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Yassin Moutauakil signs!

T
T Posts: 1,349
edited June 2007 in General Charlton
france U21 captain... no idea where he plays
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  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,147
    Never heard of him
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,117
    edited June 2007
    End of Luke Young??

    The France U21 captain has become the latest recruit of Charlton manager Alan Pardew as the Addicks boss aims to thrust the club back to the top flight at the first attempt.

    The Valley club snapped up right-back Yassin Moutaouakil for 600,000 Euros on Wednesday afternoon, when the highly-rated youngster signed a four-year contract.

    "I'm delighted to sign Yassin and we have very high hopes for him,” manager Pardew said of the player reportedly tracked by the likes of Aston Villa, Celtic, Everton and Lazio among others.

    "He's a player that a number of clubs were very interested in and we're naturally very pleased he has chosen Charlton.

    "He brings exactly the qualities we are going to need in the Championship next season. He's a very honest player who wants to succeed and he has plenty of hunger.

    "He's a player I've been aware of some seven months now and he's going to be a great addition to our squad for next year."

    The 20-year-old, who can also play on the left side of defence, already has two years' experience of the professional game having played for French second-tier side Chateauroux for the past two seasons.

    He played 16 games during Chateauroux's 2005/06 campaign and 13 games last season for the club that reached the final of the French Cup in 2004, losing to Paris St Germain.

    The speedy, attack-minded full-back was part of the French U19 team that beat England to lift the European U19 Championships of 2005, and more recently led France's U21s at the 2007 Toulon Youth Festival in June.

    A Nice-born defender of Moroccan origin, Moutaouakil becomes Pardew's fourth capture of the close season following Luke Varney, Chris Iwelumo and Patrick McCarthy.
  • C_f_W
    C_f_W Posts: 1,433
    edited June 2007
    A song? Just knowing the correct pronunciation would be a start!!!

    Just Googled him (oo-er mrs!) and it looks like...

    MU-TA-WA-KIL

    There, nice and straight forward...now, about that song!
  • MCS
    MCS Posts: 8,404
    i think ol stoney will be pretty peed orf!
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,147
    Evidenly he's a Frenchwoman!

    French Woman?
  • Ketman
    Ketman Posts: 6,796
    Luke Warm is a top wage earner so was always gonna one of the players leaving. As long as this Kid is fast & hungry to do well that's all I am interested in.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,477
    "give us an M"

    I'll get my coat
  • C_f_W
    C_f_W Posts: 1,433
    lol
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,141
    I can imagine Sco hurriedly working on a rewrite to the lyrics of the theme tune to A View To A Kill
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,718
    Didn't Kelly Youga have a similar pedigree?

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  • Paddy Powell
    Paddy Powell Posts: 2,859
    edited June 2007
    Looks like a bit of a transfer coup by Pards. I always have doubts about the validity of players being linked with certain clubs before we sign them, but the links with Lazio etc.. have some truth to them.

    http://www.channel4.com/sport/football_italia/feb10e.html
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,477
    whats 600k Euro in £? £400k ish?
  • NorthStandUltra
    NorthStandUltra Posts: 2,545
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]whats 600k Euro in £? £400k ish?
    Using the exchange rate we use at work, yes :-)
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,141
    i like the sound of him, has pace and could be one for the future.

    fingers crossed.....
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,276
    Only thing that worries me is he only played 13 games last season. Is that because he's young or because he was injured a la Rowett, Gibbs etc
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,512
    He had an on going dispute with his club about his next contract, they dropped him for a good proportion of the season and as his contract runs out next summer he is available for a lot less than his supposed worth
  • PeakieRocket
    PeakieRocket Posts: 2,428
    [cite]Posted By: WSS[/cite]End of Luke Young??

    More like Thatcher if he is a left back, perhaps Thatcher was never going to stay if we went down
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,141
    Basically it looks like we've signed him on the cheap on a long contract, and next Summer he will hand in a transfer request and move to Spurs for £5m.... :-)
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,220
    Looks interesting for the future
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,673
    He's a right back but can also play on the left.
    Sounds good in some ways, but will be a big change for him. Let's hope Souly stays as then they can speak French to each other - always useful to have defenders who can communicate on the pitch!

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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,220
    [cite]Posted By: Weegie Addick[/cite]He's a right back but can also play on the left.
    Sounds good in some ways, but will be a big change for him. Let's hope Souly stays as then they can speak French to each other - always useful to have defenders who can communicate on the pitch!

    With you on that one - would be great if Souley stayed, but will he drop to the Championship?
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    Another French defender.. how about an British central midfielder, mind you, who???
  • Sco
    Sco Posts: 2,623
    [cite]Posted By: AFKA Bartram[/cite]I can imagine Sco hurriedly working on a rewrite to the lyrics of the theme tune to A View To A Kill

    To the lyrics of the Who's Who are You?

    Mou-a-kil, Mou Mou, Mou Mou

    That Thunder! Lightning! tune:

    He's like thunder! lightning!
    Moutaouakil is frightning!

    And not to disappoint:

    Yass-in's on fire that fatal pass is all we need
    Yass-in's on fire and all we'll sing is Mou taou-a-kil
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,141
    i'll feel a lot more comfortable once we've got a couple of good centre mids on board. Good right backs don't win you leagues....

    I wonder there if this could lead to Song signing....
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,673
    [cite]Posted By: stonemuse[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Weegie Addick[/cite]He's a right back but can also play on the left.
    Sounds good in some ways, but will be a big change for him. Let's hope Souly stays as then they can speak French to each other - always useful to have defenders who can communicate on the pitch!

    With you on that one - would be great if Souley stayed, but will he drop to the Championship?

    I'd LOVE Souly to stay - think he's almost captain material (depending on his prowess in English). Could be the rock in a Championship defence. He always looks very committed - but fear that's more to football than to Charlton. Depends if we get a decent offer for him, I suppose. Bizarrely I feel I'd almost be more upset at him going than DB going, as the latter is so expected.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,477
    Bougherra presumably speaks French and McCarthy is from the British Isles (cue arguement as to whether Ireland is part of British Isles or not) but whatever he's come from another English club and there is also Fortune an Gibbs. Wonder if this Rolando will also come.

    Team for next year so far

    Irelands No.1
    Yassie Magic Gibbs Thatch
    JT Reidy Matty DA
    Big Chris Lukey

    Subs
    Elliot
    Christensen
    Sahar
    Paddy
    D. Bent
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 58,141
    has Holland accepted a new contract then ?
  • last_line
    last_line Posts: 586
    Iwelumo and Varney in preference to D.Bent and Sahar??
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,220
    [cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]Bougherra presumably speaks French and McCarthy is from the British Isles (cue arguement as to whether Ireland is part of British Isles or not) but whatever he's come from another English club and there is also Fortune an Gibbs. Wonder if this Rolando will also come.

    Team for next year so far

    Irelands No.1
    Yassie Magic Gibbs Thatch
    JT Reidy Matty DA
    Big Chris Lukey

    Subs
    Elliot
    Christensen
    Sahar
    Paddy
    D. Bent

    I'm sure I've heard of that 5th sub but I just can't place him.
  • Riscardo
    Riscardo Posts: 2,338
    rAZ

    wE SIGNED ONE FROM lEICESTERSHIRE

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