Billy Mehmet has faced a baying mob at Galatasaray, was turned down by a club in New Zealand after he travelled to the other side of the world for a trial and has spent the past four years playing in a league which is not recognised by FIFA – and the former West Ham youngster would not have it any other way.
Having spent the past decade away from British shores in countries as diverse as Turkey, Australia and Malaysia, it is a long way from Mehmet’s early years at West Ham’s famed academy, where his contemporaries included Anton Ferdinand and Glen Johnson.
A broken back suffered during a youth-team game put paid to his Premier League ambitions with the Hammers, but that injury set in motion a long career filled with trials and tribulations.
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