������

Anyway, as this is a rumours page -
JR Wilson to dundalk from Athlone

More WRC cases than functioning toilets in Oriel at this stage

[2 Year Contract]

Ian Ryan announced as Athlone’s new manager

[Onapointoforder]

Ian Ryan announced as Athlone’s new manager

He’ll have bailed by 1st July….

[Mr_Parker]

What's going on with Harp's transfer ban? There's not a whole lot of detail here.

https://www.donegallive.ie/news/socc...ion-claim.html

FIFA Clearing House is a minefield for clubs if they do not comply with the strict requirements that clubs have to follow. It has caught many clubs out, and while not always getting to the point of a registration ban, many clubs have had to pay out significant sums to other clubs. I was told that FAI clubs have collectively paid out way in excess of €1 million in recent times.

4 Welsh, 1 Scottish and 1 English club have gone on the banned register in recent months. So far the Scottish and 1 Welsh team have come off the list recently. To be on it, it could be either for an administrative failure to upload the required information and documents after warnings to do so have not been taken, or that payments due to other clubs identified through the process have not been paid within the required time frame.

[culloty82]

Theo Farquharson and Eemeli Honkola have been released by Kerry - the former's little surprise, given he was very much surplus to defensive requirements, but the latter's somewhat more so after Kelliher's injury, which leaves us short on out and out strikers in the squad.

[2 Year Contract]

Galway have signed Trinidad and Tobago international Malcolm Shaw. Sadly from a pun point of view he plays up front, rather than in the middle

[Longfordian]

Getting flashbacks to the late 90s when Eric Lavine, Luther Watson and Ryan Lucas (I think) arrived. I was in college there around that time and they made their mark in the nightclubs if not on the pitch. Eric Lavine aside, who was part of our best ever side and is a good guy.

[Eminence Grise]

Galway have signed Trinidad and Tobago international Malcolm Shaw. Sadly from a pun point of view he plays up front, rather than in the middle

Oh, I don't know about that. Given the spread of clubs and where he can line out ... Shaw's almost nationwide.

[Martinho II]

Getting flashbacks to the late 90s when Eric Lavine, Luther Watson and Ryan Lucas (I think) arrived. I was in college there around that time and they made their mark in the nightclubs if not on the pitch. Eric Lavine aside, who was part of our best ever side and is a good guy.

Yeah I do be in touch with Eric from time to time. A legend of a guy!

[Another Bohemia]

I see Cork have signed a defender in Fiacre Kelleher.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2025...gthy-uk-spell/

From what I have seen of them they needed defensive reenforcements so I think this could be a good signing for them and help them pull away from Sligo a bit.

Also talk of Dom Thomas leaving Derry.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/soc...quell-35379779

Can't say I've seen much of him to say whether he was a good or bad signing but generally good signings dont leave after half a season.

[outspoken]

Rumours on twitter that Dylan McGlade is Training with dundalk, I'd be stunned if they signed him

[joey B]

Will Patching joined Coleraine on a season long loan from Carlisle

[pineapple stu]

Hadn't realised he'd gone to Carlisle. What happened him there - injuries or just not good enough?

[2 Year Contract]

Hadn't realised he'd gone to Carlisle. What happened him there - injuries or just not good enough?

He made 10 appearances for them as they were relegated from League Two. He’s a fine player on the ball on his day but playing for a side in a lower league relegation scrap probably wasn’t a good choice of move in hindsight for him

[pineapple stu]

They had a decent run of form at the end of the season though under Mark Hughes - nearly saw them stay up. Georgie Kelly came back from injury to be in great form for example (5 in the last 6 games of the season).

Didn't make a squad after mid-March and looking at a Carlisle forum there's suggestions he was never fully fit and carrying a bit of weight, but I don't think he was actually injured/unavailable.

(On a separate note, soccerway was a great site for getting info on appearances - but there was an update last week and it's almost unusable now. Don't know am I the only one to see that. Bizarre stuff)

[2 Year Contract]

They had a decent run of form at the end of the season though under Mark Hughes - nearly saw them stay up. Georgie Kelly came back from injury to be in great form for example (5 in the last 6 games of the season).

Didn't make a squad after mid-March and looking at a Carlisle forum there's suggestions he was never fully fit and carrying a bit of weight, but I don't think he was actually injured/unavailable.

(On a separate note, soccerway was a great site for getting info on appearances - but there was an update last week and it's almost unusable now. Don't know am I the only one to see that. Bizarre stuff)

Yeah I noticed that myself, the Soccerway update is absolutely woeful and is now missing huge amounts of data for each player. Some shift from being an excellent resource to the current mess. Transfermarkt seem to have upped the quality of their appearance stats and have Leinster/Munster Senior Cup appearances included too which I haven’t seen from any other mainstream site