Trap: New deal ‘a formality’

GIOVANNI TRAPATTONI is ready and eager to sign on the dotted line and says he now sees no obstacle to an agreement being reached on a new contract with the FAI.

“It’s only a formality and money is not an issue,” he said.

Trapattoni, whose current contract is believed to worth in the region of €1.6m, said that, while he’d spoken to Denis O’Brien in Tallinn, he did not ask if the businessman was prepared to continue with his part funding of the Irish management team’s salary.