Firstly there is a ridiculous amount of talent in south London. I’ve coached in North London and was shocked at the huge gulf in quality between players south and north of the river when I moved south.MCB wrote:He's got hairs on his chinnegan, ...Jon83 wrote:With Tony Finnigan as his agent.simmosenior wrote:Albert Adomah having a medical at Forest.
https://www.skysports.com/transfer/news ... la-release
Anyway - he's keeping up his Barnet connections. Obviously his main money spinner was Marlon King, who he had to get a contract for when he came out of jail (did Marlon ever play again?).
But as well as Albert, he looks after Justin Amazulor, ex youth bee Ryan Gondoh (who tbf he did get a contract for at Colchester).
He's also looked after Jason Puncheon, Nicky Bailey, Yannick Bolasie, Junior Lewis, Dan Sweeney, Izale McLeod, Anthony Achempong AND Jamal Campbell-Ryce (which might explain a couple of things).
So he's looking after us with putting a fair amount of talent our way. Unless he signs them after they come to Barnet.
I don’t know Tony Finnigan personally but when I was coaching in South London, everywhere I turned, his presence was felt. My first encounter was when he sent someone to watch a trial match I was involved in running.
I was told by a local coach that Finnigan signs up all the south London talent quite scattergun. His approach appears to be to sign lots, see who gets interest, the ones who don’t are just left to the side in limbo.
He also has the ear of a certain chairman hence why Dan Sweeney amongst several other players including Andre Blackman have arrived at our doors without our coaching staff really wanting them.
Nobody rated Sweeney when he arrived, even PF distanced himself and DS’s agent Finnigan essentially abandoned him when it looked like he was never going to make it.
Sweeney was desperately trying to find an agent to get him off Finnigan’s books. It’s to Sweeney’s credit that he himself reinvented himself as a CB and fought his way in at Barnet under a new agent.