Grand Pa Signs in Malaysia

                      Flashback:Francis Grand Pa Doe celebrates goal with Laffor


Moody striker Francis Grand Pa Doe's globe trotting story continues as he has this time settled in the Malaysian top flight known as the Super League with 2011 runner up Persatan Bola Negeri Terengganu (PBSNT).

According to reports from the Asian nation, the former Al-Ahly forward who joined the club on the Bosman or free agent rule, signed a staggering US$ 100,000 on a ten month period as he begins new life with the club nicknamed Sang Perya.

Founded in 1972, the club, Terangganu has a capacity of 50,000 at their stadium known as the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin. The former Tonerre Klara club front man joins the Brazilain midfield import Erison Da Silva Santos and the Croatian defender Antonio Rukuvina as the team's three foreign players this season. Terangannu has some Liberian connection as former Invincible Eleven (IE) and Liberian international sleek forward Sam Chebli is regarded as one of the club's greatest players in its history after he was transferred from the gold and black outfit of Perak FC.

Francis Doe was expected to impress at Africa's Real Madrid, Al-Ahly (Due to the fact that they were voted Africa's club of the century just as Madrid was for Europe). Coming to the club from the Major League as a replacement for the Angolan forward Flavio Amando, the Lone Star, Doe started brightly as he played with some of the continent's great in Mohamed Aboutrika and Mohamed Barakat, but a plethora of fines due to despicable attitude and in particular the arrival of Mauritanian import Dominic Da Silva led the club to part company with the Christmas day born hit-man.

With the move now to Malaysia, it remains to be seen whether Grand Pa will this time bring to the fore the sustainability mechanism in sustaining such relatively lucrative deal (though many argue that a player of Grand Pa's caliber should not be signing for US$ 100,000.00 on a ten month basis as it is too small) as his loss of contracts in Greece, the United States and of late Egypt are something the poisonous striker must look at critically and in afct try to expunge as he chapter a new course in his career.

But, while he may end his period of inactivity, his move to Asia which many say is not really for younger players but those in the twilight of their career or those approaching retirement is another talking point. Does his move to Malaysia intended to get him in the right shape to use such terrain as a spring board to move to the top echelon of European or African football mainly in the North or South Africa or even the Americas or it is the beginning of the end of Francis Grand Pa Forkay Doe? only time will tell they say..