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  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    Swisdom said:
    Ahmed attended an event in the region in the summmer holidays - he was invited by Hamza Serrar who is now based out there.  He obviouly impressed at the event,

    He is a muslim lad and he is moving there with his family.  He can probably now give them all a far better life than he would have been able to over here for the forseeable.

    With the investment in the region at the moment he will get top notch coaching, will play against some unbelievable player and can come back to UK in 5 years as a 23 year old who hasn't even hit his prime yet.  And be absolutely minted

    Good luck to him but it's absolutely gutting because I could see he was special from the first game I saw of him.  I suspect he'll go far in the game and forever be the one that got away.
    Will he? He's joining a 2nd division side in Qatar, what sort of GK or academy coaches will they have? At 18 he still has masses to learn.
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    killerandflash said:
    Swisdom said:
    Ahmed attended an event in the region in the summmer holidays - he was invited by Hamza Serrar who is now based out there.  He obviouly impressed at the event,

    He is a muslim lad and he is moving there with his family.  He can probably now give them all a far better life than he would have been able to over here for the forseeable.

    With the investment in the region at the moment he will get top notch coaching, will play against some unbelievable player and can come back to UK in 5 years as a 23 year old who hasn't even hit his prime yet.  And be absolutely minted

    Good luck to him but it's absolutely gutting because I could see he was special from the first game I saw of him.  I suspect he'll go far in the game and forever be the one that got away.
    Will he? He's joining a 2nd division side in Qatar, what sort of GK or academy coaches will they have? At 18 he still has masses to learn.
    The facilities etc will be excellent.  There will be more players going that way as will there be more coaches going that way too.
    whilst he has lots to learn he will be playing competitive football which is more than can be said of d lot of the u18 and u23 games over here.  I don’t support the move but I can definitely see why he’s done it
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    Swisdom said:
    killerandflash said:
    Swisdom said:
    Ahmed attended an event in the region in the summmer holidays - he was invited by Hamza Serrar who is now based out there.  He obviouly impressed at the event,

    He is a muslim lad and he is moving there with his family.  He can probably now give them all a far better life than he would have been able to over here for the forseeable.

    With the investment in the region at the moment he will get top notch coaching, will play against some unbelievable player and can come back to UK in 5 years as a 23 year old who hasn't even hit his prime yet.  And be absolutely minted

    Good luck to him but it's absolutely gutting because I could see he was special from the first game I saw of him.  I suspect he'll go far in the game and forever be the one that got away.
    Will he? He's joining a 2nd division side in Qatar, what sort of GK or academy coaches will they have? At 18 he still has masses to learn.
    The facilities etc will be excellent.  There will be more players going that way as will there be more coaches going that way too.
    whilst he has lots to learn he will be playing competitive football which is more than can be said of d lot of the u18 and u23 games over here.  I don’t support the move but I can definitely see why he’s done it
    I would say his life is going to be full of ups and downs.
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,037
    R0TW said:
    Swisdom said:
    killerandflash said:
    Swisdom said:
    Ahmed attended an event in the region in the summmer holidays - he was invited by Hamza Serrar who is now based out there.  He obviouly impressed at the event,

    He is a muslim lad and he is moving there with his family.  He can probably now give them all a far better life than he would have been able to over here for the forseeable.

    With the investment in the region at the moment he will get top notch coaching, will play against some unbelievable player and can come back to UK in 5 years as a 23 year old who hasn't even hit his prime yet.  And be absolutely minted

    Good luck to him but it's absolutely gutting because I could see he was special from the first game I saw of him.  I suspect he'll go far in the game and forever be the one that got away.
    Will he? He's joining a 2nd division side in Qatar, what sort of GK or academy coaches will they have? At 18 he still has masses to learn.
    The facilities etc will be excellent.  There will be more players going that way as will there be more coaches going that way too.
    whilst he has lots to learn he will be playing competitive football which is more than can be said of d lot of the u18 and u23 games over here.  I don’t support the move but I can definitely see why he’s done it
    I would say his life is going to be full of ups and downs.
    Unlike his bank balance.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,012
    To be fair he's 18. He could play out there for 3 years and come back to England a much better keeper for the experience and still only be 21. It's quite possible that if he'd stayed here, he might not have even made a league appearance for us by 21.

    Plus as is fairly common for expats in the region, i've no doubt that his club are paying relocation costs for his family, whereas with us he'd have been on what, 2-3k a week max?
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    To be fair he's 18. He could play out there for 3 years and come back to England a much better keeper for the experience and still only be 21. It's quite possible that if he'd stayed here, he might not have even made a league appearance for us by 21.

