St Patrick’s Athletic’s Mason Melia is a prime example of talent finding a way to excel inside the FAI’s fractured youth development system
Unless St Pat’s receive a decent offer from interested Bundesliga clubs, Melia is set to light up the domestic scene, although parents and agents advising him and other players in Hungary believe that the FAI cannot cater for their needs. There are 63.5 million reasons why.
“At the moment within the academy they are getting the hours they are getting [an average of 270 minutes a week]. We need to find ways to improve that. There are other ways you can do it. At previous clubs I’ve been at [in England and Scotland] there are schooling systems within the club. Obviously that comes at a cost. At the minute, the way things are, we can only add to his hours when he is not being exposed to school.
The club employs 38 staff, an increase of five since 2021, with seven in administration and ground staff, six coaches and 25 players. “Myself and Jon have been talking about getting ourselves ready for reinforcements to freshen up the squad,” Mathews explained. “That’s going to result in resources being made available to Jon to do that. We’re down the road a little bit further than we might have been this time last year.”
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