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Slovakia, Hungary, Norway, Finland and Slovenia, amongst others - ie better teams than us - are quite prepared to call up players playing in Cyprus. I'm not sure we're really in a position to turn our noses up.

People need to start being a bit more realistic as to where we are as a football nation now. 
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Cyprus! Id be flabbergasted. The lad barely wants to leave the Pale. 
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looks like he’s Cyprus bound 
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Terrible career move on the face of it. McCarthy didnt show him all this love in the Irish team. Better of at Shams.
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Originally posted by doherty doherty wrote:

Terrible career move on the face of it. McCarthy didnt show him all this love in the Irish team. Better of at Shams.
Can shams match the reported 15k a week.
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15 grand?? No way they can be paying that id day. If that were true wudnt Cyprus be full of Championship and PL has beens.
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Originally posted by doherty doherty wrote:

15 grand?? No way they can be paying that id day. If that were true wudnt Cyprus be full of Championship and PL has beens.

Like mick ?
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Cyrpus league has money, wouldnt be surprised as he was offered 6k to stay at Shams and LOI is well behind Cyrpus in terms of UEFA coeficant.
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Not sure about this one if I'm honest. Yes he's moving to a better league, and to a team with champions league pedigree. Apoel have had a load of managers in the last couple of years, they aren't a stable club. I'd worry Mick won't be there in 12 months and in not sure where that leaves Jack 
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if 15k he won’t be far off a Million a year with bonuses would be clean mad to turn that down.
LOI will always be there if he wants it.

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Originally posted by zizu Kilbane zizu Kilbane wrote:

Not sure about this one if I'm honest. Yes he's moving to a better league, and to a team with champions league pedigree. Apoel have had a load of managers in the last couple of years, they aren't a stable club. I'd worry Mick won't be there in 12 months and in not sure where that leaves Jack 

This is the concern or Mick gets a pain in his face and does one.

But look, it’s a career move, a rung on the ladder to climb again. Nice to have another player abroad outside of England but sorry for Rovers who are really building something fine.
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Shows little ambition if he goes to Cyprus, playing champions league is a pull, but let's face it they'd be cannon fodder for a handful of games a year.

Cillian Sheridan is the only player I know played there and that would be the standard of Byrne in my opinion.

If players want to be in the ireland fold, they need to be playing EPL, championship, Spain, France, Germany, Holland or the likes.
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Like i said the first job offer Mick fancies back in the Uk and he will be gone. Whaco Jacko is stranded on the island then with who knows. Ok other than the money its hardly really much of a career progression. Whats the tops he wud be over there. A year or two and then what. Just seems a sideways step at best for me but its his life obviously.
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Fair play to him, good to see players try a different route than going to England

Cyprus is not a sideways step, the league is far ahead of ours, ranked 22 places ahead of ours to be precise 


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Originally posted by doherty doherty wrote:

Terrible career move on the face of it. McCarthy didnt show him all this love in the Irish team. Better of at Shams.

Bit of a difference not being picked for Ireland to being headhunted for a club team by said manager 
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Apoel been in champions league 4 times in last decade making quarter finals in 2012, also Europa League 4 times.

Cyrpus is way ahead of Ireland for club football and regulary has clubs getting into European competetion and winning, countrys like Slovakia have international players with over 60 caps playing there, its a much better standard then LOI and a better option then the cut and thrust of Championship football .

Add to that its a beautiful country with an unbelivable climate, with the money hes getting and standard of football its a no brainer.
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To call this a “meh” sideways step is ridiculous. APOEL probably the biggest club in comfortably one of the Top 20 Leagues in Europe at the moment. 

Bit like someone calling the Belgian League “League 2 level” football does exist outside of England a lot of British and Irish people seem to think otherwise. it’s great to see players like Byrne and Cullen explore it at big clubs with CL pedigree clubs with big tradition.

On another topic Cyrpus are actually a fine example of what Irish soccer could be/the level we could reach if we invested in youth/grassroots as opposed to that tramp John Delaney and his cronies pockets. 

Also a nothing to lose job the worst case is he ends up back in Ireland after 2 years hel be the highest paid player here again anyways. 
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Cyprus is better than the LOI so it is a step up for Byrne but overall he's played in better leagues than this already, his best football was probably in the Eridivisie which is a higher standard than Cyprus and hes a better player now than he was then.

Hes 25 soon enough and should be playing his best football, it would be a shame to say his career has already peaked. 
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