    Plus as is fairly common for expats in the region, i've no doubt that his club are paying relocation costs for his family, whereas with us he'd have been on what, 2-3k a week max?
    Not even that, more like 1k 
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,918
    There is no chance a 18 year old, 3rd choice GK would be on 3 grand a week playing for Charlton in league 1.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,012
    shine166 said:
    There is no chance a 18 year old, 3rd choice GK would be on 3 grand a week playing for Charlton in league 1.
    Yeah probably a wild overestimation on my part. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,788
    And to put that in perspective, he will pay a maximum of 20% tax so let's say he is on £5k per week there, he will take home £208k per annum whereas, on £1k per week here, he would take home £39k. Three years there and that's a differential of more than £500K in total. He would need to be on £7k per week to earn £208k per annum net here and would almost certainly have to be at a Championship club to do but could, if things did work out for him, return to play or be part of a squad at that level at the age of 21, 
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    R0TW said:
    Swisdom said:
    killerandflash said:
    Swisdom said:
    Ahmed attended an event in the region in the summmer holidays - he was invited by Hamza Serrar who is now based out there.  He obviouly impressed at the event,

    He is a muslim lad and he is moving there with his family.  He can probably now give them all a far better life than he would have been able to over here for the forseeable.

    With the investment in the region at the moment he will get top notch coaching, will play against some unbelievable player and can come back to UK in 5 years as a 23 year old who hasn't even hit his prime yet.  And be absolutely minted

    Good luck to him but it's absolutely gutting because I could see he was special from the first game I saw of him.  I suspect he'll go far in the game and forever be the one that got away.
    Will he? He's joining a 2nd division side in Qatar, what sort of GK or academy coaches will they have? At 18 he still has masses to learn.
    The facilities etc will be excellent.  There will be more players going that way as will there be more coaches going that way too.
    whilst he has lots to learn he will be playing competitive football which is more than can be said of d lot of the u18 and u23 games over here.  I don’t support the move but I can definitely see why he’s done it
    I would say his life is going to be full of ups and downs.
    I actually thought that was pretty good.
    Oh well.
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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    edited July 15
    https://x.com/EnglishAbroad1/status/1944808154078044216  

    Former Charlton Athletic goalkeeper Ahmed Kone was one of the standout goalkeepers in the #QatarStarsLeague. He missed just one league match all season for Al-Khor and made the third most saves in the league #CAFC

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    After promotion last season 23/24 Ahmed's club were relegated this season just finished.

    Would only be 21 or 22 years old now.






  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    Seems like such a waste of his potential. They were relegated to the 2nd tier, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he moves on this summer.
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,273
    Assuming he got a highly paid, tax free contract which attracted him, but a real shame. 

    I feel he or Beadle would have had a very good chance of making themselves number one last season with us even at their young ages. 

    Beadle has already proven himself capable and moved up to the Championship so is on a good trajectory and won't regret his move of course; Kone was on par with him from the little I saw of them both at us.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,376
    He’s moving to a new club but doesn’t say where.


  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,737
    Can’t say I’ve ever heard of him . 
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,318
    Bedsaddick said:
    Can’t say I’ve ever heard of him . 
    Academy Player, had to fight with James Beadle for a spot with the U18s, and then got the No.1 jersey when Beadle left for Brighton, but left shortly after to Qatar himself.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 11,041
    Wonder if he’s coming back to Europe or got a more lucrative offer out there 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,846
    R0TW said:
    R0TW said:
    Swisdom said:
    killerandflash said:
    Swisdom said:
    Ahmed attended an event in the region in the summmer holidays - he was invited by Hamza Serrar who is now based out there.  He obviouly impressed at the event,

    He is a muslim lad and he is moving there with his family.  He can probably now give them all a far better life than he would have been able to over here for the forseeable.

    With the investment in the region at the moment he will get top notch coaching, will play against some unbelievable player and can come back to UK in 5 years as a 23 year old who hasn't even hit his prime yet.  And be absolutely minted

    Good luck to him but it's absolutely gutting because I could see he was special from the first game I saw of him.  I suspect he'll go far in the game and forever be the one that got away.
    Will he? He's joining a 2nd division side in Qatar, what sort of GK or academy coaches will they have? At 18 he still has masses to learn.
    The facilities etc will be excellent.  There will be more players going that way as will there be more coaches going that way too.
    whilst he has lots to learn he will be playing competitive football which is more than can be said of d lot of the u18 and u23 games over here.  I don’t support the move but I can definitely see why he’s done it
    I would say his life is going to be full of ups and downs.
    I actually thought that was pretty good.
    Oh well.
    I've Lolled your original comment to give you a lift.
  • Live_by_The_Sword
    Live_by_The_Sword Posts: 203
    Bedsaddick said:
    Can’t say I’ve ever heard of him . 
    I was quite disappointed when he decided not to stay with us
    he was highly thought of within the academy 
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    He’s a seriously talented goalie.  When he transferred over there he took his family with him.  It was a move that changed all their lives.  I figured he would spend 3 or 4 years there, set himself up nicely and then come back to Europe in his early 20’s and go on to have a solid career.  
    Very interested to see where he ends up

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  • RugbyAddick
    RugbyAddick Posts: 2,079
    Looks like he’s signed for Al Gharafa in Qatar. 
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,221
    RugbyAddick said:
    Looks like he’s signed for Al Gharafa in Qatar. 
    One of the bigger and most successful teams in that league so a step up.


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