Anyone know how this lad is doing during his trial ? Malvin Kamara is away in the U.S on trials. Club on the look out for an unnamed championship winger to fill the gap http://www.barrowafc.com/newsite/club/n ... rticle=343 He's a winger from Sierra Leone and his played a few games for us in a non_contract trial while trying to regain his fitness after an injury layoff, but we hold his conf registration ( Barrow AFC ) we are in the Conf Prem ( 5th level in England ) He has played over 100 games in higher UK leagues than ours though. Kindly reply if you can sniff anything out for me, ta very much. PS, I assume he is a free agent so if you want him he will come without a fee.
Our window is closed, so we can't add anyone until the season ends at the end of November at the earliest. If you hold his rights that probably means we can't add him until the international transfer window opens in January. Our club is very tight-lipped about any news until the contracts are actually signed so you'll probably have better luck finding information on your end than we will here.
Or the league makes an exception. I did notice the magic word "winger" in there. It could happen. Probably not but...
Exception rules only come into play if we have leass that 15 healthy players or less than 2 healthy GK's. Not that MLS isn't found of making exceptions to rules...
extra work with the wingers after training and I think that’s showed in the way Paul Rutherford has played recently.” *******Another winger, London-based Malvin Kamara, could also be back in contention this Saturday after returning from a short trial spell with Colorado Rapids in the US. Kamara is mulling over a contract, which would begin in January, with the MLS side*******. Bayliss also said AFC are hoping to recruit an unnamed loan player before Saturday’s game, when Barrow will be able to name seven men on the bench. Negotiations with Rochdale over on-loan striker Jon Shaw’s FA Cup eligibility were last night continuing. Bayliss said: “We will do everything can to try and get it sorted so Jon can play.” Fellow loan striker Andy Cook has been given permission by Carlisle to play on Saturday. It is, however, debatable whether the teenager would be risked from the start in such a big game. First published at 13:15, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 Published by http://www.nwemail.co.uk Looks like you may have offered him terms, unless our local rag are talking poopla again.
Not only making sense ... but making GOOD sense. Maybe with all the failed negotiations they had - they see their mistake and are starting plans for 2010 which they should be doing.
Amazing new insights in player procurement by the front office. So.... Kamara has played over a hundred games in the UK and has ended up with a fifth level team. Why am I not surprised that our big spenders in the Rapids front Office have sought out that missing talented link to fill our depleted ranks in England? This sounds like something out of the "Beckham Experiment", when our current director of player personnel was acquiring those losers from South America for the Galaxy team that finished tied for last place in the 2008 season. You have to wonder how Jeff Plush can still hold his job with these types of endeavors.... Let's hope our boys come thru sor us on Saturday night, and if they don't win, let's hope someone in Colorado cleans house like they did in LA when Gullit, Lalas, and Bravo all moved on to other adventues in soccer managemnt/related endeavors...gotta run PS... If you get the chance, read the "Beckham experiment" and you can see many of the problems that exist in todays Colorado Rapids, also happened to the Galaxy in 2007 and 2008 in LA... It's a great read for any dedicated MLS soccer fan.
The Beckham Experiment is a good book for any MLS fan. I think you're putting a little too much of the blame for the Galaxy on Bravo though. He wasn't a Technical Director until late into the 2007 season, so 2007 was hardly his fault, and the book makes it fairly clear that Lalas (and by extension Bravo since he worked for Lalas) was kept out of many of the decisions made during the Ruud Gullet tenure, which lasted until late into the 2008 season. Bravo should really be judged on what the Galaxy did after Gullet left, which gave him about a month before the roster freeze deadline plus what he did int he offseason before leaving, and what he's done here in Colorado. The first year in LA was a disaster that was largly out of his hands.
