Neale Fenn has found a home for a season at least, after being signed up to a one-year contract by Dundalk FC.
The three-time Premier Division champion had been training at the PFAI’s camp for non-contracted players but Oriel Park boss Ian Foster has decided to bring in the 33-year-old.
“I can’t wait to get going now,” Fenn said today. “I’ve been training down in the AUL and I was delighted when Ian gave me the call to come up here and sign.
“I think it was always going to be a slow year with managers holding out and waiting,” he added. “A lot of the budgets haven’t been approved and things like that, so I knew it was going to be a slow time.
“I was just trying to keep myself fit by going to the AUL sessions that the PFAI have put on. I was training away, hoping that something would come up. I spoke to Ian a few times; he told me stuff about the club and the way he likes to play football, and the direction that he sees the club going. It appealed to me.
“Obviously, I knew Ian from being manager at Galway; I saw the way his team played there, the way they played the ball on the ground, so I was delighted when I got the call.”
Foster’s threadbare squad now stands at six with Fenn’s addition but “further acquisitions are expected ahead of the side’s opening pre-season friendly against Athlone Town on Sunday week”, according to a club statement.
Fenn won league titles with Cork City (2005) and two with Bohemians, in 2008 and 2009.