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Irrelevant if the player wants to have an instant crack at the Premier League. It's no negative reflection on us. It's just the way it is.

Meyler is ex-Cork City, makes sense.

Yes, but he was at an English club. There's a massive difference in transfer fees when it involves an Irish club, simply because the league isn't very highly rated.

Another Buckley and a couple of Byrnes on the pitch too. He's going to sign for Hull, isn't he?

Well yes. That's why I qualified it with an "assuming it is indeed us", as opposed to a Burnley, say. My point being that, whoever he's lined up for talks with, this is his big move (in his career so far) so he'll not want to risk injuring himself before he's even put pen to paper. Cork...

Would have thought so, yes. Hopefully- again, if it's us- the Irish will be a little more efficient at getting paperwork completed than the Welsh seem to be.

Promising. Assuming it is indeed us who've signed him. I did wonder about these claims that he'd play for Cork tonight. Seems unlikely (not to mention possibly against the rules) for him to have officially signed for one club and still play for another, unless it involved a loan deal. It can't...

I love the expression used by the Irish manager in that article. "Some of our players are running around smelling themselves even though we've only won a couple of games" :lolol: