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ELJERO ELIA FROM BAD BOY TO SAINT?

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
5 March 2015

DAVE BODYMORE looks at the career of the controversial Dutchman on loan at Southampton

AFTER a semi-promising start to his Southampton career, there is hope that Eljero Elia could finally be ready to fulfil his potential under the guidance of Dutch legend Ronald Koeman.
When former Netherlands manager Leo Beenhakker coined the term ‘patatgeneratie’– the fries generation – Elia wasn’t even born.
However, before moving to St Mary’s on loan from Werder Bremen at the turn of the year, he was in danger of becoming the personification of the phrase that w...

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