Don Givens comments

[Jerry The Saint]

Yeah, agreed, surely Stan would want to bring in his own under 21 coach or is that his call?

Apparently not. Staunton has said that he trusts the FAI to pick the best people to run things and will not look to have any influence beyond the senior international team.

You look at the FAI now. It’s so professionally run (compared to) when I first came on board as a young player. The strides they’ve taken are fantastic. You don’t see too many leaks coming out now. They’ve cleaned up their act.

I said this job is big enough without handling other people’s work. I am manager of the Republic of Ireland senior squad. There’s people in place in other jobs. If they weren’t doing their job, they wouldn’t be in it. I’m happy with everybody who’s in place. We’ve got very good under-17 and under-19 squads under Sean McCaffrey and Don has got some talented boys with the under-21s. And basically, I ’ll be getting their advice.

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