Which of the Current Crop might be one-club-men
By: Rob | October 27th, 2009
Its become a big cliché, that’ll we’ll never see the likes of Ryan Giggs or Paolo Maldini again – players that spend their entire career at just one club. The reasons for this any plenty – and mainly economical.
But as Spain flows with whispers that a certain Steven Gerrard is being admired by Galacticos 2.0, it made me think about it. Mainly because I don’t really see it happening. I suppose if Liverpool failed to make the Champions League (this season more possible than any in recent memory), he might be tempted, but since that flirting with Chelsea four years ago, he seems to have become more and more Mr Liverpool.
He certainly seems like one of the most likely contenders of the current crop to spend his entire career at one club. Who else is there?
Certainly his Scouse comrade Jamie Carragher seems even less likely to leave. I couldn’t imagine him anyplace else.
Liverpool’s rivals Man United have of course bred a few, along with Ryan Giggs, there is Gary Neville, and Wes Brown. Paul Scholes as well, though he has said in the past he would like to finish his career at boyhood heroes Oldham.
Ledley King has been at Spurs his entire career, and its hard to see someone else buying him with his injury issues, as good as he is.
Those are the ones that have already been at clubs for a good few years each. Its hard to guess which of the youngsters playing might stick with their clubs all through their career.
It’ll be interesting to see if any of the young guns bred at Arsenal have the commitment to stay at the club for their entire career. Ditto Man City, whose Youth Teams are outstanding.
I suppose the reasons for sticking to one club are less and less. You would have to picked up at a young age by a club you really loved, and presumably if you wanted to reach the top of your game, it would have to be a top club. Even if you wanted to, you probably couldn’t spend your entire career at a lower league club, because if you were worth the money, they’d likely want to sell you.
Over to you, then. Is there any players playing in the Prem now, that you can’t imagine will ever want to leave?
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I dont see Messi/Iniesta/Xavi ever leaving Barca. Born and bred into them
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I’d be stunned if any of the Arsenal young players end up as “one-club men,” if for no other reason than Wenger has shown little interest in keeping even the legendary Arsenal players, with the exception of Bergkamp, around until the end of their careers. I hope more than anything that we can keep Cesc, Vela, Walcott, Denilson, Ramsey, Song, Wilshere, Clichy, Bendtner, etc. for a long time, but even if they blossom into superstars and club legends, it’s hard for me to really see Wenger keeping them past the age of 30 when he could sell them for millions and put that money back into the club in the form of younger players.
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Actually I can see some of the Arsenal youngsters doing it. My feeling is that Wenger’s responsibility today is going to create a unique situation at Arsenal over the next 10 to 15 years. They will be THE club from England pretty soon. ANd that being the case I can see English youngsters specifically staying their whole careers there. Wilshere and the like will flourish at the club… ANd before you say I am crazy just think- if Arsenal win the title this year (surely possible) then what team would you rate as more prestigious/ better football than them? Their only criticism is youth and naivete and they will earn to beat it soon
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Alessandro Del PIERO!!!!!
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um, correct me if i am wrong, but isn’t this a PREMIER LEAGUE blog?
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Messi could leave Barca one day. I could see him in Italy.
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I’m guessing the omission of the Mr. John Terry was just an oversight, but I truly think that the most definite person that will never leave his club is Jesus Navas down at Sevilla, because he’s got something that these guys don’t have… that crazy homesickness which pretty much rules out any team that isn’t based in Seville :p
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the only players who are actually good and will stay at their clubs will be players playing top level football and winning trophies.
The only ones i can think of are terry, gerrard(probably), brown, carragher and maybe one or 2 arsenal youth.
In terms of arsenal being the place to be i doubt it. They do have some good youth level players but so do manCity(weiss is amazing), manU(welbeck is very good and a couple of others are coming through too), chelsea(mceachran, kakuta and mellis) and liverpool(nemeth, spearing and a couple of others). Thats not even touching west ham who stole nouble a 17 year old with the physique of drogba and the speed of torres and everton who have tonnes coming through.
Youth are a gamble because it comes down to so many variables. -
It doesn’t impress me with big clubs. If you already win every year, why bother moving?
The ones who DON’T win every year, but stay anyway-that’s impressive.
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I don’t see Gerrard ever leaving Liverpool now, Terry won’t leave Chelsea. With regards to Arsenal I think that there is a potential for maybe some of the English players that are coming through however Arsenal are not sentimental when the players are past their best they get rid and make a profit. The only potential player I can think of at Man Utd that is coming through is maybe Johnny Evans if he continues to progress
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