Irish Player Transfers 2019/20/21 Season

A little surprised that a number of players haven't secured moves away from clubs they're unlikely to get game time in.

Molumby - might see the Brighton bench if they are short but never going to get on the pitch. Needs a championship move before the window shuts on the 31st.

Idah - might get ten minutes here and there if he's lucky but needs to play week in week out to gain that much needed experience.

Duffy - championship move to get back to his best much needed.

Kilkenny - hmm had a fantastic preseason, think he would be best fighting for a place in the Bournemouth team.

Hourihane - not going to get much gametime at villa, needs another championship move.

Obafemi - needs to get first team football, will only be used as a sub at Southampton.

I was actually think about this earlier, and while the likes of Idah, Molumby etc are one thing given their age and early development, if Kenny remains interested in utilising players like Duffy, Hourihane, Long, and McClean, it would be better for them to secure moves. Equally, McCarthy and Brady to actually secure contracts. Randolph has fallen down the pecking order at WH, so a move there would be useful. Hendrick's status at Newcastle also seems to be uncertain.

Both Nathan and James Collins have secured good moves, but last summer there was significantly more to be positive about.

Agree with that. But its a positive, upwardly mobile move, for a reasonably high fee, and without having been capped at senior level yet. 

Coventry

Johansson

Noss

Kilkenny

Connell 

Doyle Hayes

Molumby

Smallbone 

Watson

Taylor

Hodge

Grant

McCann 

There’s an absolute host of them all featuring prominently for clubs the last few weeks particularly the first 4 mentioned above and they look potentially the most likely to get going properly with their respective clubs/on loan at a decent level and put themselves into contention for the senior squad in October/November. September might come soon enough. 

Also looking forward to seeing how Idah Connolly Obafemi Parrott do again. It didn’t go right for them last year but they have plenty time on their side. I’d love to see what the first 3 would do if going on loan to the Championship but as it stands Obafemi aside they look likely to be staying where they are.

Obafemi looks like he could be on the move, important he gets one. McCarthy gone to Celtic today which seems like an OK move, just hope he can manage to stay injury free. Kelleher is obviously staying at Liverpool to be second fiddle to Alisson, pros and cons to that I guess but he will have to get gametime eventually if he wants to start for Ireland.

Good to see some young players involved with their clubs in pre-season like Johansson, Noss, Coventry, Travers and Kilkenny, but we will see how involved they are when it comes to competitive games. 

Will Ferry is heading out on loan to Crawley. I don’t know of another outfield player who had so few minutes game time compared to how often he was named on the bench.