GRASSHOPPERS OF ZURICH have taken Republic of Ireland U21 international Connor Ronan on loan ahead of the start of the 2020-21 season.
It’s another temporary move away from Wolverhampton Wanderers for Ronan, who has had previous loan spells at Portsmouth, Walsall, Dunajksa Streda (Slovakia) and Blackpool.
The diminutive playmaker, who hasn’t tasted first-team action at Wolves since a League Cup tie against Manchester City in October 2017, remains under contract to the Premier League club until next summer.
Rochdale-born Ronan is currently a member of the Republic of Ireland U21 squad. He impressed while winning nine caps under Stephen Kenny in 2019.
Although Grasshoppers remain the most successful club in the history of Swiss football, they have endured a notable decline in recent years.
After being relegated from the top-tier Super League in 2019, they narrowly missed out on promotion last season by finishing third in the Challenge League.
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Ah another disappointing move for a promising u21 player…. I don’t know a lot about second division Swiss football, but it doesn’t sound like a great level….
@Augustus hoop: football isn’t just confined to England. Fair play to him going for more unorthodox move, Conor looks very promising so hopefully gets hes break and has a good future. Grasshoppers are a relatively big club too
@Denis Cremin: swiss football is muck so he has a very good shot at making a real go of it. The wages are excellent though and all the good players get snapped up by german clubs. The league itself was historically a retirement home for german players looking for a last low tax payday but they started to focus alot more on younger players so the standard gradually dropped. Zürich itself is little more than a town with two football clubs who are far off being world beaters. FcZ are not that much better than grasshoppers even though they are a division above. The main teams are YB and basel nowadays. Stadiums are great also so in ralaity the only thing second rate is the football
@Denis Cremin: unorthodox doesn’t always mean good, second division Swiss football sounds more like out of sight out of mind, decent player but to progress needs to cut out the loans and get something permanent at a higher/better level than this
@Denis Cremin: my issue isn’t that he is moving away from England – I welcome that – my issue is as I say in the comment, that he is moving to a level that he should be better than based on what I’ve seen – irrespective of how big the club is.
It’s the same as lee O’Connor going to league 2
@Augustus hoop: good experience for him playing abroad, was in Slovakia last season and he did well in the games I could find streams for.
The one player in the u21s that gets me off my seat,
Cracking technical player.