Republic of Ireland General Discussion Thread 2026

fenerbache have two burly no. 9s on their books already who are scoring. Seems a non starter. And he doesn’t need a trip to turkey at this stage in his career.

What I don't understand is the incongruency of it all; all of the early reports in his break out season were that he had a great attitude, has a head on his shoulders, and then has the right people around him.

Then you have Gasperini saying what he's saying. It doesn't really add up for me.

Also, Potter at West Ham was under immense pressure, and doing an awful job. I don't think he had the bandwidth for breaking new players into the squad.

To be fair, Potter has zero record where it comes to developing talent, and as you say he was always under pressure. This is pro football, it's not designed to develop kids, and most of Evans managers have been struggling to keep their own job (as most pro managers are always doing) Personally, while I'd have good time for Barry Ferguson from his playing days, I'd always question the reasoning of allowing a lad of 14 or 15 to play Adult football, and here seems to be another example of it. When a lad like Evan has the size and is thrown in like that, the tenancy can be to concentrate on the here and now, and forget about the longterm vision. Certainly, and t manager is more worried about their own skins, and not about the long term plan for the likes of Evan - the temptation for the likes of Gasperini is to use him as an example to others because he's foreign and disposal (and probably relatively expensive in Italian terms).

The kid needs to be left alone, farmed out to the continent in Holland, or a mid level German team or someplace out of the limelight, and left alone. If he farts he's all over the Irish websites, leave him alone.

Gasperini seems to like shooting his mouth off about his players in public. Maybe it's not too much of a surprise he hasn't had many big jobs.

conte is the same and he’s had plenty of big jobs. There’s a culture clash at play here. Latin temperament.

I'm more surprised at Roma, Atalanta under Gasperini were a great team watch with goals flying in all the time whereas Roma seem to be struggling even creating chances never mind scoring.

Really thought it was gonna be a great move for him as Italian league is a bit slower to the prem but sadly looks like another wasted opportunity.

I'd be going to the Dutch league to hopefully get the confidence back.

Andrews has really surprised me at Brentford, first job , thought they would struggle given player sales - done a fantastic job, future manager maybe in future.

I wonder if your post makes any sense when considered in the context of thes preceding it.

Feels like a strong response to things people didn't say

Agreed. Bizarre take to call him an unsuccessful assistant manager to Kenny. Unless the poster was a member of the backroom staff they’re not in a position to judge his abilities as an AM. For all we know he could have been the best AM in the world under Kenny but you wouldn’t be able to tell as it’s obviously the manager/head coach that calls the shots.

Ferguson flying for Roma tonight. Roma 3 up after half an hour. A goal and assist for Evan already.

It's Parrotts jersey for the foreseeable until Ferguson does something to win it back. Don't think HH does anything different untill after we're knocked out.