If you wish to keep up to date with any KAMARA ifno here is some news or visit http://barrowafc.net/ Its the fans forum etc. KAMARA BACK FOR CHESTER TIE / OTHER TRANSFER NEWS From www.barrowafc.com Popular winger, Malvin Kamara, has returned to the club in time for Saturday's FA Cup tie with Chester City. The 25-year-old former Championship player has been in America for over a week on trial, but as he only trained and did not play any games, he does not require international clearance back to the UK. BARROW'S RESULTS AND FIXTURES IN OCTOBER, if yer only semi interested Saturday 3 October Barrow 1 Oxford United 1 1567 Tuesday 6 October Barrow 0 Glasgow Celtic 1 (friendly) 815 Saturday 10 October Crawley Town 0 Barrow 1 1051 Saturday 17 October Barrow 2 Ebbsfleet United 0 1241 Saturday 24 October Barrow v Chester City, FA Cup Fourth Qualifying Round ********Here is a news clip about Criminals and Parasites infesting the beautiful game in the UKs lower leagues and ruining clubs ans businesses alike, arrrgghhhh.******** CHESTER CITY FOOTBALL CLUB - THE DEATH RATTLE (PART ONE) From www.twohundredpercent.net Chester Fans United, a coming together of the different fans' groups at the stricken Blue Square Premier club, meet tomorrow night to formally agree their formation. They have a few thousand pounds in the bank, which is enough to get them up and running, but it certainly isn't enough to save their club and the general consensus now is that they already know it. A new deadline has been set. By 5.30 on Monday evening, Chester City may well have ceased to exist. At this point, CFU's raison d'etre will become to form a new club, freed from the shackles of the wretched ownership that they have suffered under for the last few seasons or so. The latest threat to their existence comes from the Football Conference, who have issued a complete player embargo upon the club and the deadline to pay up over unpaid bills to other clubs - a split of gate receipts that was due to be paid to their local rivals Wrexham, and has also failed to make any payment to another club, Vauxhall Motors, for a player that they took on loan. The amount of money owed to the two clubs is believed to be in the region of GBP30,000-GBP40,000. They also make reference to, more generally, Chester City's non-compliance "with the terms of the compromise agreement set by the Football Conference to allow the club to participate in the competition at the commencement of the current season". One might wonder what the mish-mash of authorities that actually allowed the club to start the season were actually thinking of when they arrived at the decision. The financial situation at The Deva Stadium was clear for anyone to see at this point. What Stephen Vaughan said to them in the course of the meeting that ended up with the club being allowed to play has never been made public. It has even been suggested that the Football League leant on the Football Conference because they didn't want to see a club dropping straight out and going bust. When previous manager Mick Wadsworth left the club last month, he commented that, "This place is full of negativity and it's really difficult. I've never known an environment like it". This was coming from a man that had managed at Scarborough, Gretna and at Carlisle United under Michael Knighton during the 1990s. This sort of a statement, coming from a man that had left his previous managerial position after becoming one of forty people to be laid off because they couldn't afford to pay him any more, spoke volumes for the depth of the difficulties at the club. Crowds have plummeted again and, even if they were to survive this particular crisis and the other crises that would inevitably follow it over the course of the remainder of the season, relegation to the Blue Square North is surely something approaching inevitable. It's possible to argue that Chester supporters should have acted earlier, but the clubs owner's actions over the last few weeks would seem to indicate that they could have protested all they wanted and for as long as possibly could have and he still wouldn't have left the club. The rumours continue to circle that John Batchelor, who almost drove York City to the wall several years ago, is circling with a desire to rip up the history of the club and "re-brand" it as Harchester United or Red Bull Chester City. Any Chester supporters hoping that Batchelor might be a knight in shining armour should take a moment to read this, from The Guardian last year: "Of 24 companies of which he has been a director, 14 have been or are about to be struck off the companies register, six have been insolvent, three are still going but he is no longer involved - he says he sold them on successfully - and only one small company in which he is a director is active. One company Batchelor took over - although he did not become a director; his