{"id":283078,"date":"2026-02-06T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283078\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:30:10","slug":"once-youve-a-player-who-doesnt-want-to-stay-its-important-to-move-them-on-john-russell-on-patrick-mccleans-decision-to-join-his-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/283078\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Once you\u2019ve a player who doesn\u2019t want to stay, it\u2019s important to move them on\u2019 \u2013 John Russell on Patrick McClean\u2019s decision to join his brother at Derry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Derry City players, Patrick McClean, left, and James McClean celebrate winning the President's Cup\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/2de20d49-2b24-4886-9415-4a668896f931.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)\">Derry City players, Patrick McClean, left, and James McClean celebrate winning the President&#8217;s Cup<\/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)\">Sligo Rovers manager John Russell says he expects Patrick McClean would have stayed at the club if his brother James wasn\u2019t planning to return home to Derry.<\/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 younger brother of Derry City\u2019s marquee signing enjoyed a career rebirth under Russell in the second half of last season after leaving Glentoran but he indicated over the winter that he wanted to return to his hometown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derry City players, Patrick McClean, left, and James McClean celebrate winning the President&#8217;s Cup Sligo Rovers manager John&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-283078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283078","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=283078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}