Basic Instinct star shock return
Former Liverpool and Nottingham Forest star Stan Collymore insists he can do a job for a Premiership club.
Collymore has claimed he is ready to make a return to the Premiership five years after apparently ending his career when he left the Spanish club Real Oviedo in 2001.
He flew to Tenerife on Monday to embark on three weeks of intense fitness training and is convinced that he can still make the grade in the top flight.
"I've had physical tests and I am confident that I will come back faster, stronger and fitter than I ever was," Collymore told the Mirror.
"A month from today I guarantee I will be able to stand side by side with any striker in the country and my physique will be up there with any of them.
"This time I'm not going to self destruct. You are not going to see headlines about me being kicked out of a bar somewhere in the early hours rolling drunk.
"The sports scientists who conducted the tests said I had the fitness levels of an elite athlete. They said I was like a car with a six-litre engine, not your Joe Bloggs three-litre model."
Collymore will return from Tenerife towards the end of October and hope that he and agent Simon Kennedy will be able to persuade a Premiership club to take a gamble on him.
"I'm not going to go through all this just to play for Rag Arse Rovers," Collymore said. "I know I can still be among the best.
"Don't forget that as a footballer I haven't got a lot of miles on the clock. I didn't quit because I had dodgy knees or bad ankles or a chronic back problem."
Collymore has claimed he is ready to make a return to the Premiership five years after apparently ending his career when he left the Spanish club Real Oviedo in 2001.
He flew to Tenerife on Monday to embark on three weeks of intense fitness training and is convinced that he can still make the grade in the top flight.
"I've had physical tests and I am confident that I will come back faster, stronger and fitter than I ever was," Collymore told the Mirror.
"A month from today I guarantee I will be able to stand side by side with any striker in the country and my physique will be up there with any of them.
"This time I'm not going to self destruct. You are not going to see headlines about me being kicked out of a bar somewhere in the early hours rolling drunk.
"The sports scientists who conducted the tests said I had the fitness levels of an elite athlete. They said I was like a car with a six-litre engine, not your Joe Bloggs three-litre model."
Collymore will return from Tenerife towards the end of October and hope that he and agent Simon Kennedy will be able to persuade a Premiership club to take a gamble on him.
"I'm not going to go through all this just to play for Rag Arse Rovers," Collymore said. "I know I can still be among the best.
"Don't forget that as a footballer I haven't got a lot of miles on the clock. I didn't quit because I had dodgy knees or bad ankles or a chronic back problem."
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