Ex Players

[Sutekh]

Tom Holmes comes on in injury time for his Luton debut in what looks to be a win at Millwall.

[WestYorksRoyal]

Tom Holmes comes on in injury time for his Luton debut in what looks to be a win at Millwall.

Azeez on for Millwall too. Don't think they're impressed with him so far.

[Orion1871]

Ex Assistant Managers.

Nigel Gibbs joins greek side Asteras Aktor as assistant manager to Claude Makelele.

[skipper]

Olise comes on as a sub and scores for Bayern, in a 6:1 win, in which Kane got a hat trick.

[Armadillo Roadkill]

Andy Carroll expected at Bordeaux's training ground today. He's expected to sign a two year contract.

Bordeaux are currently in the fourth tier of French football, having had to defer the first two games of the season because they didn't have a team, are battling insolvency, have played their first home games of the season behind closed doors in a local amateur athletics stadium because they cannot use the Matmut Atlantique, and have drawn against part-timers.

FCGB have probably fallen from grace even quicker than Sochaux did recently. It's more like what happened to Strasbourg. Carroll will be playing at grounds that look like Arbour Park. It's a pretty long fall for him too.

[Sutekh]

Andy Carroll expected at Bordeaux's training ground today. He's expected to sign a two year contract.

Bordeaux are currently in the fourth tier of French football, having had to defer the first two games of the season because they didn't have a team, are battling insolvency, have played their first home games of the season behind closed doors in a local amateur athletics stadium because they cannot use the Matmut Atlantique, and have drawn against part-timers.

FCGB have probably fallen from grace even quicker than Sochaux did recently. It's more like what happened to Strasbourg. Carroll will be playing at grounds that look like Arbour Park. It's a pretty long fall for him too.

Thought he was still at Amiens, seems to now spend his life as a free agent between short term deals.

[Armadillo Roadkill]

Andy Carroll expected at Bordeaux's training ground today. He's expected to sign a two year contract.

Bordeaux are currently in the fourth tier of French football, having had to defer the first two games of the season because they didn't have a team, are battling insolvency, have played their first home games of the season behind closed doors in a local amateur athletics stadium because they cannot use the Matmut Atlantique, and have drawn against part-timers.

FCGB have probably fallen from grace even quicker than Sochaux did recently. It's more like what happened to Strasbourg. Carroll will be playing at grounds that look like Arbour Park. It's a pretty long fall for him too.

Thought he was still at Amiens, seems to now spend his life as a free agent between short term deals.

He's still under contract at Amiens, and has played 151 minutes for them so far this season without scoring. I don't think Bordeaux can pay transfers (theye are, effectively, in administration, which isn't quite the same thing in France as the UK), so the situation is unclear.

[Orion1871]

He's just gone there for the wine. Football is secondary.

[Clyde1998]

Andy Carroll expected at Bordeaux's training ground today. He's expected to sign a two year contract.

Bordeaux are currently in the fourth tier of French football, having had to defer the first two games of the season because they didn't have a team, are battling insolvency, have played their first home games of the season behind closed doors in a local amateur athletics stadium because they cannot use the Matmut Atlantique, and have drawn against part-timers.

FCGB have probably fallen from grace even quicker than Sochaux did recently. It's more like what happened to Strasbourg. Carroll will be playing at grounds that look like Arbour Park. It's a pretty long fall for him too.

Thought he was still at Amiens, seems to now spend his life as a free agent between short term deals.

He's still under contract at Amiens, and has played 151 minutes for them so far this season without scoring. I don't think Bordeaux can pay transfers (theye are, effectively, in administration, which isn't quite the same thing in France as the UK), so the situation is unclear.

He and/or Amiens possibly have a break clause in his contract or he could be loaned to them? I don't know if Bordeaux are semi-pro or entirely amateur now.

[Armadillo Roadkill]

Thought he was still at Amiens, seems to now spend his life as a free agent between short term deals.

