Jack Byrne

In fairness to Jack, he's hinted that he'd like to go back to the Netherlands and there's also alleged interest from Cyprus and Belgium.

Long gone are the days where there would be Irish players in Spain, France and Italy. And there have been lads like Aaron Connolly and Sinclair Armstrong who've had links to Germany, where they would presumably go into development teams, but we've yet to see anyone from here follow in the footsteps of the likes of Oliver Burke, Jadon Sancho or Jude Bellingham who've all played in the Bundesliga in recent years.

There are teams at a similar level to us who select players playing at worse teams in worse leagues. Glen Kamara was quite handy against us and he broke through for Finland while playing at Dundee. The majority of their players were playing for teams worse than Barnsley or Rotherham.

I'd imagine there are domestic based players who couldn't really be any worse than Cyrus Christie's been for example.

You have to cut your cloth according to your situation.

Dundalk scored 8 goals in the Europa League proper, and Byrne's generally excelled in Rovers European games, so there's evidence that players like Byrne can flourish in certain Intl games if they have a more solid base than what Rovers and Dundalk operate with. There was one errant pass in particular in one of the Nations League games that caused consternation but Hourihane, Arter and Molumby have played hospital passes and had brainfarts at points as well so I won't condemn Byrne for that when he's playing the percentages well.

Theoretically, we could utilise him depending on the situation i.e. particular opposition, as was the case during swathes of Hoolahan's Intl career.