After being released by the Gunners in last summer, the half Egyptian shot stopper spent over 6 months looking for a club.

In Summer, Arsenal had to release some players, one of them was Rami Shaaban who spent most of the time with the Gunners with a broken leg.

After Rami's recovery, he has been told by Arsenal's boss Arsene Wenger that he is too good to stay on bench, and so he will better find a starting place in another club.

Rami spent month after month searching for clubs, at first he travelled to France to trial with the French team Saint Etienne. However, they wanted Rami as a 2nd goalkeeper and the half Egyptian decided not to sign for them.

"About St. Etienne, it was a nice week in Biarritz. I got an offer but it was not good enough, and they saw me as a 'number two' to start with. I don't have a problem with this in the beginning because I lacked first team football last year, but I also felt that I wasn't 100% wanted, and that's not good." Rami commented to EP about the French offer.

Soon after his trial with St. Etienne, Rami spent some time on trial with the English Championship team Leeds United.

Leeds trialed Rami and the keeper seemed positive on the move, but after consideration of the Egyptian stopper, as well as Ian Bennet and Neil Sullivan, the latter of the three was signed.

After both St. Etienne and Leeds deals fell through, the wait continued for Rami as he spent over two months looking for a club.

After that, Norwegian side Lillestrom offered him another trial. However, Shaaban decided to reject the offer from Norwegian side Lillestrom, with which he was on trial for the last period. "I rejected it because it was too far money-wise," he told EP.

However, he quickly received interest from Bundesliga 2 side Saarbrücken, and a trial period with them seems to have been positive. Shaaban declared, "I went to Germany to train with Saarbrücken from the league under Bundesliga and it went well."