Will O'Callaghan

And when I asked Michael Duffy what it's going to be like to play with McLean next season, here's what he had to say.

Are you looking forward to playing with Jimmy particularly?

Obviously yourself as a winger, he was a winger, I know he's kind of sometimes moved back to play more of a left-back role.

Is he someone that you would, I know there's not that much between you, but would you have been watching him over in England hoping maybe this day would come, the two of you together playing for Derry?

Yeah it is and it's going to be completely again that case it's that I know people have already talked of the Damien Duff kind of impact of having that high level person come back that is really all this is going to bring it's going to bring interest across the league it's going to bring more professionalism back

Not back to the league, not that it's lacking it.

But if you have someone coming from championship level football into the League of Ireland, it's only a good thing.

Yeah, 100 plus capped Ireland international as well.

I can't wait to see how this unfolds, Will.

I really can't wait.

As you said, Hearts, Brighton, Union Saint-Gallaz in the Belgian First Visions Valley we saw in the Champions League last night.

If you look at some of the signings that Shell have brought in this season, you have Mael Lundgren

from the Swedish top division and you have Rodrigo Freitas from Varzim in the Portuguese third tier I mean if you see a signing coming in with five goals in the Portuguese third tier it doesn't exactly scream goals to me but Tony Bloom has proven time and time again with this Jameson analytics there's a reason why these signings work nothing excites the League of Ireland fan more than somebody coming from an exotic location as well with a fun name

Huge year.

Final year at Daly Mount, which is massive.

I know obviously they're not going to play their first game of the season in Daly Mount.

They're in the Viva on Sunday the 8th of February against St.

Patrick's Athletic.

We'll be there for that, covering it.

But yeah, it's a massive year and it's something that's not lost on the people at the club.