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If he plays in top flight Egypt, after 4 games he is ahead of half the players you name, maybe more. 
I can't for the life of me figure out what team he is with, what sort of updates are these?

If he plays in top flight Egypt, after 4 games he is ahead of half the players you name, maybe more. 
I can't for the life of me figure out what team he is with, what sort of updates are these?

If he plays in top flight Egypt, after 4 games he is ahead of half the players you name, maybe more. 
I can't for the life of me figure out what team he is with, what sort of updates are these?

Some things you just can't make up. 

Some things you just can't make up. 

York9 has just signed Julian de Guzman's 7 year old son. Just to fuck with his head.

York9 has just signed Julian de Guzman's 7 year old son. Just to fuck with his head.

If you watch him play, he does the right things. His movement is good, he can hold up, he is experienced. So he is not a top flight killer, fine. I don't even know if he has much of a shot.
 I think if someone picks him up for CPL, depending of course how he is coached and the team is asked to play, he will be a bonus for the team. I just don't know if he'd want to go back to Canada so much to make 60 grand, which would be slim. I doubt he'd rate 70k the way we are hearing salaries line up. Maybe set him up with bonuses for performance. 

First class
 

Geesh you are hard on a guy.  He got 9 goals in 27 games just 2 years ago in the scot premier league.  If we are supposed to be excited about Stphen Hoyle and the Swedish kid at York, why wouldnt Haber be considered a star??  He scored some beauts for Dundee over the years.  And it sounds like his wages werent very high so it wont be much of a pay cut.  Much more excited about that than some mid 30's chilean.  

He subbed on m. 89 in their 2-0 loss to Club Siero before Xmas, the only game he could play so far. I think that is a good club for a kid of his age to develop in, and the football in the Asturias region is quite competitive. 
Avilés is fair-sized industrial city and really should be a better team, as the football tradition is there, but they have not figured as an important club for decades now. After financial ups and downs it is currently being run by an association of supporters, which is interesting. The stadium holds 5400:

He subbed on m. 89 in their 2-0 loss to Club Siero before Xmas, the only game he could play so far. I think that is a good club for a kid of his age to develop in, and the football in the Asturias region is quite competitive. 
Avilés is fair-sized industrial city and really should be a better team, as the football tradition is there, but they have not figured as an important club for decades now. After financial ups and downs it is currently being run by an association of supporters, which is interesting. The stadium holds 5400:

He subbed on m. 89 in their 2-0 loss to Club Siero before Xmas, the only game he could play so far. I think that is a good club for a kid of his age to develop in, and the football in the Asturias region is quite competitive. 
Avilés is fair-sized industrial city and really should be a better team, as the football tradition is there, but they have not figured as an important club for decades now. After financial ups and downs it is currently being run by an association of supporters, which is interesting. The stadium holds 5400:

Yes he has signed.  
Here is my translation of the Finnish article:
"New player contract - versatile Jonas Häkkinen has signed with Vaasan Palloseura 
Vaasan Palloseura [VPS] has signed a player contract with the young Finnish player Jonas Häkkinen. The contract is 1+1 years. [unspecified whether the option is one way or two way] 
Jonas Häkkinen is a multi-functional player who owns both the Finnish and Canadian passports, and who can play both stopper and defensive midfielder. 
"For the last few years he has played stopper, but before that he has played defensive midfielder, as well", VPS head coach Petri Vuorinen comments. 
Häkkinen has played his entire career in Vancouver, where he has played in the Whitecaps academy. Häkkinen has Finnish parents and he speaks good Finnish, although his native tongue is English. 
"Jonas has trained with us for quite a while already. He came to Finland to uplift his career. Comparing him with other players of his generation (1999), I believe that he has the full potential to succeed in Finnish Premier League", Vuorinen analyzes. 
Very little about this promising player is known in Finland. Contact between the player and the club came through his agent. The youngster has trained with VPS for a month already. 
"The agent suggested that we give Jonas a trial. We decided to take him along and have been judging his play. In the last few years, many young players looking to develop have trialed for us. This time we found a good "match". I do not think many have heard of him here, even though he is Finnish. He is a new face for many here in that sense."
In addition to his playing skills, there is another thing Vuorinen specifically likes about Häkkinen. 
"He has a very tough but healthy attitude about sports and football in general. All that is right", Vuorinen comments. 
Jonas' own interview will be done during November. 
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Since it's my first post, I figure it's fine to use this space to say hello everybody, too. I am a VPS fan from Finland - a cold, stable Northern country, with an under-performing National Team with a history of promising players selecting some another country, and whose general public has an unhealthy obsession with this sticky-sport played on ice.
Suppose this description also explains to you all why I have somehow developed kind of a weird sympathetic affinity towards the "soccer people" in Canada, and hence I have been following your NT for the past few years, including lurking on this forum occasionally. So I figured that now that this guy signed with my local club team, it would be a good excuse to register here too. So I do hope you guys don't mind having me as an "outsider" for our countries are yet to develop a fierce rivalry in this sport. (Although I also wouldn't mind, if in the next few years one developed over Häkkinen's services at the senior level. )
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Would Jonas warrant his own thread, btw? Now that he's going to be playing here, I would be more than glad to contribute with updates on Jonas etc. since I watch every VPS game anyway.

