Former players and managers - general discussion (Part 2)

‘That London’ bias in operation even back tehn.

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Looking for another job? Anywhere in mind?

https://x.com/dearmy1426/status/2056054909511127349

Kelleher and his twins :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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As expected Abert Riera has been sacked by Eintracht Frankfurt 4 months after he arrived.

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Did he slap a youth player on the way out?

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So he’s available? Suddenly the Xabi decision makes sense…. :joy:

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This is an easy enough watch… 24mins though, but interesting

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Simon Mignolet retires as champions. Club Brugge are 2026 champions of Belgium.

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Another former LFC keeper retires.

Firefox translation

Adrian says goodbye to football and Betis with an emotional letter: “I retire in the place to which I belong”

The Sevillian goalkeeper will play tomorrow against Levante his last game as a professional

Manuel Pellegrini confirmed this afternoon, at a press conference, that tomorrow’s against Levante, with which Betis closes his season, will be the last game as a professional of Adrian San Miguel. The 39-year-old Sevillian goalkeeper has decided to hang up his gloves after a long and successful career. But before, he has wanted to say goodbye to football and beticism with an emotional letter published on his social networks.

"Hello, betics. Hi, betics. In my career I have won titles, I have competed against great players and I have been a teammate of even better ones. I stopped penalties, scored goals and my selection called me. I have achieved that that little boy of His Eminence, to which his parents, after working all week in the greengrocer, led to sticking beads in dirt fields, could never have dreamed, "says Adrian.

“In Betis I have run like Rocky, I had to negotiate with Don Manuel, I have stopped, I have failed, I have been captain, I have tried to give my best in the field and on the bench, I have worried about supporting colleagues in injuries or bad moments, I have spoken with the canteranos who are our future and I have played songs like the 'Free From Desire’, which was played in the Liverpool changing room, to celebrate our joys…”

“You know that this will be my last game as a goalkeeper for Betis, but I want to announce that in the last hours I have decided that this will also be my last game as a football player. I retire in the place I belong. Two years ago, in my presentation, I said, ‘I wish we could get nice things.’ And now I remember the reception on the ramp of the parking lot after the Fiore ; matches in which you have lifted us from the stands; the way in which you filled Wroclaw by juggling the flights and the turns for our first European final, qualifying for Champions League after 21 years…”, remember.

"So I think so, we got nice things and above all I think we’ve sown to make them come even more. And in this, I have to ask you something: Betis has to continue growing, so please, there are always some of you shouting to ours what in each video I ask: ‘We continue, we continue!’. Betic, betic, I love you, you are the champion’s band, the best hobby in the world… and my family. See you this Saturday. Adrian San Miguel ", concludes.

A long career in Spain and England

Adrian, raised in the Betis quarry, where he was overcoming steps, reached the first green-white team in the 2012-13 season, in which he played 32 official matches. At the end of the course he packed his bags for England to play at West Ham United, a club where he spent six years, participating in 150 games. In the summer of 2019 he signed for Liverpool, a team in which he spent five seasons before returning in 2024 to Betis.

With the Reds he played 26 games and won seven titles: the 2019-20 Premier League, the European Super Cup of that same year, the Club World Cup in 2020, the FA Cup in 2022, the League Cup in 2022 and 2024 and the England Super Cup of the 2022-23 academic year. A brilliant record to which he has joined a last achievement in his home, being part of the green-white squad that has managed to take Betis back to the Champions League more than 20 years after his previous presence.

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What’s that?
Likely meant the Community Shield.

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Well deserved Robbo…stay…reconsideryour contract…come back as Manager

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We had Heighway on the wing…

From ‘Football Champions’ 1971


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