He's still under contract at Amiens, and has played 151 minutes for them so far this season without scoring. I don't think Bordeaux can pay transfers (theye are, effectively, in administration, which isn't quite the same thing in France as the UK), so the situation is unclear.

He and/or Amiens possibly have a break clause in his contract or he could be loaned to them? I don't know if Bordeaux are semi-pro or entirely amateur now.

They had to relinquish their Pro licence when they went into Administration (this is also partially why they got kicked out of the second tier into the fourth.

Lopez, the owner, has said they have a budget of €8 million, the bulk of which is player's wages, so it suggests they're not quite a semi-pro as the likes of Dinan and Saumur who they are up against this season.

[Clyde1998]

Olise comes on as a sub and scores for Bayern, in a 6:1 win, in which Kane got a hat trick.

Scored on his Champions League debut against Dinamo Zagreb now.

EDIT: and a second for him.

[South Coast Royal]

Virginia got a game for Everton last night.
Unfortunately for him he couldn't stop any of Saints' penalties.

[Clyde1998]

Virginia got a game for Everton last night.
Unfortunately for him he couldn't stop any of Saints' penalties.

On the flip side, Alex McCarthy saved the deciding penalty.

[El Diablo]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cd7x5xxddlno

Jamie Gittens - No idea what he was like in our Yoof ranks - but made a impact last night in the Champs League for Dortmund, coming on and scoring a couple..

You may know the forward by his longer surname Bynoe-Gittens.

At the start of this season Gittens took the first part of his surname off his jersey, telling the Dortmund website both names are his father's who suggested the move.

The switch has sparked a renaissance.

[i]Born in London in August, 2004 he was originally on the books at Reading.

He moved to Manchester City's academy in 2018 but, like Sancho, chose not to sign on with the club two years later and moved to Dortmund in 2022.

He made his first team debut in April, 2022 and his Champions League bow against Chelsea 10 months later. He scored his first goal in Europe's premier competition against AC Milan last campaign.

And, as he has developed up the Dortmund ranks, he has been progressing through England's youth levels.

In 2022, Gittens helped the Young Lions win the European Under-19 Championship, starting the final.
[/i]

[Hound]

So 2 goals and 2 assists in the Bundesliga for genuine star Olise today.

Have a bit of pride in seeing him come through the ranks but reminder of what might have been

[Orion1871]

Andy Carroll scores a brace on his debut for Bordeaux.

[morganb]

Rashawn Scott scored for Bishops Stortford yesterday - (for some reason I Googled him yesterday which said he was without a club then today that appears on Twitter)

[JedMaxwell]

So 2 goals and 2 assists in the Bundesliga for genuine star Olise today.

Have a bit of pride in seeing him come through the ranks but reminder of what might have been

I have lots of pride seeing him do well. It'd be nice if we got a bit more recognition though; I know he came into our academy fairly late but we gave him the platform in senior football.

I can barely get my head around thinking what could have been. 2020/2021 is really a sliding doors moment for the club in recent times. Had we kept our bottle, we'd have gone up and who knows what could have been.

[WestYorksRoyal]

So 2 goals and 2 assists in the Bundesliga for genuine star Olise today.

Have a bit of pride in seeing him come through the ranks but reminder of what might have been

I have lots of pride seeing him do well. It'd be nice if we got a bit more recognition though; I know he came into our academy fairly late but we gave him the platform in senior football.

I can barely get my head around thinking what could have been. 2020/2021 is really a sliding doors moment for the club in recent times. Had we kept our bottle, we'd have gone up and who knows what could have been.

This "what if?" is overblown. We had a very thin squad, and while Olise was a great talent he was still a teenager a long way off hitting the heights we now see. We won a lot of tight games relying upon a single moment of magic from a striker who had never had a consistent season. Restrictions were starting to bite, and in January all our rivals strengthened while we could do nothing.

It would have been a magnificent over achievement to get promotion; it was not a missed opportunity.

[stealthpapes]

Andy Carroll scores a brace on his debut for Bordeaux.

https://x.com/sid_lambert/status/1837579733535457569