Ali Dia - FOUND

[alidialegend]

A subtle name change duped the world but Bleacher Report have found him: http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/finding-ali-dia/

[Fitzhugh Fella]

Wow I spoke to Kelly two months ago, she certainly has done a good job for this story

[doggface]

Bloody hell they went to quite the effort! I prefer the myth!

[SuperSAINT]

A subtle name change duped the world but Bleacher Report have found him: http://thelab.bleacherreport.com/finding-ali-dia/

 

Hell of an article!

 

(Worth while waiting a whole year before you made your 1st post too!)

[Patrick Bateman]

Well it wasn't hard to find him on LinkedIn - same MBA degree at the same time, same Qatar connection ... https://www.linkedin.com/in/aly-dia-49780613?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=oq4M&locale=en_US&srchid=25933761479912856502&srchindex=5&srchtotal=16&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A25933761479912856502%2CVSRPtargetId%3A46791475%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH

 

Edit - actually it's not *quite* the same uni, but you never know, he could be exaggerating on his LinkedIn profile ...

Edited 23 November, 2016 by Patrick Bateman

[Saint Albert]

What a fantastic article. The Mail has something considerably shorter on him today, which I read before this. I'm starting to think that the Mail may have borrowed it's material from The Bleacher Report.

[Colinjb]

Superb reading, thanks for the link. He certainly seems to be a very 'interesting' character.

[adrian lord]

I remember the game vividly. Not least because I was in the away section with the Leeds thugs, reason for that was pussy-related.

[Disco Stu]

When Bleacher Report asked Dia's mother if her son knew the former AC Milan striker, she replied emphatically yes.

 

"[Weah] was a friend to my daughter, Sophie, living in France," she said. "Aly knew [Weah] through her."

 

When contacted by phone, Sophie said, "Of course they know each other. Weah is a very good friend of mine. [George and I] still keep in touch.'"

 

We asked Sophie if she would put us in touch with Weah directly.

 

"I cannot give you [Weah's] phone number," she said. "First, I have to check with him and see if he'll agree. If so, I'll call you back."

 

She never called back and didn't respond to two follow-up messages.

 

Hmmm

[mikec]

I know it's unlikely to happen, but if the club ever invited him to St Marys on a match day (to visit - not to play!) I'm sure he would get a great reception.

[sotonjoe]

Does anybody really give a ****?

[Saint IQ]

She does not wait for Cherif to translate. She looks him in the eyes and answers animatedly.

"He says he does not want to talk anymore about that story," she says, her voice rising. "He does not want his name to be put in the media anymore. If you call him, he will not answer. What has been written has already been written, so it is not necessary for [him] now to answer about it."

 

Still addressing only Cherif, she continues: "He is done with Southampton"

 

Not Aly Dia as well!

[Saint Albert]

Souness has been talking on Sky about Dia:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5020399/Graeme-Souness-lifts-lid-bizarre-Ali-Dia-signing.html

[tajjuk]

That article seems to fit more with the Bleacher report and the story Dia says himself.

[Dark Munster]

Souness has been talking on Sky about Dia:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5020399/Graeme-Souness-lifts-lid-bizarre-Ali-Dia-signing.html

So Souness tries to blame Terry Cooper. Bloody cheek, as allegedly it was Cooper who more or less took over near the end of the season to save us from the relegation that we were hurtling to under that incompetent arsehole Sourpuss.