Teen dream comes at a price for Irish players in England

Making move from Ireland to a Premier League club only first step on long and often painful journey.

It may be the path many travel and few finish but the lure of chasing the English Premier League dream remains very much open for Ireland’s elite football teens.

This very week, some of the richest clubs in the world are in town battling to land kids as young as 13 on contracts worth hefty six-figure sums.