Hamilton Happy to Bow to Inevitable As Mccarthy Exits Club's 'Honest' Player Policy Pays Off Handsomely

The HeraldJuly 22, 2009

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THERE are few players quite like James McCarthy, as Ronnie MacDonald proudly points out. Few players who make their first-team debuts aged 15. Few players who head on trial to Liverpool a year later and score from 30 yards past a goalkeeper of Jerzy Dudek's calibre.

Few players who are coveted by a string of top English clubs and both halves of the Old Firm before they've started shaving. And few players who move from a Scottish team to a club in the Barclays Premier League for a sevenfigure sum, as McCarthy did yesterday when he completed his transfer to Wigan Athletic for a fee that could rise to somewhere in the region of GBP3m.

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Hamilton Happy to Bow to Inevitable As Mccarthy Exits Club's 'Honest' Player Policy Pays Off Handsomely

His situation, a young player looking to move from a relatively small club to bigger club, is not unique, though. In many cases it is all about the timing. When is the right moment for a talented teenager to move on for a fresh challenge?

There is a case to be made for a young player rema...

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