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'I'd be OUTRAGEOUSLY surprised to see that happen!' | Could Ferguson become victim to the striker merry-go-round? | Where should Noonan go? | OUTSIDE THE BOX
20 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Off the Ball, GAA.
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It's really enjoyable, really fun.
I'm fascinated by this. That game is unbelievable.
What is the point here?
It's right off the tongue.
They needed the vibes, man.
Now that he's hopped on the magical plane across the England.
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Chapter 2: Could Evan Ferguson's time at Roma be coming to an end?
And I'm pretty sure Matthew would agree with me. Stay where you are, keep scoring goals. For me, and if you're Troy Parrott, your pure focus is March.
Yeah, absolutely. And there could well be a bit of an agent kind of situation here, a new manager coming in, or manager-less, as at Atmar, obviously. Martin Martens leaving his show. What a name, buddy. Yeah, one of the greatest names in football. Martin Martens. Yeah, I could make a very easy Troy Parrott joke about what he would call Martin Martens, doubling his name twice.
But no, yeah, it could be a bit of like, you know,
there's an opportunity in the market here a player doesn't have a manager or what's going on club is not doing incredibly well in the league whatever I don't think anything is going to happen there you've seen the Leeds links before as you mentioned but I wouldn't yeah in the way we spend a bit of time talking about Evan Ferguson I wouldn't want to waste too much time
time, breath, thought on Troy Parrott leaving I just don't think it's going to happen and I don't think it should happen just yet I think we've heard as well time and time again that he has a long term plan and to move to Leeds in the middle of this January transfer window would like be the complete other end of the spectrum to his long term plan it would be a risk and it doesn't align with what he what stuff we've heard from his camp for the last year or so it would be completely against everything and especially at such a crucial moment with that playoffs coming up in March and the attention is firmly on him
stay where they are and I think he knows that he doesn't need us to tell him that we're pretty sure he will stay where he is unless something drastic happens yeah
Yeah. I saw Troy Parrott at the weekend.
Oh, tell us more. David Wilson, the Grim Reaper.
Yeah. I had the opposite effect that Damerhal Grimson had from the Wednesday when he scored a... Well, actually, you had the opposite effect on one Irish player. Yeah, true, true, true.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the striker merry-go-round for Irish football?
classy on the ball comfortable on the ball quick can kind of read the game really well can play pass into midfield maybe not the most physical or not the quickest but still very very capable and I definitely think there's a world in a back three where he plays we have room for that we've got big guys we can
we can not have another big guy if his talent is exceptionally good I was just reading his here I believe his mother's heritage is from Clare he's Spanish born himself yeah he's Seville I think isn't he yeah what's up Wolfsburg yeah question for you now on this right
I suppose it's two-parter. How far away is he from an orange squad and does he need to move to get an orange squad realistically?
Well I said last week he definitely needs to move. Zwolle are doing okay. They're a small team pretty much in the Netherlands usually and they're having maybe more of the more kind of successful periods at the minute. I think they're up to 11th in the league after that win.
at the weekend and they seem to be signing players you know so the one three one and two the goals are scored by a guy called Shola Shoratira who would have made his debut for Manchester United under Solskjaer and I remember when he made his debut for United I was like this guy he's a kid like a literal child he was so small yeah even his facial kind of features yeah for
and he's gone he's gone like to Pauk in Greece and he's come back in well he's gone to Netherlands now and he's kind of filled out he's a lot taller than what he was there's a similar trajectory to the tri-powered thing there almost a direct line short theory went down at a loan with Bolton I think in the
in league one maybe at the time, could have been league two at the time even when they were there. Didn't impress really at all. Naturally, small, small character, like you're from a character in terms of his physique, highly technical, you can get bullied when you're down there and not really be able to hold yourself and he's gone over there and I mean he's clearly doing something, right?
Yeah, so he's obviously developing his game really well. He scored two goals and hit the crossbar, like unbelievable volley as well. But I think Garcia McNulty is probably in a league where he can develop, he can make mistakes and it's not going to be highlighted. In the Netherlands, obviously, you've got the big three as in PSV Ajax, Feyenoord. They're the three biggest teams.
So it's not going to be highlighted. It's a really good place for him to develop. And so I think he's in a good place now where he is. I think he's fairly far from a call-up.
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