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SeaSeeEffCee
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lol
cc84cov
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Hasn’t he not long moved to play in Belgium also
Sky Blue Pete
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He hadn’t scored for 18 months so got to be something in it
Ccfcisparks
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
covcity4life
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No thanks. Twat by all acounts and hasn't been prolific in ages?
Winny the Bish
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Took a look at his agents to see if there's any City links. Their top clients are Berahino, Ravel Morrison...and Jak Hickman. Must love a bad boy.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Kasta was this guy’s protégée
Briles
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Although its nonesne it does raise a good question about whether robins is the type of manager to sign players with certain temperaments. Clarke Harris, Kasta and Bright spring to mind. I wonder if he is the type of manager who can turn those types of players around or whether he instantly dismisses them
better days
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These type of players are a big risk as they can ruin the atmosphere at a club by spreading their bad habits and attitudes to others, especially young players
The example below of Nile Ranger is a pretty good case in point
He may be ‘Bin Laden of football’, but even Nile Ranger deserves shot at redemption
Rod Liddle
Sunday January 31 2021, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
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Southend United’s position is not hugely cheering. Relegated last season and then facing a winding-up order and now rooted to the bottom of League Two having scored only 17 goals all season. But are things bad enough that they would look to Osama Bin Laden for a kind of salvation?
No, not the real Osama. He is no longer with us. I’m referring to Nile Ranger, the former Newcastle United striker, who said last summer that he was regarded as the “Osama Bin Laden” of football, ie, not looked on terribly favourably. Nile seemed a little surprised and hurt by this, which makes me suspect that a strong sense of self-awareness is not necessarily among his many admirable qualities.
Anyway, Ranger hasn’t kicked a ball in the top four divisions for three years and has just finished a short spell at Spalding United, whose manager said of him: “It’s a heart attack just trying to get him on the pitch.” Now the forward is training with Southend, apparently desperate for one more chance of league football at the age of 29.
The Southend manager, Mark Molesley, is still undecided as to whether this should happen. “He has a lot to prove,” Molesley said, adding that Ranger would have to show he is “taking football seriously”.
The manager further commented — with what you might consider delightful understatement — that “he’s had some decisions which have probably curtailed what could have been a better career”. That would be about right.
The fans, meanwhile, definitely want Ranger back (he has played for the Shrimpers before) by a two-thirds majority, according to a poll. That will probably be because Southend have been short of a decent goalscorer for quite a while, and scoring goals is part of Nile’s repertoire. More troublingly, though, so is armed robbery, assault, criminal damage to property, being drunk in charge of a road vehicle and indeed financial fraud, for which he was given an eight-month prison sentence.
The trouble began when he was a youth player with Southampton and he was bunged in a child offenders’ prison for 11 weeks for his part in an armed street robbery in Muswell Hill, very near the area in which he grew up, if he can be said to have grown up. He was booted out of the club. Alan Shearer gave him a contract at Newcastle United — he was still a teenager at this point — and Ranger fared pretty well, particularly in the Championship. But he still made more appearances in the local police station than he did in the first team and was also charged with rape, of which he was later cleared.
Bunged out on loan he suffered a foot injury and was later transferred to Swindon Town. That was the beginning of what would become a kind of habit: not turning up for training. The bloke just went awol, from pretty much every club he played for subsequently, and the patience of the various managers became tested beyond endurance. Now, living at home with his mum, he claims to have reformed and Molesley has been impressed by his application in training. But you do wonder.
In his first game for Spalding, in October last year, he slept in and missed the bus to the game and eventually drove for three hours up the motorway, arrived at the ground and explained to his manager — Gabriel Zakuani, an old friend — that he had lost his boots. He is not a terribly “sorted” kind of chap, is he? Still, he scored that day.
I remember watching him play for Newcastle. What a talent the kid had. Immensely strong, fast when he needed to be and possessed of a ferocious shot. At that stage, still in his teens, he was already a very good Championship-level striker — and you wonder what he might have achieved if he hadn’t made those, er, flawed decisions. Nudging at the door of the England team, perhaps?
And yet it happens too often. Ranger’s trajectory is not dissimilar to that of Ravel Morrison, another young player whose audacity and skill at first astonished us. The “greatest waste of talent I’ve ever seen” was Sam Allardyce’s verdict on Morrison as the player travelled from club to club, never settling, never playing many games, getting a reputation for being “difficult”. (Morrison, I ought to add, is not guilty of any of Ranger’s extracurricular misdemeanours).
It is a callous environment, football. How many of those kids coming through get the sort of pastoral help that might have enabled Ranger and Morrison to fulfil their immense potentials on the field?
Where was the professional help when Ranger was splurging his £10,000 per week at Newcastle on gambling? They are left to sort themselves out and some — like Raheem Sterling and maybe Wayne Rooney — manage to do this. But not all are able to.
Every man is better than his worst act — or, in Nile’s case, worst acts. And everybody deserves the chance of redemption, including both Nile and poor Southend. Keep your fingers crossed for them both.
Jesse Carver
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We could re-sign Lateef Elford-Alliyu to drive him around again.
cov donkey kick
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It's a wind up!
PUSB-We_are_going_up
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Better be because I do not want a higher paid Bakayoko that has a dog attitude because at least baka is not a moron
A lot of these players are written off for having an apparent bad attitude but often they are barely adults. The frontal lobe is still developing until mid to late twenties in men. I am not sure how I would handle being bigged up as an arising star in my early 20s. Sometimes it the agent or people around them that give bad advice.
fernandopartridge
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Morrison is 27