2026 Transfer Window

**culloty82** · 16/12/2025, 5:47 PM

Nothing against FC United of Manchester personally, but never likely to be a proving ground for the LoI.

**joey B** · 16/12/2025, 9:01 PM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Hopefully hes better than the last striker to move from Harps to City. Tunde Owalabi has played for 6 teams in the 2 years since leaving us.

He was fine when he left us ,it was Pats who ruined him in between !

**oriel** · 16/12/2025, 9:26 PM

What was our ex man Sean Murray like last season El P - played a serious amount of games, good to see him injury free.

Decent player, just noticed earlier that he has left Cork C.

**oriel** · 16/12/2025, 9:27 PM

Originally Posted by joey B

Bobby Burns signed for Dundalk

That one seemed to have dragged on for weeks, hopefully will add much needed experience in the challenge to stay up. Good to have him onboard.

**TVFBLOCKF** · 16/12/2025, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by oriel

That one seemed to have dragged on for weeks, hopefully will add much needed experience in the challenge to stay up. Good to have him onboard.

A limited enough player technically but will always give 100%. I would have liked to have seen him stay with us for another season but have a feeling he doesn't want to be playing left back. I don't think he's good enough to play elsewhere though, his distribution is poor. The amount of times his crosses went high and wide was very frustrating.

**nigel-harps1954** · 16/12/2025, 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Hopefully hes better than the last striker to move from Harps to City. Tunde Owalabi has played for 6 teams in the 2 years since leaving us.

Miles better than Tunde, who had a lot of pace to get in behind defences and a decent strike rate. Mpongo is seriously strong, as well as quick, good feet, and a good finisher. How he ended up at Harps is a mystery in the first place. Some question marks over attitude, but definitely has the ability.

**thebronze14** · 17/12/2025, 8:28 AM

Knew he would be gone so didn't get too attached but he was excellent last season. Great finisher. Poor against Cork in the cup actually so unsure how he'd do at a higher level but 1st division he'll be excellent. Nice to see harps get some sort of money in anyway. Great bit of scouting

**El-Pietro** · 17/12/2025, 2:29 PM

Originally Posted by oriel

What was our ex man Sean Murray like last season El P - played a serious amount of games, good to see him injury free.

Decent player, just noticed earlier that he has left Cork C.

I dunno. I don't think he ever lived up to the expectation. I don't think City fans will have much of a strong memory of him a few years from now.

**TonyD** · 17/12/2025, 3:07 PM

Originally Posted by patsdad

Pats have confirmed the departures of Sjoberg, McLaughlin and Kazeem - that’s 3 of last season’s full backs. With Ronan Boyce, Anto Breslin and Jay McClelland on the books for next season, there must be one more lined up to come in.

Keith Fitzsimonss on Irish Footy Vlogs had Sam Curtis back on loan as a rumour. That would be fantastic, but I'd be surprised. Even the two lads discussing it seemed to think it was unlikely. I wouldn't say Sam has given up on the UK quite yet.

**Inchicore** · 17/12/2025, 6:07 PM

Originally Posted by TonyD

Keith Fitzsimonss on Irish Footy Vlogs had Sam Curtis back on loan as a rumour. That would be fantastic, but I'd be surprised. Even the two lads discussing it seemed to think it was unlikely. I wouldn't say Sam has given up on the UK quite yet.

Can't see that happening with Boyce coming in. As good as it would be, it wouldn't make sense. Curtis will move to a club he can get game time. We didn't outbid Derry on wages for Boyce to sit him on the bench!!

**Neish** · 17/12/2025, 8:06 PM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Hopefully hes better than the last striker to move from Harps to City. Tunde Owalabi has played for 6 teams in the 2 years since leaving us.

Tunde took 8 or 9 games to get off the mark with Harps and missed a few ones where if was almost more difficult to miss than score in that time, was great once he got his first though in fairness.
Mpongo scored on his debut, got 8 in 15 the the rest of the season and missed the last game or two. Can't remember any tap in from Hans either all his goal took a bit of technique to score

**outspoken** · 17/12/2025, 11:44 PM

Was very impressed with Mpongo again Longford last season, looks to have a real instinctive nature about him in front of goals, something you definitely could say about Tunde. What's the situation with Maguire and Keating? Both set to stay? Mpongo might not get much of a look in unless they play him wide or something?