Nathaniel Edwin Clyne (born 5 April 1991) is an English professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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. Clyne began his career at Crystal Palace, playing regularly in four

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seasons, before a move to

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in 2012, where he spent three seasons in the Premier League and racked up 104 matches and scored five goals in all competitions. He joined

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in July 2015 for a fee of £12.5 million. After having amassed 103 appearances and two goals, he left Liverpool in July 2020 as a free agent. Clyne re-joined former club Crystal Palace in October 2020. Formerly an international at under-19 and under-21 level, Clyne made his senior international debut for

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in November 2014. He was selected for

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and made a total of 14 appearances for his country.

Club career

Crystal Palace

Clyne was born in

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, Greater London. He made his first-team debut for

in a 3–0

win against

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on 18 October 2008. He signed a three-year professional contract with the club two days later, with manager

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stating that Clyne "has a bright future in the game". His first career goal came on 8 December 2009, when he opened the scoring in a 4–2 win at

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in the seventh minute. In February 2010 he was offered a move to

club

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, but rejected it without even entering talks with manager Mick McCarthy. In the 2010–11 season, Clyne was the youngest player in the Football League to play every single match of that campaign, and won Crystal Palace's Player of the Year award.

Southampton

On 19 July 2012, Clyne signed a four-year deal with newly promoted Premier League club

. He made his debut on 19 August, in a 3–2 defeat against

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at the

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. His first match at St Mary's came six days later in a 0–2 defeat by

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. He scored his first goal for the club on 22 September, in a 4–1 win at home against

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, set up by Gastón Ramírez with England under-21 coach

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in attendance at St Mary's. His second goal for the club came in the

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third round against

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on 4 January 2014, opening an eventual 4–3 home victory with a 25-yard strike past Tom Heaton. Clyne scored in Southampton's first match of the 2014–15 season, a 2–1 defeat against

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on 17 August. He scored his second goal of the campaign on 23 September, with a long-range effort which gave Southampton a 2–1 victory at

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in the

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third round. On 24 November, he finished

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's 81st-minute cross to earn a 1–1 draw away to Aston Villa.

Liverpool

On 1 July 2015, Liverpool confirmed the signing of Clyne from Southampton for £12.5 million on a five-year contract, with his former club, Crystal Palace receiving a payment of £2.5M. Clyne made his debut in a Liverpool shirt against the True Thai Premier League All Stars in

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on 14 July as part of the club's pre-season tour. He made his competitive debut on 9 August in a 1–0 away win against

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in the first match of the

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season. On 28 October, Clyne scored his first Liverpool goal in a 1–0

fourth round victory over

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; the team's first win under Jürgen Klopp. His first league goal came on 14 February 2016, in a 6–0 win away to Aston Villa. In March 2016, in Liverpool's first European matches against rivals

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, Clyne won a penalty that Daniel Sturridge converted in the first leg, and conceded a penalty scored by Anthony Martial in the second, as Liverpool won 3–1 on aggregate in the last 16 of the

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. On 18 May, he played the full 90 minutes in the

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, a 3–1 loss to

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. Prior to the 2017–18 season, Clyne suffered a back injury expected to rule him out until February 2018. On 31 March 2018, having missed the entire campaign up to this point, he made his first appearance on the team sheet as an unused substitute in Liverpool's 2–1 league victory away to former club Crystal Palace. A week later on 7 April, he made his return, keeping a clean sheet in a 0–0 draw against Everton in a Merseyside derby. Clyne joined fellow Premier League club Bournemouth on 4 January 2019 on

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for the remainder of the 2018–19 season. He made his debut the next day in a 3–1 FA Cup third round defeat at home to Brighton & Hove Albion. On 20 July 2019, Clyne sustained an anterior cruciate ligament injury in a pre-season friendly against

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. On 25 June 2020, after having made no appearances during the 2019–20 season due to continuing injury problems, Liverpool confirmed that his contract would not be renewed and Clyne would leave the club.

Return to Crystal Palace

After leaving Liverpool, Clyne trained with Crystal Palace in an attempt to regain fitness and was registered as a triallist in order to make appearances for the under-23 team. On 14 October 2020, he joined the club on a short-term contract. He made his debut ten days later in a 2–1 win at

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. On 25 January 2021, Clyne signed a contract extension to remain at the club until the end of the 2020–21 season. On 6 August 2021, Clyne signed a new one-year contract with Crystal Palace and in June 2022, he signed a further contract extension keeping him at the club until 2023.

International career

Clyne was born in England and is of Grenadian descent. On 2 October 2014, Clyne was named in the

squad for the UEFA Euro 2016 qualifiers against

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and

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later that month. He was an unused substitute in both matches. Clyne said "My aim, now, is to try to make myself first choice for Euro 2016. That's what I'm going to keep pushing for." On 15 November, he made his full international debut in a home qualifier against

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, playing the full 90 minutes of a 3–1 victory. Clyne went on to establish himself as first-choice right-back for England, appearing in five of their last six qualifiers.

Personal life

Clyne has many

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s, including of London landmarks. These include the

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, the

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and Stockwell tube station, the nearest to his childhood home.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Liverpool *

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runner-up: 2015–16 *

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runner-up: 2017–18 *

runner-up: 2015–16 Individual *

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: 2011–12 Championship *

Young Player of the Season: 2008–09, 2009–10 *

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Young Player of the Year:

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Technical Selection:

* Crystal Palace Player of the Season: 2010–11 *

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: October 2011

References

External links

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at the Crystal Palace F.C. website * {{DEFAULTSORT:Clyne, Nathaniel 1991 births Living people Footballers from Stockwell English footballers Association football defenders Crystal Palace F.C. players Southampton F.C. players Liverpool F.C. players AFC Bournemouth players English Football League players Premier League players England youth international footballers England under-21 international footballers England international footballers UEFA Euro 2016 players Black British sportspeople English sportspeople of Grenadian descent