THE COYGIG POD Ep. 166 | WSL Returns! | O'Sullivan rumours | Man City's strengths | Off The Ball
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The Coigig Pod on Off the Ball in association with Cadbury, official snack partner of the Republic of Ireland Women's National Team. Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of the CoyGig podcast. My name is Scarlet Heron and today I'm joined by Karen Duggan. We're going to talk about the latest transfer news and obviously the WSL returned after the Christmas and New Year break. So Karen, what's the crack? How is your Christmas and New Year?
Even lovelier to not have to head back into a pre-season after it and stay indoors unlike you. How is the weather in Scotland?
They're actually not too bad. The sunshine at the minute, we've had a few cold spells since coming back, but to be honest, it's the same as home. So it's nothing that I'm not really used to. But yeah, I mean... Have you turned into a glove wearer? No, never. That is, I will never be a skins wearer or a glove wearer. No, it's not my style. So still braving. You wouldn't be allowed back in Monaghan if you did, is it? No, no, not at all. But yeah, still braving the shorts and t-shirts so far. But yeah, I mean, a lot of transfer news at home as well in the league. There's lots of movings this time of year.
Too much movement, too much movement, some might say. Don't know if I should get into it too deeply because I could get upset. And we want to start 2026 on a positive note.
Very fair, very fair.
Well, we can go into the big one, though, I guess we should talk about is Athlone's transfer news and the fact that they've one of their first. They've had a couple of a big transfer to WSL2.
Yeah, so we obviously had Kelly Brady. During the week it was announced that she's gone to Crystal Palace, which is obviously a great move for her. Seeing her speak in an interview, she's just excited. She always wanted to play in England and obviously the season she had with that loan last year, golden boot, player of the year. you know just an unbelievable talent to come into the league and to take it just by such a storm it was only right that she got her move over to England so a big miss I'd say for the league and for Athlone but I think they'll do just fine with what they have to be honest I don't think it's bad that they're getting a bit weakened just based off how strong they were last year but that's great for Kelly obviously and she's getting her call-ups as well at the minute so I'm sure she'll only go she was on the bench last night I think against Sheffield so
What is the latest on the WSL after the winter break?
Great to see her get a few minutes for Palace. And then we have a few other bits of transfer news. Spurs are doing quite well. They have a few Scandinavians brought in. Martin Ho, who obviously was a brand for a number of years, has brought in a few reinforcements. And then obviously Mike Armando as well from Chelsea coming on loan. And then we have a bit of a... We had a rumour a bit closer to home about Denise O'Sullivan possibly heading to Liverpool to help out Gareth Taylor's struggling side.
Yeah, and look, I think everyone knew in the lead up to the January transfer window that Liverpool were really struggling and that they would need reinforcements. It doesn't look like there's a huge amount of backing financially in terms of buying players in. So looking at loan moves, especially from Liverpool, from America would seem like a clever move for Liverpool to go down and obviously you're not going to get much better than Denise O'Sullivan if that is something that she is interested in but also they're in such a tight spot at the minute it would be a very tough environment to go into I'd imagine but Maybe that freshness and the fact that she hasn't been, you know, around the kind of heaviness that the club has endured in recent times.
Maybe she could kind of spur them on a little bit in the dressing room.
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