News about Charlie Adam

VIEW BY AADAM PATEL: Charlie Adam has been thumbing his contacts book as he begins his first steps into administration with Fleetwood Town. 'I emailed Sir Alex Ferguson last year, and he welcomed me over to his house,' he says.' 'More than anything, he told me to be myself and not to pick fights with the players.' 'It was amazing - I was almost wishing the car died when he carried me back to the station so I could spend more time with him.'

IAN LADYMAN: Sir Alex Ferguson resigned in Anfield's box on March 10, 2016, after Louis van Gaal's Manchester United lost 2-0 to Liverpool in the Europa League. Ferguson could not have cracked Aberdeen granite, but not good enough.' You can't play like this.' Not here.'

OLIVER HOLT: The new Premier League season starts a week on Friday. Burnley will face Manchester City at Turf Moor because Turf Moor is Burnley's home ground. We take it for granted that this will be the venue, but we won't be able to hold it for much longer. The ability of money confirms this. Change is coming. We can all sense it. A tipping point is getting closer. As they have for some time now, England's top-flight clubs have flocked around the world in the last few weeks, operating in Far East, Australia, and the United States. They are missionaries for football and for profit, and they are living their dream with an unusual zeal, even though Manchester United and Borussia Dortmund did play to a half-empty stadium in Las Vegas and Spurs' match against Leicester in Bangkok was called off because it was raining even more heavily than in Manchester at the end of the Fourth Test.

The 36-year-old played 26 times for his country, spent spells at Rangers, Liverpool, Stoke City, and Dundee, as well as four other clubs, and appears to have made the switch to coaching, something he is 'passionate' for. Adam went more than two months without a club after leaving Dundee for the second time in July and helped them win promotion to the Scottish Premiership in 2021. The former midfielder thanked his family and friends for their help over the years by posting on Instagram on Wednesday: "I think now is the right time to announce my retirement as a player." I've been fortunate enough to play for some of the world's best clubs, including Champions League nights for Rangers, winning promotion into the Premier League as Blackpool's captain, putting on the famous Liverpool shirt and scoring in front of The Kop, eight incredible seasons at Stoke City, to guiding my boyhood club to promotion, and playing 26 times for Scotland - It's not been a bad ride.'

Ismaila Sarr (inset) stunned everyone on Monday night with a spectacular goal from his own half that opened the scoring against West Brom. Sarr trapped the ball dead before transferring it out of his feet and displaying his courtesy by a brilliant lob from inside his own half and across the field to Button's head. The finish was so good that many pundits and followers said afterwards that the Championship's goal of the season award may as well have been given to the Senegal national. However, it isn't only Sarr who can summon the spectacular from the halfway line. There have been plenty of jaw-dropping goals from similar range down the years and we salute some of the best here including David Beckham (top right), Patrik Schick (bottom right) and Wayne Rooney (main) who did it three times!