I think Brexit is going to be big where we see that our best young players cannot go until they are 18. Now it’s our country and our island’s job to give these young players a proper professional pathway that equates to other countries. It’s up to us with our young players – who cannot go until they are 18, which is great for the League of Ireland – to capitalise. “He has a way and an idea of what he wants Irish players and the team to look like and how he wants to go about it. That takes time, especially with a a new crop starting to come into the Ireland senior set-up.

Source: Irish Independent April 01, 2021 01:32 UTC