Giuseppe Rossi is a footballer whose career has been hampered by injury.<\/p>\n
At the age of 31 he is now a free agent and been offered a lifeline by the club he left as a teenager to help get him a new team.<\/p>\n
Manchester United\u2019s interim manager and Rossi\u2019s former team-mate\u00a0Ole Gunnar Solskjaer invited the forward to train at the club\u2019s Aon Training Complex.<\/p>\n
In the last eight seasons of his career he has played just 112 games and scored 37 goals with seventeen of those coming in the 2013\/14 campaign at Fiorentina.<\/p>\n
To put that into context, Harry Kane has played 290 games and scored 171 goals for Tottenham Hotspur, and his loan clubs, in that time.<\/p>\n
Spurs are one of the clubs reportedly interested in offering him a\u00a0 deal following the injury to Kane.<\/p>\n
The American striker quit Manchester United as a teenager after failing to break into the first team despite Sir Alex Ferguson wanting to keep hold of him.<\/p>\n
Ex-United coach Rene Meulenstein expressed regret over letting him go in 2007.<\/p>\n
\u201cPersonally, I would never have let him go because you could see that he was going to be a major star in the Premier League,\u201d Meulenstein told the Daily Express in 2014.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe would have been the equivalent of David Silva, Samir Nasri and Juan Mata, players who play in the middle of the lines.\u201d<\/p>\n
He signed for Villareal in La Liga and that is where he started to make a name for himself as a prolific goalscorer.<\/p>\n
A number of top clubs would have undoubtedly been looking at signing him at that stage when he was reaching his peak.<\/p>\n
Things were going well for Rossi in Spain, earning him comparisons with World Cup winner Paolo Rossi, and he enjoyed four productive seasons, which peaked in 2010\/11 where he scored 32 goals in 56 games.<\/p>\n
A series of devastating knee injuries blighted his career after that season.<\/p>\n
The first of those bad injuries came in October 2011 when he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee.<\/p>\n
He suffered a relapse in April 2012 and joined Fiorentina but did not play again until May 2013.<\/p>\n
Rossi sprained ligaments in his right knee in January 2014 and missed another four months of action.<\/p>\n
A fourth injury to his right knee in August the same year saw him on the sidelines for another 12 months.<\/p>\n
During a loan spell at Celta Vigo in April 2017, he ruptured his ACL in his left knee.<\/p>\n
“Every time it happened when I was performing at a high level and was destined to have a great season – it has always stopped me from doing even greater things,\u201d Rossi told the BBC in July.<\/p>\n
“When I sit back and think about it, I get annoyed and you start going around in circles in your head.<\/p>\n
“Every injury has its own story – it took something away, if it’s a World Cup, the European Cup, or a big transfer.<\/p>\n
“But the dream doesn’t stop and I am here today living the dream that I have always wanted to and keep trying to gain what I lost.”<\/p>\n
He was let go by Genoa at the end of last season and also failed a drug test following their match against Benevento in May.<\/p>\n
Rossi tested positive for the banned substance dorzolamide and faced a year\u2019s ban from the game.<\/p>\n
He was given a reprieve and handed just a warning.<\/p>\n
The striker turns 32 in February and this may be his last chance to have a spell injury free and finish his career in style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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