Check this out, explains it all and then you can believe it 
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Kamwa is from Cameroon 
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My wife is Portuguese, her nephew has been a coach at various clubs and now runs the Academy at Amora FC in the 3rd Division. Over the years he has given me lots of names of players he reckoned would be good in England, where wages are much higher. I have tried to get interest from Walsall several times but they have never engaged.
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lol 
All these players your reading about although probably have only seen a few of them play were Very very good players sourced primarily from overseas
Not cast offs from Burton albion
There in lies the difference
Enjoy the Tamworth game
Are you pushing an agenda? Thought this was a quite interesting and insightful thread.
My favourite left wing pairing were cast offs from CD Logroñés (Via Macclesfield) not much different than Burton Albion. Who am i referring to??
It doesnt matter where the player comes from, give them a chance and they will thrive, or not.
Oh and those two players signed after a trial period.
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A lot of good ones have been mentioned so I thought I would partly redress the balance with Chine, Essers, Gerrault, Bica, Ofodile, Barrau, Bos, Eydelie, Garrocho, Andre, Menillo, and probably some others if I thought longer. 
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I don’t recall Menillo, which is probably a good thing by the sounds of it!
Padula came from Bristol Rovers, Matias from Tranmere, Corica had played for Wolves and Leicester, Hay from Leeds, and Martinez had been at Wigan and Motherwell (and anyway he was crap for us), so the scouting net wasn’t always cast too far and wide.
Eydelie, if that is who you mean, was useless, whatever his past achievements.
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He was on the books for a while but never played. I think I saw him in the reserves, maybe in 2001 or 2002. He was an Aussie iirc.
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I know, was winding you up
You don’t have to be an international, the FA will clear any player with a domestic club background.
It really wouldn’t be hard.
Some yes. Dont disagree
the bottom line though is that Paul Taylor had a vast amount of contacts and networks both in the UK and outside of it
Do we have something similar in place now with Matt Jordan ?
Not sure ?
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No agenda from me in the slightest. Just pointing out to Bags 10. Scouting and signing a player from abroad eg Letaio. That’s very different to picking up someone released on a free from Burton who happened to have been born in Cameroon
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That Ex Burton player looks alright by the way.
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That’s good. Interesting thread though. Yes Paul Taylor ‘sun tan man’ signed us a few turkeys but how valuable he would be to Walsall fc right now
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I get the principle but there seem to be loads of players outside these top leagues floating around the efl so clubs must (with some legal input maybe) be able to get work permits for them
Makris I would think, scouted by our dodgy dealing Chairman in cohorts with his counterpart in Cyprus
I’ll point that one in the direction of Bonsers lible solicitors 
We wouldn’t be able to sign Leitao nowadays.
He had been playing in the Portuguese second tier before joining us.
A Portuguese second tier player, with no international caps, wouldn’t get a work permit under current rules.
That’s why the vast majority of L2 (and L1) clubs no longer sign players from overseas.
Any player who has been playing regularly in one of the top 5 leagues in Europe would be unlikely to want to drop to English 3rd or 4th tier, unless handsomely compensated…
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