{"id":631120,"date":"2026-08-11T05:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/631120\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T05:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:57:12","slug":"james-mcclean-set-to-part-ways-with-derry-city-reports-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/631120\/","title":{"rendered":"James McClean set to part ways with Derry City \u2013 reports \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/james-mcclean\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/james-mcclean\/\">James McClean<\/a>\u2019s future at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/derry-city\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/derry-city\/\">Derry City<\/a> appears in doubt amid reports he is set to part ways with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/league-of-ireland\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/league-of-ireland\/\">Premier Division<\/a> side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The former Republic of Ireland international signed for the Candystripes from Welsh side Wrexham in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">On Monday, reports emerged the 37-year-old\u2019s time with his hometown club is expected to come to an end after just a seven-month stint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">McClean recently expressed his dissatisfaction at the club while appearing as a pundit on RT\u00c9 during the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Following Derry\u2019s 1-1 draw against St Patrick\u2019s Athletic on August 2nd, McClean also remarked: \u201cIt needs to be said, we have every much as good, if not better, a squad on paper. If you watch the games, the lads aren\u2019t losing these games based on lack of effort. So clearly there is an issue somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The comments came just days before Tiernan Lynch\u2019s tenure as manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/08\/05\/derry-city-part-company-with-tiernan-lynch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/soccer\/2026\/08\/05\/derry-city-part-company-with-tiernan-lynch\/\">came to an abrupt end last Wednesday<\/a> after 19 months in charge at the Brandywell. Mark Connolly has since taken interim charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">McClean was last included in the squad for their Conference League home leg qualifier against Rijeka, where he was an unused substitute. His season at Derry has also been impacted by a hip injury which saw him sidelined for six games earlier in the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James McClean\u2019s future at Derry City appears in doubt amid reports he is set to part ways with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[28978,18,19,17,76826,132],"class_list":["post-631120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-derry-city","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james-mcclean","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117075341830754149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}