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NewtNewbie
Liam Brady Joined: 05 Feb 2013 Status: Offline Points: 2416 |
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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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GoneToShowgies
Ray Houghton Joined: 28 Jul 2010 Status: Offline Points: 3981 |
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Cyprus! Id be flabbergasted. The lad barely wants to leave the Pale.
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Charlton's Child
Liam Brady Joined: 30 Oct 2014 Status: Offline Points: 2827 |
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looks like he’s Cyprus bound
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doherty
Jack Charlton Teenage Kicks, so hard to beat Joined: 30 Mar 2015 Status: Offline Points: 7694 |
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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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kevincronin2000
Jack Charlton Cork Airport Dogging Administrator Joined: 17 Aug 2009 Location: P. Rep of Cork Status: Offline Points: 5285 |
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Can shams match the reported 15k a week.
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time is the stuff that life is made of, don't waste it.
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doherty
Jack Charlton Teenage Kicks, so hard to beat Joined: 30 Mar 2015 Status: Offline Points: 7694 |
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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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Citizen
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Like mick ?
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JoxerDaly
Liam Brady Joined: 03 Apr 2018 Location: Dublin Status: Offline Points: 1272 |
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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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zizu Kilbane
Jack Charlton Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 8357 |
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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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Fruice
Liam Brady Joined: 22 Nov 2014 Location: Cork Status: Offline Points: 1259 |
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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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Moderator Group SISAO? What the hell is SISAO? Joined: 27 Jan 2008 Location: Christmas Island Status: Offline Points: 26976 |
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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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Left foot
Ray Houghton Joined: 16 Aug 2019 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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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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doherty
Jack Charlton Teenage Kicks, so hard to beat Joined: 30 Mar 2015 Status: Offline Points: 7694 |
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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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nvidic
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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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nvidic
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Bit of a difference not being picked for Ireland to being headhunted for a club team by said manager
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JoxerDaly
Liam Brady Joined: 03 Apr 2018 Location: Dublin Status: Offline Points: 1272 |
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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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kevin100
Ray Houghton Joined: 01 Jul 2020 Location: Mallow Status: Offline Points: 3371 |
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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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Left foot
Ray Houghton Joined: 16 Aug 2019 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 0 |
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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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