O'neill for City !!

[RN Fox]

Have not posted for a while however, I spent the day at meetings in Portsmouth yesterday and one of my scouting contacts at Portsmouth (I am a junior scout for the LCFC Academy) told me that Mickey Adams is close to signing 21 year old Gary O'neill on loan for the season. He's the England U21 captain, plays in midfield or defence and would be a real assett for us this season. O'neill was on the bench for 1-1 draw against Brum and was dogged with injury last season however, in only 3 premiership starts last year he played brilliantly each game scoring 2 against Leeds. He is now fully fit and Harry Redknapp apparently wants him to gain more first team experience but is reluctant to sell such a talent so has agreed to loan him. He's been at Pompey since he was 16 years old and has captained England at U19, U20 and now U21. Leicester are said to be both the player and Harry's preference - one other club has reputedly shown some interest. The only thing which may hold up progress is the fact that harry needs another midfielder - he's chasing Michael Carrick and the greek player Angelos Basinas. If he signs any one of those in the coming days the loan deal will be done.

 

[alex]

That would be great great news....

 

[dpjfox]

O'Neill

Bet he's more likely to go to West Ham as part of any Carrick move

 

[lazzer]

that would be the logical step

 

[homer]

It's not Martin, then ?

What a disappointing thread

 

[bluefox]

Re: O'Neill

Bet he's more likely to go to West Ham as part of any Carrick move

But 'Appy 'Arry stated on 5 live last night that the Carrick deal is dead.

 

[bluefox]

It's not Martin, then ?

What a disappointing thread

 

[drummindefender]

http://skysports.planetfootball.com...cpid=10&title=Foxes+chase+England+skipper

this guy knows his stuff!

 

[RN Fox]

http://skysports.planetfootball.com/list.asp?channel=Football_Home_Page&hlid=220420&lid=&cpid=10&title=Foxes+chase+England+skipper

this guy knows his stuff!

As I stated above this is from a v.reliable source and is on the front burner for MA. The comment from Harry Redknapp was that a loan move to the Walkers would suit all parties.

Keep the Faith

 

[highland fox]

Good stuff,Redknapp will find someone soon.I heard he was after Hayles and they were going to make a film about the transfer,'When Arry signed Barry' they were going to call it.

 

[Carlo]

Hope this deal happens!!!!!

 

[sheffield_fox]

It's not Martin, then ?

What a disappointing thread

You're not the only one who thought it was about Martin, maybe coming back as assistant coach or something

 

[homer]

i thought he would be cleaning up the ground with the Birch for a special "gift"

 

[EMC Fox]

i thought he would be cleaning up the ground with the Birch for a special "gift"

do you know what the special gift is? I heard it's a dustpan and brush :roll:

 

[RN Fox]

The latest is that Redknapp will now let O'niell join Leicester initially for 3 months with a further extension agreed provided pompey are not struggling for players or fighting relegation. Harry originally said this deal would only go through if he signed another midfileder however, he has now had a slight change of mind. As previously stated O'niell himself has declared a real interest in coming to Leicester and the deal should go through within days even if Harry does not get the additional midfielder he wanted.

 

[sheffield_fox]

I will take this more seriously if you tell us who your very reliable source is?

 

[RN Fox]

I will take this more seriously if you tell us who your very reliable source is?

Ye of little faith.
I have been asked not to divulge the source name, what I will say is that he is a coach/scout who lives in pompey, works with the academy and has close links with the management team. As you can see from the original posting his information was spot on. I have no reason to doubt the most recent addition so wait and seen what happens next.

Keep the Faith

 

[beaumontfox]

we knew this on the OS boards earlier this week cos a regular pompey fan who posts on there told us.

he did say we should forget bout trying to get him permanently!!!

 

[mad biker]

my mate know`s nothing about this proposed loan deal, not that that means it won`t happen of course !

 

[Keep the Faith]

Have not posted for a while however, I spent the day at meetings in Portsmouth yesterday and one of my scouting contacts at Portsmouth (I am a junior scout for the LCFC Academy) told me that Mickey Adams is close to signing 21 year old Gary O'neill on loan for the season. He's the England U21 captain, plays in midfield or defence and would be a real assett for us this season. O'neill was on the bench for 1-1 draw against Brum and was dogged with injury last season however, in only 3 premiership starts last year he played brilliantly each game scoring 2 against Leeds. He is now fully fit and Harry Redknapp apparently wants him to gain more first team experience but is reluctant to sell such a talent so has agreed to loan him. He's been at Pompey since he was 16 years old and has captained England at U19, U20 and now U21. Leicester are said to be both the player and Harry's preference - one other club has reputedly shown some interest. The only thing which may hold up progress is the fact that harry needs another midfielder - he's chasing Michael Carrick and the greek player Angelos Basinas. If he signs any one of those in the coming days the loan deal will be done.

Could this deal be linked in with Pompey's supposed interest in scowy, if so would not seem quite as bad if we could pick up a player of undoubted potential as a replacement, even if it was on loan, this would buy us some time and not force MA to rush in too find a replacement also it would be nice to start building up a transfer stash for later in the season if needed.