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So it looks like we have Ryan Johansson now. Well, is he any good????
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In light of the Johansson situation, I wonder if there is going to be any knock on for other players that Kenny recently named as being ineligible. 

This was Kennyin September:
"It didn't matter if your grandfather was Irish if you didn't have citizenship," said Kenny, before noting FIFA's intention to relax rules on switching for players under the age of 21. "A lot of the players that people assumed qualified didn't qualify," he said.

In February I think he mentioned Kieran Dowell as not qualifying.

Wonder if that has now changed?
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Originally posted by AbuAbu AbuAbu wrote:

So it looks like we have Ryan Johansson now. Well, is he any good????

Languid centre mid. Looks a bit like Steve mcmanaman. My honest take is that it’s still in the air whether he’ll be good enough, but Sevilla gave him a 6.5 year contract with the understanding that he would challenge for the first team almost immediately. He’s been injured this season though (proving his Irish credentials)
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Originally posted by DeclanDaly DeclanDaly wrote:

Originally posted by AbuAbu AbuAbu wrote:

So it looks like we have Ryan Johansson now. Well, is he any good????

Languid centre mid. Looks a bit like Steve mcmanaman. My honest take is that it’s still in the air whether he’ll be good enough, but Sevilla gave him a 6.5 year contract with the understanding that he would challenge for the first team almost immediately. He’s been injured this season though (proving his Irish credentials)

Agree with that. Difficult to say if he'll be a great player but he is very highly rated.

I would think he moved away from bayern to play first team football. As mentioned Savilla gave him an unprecedented long term contract.

personally I think he's one of the best prospective players we have that's not a defender/goalkeeper. (I'm thinking Collins, oshea, bazunu and kelleher)

We don't have many (any) technical midfielders with the probable exception in Smallbone.
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He's played just 18 minutes for the B team this year, and that was on April 25th, so he's still coming back from an extended injury (he'd last played before this back in October '20).

Be nice if he got a few more minutes with the club and met up with the 21's with fitness on the way back at the end of May.

I'd say it's 50/50 at this stage if he can even go to the 21's camp due to a lack of fitness.
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Originally posted by Territorial Territorial wrote:

Re Mark Sykes, it is curious that for one who insists he was always so keen to represent ROI, Sykes never actually got round to making a call to anyone at Abbotstown himself to let them know.

For he has finally revealed that it took a call from Ruaidhrí Higgins to set the process in motion, not the other way round.

And this call came on the eve of Ian Baraclough's first game in charge of NI's seniors when, knowing Sykes from the U-21's, Bara was going to call him up.

A bit like James McClean happily accepting a call up for a senior NI competitive game which would have tied him, only Niall Quinn got onto him at the last minute.
Except that didn't happen - McClean spoke to Quinn to contact the FAI on his behalf. Same as it didn't happen the last time I corrected you on that
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Originally posted by tetsujin1979 tetsujin1979 wrote:

Originally posted by Territorial Territorial wrote:

Re Mark Sykes, it is curious that for one who insists he was always so keen to represent ROI, Sykes never actually got round to making a call to anyone at Abbotstown himself to let them know.

For he has finally revealed that it took a call from Ruaidhrí Higgins to set the process in motion, not the other way round.

And this call came on the eve of Ian Baraclough's first game in charge of NI's seniors when, knowing Sykes from the U-21's, Bara was going to call him up.

A bit like James McClean happily accepting a call up for a senior NI competitive game which would have tied him, only Niall Quinn got onto him at the last minute.
Except that didn't happen - McClean spoke to Quinn to contact the FAI on his behalf. Same as it didn't happen the last time I corrected you on that
https://forum.ybig.ie/underage-squads-best-prospects_topic49854_post2258563.html#2258563


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He looked a really tidy and technical player when he played pre season for Bayern . Then again so did Troy Parrott. But it’s great news potentially 
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Originally posted by DeclanDaly DeclanDaly wrote:

In light of the Johansson situation, I wonder if there is going to be any knock on for other players that Kenny recently named as being ineligible. 

This was Kennyin September:
"It didn't matter if your grandfather was Irish if you didn't have citizenship," said Kenny, before noting FIFA's intention to relax rules on switching for players under the age of 21. "A lot of the players that people assumed qualified didn't qualify," he said.

In February I think he mentioned Kieran Dowell as not qualifying.

Wonder if that has now changed?

If Dowell has a grandparent born on the island of Ireland he now qualifies for us. Although he played for England underage after his 21st birthday (which would usually tie him down) because those appearances were before September 2020 they don't rule him out.

The only question with Dowell in terms of eligibility now is whether he does in fact have an Irish born grandparent. After that it's just a question of whether he would actually be interested in playing for us.
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Originally posted by You Tell Me You Tell Me wrote:

Originally posted by DeclanDaly DeclanDaly wrote:

In light of the Johansson situation, I wonder if there is going to be any knock on for other players that Kenny recently named as being ineligible. 

This was Kennyin September:
"It didn't matter if your grandfather was Irish if you didn't have citizenship," said Kenny, before noting FIFA's intention to relax rules on switching for players under the age of 21. "A lot of the players that people assumed qualified didn't qualify," he said.

In February I think he mentioned Kieran Dowell as not qualifying.

Wonder if that has now changed?

If Dowell has a grandparent born on the island of Ireland he now qualifies for us. Although he played for England underage after his 21st birthday (which would usually tie him down) because those appearances were before September 2020 they don't rule him out.

