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Notts County’s director of football and the man who bought Sol Campbell to the club, Sven Goran Eriksson says he feels personally let down by the defenders sudden change of heart in making his decision to quit the club.

Campbell had been at Notts County just five weeks but allegedly made his decision to leave after his first game in League Two where County lost to Morecambe 2-1.

The usually unflappable Eriksson seemed as shocked as everyone else by Campbell’s decision to leave when he said on Sky Sports News:

“I am very disappointed, very much so because we signed him and we thought we should have him for longer, but I think everyone has the same feeling, the players, the staff, the directors, the fans, because he’s a big name and a very important player. We are all sorry that he has gone but the project goes on without Sol Campbell, nothing has changed.”

Meanwhile Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, a one time employer of Campbell, believes that the player quit because he knows he can still cut it in the top division. Wenger said:

“He knew straight away that’s not where the challenge is. It is always a cultural shock when you go down a level. I know from talking to players who have had to do that. They experienced it badly in the first six months and you can understand why they decided to quit. I believe Sol still has enough in the locker to play in the Premier League.

Wenger said he had not been surprised by Campbell’s sudden change of heart, “I knew it would be difficult for him there,” he said.

It is believed that Campbell will now have to wait until the January transfer window if he is considering playing for another club and there will be many Premier league club’s monitoring the situation carefully.

One club that will not be interested in signing the player is his former club Spurs, where Harry Redknapp has said that if he was in charge at any other club he would make a move for Campbell, but as there is still plenty of bad feeling amongst the fans from when the player defected to North London rivals Arsenal, it would be out of the question.

So where will he turn up, would you like to see him at your team in January?