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Who is Abel Mphela?

Charlton have taken South African international Abel M’Phela on trial, according to skysports.com.

I have looked into and asked a few fans from his past clubs, who actually is Abel Mphela?

http://www.addickted.net/newsitem.php?id=138

Comments

  • He certainly has an interesting past considering he's only 22.
  • Yeah it seems that way.
  • Can't find a great deal about him...

    Seems he signed for Strasbourg on a four year "elite" contract which was one year as an apprentice and three as apro but switched to Rheims after two years. Plus he's got three caps as a South African international. His position is listed as attacking midfielder.
  • This is perhaps why he moved from Strasbourg...went awol and didn't return:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/4086511.stm
  • [cite] BlackForestReds:[/cite]This is perhaps why he moved from Strasbourg...went awol and didn't return:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/4086511.stm

    Yeah that is included, and links in with all the other facts and figures.
  • am i right in thinking we only have this guy on a week's trial ?

    Like we have 1-4 different people on trial every week ?
  • How long do you need? Bring him over, put him up in a hotel, give him a few training sessions to work out if he has the ability to succeed or not and if it looks likely that he'll make the grade give him an extended contract or something while you have a longer look. I guess the weekly trial is the equivalent of an extended job interview and any longer than a week cuts down the chances he has at other clubs, so it works both ways.
  • sorry BFR, but the point i wastrying to make was we get through about 100-200 similar trials a season, so i don't really understand why this one is attracting so much attention.
  • Maybe because this one is an international and has some first team experience and perhaps just caught our eye.
  • i wouldn't read too much into it mate, we have South Americans and Africans over all the time, it just looks to me as his agent has got a bit busy.
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  • Any news, other than the "R" word these days surrounding Charlton is pretty good and makes for a change :);)

    And it's not often that we take on trial a player who is touted as "his country's most promising player" (fair play, it could just be paper talk), but hum ho, live a little :)

    BTW, where did you hear he was on trial for a week only?
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