Transfer News Jay Donnelly

NottsYellow said:
New signing from Glentoran? Start of 2022/23 season.
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SO someone we’ve never heard of may sign at some point later in the year? *strokes chin*

Anyway wasn’t he in Spirit? Or a similar California band.
 
27 in a week and not played outside Ireland. Doesn't fit our recruitment model either without his slightly dodgy past!!! I'd suggest that this is exceptionally unlikely!

@Nadi- any thoughts?
 
Scored 42 goals in the last 64 Lg/play off games with 10 assists. What probably makes it real is that he has played a bit as a winger. 😁
 
Scotchegg said:
27 in a week and not played outside Ireland. Doesn't fit our recruitment model either without his slightly dodgy past!!! I'd suggest that this is exceptionally unlikely!

@Nadi- any thoughts?
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Good player but as mentioned has baggage
But as you say at 27 seems unlikely,

Jamie Mcgonigle would of been a better signing, but he’s also now the wrong side of 23.
 
Nadi- said:
Good player but as mentioned has baggage
But as you say at 27 seems unlikely,

Jamie Mcgonigle would of been a better signing, but he’s also now the wrong side of 23.
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We’d be repeating the same mistake as with Joel Cooper, Donnelly is a good player at that level.

But It’s a big step up to div 1, Whyte and Sykes were both the right side of 23 when signed, and had the ability to step up at that age.
Georgie Kelly top scorer in Ireland last season, and yet to make a Rotherham sqaud this season.
 
The good thing about the club at the moment, is.
If we were seriously interested in someone, you wouldn’t see it out there first.
 
Nadi- said:
We’d be repeating the same mistake as with Joel Cooper, Donnelly is a good player at that level.

But It’s a big step up to div 1, Whyte and Sykes were both the right side of 23 when signed, and had the ability to step up at that age.
Georgie Kelly top scorer in Ireland last season, and yet to make a Rotherham sqaud this season.
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Agree. Age could well be a factor as much as ability. Cooper was 24 when he moved and doesn't look like he's going to make it. Pat Hoban was 23/24 when we got him, and he just couldn't get going for us. Apart from anything else, they could well find it difficult to step up several levels at that age. I've been to see a few NI Premier games and the standard is not great. The 3-4 better teams would be OK in L2, but most of the others are poor. National League South or thereabouts imo. But there are some very good players in NI in their late teens who were overlooked by English clubs at 16- Sykes & Whyte for example. But they have to want to play in England. You read quite a few stories in the Belfast Telegraph about successful players in the NI Premier who were with English clubs as teenagers, didn't like it and came back to Belfast. I would imagine we do background checks on the players' circumstances before we sign them. Our success rate on players from the island of Ireland in the last few years has been very good. There's a big article on Oxford United and players from NI in today's Belfast Telegraph. I'll post the link if I can work out how to!
 
Northernyellow said:
Agree. Age could well be a factor as much as ability. Cooper was 24 when he moved and doesn't look like he's going to make it. Pat Hoban was 23/24 when we got him, and he just couldn't get going for us. Apart from anything else, they could well find it difficult to step up several levels at that age. I've been to see a few NI Premier games and the standard is not great. The 3-4 better teams would be OK in L2, but most of the others are poor. National League South or thereabouts imo. But there are some very good players in NI in their late teens who were overlooked by English clubs at 16- Sykes & Whyte for example. But they have to want to play in England. You read quite a few stories in the Belfast Telegraph about successful players in the NI Premier who were with English clubs as teenagers, didn't like it and came back to Belfast. I would imagine we do background checks on the players' circumstances before we sign them. Our success rate on players from the island of Ireland in the last few years has been very good. There's a big article on Oxford United and players from NI in today's Belfast Telegraph. I'll post the link if I can work out how to!
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This one?

m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk

How Gavin Whyte, Mark Sykes and other players from Northern Ireland are spearheading Oxford United's rejuvenation

It is the university city where some of Irish League football’s brightest young talents have come to further their education in the game.
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
 
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