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Dean Ashton to retire

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From the mirror ... i wonder how good a career he could have had were it not for these injuries ...

Dean Ashton is set to announce his shock retirement from football.

The 26 year-old West Ham and England striker is suffering from a degenerative ankle problem. He travelled to Amsterdam three weeks ago for an assessment from leading Dutch surgeon Niek van Dijk and was warned he could end up wheelchair-bound if he carried on playing.

A Hammers spokesman said last night: “We can confirm Dean Ashton is unavailable for selection but we cannot comment any further."

Ashton, who has endured ankle problems since sustaining a fracture during an England training session in August 2006, has not been able to train or play since breaking down in manager Gianfranco Zola's first training session on September 15 last year.

Dutch surgeon Van Dijk originally operated on Ashton’s ankle after the England training ground accident with Shaun Wright-Phillips three years ago.

Following 11 months out the game the £7million signing from Norwich eventually returned to action and admitted he feared his career might have been over.

In June 2007 Ashton said: "At your low points you think you're never going to play again and that is a horrible feeling. Anyone who tells you they don't feel like that would be lying."

However, the burly striker battled back to make 35 league and cup appearances and scored 11 goals.

But the worsening state of his ankle was already taking its toll.

Despite signing a new five-year contract, worth £50,000 a-week last summer, Ashton has now been sidelined for almost a year. He underwent further surgery on his ankle in February this year and underwent a course of rehabilitation with former West Ham physiotherapist John Green.
Green has worked with other long term casualties such as Kieron Dyer and Michael Owen.

Despite these sessions Ashton has suffered excruciating pain in his ankle, which is rapidly getting worse.

The club decided to take the intiative recently as Ashton’s condition showed no sign of subsiding.

They stopped Ashton’s consultations with Green and sent him with their medical team to see Van Dijk in Holland.

Van Dijk informed Ashton that he could perform high-risk surgery to alleviate the pain but that the striker had to accept his playing career was over.

West Ham are now in the process of lodging an insurance claim while negotiating a pay-off for Ashton.

Ashton and Darren Bosson, the player’s agent, were not available for comment.
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We came close years ago when Crewe was our unofficial feeder club. A sad way for his career to end.
 
Always liked him.

Sometimes we can't really be surprised when players look for the money, this is a reminder why.
 
[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=35409.msg930551#msg930551 date=1251016444]
Shame for him. Injury free he was a really good player.
[/quote]He was a perfect premiership centre forward.
 
I never quite understood the fuss to be honest. Maybe I didn't see enough of him but he never struck me as being more than a good Prem striker.

Wonder how he felt reading the article of that young goalkeeper walking away from the game. Must hurt to get to the top and have it taken away from you through injury.
 
A great shame for the lad. Describing him as the "perfect Premiership striker", however, is way over the top considering he had no pace.
 
He was a good player with class first touch and could pull something out of nothing, producing moments of real quality. He didn't do it consistently enough to be labelled a great, but he was still a fine player on his day.

Shame how it's worked out.
 
[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=35409.msg930557#msg930557 date=1251017547]
[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=35409.msg930551#msg930551 date=1251016444]
Shame for him. Injury free he was a really good player.
[/quote]He was a perfect premiership centre forward.
[/quote]

His highest ever premiership goals return was 10 in a season.

Perfect my hairy arsehole.
 
He was a very good player, I wanted him when he was 23 and leaving Norwich.. If only he was injury free he'd have been a good asset to England... Instead we have the mighty Carlton Cole...
 
Good finisher, good old school player. No chance these days where you have have to do the 100m in 6.89 and eat pasta 79 times a day.

Knew where the net was though. Rest in pieces.
 
[quote author=Ryan link=topic=35409.msg930537#msg930537 date=1251014254]
Somebody on here said we should buy him a few weeks back. Deary deary me.
[/quote]

St. George says that almost every week.

http://sixcrazyminutes.com/forums/index.php?topic=33018.msg852138#msg852138
http://sixcrazyminutes.com/forums/index.php?topic=35177.msg922765#msg922765
http://sixcrazyminutes.com/forums/index.php?topic=33768.msg875646#msg875646
http://sixcrazyminutes.com/forums/index.php?topic=35260.msg925215#msg925215
 
Poor lad, that's a real harsh blow for him especially as he had not even hit the peak of his career. I hope he manages to find something to do instead, hope he makes for a good coach/manager or something!!!
 
[quote author=Ryan link=topic=35409.msg930577#msg930577 date=1251021986]
[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=35409.msg930557#msg930557 date=1251017547]
[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=35409.msg930551#msg930551 date=1251016444]
Shame for him. Injury free he was a really good player.
[/quote]He was a perfect premiership centre forward.
[/quote]

His highest ever premiership goals return was 10 in a season.

Perfect my hairy arsehole.
[/quote]
Irony alert!
You were one of his biggest fan when he signed for West Ham
 
Wasn't there a thread a few back about Crouch, Smith and Ashton. They all cost 7 million in and around the same time.
 
[quote author=refugee link=topic=35409.msg930743#msg930743 date=1251040585]
[quote author=Ryan link=topic=35409.msg930537#msg930537 date=1251014254]
Somebody on here said we should buy him a few weeks back. Deary deary me.
[/quote]

St. George says that almost every week.

http://sixcrazyminutes.com/forums/index.php?topic=33018.msg852138#msg852138
http://sixcrazyminutes.com/forums/index.php?topic=35177.msg922765#msg922765
http://sixcrazyminutes.com/forums/index.php?topic=33768.msg875646#msg875646
http://sixcrazyminutes.com/forums/index.php?topic=35260.msg925215#msg925215
[/quote]

Farking hell! St. George was like an Ashton obsessive.
 
[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=35409.msg930838#msg930838 date=1251058868]
Heh, I would have happily admitted to it being be once I read the thread... was the search really required?
[/quote]

*SG67 runs away in embarrassment*
 
I've always said I wouldn't have minded him.

When he's fit, he was a decent player - I'm pretty sure at the time I'd said I'd rather have him than Crouchy, and I quite liked the big man
 
[quote author=cochyn link=topic=35409.msg930843#msg930843 date=1251059475]
[quote author=SaintGeorge67 link=topic=35409.msg930838#msg930838 date=1251058868]
Heh, I would have happily admitted to it being be once I read the thread... was the search really required?
[/quote]

*SG67 runs away in embarrassment*
[/quote]

Why? I think he's a great player.
 
[quote author=Le Chacal link=topic=35409.msg930764#msg930764 date=1251042949]
[quote author=Ryan link=topic=35409.msg930577#msg930577 date=1251021986]
[quote author=Herr Onceared link=topic=35409.msg930557#msg930557 date=1251017547]
[quote author=doctor_mac link=topic=35409.msg930551#msg930551 date=1251016444]
Shame for him. Injury free he was a really good player.
[/quote]He was a perfect premiership centre forward.
[/quote]

His highest ever premiership goals return was 10 in a season.

Perfect my hairy arsehole.
[/quote]
Irony alert!
You were one of his biggest fan when he signed for West Ham
[/quote]

Really?? I don't recall.

Besides, I doubt I proclaimed him to be "the perfect premiership striker".
 
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