Hampus Silverholt
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2026 Season Preview
So, it’s 2026 and we’re into our 9th season as Sligo manager. It’s been a tough January transfer window mainly because of this.
The players we need to sign to improve the team simply do not want to join us!
The only piece of business we’ve been able to do is to sign Simon Pattison permanently for £1.5m from Liverpool. He’s spent the last 3 seasons on loan at Sligo and his contract was expiring in the summer.
The major news from the transfer window though is that star midfielder Milorad Sveljo has been sold to Barcelona.
He is undoubtedly going to be world class but £37m and loaned back to us for 2 years? That’s surely got to be the greatest bit of business ever.
Meanwhile, on the pitch the season could not have started any better for us.
Ignacio Lagos scored a hattrick to virtually send us through to the Europa League second knockout round.
The second leg was solid yet unspectacular.
The Europa League journey is happening again!
Is what I thought until I saw the draw.
They’re only 5th in Serie A but Inter Milan are the favourites to progress. The board only expect us to get to the second round anyway so we have nothing to lose.
The players we need to sign to improve the team simply do not want to join us!
The only piece of business we’ve been able to do is to sign Simon Pattison permanently for £1.5m from Liverpool. He’s spent the last 3 seasons on loan at Sligo and his contract was expiring in the summer.
The major news from the transfer window though is that star midfielder Milorad Sveljo has been sold to Barcelona.
He is undoubtedly going to be world class but £37m and loaned back to us for 2 years? That’s surely got to be the greatest bit of business ever.
Meanwhile, on the pitch the season could not have started any better for us.
Ignacio Lagos scored a hattrick to virtually send us through to the Europa League second knockout round.
The second leg was solid yet unspectacular.
The Europa League journey is happening again!
Is what I thought until I saw the draw.
They’re only 5th in Serie A but Inter Milan are the favourites to progress. The board only expect us to get to the second round anyway so we have nothing to lose.