[quote=“caoimhaoin”]This Cty thing is affecting our own GAA club. One of our best young players is contracted to City, but usually only plays with 2nd team. Anyway, part of the trick to get out of trouble is for Keano to take 3 young fellas with him back to Ipswich to help City out for coin. Unfortunately our guy is one of them it seems.
Some one having a go at Doolin is an idiot, Tom Coughlan has decided to pay 2 players and nobody else, the best manager in the world would struggle to motivate them, especially as they are soccer players.:rolleyes:[/QUOTE]
Always suspected the move for David Meyler at Sunderland was based on the same principle. What a spoofer Keane is.
Gifting Cork City a few quid is like giving a drunk a tenner. He’ll just do what he always does and buy a naggin of Vodka with it and get smashed. The whole league is on the brink of disbandment.
Your man who owns Galtee Fuels came to the “rescue” of Limerick FC a couple of weeks back. When they couldn’t make the club a success with the backing a US mulitmillionaire, this coal man doesn’t have much chance. The whole Limerick 37/FC thing has cost the american fella in excess of 500,000. Madness.
[quote=“caoimhaoin”]Or Loyal in this case to his City.
Myler cost nothing, so your talking through your hole. He was out of contract.[/QUOTE]
You prob should have checked the facts or at least wiki before spouting that shite above. Are you ever right about anything Im starting to wonder.
Between Roy o donovan and meyler, keane has probably kept cork going for the last couple of years. Neither player has made even a remote impact at Sunderland.
Didn’t Cork allow the sell on clause in their Kevin Doyle deal to be bought out by Reading? What genius sanctioned that? They’d have got a windfall this summer.
[quote=“KIB man”]You prob should have checked the facts or at least wiki before spouting that shite above. Are you ever right about anything Im starting to wonder.
Between Roy o donovan and meyler, keane has probably kept cork going for the last couple of years. Neither player has made even a remote impact at Sunderland.[/QUOTE]
The fact is KIB your talking through your hole. They got money for O’ Donovan, not for Myler. It may not have registered in your thick West Clare skull yet but i do know a good few people directly involved with City, your source is wikipedia, enough said. They were due to get money for him the first time, but then his contract was left go.
He’s not that good anyway and its believed they left better players back in City.
They had to forego the Kevin Doyle money, as they had none at the time.
What i can’t understand is why guys are hung up on the fact that Keane is helping them out. The begrudgery still is amazing. I’m looking at you KIB.
Another reason to despise English football relates to what Reading did to Cork City.
They saw Cork were in dire straights financially and badly needed a dig out.
Of course, Cork had the Kevin Doyle 10% sell on clause and Reading, seeing how desperate Cork were, offered them something in the region of 150k-200k to buy out the clause.
They obviously knew Doyle would command 6m plus so they picked at the Cork carcass and saved themselves nearly half a million quid.
[quote=“caoimhaoin”]The fact is KIB your talking through your hole. They got money for O’ Donovan, not for Myler. It may not have registered in your thick West Clare skull yet but i do know a good few people directly involved with City, your source is wikipedia, enough said. They were due to get money for him the first time, but then his contract was left go.
He’s not that good anyway and its believed they left better players back in City.
They had to forego the Kevin Doyle money, as they had none at the time.
What i can’t understand is why guys are hung up on the fact that Keane is helping them out. The begrudgery still is amazing. I’m looking at you KIB.[/QUOTE]
Look Kev when your in a hole stop digging. Any player under the age of 23 cannot leave for free on a Bosman, think there is some other regulation like the player having had to be at their youth academy or something aswell. This often goes to tribunal to agree on a fee if the clubs themselves cannot agree a fee. It is happening at the moment with Sturridge going to Chelsea.
Now unless Cork had released Meyler and Sunderland just came in and took him off the dole queue, there had to be money involved. it was reported at the time of the move the money involved. It is reported on numerous sites across the internet of the fee involved - 160,000. Here is one http://soccernet.espn.go.com/players/profile?id=121849.
There was murky goings on with the Doyle and Long transfer imo too. Dolan’s brother - Eamonn works with Reading or used to anyway and I think Pat Dolan had just left Cork City prior to Doyle moving. I’m surprised to hear that Mick Wallace is Doyle’s agent now. I’m nearly 100% certain that Dolan was Doyle’s agent up to a couple of years ago anyway. I think perhaps there was an element of naivety in that sale as the likes of O’Donovan attracted big money later on.
Here we look at Harry Redknapp and that agent McStay is it and we say how rotten it is and that the game is corrupt. Keane didnt give his own money to Cork City it was the club money. Now I know in O’Donovan’s case he was an Ireland u-21 international and had showed a lot of promise but Meyler was just bizarre. Its impossible not to feel that there was a bit of sorting out your own involved in those dealings.
There may have been an element of sorting out your own alright. But of all the things you could hang Roy Keane for, throwing a few quid (of other people’s money) to a LOI club isn’t high up the list. How else are you going to get Charlie Chawke to invest in Irish football?