Paul Devlin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Paul Devlin
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	Apr 14, 1972(1972-04-14)
Age	52
Birthplace	Birmingham
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aries

Paul Devlin Biography

Paul Devlin is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on April 14, 1972 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. Paul John Devlin (born 14 April 1972) is a former soccer player who was a midfielder and forward. He played more than 500 matches in the Football League and Premier League in addition to playing with the League of Ireland for Bohemians and also playing a number of years playing in non-league football. He was named 10 times by his country’s Scotland nation’s team.

After this second relegation, as the team was under pressure from management to reduce wages and earn money through transfer deals, the club had a number of exiles. Devlin was allowed to stay, despite instructions from coach Steve Thompson to learn patience to be patient “Devlin wants the ball and thinks he should have it all the time … He’s got to become less impatient when we don’t get the ball out to him” And three months into the campaign, the striker scored five league goals, and Notts had a third place in the league table. The team remained and the team remained at a good position to be promoted, however, his goalscoring dropped off. On the 1st of March, 1996 Devlin as well as Andy Legg were traded by Birmingham City First Division club Birmingham City for a price of PS500,000 each; both “crowd favourites” were out of contract at the close this season. Thompson stated that prior to that goal at AFC Bournemouth three days prior, Devlin had gone 13 games without scoring. Thompson also pointed out that the player was a Birmingham boy who was conscious of Birmingham City’s desire to sign him and that the entire sum will be used to strengthen the squad.

He scored in each of the first three league matches the following season, but fell out with the manager. Amid much contradictory information and mutual recrimination, Devlin was used increasingly as a substitute, and made his last league appearance on 13 December. Francis dropped him to the reserves after his refusal to agree a new contract and what the Birmingham Post dubbed “a catalogue of tantrum-throwing”, preferring the pacy Nicky Forster to partner Furlong. Soon afterwards, Devlin gave up his Sports Argus newspaper column to team-mate Ian Bennett, who wrote that “because of [Devlin’s] current situation at the club it became increasingly difficult [for him] to write about the goings on”. Out of contract at the end of the season, his valuation dropped systematically as the season wore on, and he was finally sold to divisional rivals Sheffield United in March 1998 for an initial £200,000, an additional £50,000 contingent on promotion, and a 15% sell-on clause. Devlin said he was sad to leave, and felt that had the manager rated him, he “wouldn’t have been forced out and made to train with the reserves and kids for the last few months. Money wasn’t the issue”; Francis suggested that Sheffield United were “one of the few clubs who have the capacity to pay out the sort of salary that attracts Paul.”

He was chosen as Sheffield United’s Player of the Year for 1999–2000.

In 1993-94, only two outfielders played more games in league than Devlin’s 41. the team was unable to make the play-offs only by one spot. They also made it to the final of the season’s Anglo-Italian Cup. Devlin was a scorer on Southend United in the semi-final second leg, taking the match to penalties. County took the shootout victory, however, they lost in the final to Brescia at the end of the game. County suffered under several managers from 1994-95. The team won the Anglo-Italian Cup, in which Devon White’s winning goal against Ascoli was a result of a cross by Devlin. This was before the relegation process to the third division. Devlin was dropped from the starting eleven at the final stages of the season. This as the team’s leading scorer was extremely frustrating for him and made an unsuccessful transfer request. A second request was granted.

Paul Devlin Net Worth

Paul Devlin is one of the richest Association Football Player from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Paul Devlin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Devlin has been born and was raised in the Erdington area of Birmingham and went to Perry Common Comprehensive School. After graduating from school, he worked as a cook in the hotel industry and also on day release at the college. He played in youth football with Boldmere St. Michaels, St John’s Celtic and Tamworth after which he played 12 times in Tamworth’s first team when he was an teen. After being released by Tamworth in the year 1990, Devlin joined Armitage 90 of the Staffordshire Senior League, but did not stay long. In November of that year, Conference Club Stafford Rangers were paid PS2000 to hire him. Additionally, a 40 percentage sell-on provision was included in the contract. He played in 24 games (19 beginnings) during the 1990-91 Conference and was a target from teams playing at a higher in the league. An extended experiment of League runners-up Liverpool received an offer of over 100 million dollars from the Manager Graeme Souness in September 1991 however Stafford Rangers turned it down. In the midst of competition from other top teams, Devlin had a trial with Leeds United before, in February 1992, a proposal of PS60,000 by Notts County was accepted. He scored seven goals in 50 Conference matches during the course of 15 months.

The 19-year-old Devlin was signed by his First Division club on 18 February 1992. When Devlin was able to make his Football League debut, starting with a 1-0 victory at home against Coventry City on 11 April, County were well on the path to relegation. In his second and final appearance in the season, second- tier football in 1992-93 was established. In the next season, he was slowly incorporated into the main team. His first appearance came as a substitute on the 26th of September. He was first to make his league debut the following day and was mostly a first-team regular for the following couple of months, at when County were well established in the relegation positions. Following the time that Warnock became replaced Mick Walker in January 1993, Devlin returned to the starting eleven , and remained there until the final day in the campaign. The striker scored the first Football League goal in a 3-3 draw at Grimsby Town on 27 February He scored a further two goals to ensure the team retained their status as a second-tier team with the team finishing 17th.

Devlin showed himself to be a hard-working player, but with a habit of getting booked, picking up 11 yellow cards in his first season with the club. He notched 24 goals in his 145 games for the club. November 1998 briefly saw him loaned back to Notts County where he played a further five times.

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His tenth and last cap was on 6 September 2003 against the Faroe Islands in a Euro 2004 qualifier. All ten senior appearances were made while Devlin was a Premier League player for Birmingham. He also played once for Scotland B, in a 2–1 win against Northern Ireland B in May 2003 in which the first Scottish goal came following Devlin’s free kick.

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Away to Preston North End on the opening day of the 2004–05 season, Devlin scored an equaliser early in the second half and created chances for others, but gave away the penalty with which Preston won the match. He continued in the starting eleven until suffering a hamstring strain during a match in mid- September that was expected to keep him out for a month, but he aggravated the injury and only resumed a place on the bench at the end of November. He took his appearance tally to 23 before a toe injury that required surgery kept him out for the rest of the season.