Republic of Ireland Team 2023/24 [old thread]

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FA still insisting this morning that Lee Carsley is not for moving, despite the renewed speculation .... a case of nothing to see here as far as FA and Lee are concerned ... they say

This is behind a paywall, anyone read it? Interested to know what he had to say on Szmodics..

🙂 Not a lot then

Didn't we have a leak last year from a board meeting about someone complaining about all the leaks 😂

Lee Carsley not expected to take Ireland job https://the42.ie/6317971

Any chance Paddy McCarthy will be manager, and he's named in an assistant's role for now as he sees out a month's notice as Assistant Manager at Palace? Perhaps with a new manager joining to keep them in the league they wouldn't be happy for him to just leave the club directly and would insist on him seeing out the month?

Brian Kerr admits he doesn’t think Lee Carsley will become the new Ireland manager next month.

England U-21 boss Carsley is back in the spotlight this week after the news that existing contractual obligations are preventing the FAI from announcing Stephen Kenny’s successor until early next month. John O’Shea is taking interim charge for the March window and will name his squad tomorrow week.

Carsley will lead his side into two European qualifiers later this month, but with no competitive action afterwards until September, Monday’s news led to fresh speculation that he's set to be installed as the new Ireland boss.

But Kerr, who is part of O’Shea’s backroom team as a technical advisor, says that he would be surprised if his former player Carlsey was announced as the FAI’s man next month.

“I’d be surprised if Lee was back in the frame. He played when I was manager and I have been in touch with Lee a bit. I would be surprised. Unfortunately, I don’t think he's in the picture, but I could be wrong,” said Kerr, speaking to The Ray D'Arcy Show on RTÉ Radio 1.

“Marc (Canham - FAI director of football) and Jonathan (Hill - FAI CEO) have been doing the work on this with Packie Bonner (FAI board member) and have kept things very close themselves. I haven't asked what’s happening, but they seem very assured that they have their man and that he will be available come April.

“From what Marc said when he was with John in the Aviva on Monday, it sounds like they have their man in place and ready to go once this time period of his contract elapses.”

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Now back in the Ireland set up for the first time since departing his post as manager in 2005, Kerr admits he doesn't expect to be involved with the senior side past this month’s double-header against Belgium and Switzerland.

“I’m sure if it went well it wouldn't do him (O’Shea) any harm for his future chances of getting the job permanently down the road. I think from what Marc said the other day, they have somebody else lined up and that John is only in for two games. That was my understanding of it,” said Kerr.

“I’m involved for roughly a month and that’s it, I don't expect to be involved for any longer than that. I’m more than delighted to be involved for these two games and to pitch in.

“John called me himself and then I had calls from Jonathan and Marc from the FAI as well. It was a big surprise and I wasn’t expecting it. I was away on holidays when I saw the announcement about John but I wasn’t thinking that I would be a part of it.

“I thought that type of stuff was gone. But I had a good relationship with John going back to when he was a young lad playing with Waterford Bohs and when he was in the underage international teams. Then when I was senior manager, out of the 33 matches I had John played in 27 of them.”

Kerr was speaking just before he departed for London where he will take in QPR v West Brom this evening and run the rule on the likes of Mikey Johnston and Sinclair Armstrong ahead of next week's squad announcement.

“I was at Manchester City v Manchester United on Sunday and there were a couple of lads there playing for Belgium so I was watching them, but this is the first match in terms of assessing how the Ireland players are doing in live games,” added the 71-year-old, who was Irish boss between 2003 and 2005.

“I’m going to QPR v West Brom and we have a few lads playing there, (West Brom’s) Jayson Molumby and Mikey Johnston who is on loan from Celtic, and has started very well and scored a few goals. For QPR, we have a few players there like Jimmy Dunne and Sinclair Armstrong. Armstrong scored at the weekend and there are one or two others who are eligible for Ireland too.”

Bingo.

Also that's some fence he's sitting on though.

I would be surprised if he's back in the frame and I don't think he's in the picture but throws in the I could be wrong through just in case.