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Personal information
Full name Darren David Powell
Date of birth March 10, 1976 (age 32)
Place of birth Hammersmith, England
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Playing position Centre Back
Club information
Current club unattached
Senior clubs
Years Club App (Gls)
1998–2002 Brentford 128 (6)
2002–2005 Crystal Palace 055 (2)
2004 → West Ham (loan) 005 1)
2005–2008 Southampton 043 (2)
Darren David Powell (born March 10, 1976 in Hammersmith) is an English footballer who is currently without a club after he was released by Southampton in July 2008. He is a centre back.
Darren Powell began his career with Hampton & Richmond Borough before moving to Brentford where he spent four years. In August 2002 he signed for Crystal Palace for £400k and initially became an integral part of the team, scoring in the dying seconds of Palace's Play-off Semi-Final Second Leg game, at Sunderland taking the score on the night to a 2-1 defeat, but the aggregate score to 4-4. Palace won on penalties, and were promoted to the Premiership, following a Final win over West Ham. After promotion, he fell out of favour and spent a month at the end of 2004 on loan to West Ham.
In July 2005 he was out of contract and signed for Harry Redknapp at Southampton on a Bosman free transfer. Powell's first goal for the Saints was against Ipswich Town on 13 September 2005. Powell scored his second goal for the club with a first minute tap in from Adam Hammill's cross in a 3-2 home defeat to QPR. He also captained the team several times.[citation needed] After 3 years of failing to establish himself in the first team due to a long run of minor injuries, returning Chairman Rupert Lowe decided not to renew Powell's contract[1].
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We have plenty already.
If it's pay as you play then maybe.
So he's injury prone and when played last season they let in more than 2 goals a game.
Is this really the level of player we should/are looking at?
Agree, if we were better going forward it wouldn't be much of a problem.
It total we have let in 23 goals, the same as Wolves
So at home we need to improve our defending, away from home we need to start scoring more.
Hopefully Jon Fortune will be back soon.
He adds height, skill and pace (for a defender) at this level.
Cory Gibbs.
Probably won't be first choice but at least we have some experinced back up to call upon if needed. Especially as Fortune is always injured and Primus/Cranie might go back to Portsmouth.
Well, in this instance I wouldn't be too hard on Pards - unless he really didn't fancy it at Charlton, it looks like we've been gazumped at the last minute by an equally desperate Derby.
"We've had countless knock backs from Premier League clubs regarding centre halves," Jewell told BBC Radio Derby.
"Darren is available, he knows the Championship, he's an old fashioned defender and it just gives a bit of cover until the end of December."
Reading between the lines, it sounds like a fat financial inducement eagerly taken by a player who apparently hasn't earned a wage since June.
And for a player who is 33 in March.
Christ almighty, we can't even attract players who are on the way down.
Or that we've got someone else lined up?
I think people are getting carried away here. There's been no official confirmation that Harte 'rejected' a deal with us but that plus this news about Powell has, IMHO, made people jump to conclusions.
TBH, I don't think we need any more bloody players. If just means more chopping and changing.
Fortune and Racon are nearly match fit.