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Ex-QPR and Milan misfit Adel Taarabt dealt last-minute rejection after talks with second tier German side
Adel Taarabt‘s stuttering career suffered another blow after German second division club 1860 Munich decided at the last minute not to sign the former Queens Park Rangers midfielder.
The 27-year-old made just seven appearances on loan last season with Benfica’s B team and his career is still yet to take off like he envisaged after leaving QPR.
He travelled to Munich to speak the city’s second side and finalise a contract, but instead left the training ground without a contract and with some scathing words to ponder over, courtesy of the club’s sporting director Thomas Gauge.
“It was important in a transfer of this magnitude that you get to know the player and that we speak with him. Things have to fit precisely, but one or two things did not fit,” Gauge said, as reported by Munich-based newspaper tz.
“It simply does not fit within the meaning of 1860 and we said that in such a case you have to be one hundred percent sure and we were not.”
“I wanted to be quite sure. Now I can say one hundred percent that there will be no deal.”
The Moroccan’s attitude has regularly been questioned over his career, with incidents of on-field petulance and off-field disrespect particularly common.
His reputation seemed to have preceded him and the German media did not seem too impressed by the Moroccan’s flashy black and gold jacket, which caused quite a stir – and not in a positive sense.
Taarabt will have felt disappointed as he left Bavaria without a new club despite the deal being described as “almost fixed.”
We haven't had a Taarbs argument for ages...and I am out for the afternoon...take it away boys, have fun.
And if there is no blood and gore scattered all over the forum by the time I am back I will be disappointed
Ex-QPR and Milan misfit Adel Taarabt dealt last-minute rejection after talks with second tier German side
Adel Taarabt‘s stuttering career suffered another blow after German second division club 1860 Munich decided at the last minute not to sign the former Queens Park Rangers midfielder.
The 27-year-old made just seven appearances on loan last season with Benfica’s B team and his career is still yet to take off like he envisaged after leaving QPR.
He travelled to Munich to speak the city’s second side and finalise a contract, but instead left the training ground without a contract and with some scathing words to ponder over, courtesy of the club’s sporting director Thomas Gauge.
“It was important in a transfer of this magnitude that you get to know the player and that we speak with him. Things have to fit precisely, but one or two things did not fit,” Gauge said, as reported by Munich-based newspaper tz.
“It simply does not fit within the meaning of 1860 and we said that in such a case you have to be one hundred percent sure and we were not.”
“I wanted to be quite sure. Now I can say one hundred percent that there will be no deal.”
The Moroccan’s attitude has regularly been questioned over his career, with incidents of on-field petulance and off-field disrespect particularly common.
His reputation seemed to have preceded him and the German media did not seem too impressed by the Moroccan’s flashy black and gold jacket, which caused quite a stir – and not in a positive sense.
Taarabt will have felt disappointed as he left Bavaria without a new club despite the deal being described as “almost fixed.”
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We haven't had a Taarbs argument for ages...and I am out for the afternoon...take it away boys, have fun.
And if there is no blood and gore scattered all over the forum by the time I am back I will be disappointed
