http://www.fansonline.net/portsmouth/article.php?id=1040
Charlton defender Yassin Moutaouakil is the latest player the club have taken on trial.
The 22-year-old right back captained the France Under 21 side at the Toulon tournament two years ago, but has seen his career blwon off track after a move to south London that summer.
He is currently under contract at The Valley until 2011, but made a half hour appearance in Pompey's friendly at Basingstoke on Saturday
Moutaouakil started his career at French Ligue 2 side Chateauroux and made 35 appearances there until he moved to Charlton.
The London club paid £400,000 for the nplayer who had reportedly attract the attention of Everton, Aston Villa, Celtic and Lazio.
At the time the then Charlton boss Alan Pardew, now at Southampton, said: I'm delighted to sign Yassin and we have very high hopes for him. He's a player a number of clubs were very interested in and we're naturally very pleased he has chosen Charlton."
Confirmed on Pompey's OS match report
Surely too much of a step up for him, but if they use him in the right way he could probably be useful going forward and improve defensively with games.
Personally I'd like to see another English club sign him and see him prove how good he can be.
I know we have fans that say he's poor, but he's clearly good going forward and is the type of player that needs games and experience to improve defensively. They are areas defenders generally do improve at with age. We're not letting him go because he's a poor player, it's obvious now things have happened behind the scenes/in training.
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Has the lateness, fighting and not turning up been confirmed by anyone or are they just rumours? Is he that unprofessional or is he acting like this because he doesn't get on with the manager and players?
I think were going to miss him and i know he will prove me right because thats the way it goes with every player who leaves Charlton!
Youga anyone?
Maybe he did have discipline problems, but as far as i know this is rumours. and how many of these problems were because the manager would rather play anyone at right back instead of give him a chance.
i'll be sad to seem him go.
Unfortunately having one player who makes the occasional calamitous mistake at full back, and another whose more pourous than a government press office just get's you nowhere. The solution was pretty simple.... drop Youga.
Nurturing is a two way thing........................isn't it?
Agree 100% with this.
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Moo2 WILL never get a full international cap for France. Not good enough for that level. In my honest opinion.
I'd rather the current regime left than Moo2.
Yes, amongst equal adults it should be. But, he was young, in an alien and somewhat Muslim hostile culture, spoke no English and was presumably stuck by himself in a hotel room. He didn't drink or party, so in my book that made him vulnerable and in need of nurturing himself. I only know that I found him to be a very pleasant and friendly young man whom I instantly liked. I'm struck by the number of people who say the same thing after they've met him.
I thought he was a footballer with potential who should have been played on the wing. I've heard the same rumours as everyone else and agree that things have broken down irretrievably and his reported behaviour was unacceptable. I still believe it need not have been this way, it was poor handling and I'm very sad to see him go.
That's really a myth on here, he's no worse defensively than Youga, but things happened off the pitch and his mistakes on the pitch stood out a bit more than Youga's. Parkinson helped Youga get his confidence back (and had more cover from Bailey compared to Bouazza), while Yassin never got that chance.
Think Yassin will go on to prove us wrong for not playing him tbh, despite all the rumours he has had loan player after loan player...but then looking at that maybe there was something wrong with his game during training to make Pardew/Parky bring someone else in before him....Maybe, guess we'll find out if he moves away, but unlike the last few years we have Richardson, who I think will prove to be a very good signing and Solly in reserve.
I agree with the posts above that Charlton just do not seem to have had the ability / inclination to nurture a young lad from a different culture and integrate him properly into the set up.
Personally I think he could have solved our winger issue this season, with him on the right and Sam moving to the left we would have had pace and ability on both sides of the pitch, and Moots can cross a good ball too.
stick him in the simon walton camp of crap charlton signings(for where we were at the time)
All i say on this matter whether moo2 signs for pompey or whoever, best of luck to him. i feel we have once again either ruined or misjudged a player and i am sure he will prove this
Good luck to Moo2, he obviously has something as a player and has no future at Charlton while Parky remains there, more so we've just signed Frazer Richardson, so it's best we get his wages off the bill and he gets to re-start his career. At least he'll be closer to France...
I doubt they'll sign him anyway. It's a bit like some of the trialists we've had this summer, probably not an improvement on what we have, some not even good enough for League One, but we gave them half a game or so just to have a look at them. Portsmouth are just doing the same here.