Bohemian have announced the return of striker Paddy Madden to the club, with the player signing on until the end of the season.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old returns to Dalymount Park nearly 16 years after making his last appearance for the club. He made his first-team debut for Bohs aged 18 against Cobh Ramblers in November 2008, and scored 20 goals in 68 appearances in all competitions during his first spell with the club, winning a league title in 2009 and the Setanta Cup in 2010.<\/p>\n
After leaving Bohs for Carlisle United in January 2011, Madden racked up over 650 first-team appearances in English football, scoring over 200 goals during spells with Yeovil Town, Scunthorpe United, Fleetwood Town and Stockport County.<\/p>\n
Most recently he was with Chesterfield and spent last season on loan with Accrington Stanley. An Ireland U-21 international during his first spell with Bohs, he won his one and only senior cap against Wales in 2013.<\/p>\n
Welcoming Madden back to Dalymount Park, manager Alan Reynolds said: “Paddy is a player of real quality and experience, and we are delighted to get him in.<\/p>\n
“The conversations I’ve had with him, I\u2019ve been really impressed. He\u2019s coming home with the mindset that he still has something to prove, so we are really looking forward to getting him started.<\/p>\n
“He obviously made his mark here before and has a fantastic career in England, scoring goals wherever he\u2019s been at really good levels. He has captained clubs he\u2019s been at too, and that kind of experience, leadership and know-how in the dressing room could be really important for us between now and the end of the season.<\/p>\n
“Like any player coming in mid-season from leagues that are out of season, we\u2019ll need to get him up to speed but first and foremost he\u2019s a natural goalscorer, he wants to get going and he is hungry to make an impact.”<\/p>\n
Madden said: “I am delighted to be back where it all began for me in professional football. Some of my best memories in football came here, winning the league and Setanta Cup.<\/p>\n
“I learnt off some of the best here when I was young and raw – the likes of Glen Crowe, Jason Byrne and Neale Fenn were the strikers here when I was coming through, and I had Pat Fenlon as manager. I learnt so much from all of them. They got me prepared for men\u2019s football and I\u2019ve always been very thankful for that.<\/p>\n
“I’m at the stage of my career now where I feel I still have a lot to offer the first team and hopefully the bit of experience I have will help the team on and off the pitch as well. I\u2019ve watched a lot of the games this season and there\u2019s clearly a great group of players here now and I\u2019m really looking forward to getting to know them quickly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bohemian have announced the return of striker Paddy Madden to the club, with the player signing on until…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590557,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-590556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590556","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=590556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}