Fenn joins Foster's Dundalk revolution
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Dundalk manager Ian Foster has bolstered his squad with the signing of Neale Fenn, who put pen to paper on a one-year contract at Oriel Park.
Former Tottenham Hotspur striker and three-times League of Ireland Premier Division champion Fenn, 33, makes Dundalk his fourth League of Ireland club having previously played with Waterford United, Cork City and most recently Bohemians, where he spent the last three seasons.
The signing brings Foster's squad to six, and further acquisitions are expected ahead of the side's opening pre-season friendly against Athlone Town on Sunday week (7 February). Fenn took part in his first training session with his new teammates on Friday morning after agreeing a deal, and he has expressed his happiness at securing his future ahead of the league kick-off in five weeks' time.
"I can't wait to get going now. I've been training down in the AUL and I was delighted when Ian gave me the call to come up here and sign," Fenn told the club's official website.
"I think it was always going to be a slow year with managers holding out and waiting. A lot of the budgets haven't been approved and things like that, so I knew it was going to be a slow time.
"I was just trying to keep myself fit by going to the AUL sessions that the PFAI have put on. I was training away, hoping that something would come up. I spoke to Ian [Foster] a few times; he told me stuff about the club and the way he likes to play football, and the direction that he sees the club going. It appealed to me.
"Obviously, I knew Ian from being manager at Galway; I saw the way his team played there, the way they played the ball on the ground, so I was delighted when I got the call."
Fenn, who was born in London but who has represented the Republic of Ireland at U21 and B level, is well known to and highly regarded by League of Ireland fans having won three Premier Division titles in the last five years, including back-to-back successes with Bohs, the first of those ending in a League & Cup double, in the last two years. He also added a League Cup winners' medal to his honours list in 2008.
Former Tottenham Hotspur striker and three-times League of Ireland Premier Division champion Fenn, 33, makes Dundalk his fourth League of Ireland club having previously played with Waterford United, Cork City and most recently Bohemians, where he spent the last three seasons.
The signing brings Foster's squad to six, and further acquisitions are expected ahead of the side's opening pre-season friendly against Athlone Town on Sunday week (7 February). Fenn took part in his first training session with his new teammates on Friday morning after agreeing a deal, and he has expressed his happiness at securing his future ahead of the league kick-off in five weeks' time.
"I can't wait to get going now. I've been training down in the AUL and I was delighted when Ian gave me the call to come up here and sign," Fenn told the club's official website.
"I think it was always going to be a slow year with managers holding out and waiting. A lot of the budgets haven't been approved and things like that, so I knew it was going to be a slow time.
"I was just trying to keep myself fit by going to the AUL sessions that the PFAI have put on. I was training away, hoping that something would come up. I spoke to Ian [Foster] a few times; he told me stuff about the club and the way he likes to play football, and the direction that he sees the club going. It appealed to me.
"Obviously, I knew Ian from being manager at Galway; I saw the way his team played there, the way they played the ball on the ground, so I was delighted when I got the call."
Fenn, who was born in London but who has represented the Republic of Ireland at U21 and B level, is well known to and highly regarded by League of Ireland fans having won three Premier Division titles in the last five years, including back-to-back successes with Bohs, the first of those ending in a League & Cup double, in the last two years. He also added a League Cup winners' medal to his honours list in 2008.
