Sad story of tight end Brian Mandeville

Northeastern University is not exactly a football factory. Dan Ross and Sean Jones came by here, but after that, the cabinet of the nude.

The Huskies were 2-10 last year and have not had a winning season in five years. So when a guy from North itself is an invitation to the combine, this is a big problem ... which, unfortunately, this is even more sad.

Tight end Brian Mandeville expected and waited for his invite to the combine, and finally he came. He ventured to California to prepare for the Velocity Sports Performance Center. And when it came time to attend the combine and impress everyone, instead of the doctors told him he should retire before it began.

How the soul as for grinding? A guy is an invitation to the combine, which is essentially an audition for a career playing football, and when he gets there, the first thing that happens is that they tell him he n has no chance to make a career of playing football. It's like getting a scholarship to the Juilliard School of Dance right before your advisor takes a baseball bat to your knees.

Doctors to conduct a routine examination discovered a problem with one of Mandeville of heart valves and informed him that he should give up football. The questions, according to his agent, are not life-threatening, but they are killing career. Even Grant's agent that it is now unlikely that Mandeville will have a career in football.

It is a shame. By all accounts, it has a bright and capable young man, then I am sure he will carve a place for him in the world. And of course we all wish him good luck with that.

Transfer of football player: February 2009

12 February 2009

Billy Bingham [Crystal Palace - Dagenham & Redbridge] Loan
James Henry [Reading - Millwall] Loan
Seb Hines [Middlesbrough - Oldham] Loan
Scott McGleish [Wycombe - Leyton Orient] Loan

11 February 2009

Terry Dixon [unattached - West Ham]
Ben Gill [unattached - Crawley]
Jai Reason [Ipswich - Cambridge] Loan
Matt Robinson [Salisbury - Totton] Undisclosed

10 February 2009
Rob Elvins [Aldershot - Woking] Loan
Tony Kane [Blackburn - Carlisle] Loan
Jake Robinson [Brighton - Aldershot] Loan
Jason Shackell [Wolves - Norwich] Loan

9 February 2009

Paul Lloyd [unattached - Forest Green]

7 February 2009

Rob Beckwith [unattached - Grays] non-contract

4 February 2009

Stephen Kelly [Birmingham - Stoke] Loan

3 February 2009

Andrei Arshavin [Zenit St Petersburg - Arsenal] Undisclosed
Shane Killock [Huddersfield - Oxford] Free

2 February 2009

Charlie Adam [Rangers - Blackpool] Loan
Charles Ademeno [Southend United - Salisbury City] Loan
Leon Andreasen [Fulham - Hannover 96] Loan
Semih Aydilek [Birmingham - Motherwell] Loan
Angelos Basinas [AEK Athens - Portsmouth] Undisclosed
Christophe Berra [Hearts - Wolves] Undisclosed
Chris Todd [Torquay - Salisbury] Loan
Paul Caddis [Celtic -Dundee Utd] Loan
Henri Camara [Wigan - Stoke] Loan
Michael Carr [unattached - Kidderminster] Free
Francesco Carratta [Royal Antwerp - Blackpool] Free
Aleksandrs Cauna [Inverness - Watford] Loan
James Chester [Man Utd - Peterborough] Loan
Iyseden Christie [Stevenage - Torquay] Free
Jamie Clarke [Blackburn - Rotherham] Free
Simon Clist [Forest Green - Oxford] Undisclosed
Michael Chopra [Sunderland - Cardiff] Loan
Don Cowie [Inverness CT - Watford] Undisclosed
Olivier Dacourt [Inter Milan - Fulham] Loan
Calum Davenport [West Ham - Sunderland] Loan
Craig Davies [Oldham - Brighton] Undisclosed
Claude Davis [Derby - Crystal Palace] Loan
Liam Feeney [Salisbury - Bournemouth] Undisclosed
Adrian Forbes [Millwall - Grimsby] Loan
Scott Gardner [unattached - Mansfield] Free
Alan Gow [Rangers - Norwich] Loan
Julian Gray [Coventry - Fulham] Undisclosed
Michael Gray [Wolves - Sheffield Wednesday] Free
Mike Grella [unattached - Leeds] Free
Gianluca Havern [unattached - Mansfield] Free
Mark Hughes [Chester - Barnet] Free
Peter Gulacsi [Liverpool - Hereford] Loan
Adam Hammill [Liverpool - Barnsley] Loan
Khaleem Hyland [Portsmouth - Zulte Waregem] Loan
Jo [Manchester City - Everton] Loan
Robbie Keane [Liverpool - Tottenham] £12m
Rune Lange [Valerenga - Hartlepool] Loan
Henri Lansbury [Arsenal - Scunthorpe] Loan
Adrian Leijer [Fulham - Norwich] Loan
Andy Lindegaard [Cheltenham - Aldershot] Loan
Zoltan Liptak [Ujpest - Southampton] Loan
Matt Lockwood [Colchester - Barnet] Loan
Doug Loft [Brighton - Dagenham & Redbridge] Loan
Arturo Lupoli [Fiorentina - Sheffield United] Loan
Alex McCarthy [Reading - Aldershot] Loan
Sean McConville [Skelmersdale - Accrington] Undisclosed
Clayton McDonald [Manchester City - Chesterfield] Loan
Cody McDonald [Dartford - Norwich] Undisclosed
Jim McNulty [Stockport - Brighton] £150,000
James McPake [Livingston - Coventry] Undisclosed
Juan Carlos Menseguez [San Lorenzo - West Brom] Loan
Jacob Mingle [Horsham - Eastbourne] Undisclosed
Michael Mifsud [Coventry - Barnsley] Loan
Jamie Mole [Hearts - Dunfermline] Loan
Youssouf Mulumbu [Paris St Germain - West Brom] Loan
Richard Naylor [Ipswich - Leeds] Free
Lee Novak [Gateshead - Huddersfield] Undisclosed
Charles N'Zogbia [Newcastle - Wigan] Undisclosed
Padraic Ormsby [Bohemians - Hamilton] Undisclosed
Tomas Pekhart [Tottenham - Sparta Prague] 12-month loan
John-Paul Pittman [Crawley - Wycombe] Undisclosed
Ricardo Quaresma [Inter Milan - Chelsea] Loan
Rocco Quinn [Celtic - Hamilton] Loan
Anton Robinson [Weymouth - Bournemouth] Loan
Cillian Sheridan [Celtic - Motherwell] Loan
Dean Shiels [Hibernian - Doncaster] Undisclosed
Jimmy Smith [Chelsea - Leyton Orient] Loan
John Sullivan [Bohemians - Hamilton] Undisclosed
Ryan Taylor [Wigan - Newcastle] Undisclosed
Jonathan Tehoue [unattached - Huddersfield]
Andranik Teymourian [Fulham - Barnsley] Loan
Chris Todd [Torquay - Salisbury] Loan
Jared Wilson [Birmingham - Chesterfield] Loan

1 February 2009

Tal Ben Haim [Man City - Sunderland] Loan
Theofanis Gekas [Bayer Leverkusen - Portsmouth] Loan
Shay Given [Newcastle Utd - Man City] Undisclosed
Chris Killen [Celtic-Norwich] Loan