Players eligible for Ireland

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 Banjaxed wrote:

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Does anyone know why switching international allegiance takes so long? is there any reason in particular why the paperwork cannot be sorted in the space of a week?

Rice switch to England already completed. He can be named in their next squad. It doesn’t seem to take other associations the same amount of time to get sorted. 

It's a bit odd alright how we seem to have to wait months for paperwork to go through.

Check Dan Mc Donnell on twitter shedding some light 

Link for the lazy: http://twitter.com/McDonnellDan/status/1102912376062595072

And text for the even lazier:

"The swift Declan Rice change of allegiance explained - Grealish took 6/7 months. FAI weren’t going to hold things up either given they need/will need the FA to sign forms for them with Keane, Bamford etc. (I owe PP an apology for sl*gging off that Rice England squad market)"

Interesting that he has mentioned Bamford who I think is unlikely to declare, but has not mentioned Crowley who has already declared? 

Crowley doesn't play in England. Isn't a real player. Still a stigma about continental based players. Yet there's a good chance Collins, mcgeady and Curtis from league 1 will get a call up.

Crowley should have been scouted since before Christmas. 
Stigma? I want the lad to be looked at and probably deserves a chance by virtue of there not being anybody else, but he is playing for a mid-table side in a league that. outside the biggest clubs at least, has bent over so the rich leagues can send their kids and nobodies to be 'developed'. Not really their fault, you could say it is a very pragmatic and Dutch approach to the modern game, but the realities are there
He should definitely have been scouted and called up, but the hyperbole is a bit much, especially as only a handful of us have actually seen more than brief highlights.

Players eligible for Ireland

Personal lifeIn June 2018, whilst on holiday in Ibiza, Grant and fellow teammate Reeco Hackett-Fairchild were arrested on suspicion of a sexual assault on a 19-year-old woman.In the summer of 2018, he dropped the Ahearne part of his surname, to become known as Karlan Grant.

^{Personal life

In June 2018, whilst on holiday in Ibiza, Grant and fellow teammate Reeco Hackett-Fairchild were arrested on suspicion of a sexual assault on a 19-year-old woman.

In the summer of 2018, he dropped the Ahearne part of his surname, to become known as Karlan Grant.}