Shahrukh Sohail, Chief Editor, Islamabad
Pakistan and Ballerup Skovlunde Fodbold defender Yaqoob Butt is reportedly being courted by Thailand 1st Division side Roi Et United in a multi-million Baht deal that could materialize in the next few weeks.
According to reports, the versatile centre-back has been the radar of the White Squirrels for quite sometime and a deal is expected soon as the player goes on trial to Thailand on January 14th, which if successful will see him sign for the club.
Roi Et United’s manager Jakarat Tonhongsa confirmed the interest and revealed that the side would be happy to acquire his services if he impresses during the trial period.
“We have not seen Yaqoob’s style of play, which is why we are inviting him for a trial on 14th January. If he passes us the trial and impresses, we will be happy to sign a contract with him,” said the former Thai International while talking to Smmonline.net.
Yaqoob himself though has remained coy on the matter and did not reveal any specific details about the proposed transfer.
InshaAllah He will be selected <3
insha ALLAH
Yaqoob Butt is future of Pakistan and he has to fill the gap of Atif Bashir in defensive mid or even Zesh if he plays at CB.
The position of DM is becoming pivotal in today’s football game and a highly skilled player is needed who can hold the ball well to nullify opponents and has good ball distribution to launch a counter attack. Pakistan’s local talent (with all due to respect to our Yasir Afridi and others) do not have sufficient quality and Pakistan has recently suffered.
Lets see who finds a holding midfielder (good at their level) first, Manchester United or Pakistan.
Would love to see Yaq in the Pakistan line-up again, but sadly due to his attitude in training, he is unlikely to play for Pakistan with the current coaches.
Shahrukh you are doing a fantastic job regarding the way you are bringing such kind of news and in supporting football in Pakistan .all we need is good system and there we go .and thanks for the news about the transfer .i goggled it around 10 times after hearing it on TV but no success .and try to give your articles as many tags as you can this will popularize your website.
Thank you Numan for your kind words!
yeah its a big and inspiring news for all the football lovers in Pakistan .i think the talent is there but to see talent you got to have talent .i think Pakistan is going to do better than most of the south Asian or Asians in football because of the way football is emerging .it could be late due to the system but eventually we will or hope we will get there.
Yeah. Especially our best local CBs are short (and we play physically) like Samar Ishaq and his KRL fellow. Yaqoob butt has good height (he is tallest in the above pic) just like Zesh and Atif Bashir.
Yaqoob is good, but he is out of favour with the coaches and with Zesh and Nabil available, he won’t get game time. But good player to have in the squad.