Michael Oakes
Michael Christian Oakes ( born October 30, 1973 in Northwich ) is an English former football goalkeeper, and son of Alan Oakes, the record player from Manchester City. The long-time goalkeeper for Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers after his last stop at Cardiff City since the end of the 2007/08 season without a club.
Sports career
Aston Villa ( 1991-99 )
Alan Oakes went through the youth teams of Aston Villa and came at senior level for the first time when unterklassigen club Gloucester City in the 1992/93 season in his first competitive match inserts. In professional football, he celebrated his debut for FC Scarborough, to which the "Villans " had lent the young man between the posts between November 1993 and May 1994 - it was here, however, with only a single League game. In his hometown club, he came to the injury of Mark Bosnich On 17 August 1996 against Sheffield Wednesday for the first time to the course and by Bosnichs increasing susceptibility to injury, he gained further experience and came to the end of the 1998/99 season to 60 games duty. However, the six-time English U-21 national team came in this time never definitively beyond the status of the replacement goalkeeper and when the club after Bosnichs departure to Manchester United with David James in June 1999 neuverpflichteten a top-class goalkeeper successor, Oakes asked the club allowed to leave.
Wolverhampton Wanderers (1999-2007)
The path of Michael Oakes led to the near Wolverhampton, where he joined the Wanderers for a fee of £ 450,000. He quickly pushed the veteran Mike Stowell of the position of the " number 1" and up to and including the 2001/02 season he was a regular goalkeeper of the " Wolves ". In September 2002, he suffered a shoulder injury and his young representative Matt Murray managed to replace him with good performances not only optimal, but he remained in the remaining games of the rise of season 2002/ 03 instead of the now re- fit Oakes goal - this included the decisive play-off game against Sheffield United in the Welsh Millennium Stadium, which ultimately ensured promotion to the Premier League.
The subsequent Erstligasaison 2003/ 04 provided for a new turn when Murray suffered a back injury and Oakes in turn made possible the return to the gate. In a difficult season, eventually dismounted at the end of the Wolves as a Table again, Oakes remained largely flawless, but was then replaced by the new signing Paul Jones in January 2004 in a controversial decision. It was only in October 2004 Oakes returned to its rightful place, but his performances no longer showed the quality that was shown previously, so that a year later again replaced him, the Dutchman Stefan Postma. Although the club's management of Wolverhampton Wanderers were deterred by the end of the season 2005/ 06 by a retention Postmaster, Oakes remained only the place on the bench as the new coach Mick McCarthy the young goalkeeper expressed confidence after Murray's recovery. After a total of 220 official matches in eight years the " Wolves " Oakes let them go free transfer in May 2007.
Cardiff City ( 2007-08 )
Oakes signed in July 2007 at Cardiff City a one-year contract and played again under his former Wolves coach Dave Jones. He initially intended as a reserve player, but after a series of errors of the hired Ross Turnbull Oakes was after his return to FC Middlesbrough briefly again " first choice," especially since only the " third goalkeeper" David Forde was present as a competitor. With the Danes Kasper Schmeichel but followed by Manchester City in late October 2007, another Players out on loan that ousted Oakes on the bench. The same fate he suffered again after Schmeichels return to Manchester City with Peter Enckelman of Blackburn Rovers, on the " Bluebirds " built up to the end of the season. After a final "highlight" on the substitutes' bench of Wembley Stadium where he watched the 2008 FA Cup final defeat of his club against FC Portsmouth, Oakes left the club.
Achievements
- English League Cup: 1994, 1996