Michael Symes
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 31 October 1983 | ||
| Place of birth | Great Yarmouth, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1994–2002 | Everton | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2004 | Everton | 0 | (0) |
| 2004 | → Crewe Alexandra (loan) | 4 | (1) |
| 2004–2006 | Bradford City | 15 | (3) |
| 2006 | → Macclesfield Town (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2006 | → (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2006 | → Shrewsbury Town (loan) | 2 | (1) |
| 2006–2009 | Shrewsbury Town | 60 | (13) |
| 2008 | → Macclesfield Town (loan) | 14 | (1) |
| 2008 | → Bournemouth (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 2009 | → Accrington Stanley (loan) | 7 | (1) |
| 2009–2010 | Accrington Stanley | 41 | (13) |
| 2010–2012 | Bournemouth | 37 | (11) |
| 2012 | → Rochdale (loan) | 15 | (4) |
| 2012–2013 | Leyton Orient | 13 | (1) |
| 2013 | → Burton Albion (loan) | 15 | (4) |
| 2013–2014 | Burton Albion | 13 | (2) |
| 2015 | Southport | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 244 | (55) | |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 02:43, 4 May 2017 (UTC). |
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Michael Symes (born 31 October 1983) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker.
He started his career as a trainee with Everton, playing in attack with future England international Wayne Rooney. He moved to Bradford City after he failed to break into the Everton side but after two injury-ravaged seasons with Bradford he moved to Shrewsbury Town, following a short loan spell. He spent three seasons with Shrewsbury, then joined Accrington Stanley in July 2009 after a loan period the previous season.
His most successful campaign in terms of goals was with Accrington, which resulted in a summer move to newly promoted Bournemouth in 2010. After two years there, he moved on to Leyton Orient, then Burton Albion, initially on a temporary deal, before being released in 2014. He played two matches for Southport in 2015.
Symes was born in Great Yarmouth, in East Anglia, but moved to Liverpool as a young child, he attended St johns junior school before moving on to Holy rosary/Maricourt High School . Symes started his career as a trainee at his boyhood heroes, Everton, with whom he reached the final of the 2002 FA Youth Cup, playing up-front with Wayne Rooney. Symes scored 31 goals from 51 games at youth level for Everton, including 5 goals in 9 games for the reserves, however injuries over the next season and a half restricted his progress to the Everton first team, In March 2004, he joined Crewe Alexandra on loan for the rest of the 2003–04 season making his debut as a substitute against Nottingham Forest on 27 March. He played four games during his loan spell, starting once against Coventry City when he scored his first senior goal in a 3–1 win.
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