Justin Kluivert

Career
Justin (son of football legend Patrick) worked his way through the Ajax youth system and gained his first appearance in the 16/17 season. Over two seasons he played 44 games for the Dutch side before making a move to Italian side Roma in the 18/19 season. His first season went well, scoring 2 in 35 games. But after this, it saw him fall down the pecking order with him only playing 34 games in the next 3 seasons. The 22/23 season saw him pick up his for, scoring 4 and assisting 2 in only 16 games and this was then followed by scoring 1 and assisting 1 the following year. He played his last game for the Italian club in the 24/25 season where he again scored 1 and assisted once. Empoli forked out an impressive £8.25 Million for his services in Serie B. This is when he started to find some impressive form and boost his confidence. He was there for only 2 season, scoring 22 goals,, assisting 11 in 71 games. This saw him help Empoli gain promotion to Serie A when a £18.25 million offer from Fiorentina came in. His first season saw him perform very well. Nine goals and 13 assists from the wing saw him help the club get to to the Italian Cup final. Unfortunate injuries ruined his chance to repeat the year he had previous as he only played 7 games, averaging a 5.71 through the year. This prompted them to not renew his contract and he was released at the end of the year. Ireland noticed him on the free agent list and decided to take a punt at the 30 year old for the 29/30 season. He performed very well, scoring 5 and assisting 10 helped Gateshead to win the Championship and gain promotion to the Premier League. He was voted Gateshead's "Old Player of the Season" award for his efforts. This made him sign a contract extension to the end of the 31/32 season where he announced he would be retiring. He took a slight back seat for the next year, but still managed 2 goals and 2 assists in only 19 games. Ireland then said he wasn't going to be in his plans for his final season, so placed him in the reserves for a player/captain/coach role. The reserves didn't perform particularly well but Justin was given a farewell by the fans in the last first team game that year. A 0-0 draw saw him play the whole 90 minutes and he ended his career to work on becoming a coach.