by SCIAG »
09 Jun 2022 15:11
From Despair To Where?
I guess for us to be in with a sniff of signing him, there'd have to still be some question marks hanging over his conduct and I'd be a bit uncomfortable with that.
He’s going to have been out of the game for at least a year. He might have gym equipment in the safe house but seems unlikely he’s going out for many jogs and he certainly won’t have kicked a ball in any serious way. Plus he’ll be 33 in a few months.
It’s possible, like Brentford with Eriksen, someone would take a punt on him to save them from relegation from the top flight. But he’ll have been out of the game for longer than Eriksen and was never as good to begin with.
If I were him, as soon as I got the all-clear I’d want to get out of the country. Could maybe go to the Netherlands, or else back home. The US is difficult if you have an arrest record but can still be done. But if he did want to stay in English football, and no top flight clubs were interested, I think we’d be near the front of the queue. We just wouldn’t be queueing up for the bright young thing we sold. Best case would be another Darren Caskey, worst case would be another Les Ferdinand.