Stephen Bradley warns the league clubs of Ireland to look "very silly" after the reorganization of Patrick McEleney in Dundalk

Stephen Bradley believes Patrick McEleney's return to Oriel Park is a bad deal for the SSE Airtricity League

The Shamrock Rovers' boss was looking to sign McEleney, who was looking to return home after a short time in Oldham. Athletic

But seven months after leaving Dundalk for a free transfer, Lilywhites' late bid to sign the 25-year-old's playmaker again proved a success

"He is a high level player but we can not "I think we have to be very careful as a league."

"We are talking about wanting respect and charging fees for players, if you let players go out for nothing and redeem them, it's a very strange scenario to put you there.

"If you start doing that, I think we are very, very foolish from the outside – to English clubs and other clubs."

be very careful, we can not compete financially, it's as simple as that. "

Bra Dley, echoing the words of John Caulfield, the head of Cork City, acknowledged that no other club could live with the financial strength of the gaming tables.

"No, that does not sound like that," he said. "I've read John said something similar

"I have often said, we can not compete financially and it's a market we do not want to compete, letting players go out and buy" [19659013] "It's something we would not do, even if we could do what they do, we would not do it." 19659002] Dundalk will argue that they have the right to spend their money as they want after the manna of their group stage achievements in the Europa League in 2016.

The Lilywhites made a profit of 3.3 M € that year.

Bradley replied

"But what I mean is that if we talk about getting respect from the country's outside clubs English,

"How can you let a player go? five or six months later, redeem it, it's madness.

"Of course, they earned the right to spend as they hear – but we can not do it and demand respect.It's madness. "

Bradley confirmed that the former Wolves starlet, Anto Breslin, was coaching with Rovers this week.

"It's only two days ago, it's something we have to look at" he went, I watched it at Christmas for wolves under 23 years old. [19659002] "He is a good player but we have to see how it goes."

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