Gavin Kilkenny

Should Kilkenny look at getting a loan?

Only featured in half their league games this season, and as pointed out above, Bournemouth are in the market for another midfielder (not just Rothwell, but others too like Lawrence from Derby).

He turns 22 in a couple of weeks and this is his first season of senior football. He's well behind where he could/should be in terms of senior appearances.

I do think he's a lad that would really benefit going to a continental League with his technical ability and stature even more so then a Josh Cullen he's a lot like Elbouzedi in this case to my eyes. Championship is a very pyshical League.

I don't believe going abroad helps Kilkenny. Did it get Elbouzedi a place in the Irish squad? Yes it has benefitted Josh Cullen but he's the exception.

There was a lot of hype around Kilkenny earlier in the season but he's struggling for game time now. Perhaps top level Championship team is a step too high at the moment. Maybe regular game time at League 1 would be more beneficial

Entitled to your opinion but this is bonkers reasoning. This is Elbouzedi who couldn't start consistently in League 1 and League 2 for Bolton and Lincoln prior to his move to Sweden. He's a lot closer to a potential squad place then he was this time last year to put it mildly.

Josh Cullen in the recent years along with Elbouzedi is the exception full stop. Prior to that we had Byrne Crowley and Kelly. It didn't work for Kelly almost certainly but Byrne and Crowley had successful spells in Holland prior to moving back to England where they went backwards.

Ebosele I'd rather stay in England then move to Italy for example as was reported last week German clubs and Italian club. 

It's very simple we have plenty players Kilkenny Brady Devoy Elbouzedi was an obvious one to my eyes shape or shaped like players who would be suited by moving to continental Leagues as opposed to English ones especially lower level English Leagues. 

Another example is Gilmour the Scottish kid think he's a top class prospect but I'd worry about him fulfilling his potential in England don't think he's suited to Norwich or god forbid for him the lower level English Leagues.

It's 2022 not 1992 I don't get this how this is some wierd notion. Look at any other country in Europe their national squad is full of players littered with players scattered across different Leagues in different countries. Even Austria who would possibly be the closest thing to the British Isles in terms of pool of players largely centred in one country/area would have a good 20% of their national squad outside Germany/Austria.

Roy Keane inexplicably turned down big foreign moves towards the end of his career, didn't he? Robbie Keane turned down a Besiktas team that regularly qualified for the CL to go to America. Gary Breen was scouted by the likes of Barca and Inter. Hendrick, Long, Christie, Doyle and A. Connolly, off the top of my head, have been linked with continental sides, though I don't know how serious the interest was. There could be more links that don't go reported in the domestic press.

I think there's an attitude among Irish players that playing in the UK is the be all and end all, generally speaking. Footballers also tend to marry and have families quite young and the Irish ones have a reluctance to relocate, whereas this is generally not an issue for lads from other countries.

Not to generalise but young people in other European countries, when not growing up in hardship, learn four or five languages from a young age, so there's probably more enlightenment in terms of where you go to make your living from football.