Listen, we might well have a skewed vision of Robbie Brady but it is not unfounded.
It's based on what he has done, at the highest level.
It's based on how he was the regular left back for his country and then, from nowhere, thrown into a diamond midfield against the world champions to star.
It's based on what he can do anywhere on the field. How he operates off the front men, how he scored from the right against Bosnia, how he was man of the match at full back against Sweden and then impressed even more in a three-man midfield against Italy.
It's all founded on genuine evidence that this man is a proper player who is playing better than anyone in any role he's given. It's founded on worse footballers being gift-wrapped chance after chance at a higher level.
Robbie Brady would walk onto at least half of the Premier League teams right now and he could play in defence, he could play in midfield, he play on the left or the right or the centre for any of them.
That's why a bidding war has unfolded.
"Burnley and Leicester City have made offers in the region of £10million for Norwich City midfielder Robbie Brady," the Daily Mail reports.
The Canaries are believed to be holding out for £13million because Hull City are owed 25 per cent of any sell-on of the Dubliner.
Aston Villa are said to have
offered 30-year-old striker Ross McCormack in exchange of Brady but it might've been met with a snigger or two considering the Scotsman has scored three times in 19 Championship appearances this season.
Leicester are the ones who look to be preparing for an imminent arrival of a player in Brady's mould.
The key to Brady's transfer to the league champions could be Jeffrey Schlupp.
- Schlupp is having a medical with Crystal Palace.
- Schlupp is a left-sided player, who has played at full back and on the wing for Leicester.
- Schlupp is being sold for a reported £12million.
If Leicester are losing a player, if they're losing a left-sided player and if they're getting £12million for him, the links with Brady make perfect sense.
They make sense anyway. This man is good enough.
Now he'll just have to choose between the champions and linking up with his old St. Kevin's team mate Jeff Hendrick at Burnley.
