"Keith Curle" is an English former professional Association football/footballer and manager. He is currently the manager (association football)/manager of Carlisle United F.C./Carlisle United.

As a player he was a defender (association football)/defender from 1981 to 2005, notably playing in the Premier League for Manchester City F.C./Manchester City where he was also the club captain. He also played for Bristol Rovers F.C./Bristol Rovers, Torquay United F.C./Torquay United, Bristol City F.C./Bristol City, Reading F.C./Reading, Wimbledon F.C./Wimbledon, Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C./Wolverhampton Wanderers, Sheffield United F.C./Sheffield United, Barnsley F.C./Barnsley. He became player-manager of Mansfield Town F.C./Mansfield Town in 2002, where he remained until 2005, later becoming manager of Chester City F.C./Chester City, Torquay United F.C./Torquay United and Notts County F.C./Notts County.

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This will no doubt be one of a number of discussions I have with players as we strengthen this season, and look forward to the next campaign.

We have had discussions with Ryan. Hope-fully we can conclude discussions in a positive fashion in the next few days.

There will be a lot of players out of contract this summer, so I am giving them the opportunity to earn new contracts before the stampede in June.

The lads have reacted positively to the new regime and hopefully we will see positive results emerging from the sessions. We are keen to get back into action and get the disappointment of last Saturday out of our systems.

Mark has been training with us for the past few days, and played in our friendly match against Blackburn Rovers.

We've done everything right as far as an approach is concerned and now we are waiting for an answer.