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Newcastle United flop Xisco finds redemption in Thailand

Xisco Jimenez has been at his new Asian club for less than nine months, but he's already achieved more than he did than during a miserable five years in England. One goal in 11 Newcastle United appearances across three different competitions between 2008 and 2013 saw the Spaniard named on more than one worst-ever list.

His £5.7 signing at St James' Park was seen as a graphic example of the excesses of the dysfunctional era when Dennis Wise was the club's executive director.

Xisco carried the unenviable tag of being the seventh-choice striker at Newcastle, behind even the likes of Peter Lovenkrands and Shola Ameobi.