While perusing Soccernet today, I discovered that Manchester United has released on the 1st of April a young player called Ramon Calliste.
So what, I hear you say…
But, cast your mind 2-3 years back when the U17 Manchester United team came to Mauritius and the same Ramon Calliste completely destroyed our defense. I was very impressed by him that day and I was convinced that he was going to make it in a big club. In fact, he has been a regular for Wales U21 since.
Quoting Alex Ferguson : ” We […] have a bunch of players around 19 and 20 years of age and I think by the time you are 20-odd then you have to be in the first team squad so we’ve had to release a few. Some have been tough decisions”
Good luck for the future Ramon :-)
29-09-2005: An update
Ramon is now a Liverpool player. He has signed a 1 year contract. I really hope he can impress Rafa :-)
18-05-2006: Another (sad) update
Liverpool has just confirmed that Ramon Calliste will be free at the end of his 1 year contract after having failed to establish himself in the first team. Good luck Ramon!
04-07-2006: A final update
Ramon Calliste has signed a one-year deal with League One club Scunthorpe United. Good luck and thanks for the memories ;-)
liverpool r rockin n rafas a top manager hel now a skilful player wen he cs 1 hopefully he can b r future henry!
Yeah. Seems that Ramon is doing really well in the reserves.
Will we see him in the first team this year? Personally, I don’t think so (especially that we are out of the League Cup) except if many of our first team attackers get injured… which I don’t hope :-)
ramons my brother and i was shocked when he had got released from united not many people had expected that. anyway hes doin well in liverpool reserves, he scored against united for the reserves the other day and now i bet they are sorry they released him. if you want to ask me any questions about my brother just send them to my email address it is . and by the way he will destroy every defense in england and europe if he plays for liverpool first team.
Now that’s what I call an interesting comment ;-)
Rafa has brought in lots of youngsters this year (Antonio Barragan, Godwin Antwi, Jack Hobbs and Miquel Roque in defense, Besian Idrizaj
in midfield and Ramon in attack). I’m positive that he has done this because he really wants to have:
(1) adequate cover for more established players
(2) players who, when they mature, are 100% Rafa players (mentality, work rate, tactical awareness, etc.)
So Ramon and the others really have a bright future… if they can live up to it!
Good luck to everyone :-)
What is Ramon doing now?
I don’t really know. I’ve found an article on him which is interesting to read: http://m.mirror.co.uk/article?id=371743/
So is Ramon still playing football?
Still trying to find a club I guess.