partner, Cheryl Hopkins, did - was Moornate Chemists in Nelson, near Burnley, a steady, solvent, family business selling cleaning products. Within three months, last July, Moornate was insolvent and in administration, after effectively being merged with another company he took over, Besglos, which was also in administration the following month." David Brown, Moornate's former owner, says Batchelor promised to pay him GBP485,000 for the business, in instalments, and did pay him GBP70,000 up front. However, he has been left devastated, without the business he built up over 30 years, and still owed GBP415,000 of the price agreed. Batchelor, however, has said he bought and sold Moornate's factory, making GBP75,000 for himself. "He ruins people's lives and walks away with money," Brown says. Several former staff of Besglos, and their families, are still struggling to recover, having moved to work for Batchelor on the promise of handsome salaries, then been left unpaid and lost their jobs. Brown recalls that in one meeting Batchelor told him: "This is what I do for a living: I f#@k companies." Of course, any talk of Batchelor getting involved is likely to be irrelevant, since Vaughan has shown no intention whatsoever of giving up control of the club and, in any case, there is entirely possible that there will not even be a Chester City Football Club by the middle of next week. Ironically, Chester's next (and possibly last) match will be an FA Cup match at Barrow on Saturday. Barrow, of course, are the club that Vaughan almost sent to the wall in his previous attempt at running a club, during the late 1990s. It will be interesting to see how quickly they give them their split of the gate receipts for the match. One would imagine that Vaughan will be knocking on the office doors at Holker Street at about ten to five on Saturday afternoon. Even if he gets the money in used fivers, however, it is unlikely to be enough in itself to keep them afloat. Miracles do happen and they happen more regularly in football, it often seems, than anywhere else. This time, however, Stephen Vaughan has annoyed the Football Conference off (that much is evident from the terseness of their official message on the subject) and in the modern game it seems that you can bend the insolvency laws as much as you like, keep your ownership structure buried under impenetrable layers of holding companies, mess the tax man (and, by extension, the taxpayer) around and treat your supporters with little more than contempt, but if you get on the wrong side of the people that run the game, then you've done something very wrong indeed and you are likely to pay for it. Chester Fans United deserve our support for getting their act together and one would hope that they would decide not to throw money onto the bonfire that is Chester City Football Club. It is surely clear that a new club is the only way forward for the supporters of Chester City. HOLKER STREET NEWSLETTER 2259 - 22 OCTOBER 2009 The Conference have stamped their feet and said enough to Chester City, play by our rules or else, or words to that effect. CHESTER ISSUED WITH PLAYER EMBARGO Statement from the Conference In accordance with Membership Rule 11 - for the non-payment of football creditors - Chester City FC have been placed under an immediate player embargo, in as much that: 1. Chester City FC has not complied with the terms of the compromise agreement set by the Football Conference to allow the club to participate in the competition at the commencement of the current season; and further to that fact, the club has been given 7 days, operative up to 5.30pm 26th October 2009, in which to meet the said payment terms of that agreement, otherwise they face the threat of expulsion from the Football Conference. 2. Chester City FC has failed to pay monies owing to Wrexham FC for away ticket sales relating to their fixture played on 27th September 2009 and further to that fact, the club has failed to meet a 7-day payment deadline imposed by the Football Conference. 3. Chester City has failed to pay Vauxhall Motors FC monies owed in relation to the loan of Paul Taylor, which should have been met no later than 14th October 2009. The Football Conference will not be making any further statement on this matter at this time. So what's next? And more importantly, how does it affect us? Well, the FA Cup game on Saturday will go ahead no matter what, Chester have a deadline of Monday to meet, and this is where it gets interesting. The order has been issued by the Conference not the FA, although the latter will have been informed. If we work on the assumption that Chester don't pay up, then the punishment kicks in, and they will be out, although Chester can appeal to the Conference and then to the FA. If the appeal is unsuccessful and the original decision is upheld, then Chester won't have a League to play