The Instagram page of Andrew Lebre has just changed, now appearing a reference to Nicosia, Cyprus. That is new, no other news I can find though.
https://www.instagram.com/andrewlebre14/?hl=en
Edit: was checking Cypriot sites in my best Greek and I see on August 31 an international transfer request for him was put in from the Cypriot federation to the Portuguese, as I believe Lebre has a Portuguese passport. 
re-edit: I have a suspicion he could be going to 2nd division PAEEK.
 

The Instagram page of Andrew Lebre has just changed, now appearing a reference to Nicosia, Cyprus. That is new, no other news I can find though.
https://www.instagram.com/andrewlebre14/?hl=en
Edit: was checking Cypriot sites in my best Greek and I see on August 31 an international transfer request for him was put in from the Cypriot federation to the Portuguese, as I believe Lebre has a Portuguese passport. 
re-edit: I have a suspicion he could be going to 2nd division PAEEK.
 

Yes, good find. I saw Socuellamos a few years ago in a promotion tie vs. Europa to go up to third tier, where they were for 3 years, then dropped again. Only reason I know them, as the town and area are relatively unknown. Very physical team I recall, not too technical, a lot of veterans. Maybe they've changed.
 Last year a stoppage time penalty against impeded them becoming a 3rd tier team again, they tend to get good results and are vying for a promotion again.
They play in Group 18 of Spanish Tercera, 4th tier, which is the group of teams from La Mancha. Not a very strong division as the population is fairly low out there.

Manny Aparicio has signed with San Roque de Lepe of Spanish 4th tier. That is Division 10 of Tercera, in western Andalusia. 
If you recall he was released by Izarra in early July.
That is strawberry country in southern Spain. From what they say he has been on trial for a while, and was signed this week, did not appear on the roster for last week's season opener.
http://www.lapreferente.com/J210826/manny-aparicio.html

Manny Aparicio has signed with San Roque de Lepe of Spanish 4th tier. That is Division 10 of Tercera, in western Andalusia. 
If you recall he was released by Izarra in early July.
That is strawberry country in southern Spain. From what they say he has been on trial for a while, and was signed this week, did not appear on the roster for last week's season opener.
http://www.lapreferente.com/J210826/manny-aparicio.html

Wow, good find, he is not on the list. An 18 year old keeper now being listed as 4th GK for a senior Serie B side, he played a full season in u-17 and previously in a lower age level.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezia_Calcio

For anyone updating, when you can get to it: Santa Clara, Portugal, Pacheco, are now in tier 1. And Academico de Viseu, also Portugal, Bakr Abdellaoui, in second tier now.

I did not even know we had a youth abroad, things you learn.
Anyways, the club website has him on first team roster now, though I hope he gets minutes in the Primavera or similar.

This is a pretty promising move for Fillion. FC Aarau is in the 2nd tier Challenge League but are one of the bigger teams there. His competition at keeper is Steven Deana who is a veteran of the Swiss 2nd tier and started the first game but if he gets some chances and takes advantage of them he will be playing at a decent level with possibilities of moving to the Swiss 1st tier Super League especially given that he is owned by FC Zurich of that league. We definitely need some keeper depth for the national team so hopefully he will be one to watch.

You think a young pro should sit out a year but I'm a dick, OK. 
You are not even on topic for the thread you're trolling it.
The point is the whole CPL as the only and best future for a player who is without a team is ridiculous. And especially when he was released the previous day.

You think a young pro should sit out a year but I'm a dick, OK. 
You are not even on topic for the thread you're trolling it.
The point is the whole CPL as the only and best future for a player who is without a team is ridiculous. And especially when he was released the previous day.