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Man City star was given "rock star" welcome by new team's ultras - but left after a year

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Erling Haaland may have received a warm welcome from Manchester City after joining this week, but his arrival has nothing on that of former City striker Darius Vassell at Turkish outfit Ankaragucu.The former England forward, who famously missed his penalty in the Three Lions' shootout defeat to hosts Portugal in the quarter-final of Euro 2004, struck just 22 goals in 124 appearances for City across a four-season stint before heading for pastures new.

And eyebrows were raised when the striker's next destination emerged."I wanted something new, something completely different," Vassell revealed in his 2017 autobiography The Road to Persia.

And that's exactly what he got. If Vassell and the rest of the watching football world were unfamiliar with Turkish minnows Ankaragucu, they'd soon be made aware of the club and their fervent fans."My agent came to me with the option of joining a club in Turkey," Vassell revealed. "He said that a Super Lig club called Ankaraspor were interested in me."I asked if he was sure it was them and he corrected himself and said it was actually Ankaragucu who wanted me.

They were even more obscure!"Their club website didn’t seem to be official and I felt I must have been looking at the wrong page, but no matter how much I searched for something else, it was their site all right.

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