The only question with Dowell in terms of eligibility now is whether he does in fact have an Irish born grandparent. After that it's just a question of whether he would actually be interested in playing for us.
I think Kenny said he is not eligible 
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Originally posted by tetsujin1979 tetsujin1979 wrote:

Originally posted by Territorial Territorial wrote:

Re Mark Sykes, it is curious that for one who insists he was always so keen to represent ROI, Sykes never actually got round to making a call to anyone at Abbotstown himself to let them know.

For he has finally revealed that it took a call from Ruaidhrí Higgins to set the process in motion, not the other way round.

And this call came on the eve of Ian Baraclough's first game in charge of NI's seniors when, knowing Sykes from the U-21's, Bara was going to call him up.

A bit like James McClean happily accepting a call up for a senior NI competitive game which would have tied him, only Niall Quinn got onto him at the last minute.
Except that didn't happen - McClean spoke to Quinn to contact the FAI on his behalf. Same as it didn't happen the last time I corrected you on that
https://forum.ybig.ie/underage-squads-best-prospects_topic49854_post2258563.html#2258563

Are you telling me that in all the time McClean was at Derry City, when ROI were already capping a load of under-age players at the club, he didn't know anyone there who could give him a name/niumber at the FAI?

You know, someone like his Manager, a certain Stephen Kenny?

And that with McClean then having happily accepted the call-up to represent NI in a full competitive match which would have tied him, Quinn took the chance of missing out entirely while he waited for McClean to pipe up?

Aye, both very likely... LOL
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80 caps later, all's well that ends well. Mark Sykes into the play-offs with Oxford also, hopefully he will break through.
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Originally posted by Territorial Territorial wrote:

Originally posted by tetsujin1979 tetsujin1979 wrote:

Originally posted by Territorial Territorial wrote:

Re Mark Sykes, it is curious that for one who insists he was always so keen to represent ROI, Sykes never actually got round to making a call to anyone at Abbotstown himself to let them know.

For he has finally revealed that it took a call from Ruaidhrí Higgins to set the process in motion, not the other way round.

And this call came on the eve of Ian Baraclough's first game in charge of NI's seniors when, knowing Sykes from the U-21's, Bara was going to call him up.

A bit like James McClean happily accepting a call up for a senior NI competitive game which would have tied him, only Niall Quinn got onto him at the last minute.
Except that didn't happen - McClean spoke to Quinn to contact the FAI on his behalf. Same as it didn't happen the last time I corrected you on that
https://forum.ybig.ie/underage-squads-best-prospects_topic49854_post2258563.html#2258563

Are you telling me that in all the time McClean was at Derry City, when ROI were already capping a load of under-age players at the club, he didn't know anyone there who could give him a name/niumber at the FAI?

You know, someone like his Manager, a certain Stephen Kenny?

And that with McClean then having happily accepted the call-up to represent NI in a full competitive match which would have tied him, Quinn took the chance of missing out entirely while he waited for McClean to pipe up?

Aye, both very likely... LOL

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Originally posted by Territorial Territorial wrote:

Originally posted by tetsujin1979 tetsujin1979 wrote:

Originally posted by Territorial Territorial wrote:

Re Mark Sykes, it is curious that for one who insists he was always so keen to represent ROI, Sykes never actually got round to making a call to anyone at Abbotstown himself to let them know.

For he has finally revealed that it took a call from Ruaidhrí Higgins to set the process in motion, not the other way round.

And this call came on the eve of Ian Baraclough's first game in charge of NI's seniors when, knowing Sykes from the U-21's, Bara was going to call him up.

A bit like James McClean happily accepting a call up for a senior NI competitive game which would have tied him, only Niall Quinn got onto him at the last minute.
Except that didn't happen - McClean spoke to Quinn to contact the FAI on his behalf. Same as it didn't happen the last time I corrected you on that
https://forum.ybig.ie/underage-squads-best-prospects_topic49854_post2258563.html#2258563

Are you telling me that in all the time McClean was at Derry City, when ROI were already capping a load of under-age players at the club, he didn't know anyone there who could give him a name/niumber at the FAI?

You know, someone like his Manager, a certain Stephen Kenny?

And that with McClean then having happily accepted the call-up to represent NI in a full competitive match which would have tied him, Quinn took the chance of missing out entirely while he waited for McClean to pipe up?

Aye, both very likely... LOL

Quinn confirmed it in this interview - https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xrfwsj?start=388
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Quote His chairman, and his parents both expressed, and he did too, a desire, that if possible, he would like to come under the Republic's wing. He was born and bred in Derry and saw himself as a player of Ireland extraction, or republican extraction I should say, and we set about doing that. The FAI, we contacted them, they said ok, Niall we'll trust you as well, but I was trusting Pop(Sunderland's scout in Ireland who had recommended McClean), and Pop was trusting James




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17-year-old Jack McGlynn is starting for Philadelphia Union tonight. He's eligible. Father is Irish.


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17-year-old Jack McGlynn is starting for Philadelphia Union tonight. He's eligible. Father is Irish.
Hadn’t heard of this one before. How do you know about his father?
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Originally posted by Hotlips_Hoolahan Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote:

17-year-old Jack McGlynn is starting for Philadelphia Union tonight. He's eligible. Father is Irish.
Hadn’t heard of this one before. How do you know about his father?


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Originally posted by Hotlips_Hoolahan Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote:

Originally posted by DeclanDaly DeclanDaly wrote:

Originally posted by Hotlips_Hoolahan Hotlips_Hoolahan wrote:

17-year-old Jack McGlynn is starting for Philadelphia Union tonight. He's eligible. Father is Irish.
Hadn’t heard of this one before. How do you know about his father?



Interesting. From Queens apparently so he’s probably grown up in a pretty Irish environment 

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