Trappatoni Reaches Out To Finnan, Ireland, O'Brien

Trapattoni said: “After our last meeting I said to them, ‘I need you, the national team needs you, we will look at you if you are ready, if you want to, come back’. When the season starts we will go to see them again.”

“I was a player and I’ve known a lot of players, and sometimes an older player will say ‘I’m finished’, and then after six months he’s bored and thinks ‘I’ll come back’.

“Then, with young players, they get disappointed and they say ‘I’m not going to play’. But then they get the enthusiasm to come back.

“I’ll wait. I said to them, ‘when you’re ready, there’s a place – but we have other players’. If they say ‘I want to come back, my mentality is that (they will think) ‘I’ll show you I’m better than those other players’, then I’ll be happy.”
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