{"id":197798,"date":"2025-12-18T05:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/197798\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T05:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:48:12","slug":"shamrock-rovers-v-hamrun-spartans-its-not-as-easy-as-just-splashing-money-on-some-player-from-brazil-because-hes-brazilian-stephen-bradley-plots-nex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/197798\/","title":{"rendered":"Shamrock Rovers v Hamrun Spartans: \u2018It\u2019s not as easy as just splashing money on some player from Brazil because he\u2019s Brazilian\u2019 \u2013\u00a0Stephen Bradley plots next steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"'You have to be really careful,' with recruitment says Shamrock Rovers boss Stephen Bradley ahead of their final Conference League game in Tallaght Stadium tomorrow. Photo: Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/18d87ac8-25d6-4a1a-8b60-32e89d15f5c3.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8216;You have to be really careful,&#8217; with recruitment says Shamrock Rovers boss Stephen Bradley ahead of their final Conference League game in Tallaght Stadium tomorrow. Photo: Tyler Miller\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Stephen Bradley insists that Shamrock Rovers will not repeat the mistakes made by rivals in the past and spend big on importing talent from abroad in an attempt to make a bigger splash in Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Hoops pull down the curtain on their campaign in the Conference League group phase tomorrow night when they host Hamrun Spartans \u2013 the first Maltese club to make the group stage of Uefa competition \u2013 with, what Bradley admits is, a disappointing haul of one point from five games and no chance of progress to the knockout phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;You have to be really careful,&#8217; with recruitment says Shamrock Rovers boss Stephen Bradley ahead of their final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2049,61,60,11113,112],"class_list":["post-197798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aidan-fitzmaurice","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-shamrock-rovers","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}