As we predicted yesterday, todays’ new experienced signing has, indeed, turned out to be Trinidad and Tobago international ‘keeper, Clayton Ince.

The player, who is 34 in the next couple of weeks, has just returned from the World Cup, where he was back up to Shaka Hislop, and has been on trial for the past week at the Saddlers.

It was Dario Grady first bought the player to England and he made some 137 League appearances for the Cheshire side, before moving to Coventry last season. He only made four appearances for them, however, (one in the League) and they were prepared to free him if he found another club, despite having a year left on his contract.

He has a massive 63 caps for Trinidad and Tobago, becoming one of, if not the most capped Walsall players, making his debut on April 4, 1997 against Barbados.

He’s 6 foot 3 inches tall and just over 13 stones. He was born July 12, 1972. Somewhat unusually, he began his footballing career as a defender before converting to become a goalkeeper. He played in goal when Trinidad and Tobago qualified for the 1991 FIFA World Youth Championship held in Portugal, although the tournament did not go too well for him (he conceded a total of 12 goals in his nation’s three group matches).

Ince began his playing career with the Defence Force club back home, where he quickly established himself as one of the top goalkeepers in the Caribbean. In 1997 he was named as the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation’s Player of the Year, he has also twice been named as the Best Goalkeeper at the bi-annual Caribbean Cup.

In 1999 he went on trial with Wrexham. Although he did well, the club could not afford to offer him a contract. However, in September of the same year he was offered a contract by Crewe Alexandra, which was accepted by Ince.

Ince spent most of his first two seasons at Crewe as understudy to Jason Kearton, the exception being a one-month loan spell at Dundee, during which time he did not actually play. After returning to Crewe in November 2000 he was placed on the transfer list, the only club who actively tried to sign him was Wrexham, whose bid failed due to a lack of funds. He was removed from the transfer list in the summer of 2001 when Kearton left the club, Ince went on to establish himself as Crewe’s first-choice goalkeeper during the 2000-01 season.

After playing in over 200 games for the club, Ince left Crewe in the summer of 2005 following the expiry of his contract. He signed for Coventry City on a Bosman transfer. He did not establish himself as a first-choice with the club, serving as understudy to successive loan signings Stephen Bywater and Márton Fülöp.

Following Trinidad and Tobago’s qualification for the 2006 World Cup, made it publicly known that he wanted to leave Coventry on loan in order to play first-team football.