in, and as such, will be out of the FA Cup and all other competitions. This is where it gets interesting, if we work on the premise that Chester beat Barrow on Saturday, they will be in the First Round, and the draw for which would be made before the Conference-imposed deadline expires. Then we assume they don't pay, and the Conference kick them out, there is a period (14 days ?) for which to appeal. The First Round of the FA Cup is due to be played on Saturday 7 November, so it wouldn't be possible for Chester to kicked out of the Conference and have the deadline pass for their appeal before the First Round is due. Therefore, they should, on the premise of being innocent until proven guilty, be allowed to play. Let's say they draw Hartlepool in the First Round and beat them, but then lose their appeal, and are put down in the most human way, of course, then it would be Hartlepool who would be re-instated into the FA Cup, not us. There is a precedent for this, and a game between Barrow and Hartlepool would not be an option. It could get very messy, and would be easier if we just beat them at Holker Street first time around. Agreed? Either way, I do hope Chester City survive, but without Vaughan, but knowing what a scallywag he is, expect a comment from Vaughan Towers along the lines of it all being a mistake, the cheque fell down the back of the couch or I forgot to put a stamp on the envelope(s), etc. Or, he comes back as Chairman of Chester, he's just the owner at the moment, everyone is happy and they all ride off into the sunset. Although the rumours that he has appointed John Barnes to look after the club's financial affairs can't be discounted. Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?
Where should they be looking? What's the model you're after? This guys background looks strikingly like Terry Cooke's and Julien Baudet's.
In response to the questions raised.... How about finding someone at some level above the bottom tier? Can't we explore some other countries besides the UK? Maybe Germany, Portugal, Italy, France or Spain for example. How about Knonke using of his millions to pay for an actually talented designated player during the off season so that the fans have something to look forward to next season.
To our friends in the UK: What position does Kamara play - right or left? Can he also play in the middle? What type of skills does his have? How about speed?
Quotes from a few of our supporters after Tuesday's away FA Cup game V Chester City. Kamara is a class winger and constantly threatened, if we had another winger with that sort of pace and ability to get round the back of the box, we would be a different team. An incredible ten-minute purple patch saw the visitors three-up with the unpredictable Kamara providing the tricks and penetration. Cracking result last night, Kamara started as well, let's hope that he stops for a while or even if there is a possibility of signing him, it must be hard to bring in wingers that are of the standard of Kamara and Wainwright. And Ashton was adjudged to have committed a late tackle on Malvin Kamara in the 76th minute which led to a penalty kick converted by Walker. City's misery was compounded when they conceded their third goal in five minutes when Bond headed home Kamara's right wing cross off the underside of the bar in the 78th minute. Frustration began to creep in for the Blues and Coulson was booked for a foul on Barrow winger Malvin Kamara on the hour before just 60 seconds later James Owen also received a yellow card for fouling the same player. It was this inability to deal with Kamara's skill of winning free-kicks that eventually sparked Chester's downfall. Some interesting comments there.
I remember Aitor as one of our better defendors back in 2006. I think he started hust about every game and I was sad to see him go although at 33 or 34 years old he was slowing down a bit . good memory Capone.
I do. And I can selectively remember him as a bilbaíno. Beckham's final year with Madrid, in which they won La Liga, Barcelona had a comfortable lead over Madrid and Sevilla in the table until the last 4 weeks. Ronaldinho and Deco were the two players for me who decided to put a stamp on the second half of the season and cost them that hardware, in addition to Copa Del Rey, Champions League, etc. Harsh? Probably. Couple that with Deco's seeming lack of fight, penchant for dumb cards, and frankly lazy approach to soccer, and I can just see him putting in a performance that makes Denilson look like a good DP by comparison.
Video footage of yer man here. http://natv.co.uk/page2.html Enjoy England 5th level, but is is an away tie in the FA Cup last quailifying round before the lower pro leagues get involved.
Marvelous Marvin played another 90mins this Saturday on his way back to full match fitness, he scored 1, set up another & drew 3 yellows off his markers.