West Ham youngster Kieran Sadlier has joined St Mirren until the end of the season, following his release by the Hammers earlier this week.
The 20-year-old midfielder who is also a republic of Ireland Under-21 international has agreed a contract until the end of the season having failed to make the breakthrough at West Ham’s Academy. Speaking to the St Mirren club website manager Gary Teale “Kieran has had a good development at West Ham and also being involved with the Irish Under-21 team. He was very keen to come up to Scotland when I spoke to him before the transfer window closed and negotiated his release from West Ham to come up to St Mirren. He showed great enthusiasm and ambition that he wanted to play first-team football – hopefully he will be of great benefit to ourselves going forward.”
Sadlier took to Twitter to thank well-wishers following his exit from West Ham saying “I’d like to say thanks to my team mates, the staff and all the fans for the amazing 10 years I’ve spent at West Ham! End of an era! I can’t wait to get started with St Mirren up in Scotland! A new chapter in my life!And thanks to both sets of fans for the messages”
Eighties Hammers Hero Frank McAvennie spend five years at St Mirren playing 135 matches and scoring 48 goals before joining West Ham in 1985.
Good luck to all our youngsters with there new clubs or new lives I hope we haven’t lost a goodun as I don’t trust BFS judgment when it comes to players ability.
Difficult to see how any youngster,even if they have the abilty to step up to the first team,will ever get a look in with BFS about.Not saying this current crop did have what it takes but i would have given them little chance of first team action anyway while the dinosaur is about.