‘I’d be Haaland if crime did not kill my profession – I had fixed disaster conferences’
Former Premier League striker Nile Ranger reckons he’d be pretty much as good as Erling Haaland with out his legal previous.
The 32-year-old, who hasn’t kicked a ball since being launched by National League facet Boreham Wood 18 months in the past, was a highly-rated teen at Newcastle however by no means fulfilled his potential after failing to nip his unhealthy behaviour within the bud. Speaking to The Athletic, Ranger claimed he’d be among the finest centre ahead on the earth proper now had he stayed on the straight and slim.
“I have players coming to me saying, ‘What happened? What’s wrong with you? With your talent, what are you doing?’. I made my bed and now I have to lie in it,” he stated.
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“I feel frustrated. I know what I can do but it’s deeper than that because I’ve had so many chances. I didn’t take in the advice. I should be minimum Championship right now.
“I shouldn’t be having issues however I didn’t pay attention. If I added diet to my recreation and behavior, I’m Haaland. But I didn’t need to pay attention. I assumed I knew all of it.”
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Ranger’s historical past of criminality stretches all the way in which again to his teenage years and behavioural issues on and off the pitch have plagued him his complete profession. His cost sheet contains avenue theft, assault, being drunk and disorderly, homophobic tweeting, a rape trial (he was discovered not responsible), legal harm and conspiracy to defraud and commit cash laundering.
He says he was hauled into disaster conferences at each single membership he performed for, along with his mum compelled to behave as a form of motivational final resort. “Every club I’ve had, even as an adult, my mum has had to come in, because they respect her, to see if it could work as a last throw of the dice,” the ahead admitted.
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“She is my life coach, she’s probably disappointed deep down I didn’t really go higher… but she always says, ‘Listen, we had a blast, no matter what’.”
Ranger began his profession at Newcastle 2009, however scored simply 3 times in 62 appearances earlier than being shipped off to League One facet Swindon. Stints at Blackpool and Southend adopted earlier than his profession was halted by an eight-month jail sentence for conspiracy to commit cash laundering in 2017.
He served simply 10 weeks of his sentence and returned to soccer in 2020, signing for non-league facet Spalding. He made only one appearances for them earlier than returning to Southend for an additional one-game stint forward of his transfer to Boreham Wood in 2021.