Ryan Taylor (footballer, born 1984)
Taylor with Newcastle United in 2010
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Ryan Anthony Taylor | ||
| Date of birth | 19 August 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Liverpool, England | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Full-back; midfielder | ||
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Current team
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Port Vale | ||
| Number | 6 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Tranmere Rovers | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2005 | Tranmere Rovers | 98 | (14) |
| 2005–2009 | Wigan Athletic | 56 | (6) |
| 2009–2015 | Newcastle United | 92 | (6) |
| 2015–2016 | Hull City | 4 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | Port Vale | 12 | (3) |
| 2017– | Port Vale | 10 | (1) |
| National team | |||
| 2005–2006 | England U21 | 5 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:56, 26 April 2017 (UTC). |
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Ryan Anthony Taylor (born 19 August 1984) is an English professional footballer who plays for EFL League One club Port Vale. A versatile player and former England under-21 international, he is able to play as a full-back or across the midfield, and has excellent free-kick taking and dead ball skills.
He began his career at Tranmere Rovers in 2002, and made 122 league and cup appearances in three full seasons with the club, being voted as Tranmere's Player of the Year and onto the PFA Team of the Year in 2004–05. He was sold to Premier League side Wigan Athletic in July 2005 for a fee of £750,000. Injuries restricted his appearances, though after scoring in four consecutive games against Newcastle United he joined the club in a trade deal in January 2009. After Newcastle dropped out of the top-flight, he helped the club to win promotion as champions of the Championship in 2009–10. However he then faced a catalogue of injuries, firstly fracturing a metatarsal and then breaking a leg in the 2010–11 season, and then picking up a serious cruciate knee ligament injury in August 2012. He played a total of 106 games for Newcastle, though featured just 18 times in his final three seasons. He was released by Newcastle in May 2015, and spent the 2015–16 campaign at Hull City, where he made only occasional cameo appearances. He signed with Port Vale in October 2016.
Born in Liverpool, Merseyside, Taylor came through the Tranmere Rovers youth-team to score the winning goal on his senior debut in a 2–1 win over Hartlepool United in a League Cup tie at Victoria Park on 10 September 2002. He made his league debut in a 3–1 win over Brentford four days later at Prenton Park. On 19 September, Rovers confirmed that Taylor had signed a new long-term deal to keep him tied to the club until June 2006. He maintained a regular place in the starting eleven under both Ray Mathias and Brian Little, and ended the 2002–03 campaign with three goals in 32 appearances, before scoring six goals over 39 games in the 2003–04 season. He spent most of his time at right-back, after succeeding veteran defender Steve Yates.
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