BOSUN LAWAL IS SET to make the step up from underage to the Ireland senior squad after being called up for tomorrow night’s friendly against Hungary.
The Celtic player, who spent the past season out on loan to Fleetwood Town where he suffered relegation to League Two under manager Charlie Adam, had been training with John O’Shea’s squad ahead of the match on Tuesday night.
O’Shea, still in the limbo of being labelled an ‘interim’ manager, has included Lawal in his senior squad.
Afterwards, he will return to U21 duty.
Nottingham Forest defender Andrew Omobamidele has been ruled out through injury and will return home.
Squad Update | Lawal promoted to MNT squad 🇮🇪
— Ireland Football ⚽️🇮🇪 (@IrelandFootball) June 3, 2024
Bosun Lawal, who has been training with the MNT this week, has been promoted to the MNT squad for the Hungary match, before returning to U21 duty 👏
Andrew Omobamidele has been ruled out through injury and will return home pic.twitter.com/fYuSpy5erY
6 goals from midfield in a relegated team is impressive. He needs to get back to Celtic and push for a starting place, tough competition there.
Good experience for him with the international set up though.
@Bert Carolan: we all know the track record on Irish players in Celtic think he’s far better to get out of there. As a player he seems to tick a lot of boxes as a solid midfielder so with a bit of luck he can make the step up at international level, attract a bit of interest and secure a transfer to a bigger club like Ogbene did.
@Aprior: The track record for Irish players might not be great at Celtic but a lot of Irish players go there, obviously there is going to be a lot of failures. You’re going to have a few Johnny Kenny’s for every Liam scales.
Utd and Pool combined have only Kelleher come through in last 10 years. Probably some Irish lads go to Celtic when they should go to a lower profile club.
@Aprior: He’ll surely get his chance preseason, best of luck to him anyway.
@Aprior: I disagree with this comment. Look at the season just had by Liam Scales and Adam Idah. I also hope Celtic fork out the required amount and sign Idah permanently or else he can return to Norwich reserves and you can continue your narrative about the Irish at Celtic. Nobody has the divine right to a jersey, that has to be earned. It also must be remembered that prior to this Lawal was seen as a defender, an average one it was a recent conversion at Fleetwood to his original position of CDM has brought the best out of him. A position both Celtic and Ireland need depth in.
Hopefully he gets a run out tomorrow night. A future star can play as a defender or a midfielder very comfortable on the ball. Best of luck Bosun.
Got to expect Jake O Brien to get a game or 2 he’s out in form Centre back we have