FLEETWOOD TOWN boss Charlie Adam has reserved high praise for Bosun Lawal.
The Ireland U21 international joined the club on loan from Celtic at the start of the season.
Fleetwood are currently struggling at the bottom of the table in League One but Lawal has been a bright spark.
The 20-year-old, who can play in both defence and midfield, has featured in 25 of their 28 league matches so far this season.
And former Liverpool player Adam spoke glowingly to reporters about the youngster.
“Unfortunately, Bosun is not our player but while he is here, he is our player and what he has done since he has been here is give us a good base in terms of his size and physicality.
“How he dribbles with the ball, his touches and passes. There are not many midfielders like that in the Championship in England let alone League One. So he has got a bright future. He is at a big football club in Celtic.
“We are lucky to have him here at Fleetwood and in the coming months to the end of the season we will send a better player back than when he came in here.”
A St Kevin’s Boys graduate, Lawal was previously on the books at Watford, winning their Academy Player of the Season, with Troy Deeney comparing him to Abdoulaye Doucouré and adding: “There are not many young players that catch your eye and you go ‘oh, he’s gonna have a career’ and he certainly does that.”
Lawal joined Celtic in 2021 and made his senior debut off the bench during the 5-0 Scottish FA Cup win over Morton in January last year.
The Dubliner is highly thought of at Parkhead — just before making the move to Fleetwood, he signed a long-term contract to stay with his parent club until at least 2026.
These two games against top English sides are great opportunities for Tom Ahern to propel himself into the Irish squad
@Kevin Ryan: izzy, baird, conan, pendergast and timoney all ahead at this stage.
@chris mcdonnell: stopped reading at conan….
@chris mcdonnell: I don’t want to knock anyone. They’re all good players of course; but I think we know by now that Prendergast and Timoney are pretty unlikely to ever establish themselves in the Ireland side. Ahern has the potential to do so.
@Niall English: The 42 is an interesting selection to have your mid life crises on
@Niall English: conan ahead of the lot of them. Not sure about the rest though.
@chris mcdonnell: I think Baird has moved down the Irish pecking order. Not sure the reason why but it seems he has. I think Ahern will be more used in 2nd row by IRL going forward but also cover 6 ahead of Baird. I think Izzy will eventually take a starting hold on that 6 jersey. Conan is an 8 who can do a job at 6. lineout skilks wouldn’t be his strength though and that works against starting him. My feeling is POM will start v England at 6 or at least be on the bench. No doubt he’s behind many others in general play but our LO is critical to starting the 6n’s well and he’s still our best LO jumper.
@Michael Corkery: He’s only started 9 times at 6. Munster have won a grand total of 1 of those games. Putting that to one side, it’s still manifestly obvious that he should be concentrating on second row, given both his height and the number of options at blindside.
If Munster were talking about the good things they did against Leinster, it was a short talk. We need the injury list to clear up, it would be great to pick a 23 match day squad that isn’t influenced by injured players.
Don’t know why Munster are always going on about O’Mahony these days. The guy is busted flush, worn out and too old. Not his fault now. Munster have to pick Ahern ahead of him and bench him. We lost to England last year because he wasn’t at the races with the young English back row so we lost another grand slam because he wasn’t up to it.
@Jimmy Bean: i do recall doris getting grossly outplayed by ben earl in that game also, not the first time hes gone AWOL when the chips are down.
@Niall English: Mr Bean only sees what he wants to see.
@Niall English: He left VanDFl and Doris on their own to play by themselves against the English. He was benched for the South Africa tour so it’s just not me who thinks he’s past it.
@Leonard Barry: Lotta beans on here
@Jimmy Bean: you know the French saying « No scrum, no win ». I got a similar one for the upcoming England game, « No lineout, no win ». Certainly PO’M is not as good as others around the field, but if our lineout calling and throwing is going to continue to be as bad as it has recently, the 2nd best defensive LO in the world is going to have an absolute field day. We’ll need PO’M on the bench at the very least. He can win it at the front if all else fails.