Alou, Alou
Indeed the experienced Alou Diarra has been signed until the end of the season and may well play tomorrow at Derby. The 33-year defensive midfielder will hopefully last a bit longer in Charlton colours than Francis Coquelin and Miloš Veljković, who for very different reasons had their stays curtailed too soon.
Diarra brings bags full of experience making his debut for French lower league club CS Louhans-Cuiseaux in 1999. He was then snapped up by Bayern Munich as a 19-year and played in their reserves before Gérard Houllier took him to Liverpool, where he never played a 1st team game. Instead being loaned to French Ligue 1 clubs for the 3 years of his contract eventually moving to Lens on a permanent in 2005.
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