Summary
HE could have gone to Liverpool and he could have gone to Tottenham, but here he was in Renfrewshire. If either of those Barclays Premier League heavyweights had got their way last week Charlie Adam would currently be one of the most expensive players in Scottish football history, carrying a price tag of just under pound(s)7m. For the time being he's still at struggling Blackpool and no-one's ever paid more than pound(s)500,000 for him, but yesterday Adam could walk the corridors of the Scotland squad hotel knowing that he's been the talk of the steamie.
It's only a week since Sky Sports News spent transfer deadline day hyperventilating over three main moves: Fernando Torres to Chelsea for pound(s)50m, Andy Carroll to Liverpool for pound(s)35m and Adam to Merseyside or London. Only one of those was not completed but it was still a January window which redrew Adam's profile. For a day or two he was one of the most talked about footballers in Britain.See the full content of this document
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'I Can Have a Smile On My Face When I See Certain People'
Who would have thought it? There were times when Adam was cast out to Ross County and St Mirren on loan. He's been jeered and an easy target as a Rangers player and was allowed to leave for buttons. The reinvention from footballing ugly duckling to swan seems to have been mad...
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