Newcastle, Aston Villa, and West Ham all sniff around future England star…
by Dexter on May 22nd, 2008
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On the subject of Reading there are two things that pretty much everyone is in agreement on:
1) They have had the mother of all craptastic seasons with a strikeforce as mobile and likely to score as the lovechild of Douglas Bader and a stuffed gnu.
2) Nicky Shorey is their best player by a country mile.
Armed with these two nuggets of information, Newcastle, Aston Villa, and West Ham are all thinking about making a move for young left-back Shorey. Reading’s Chief Exec Nigel Howe said:
“Nicky has made it clear for a long time that he hasn’t been too happy at the club.
“Well, let’s hope that somebody comes in with a good offer.” (Telegraph)
Out of these three options which should Shorey opt for? Well, if he wants to play in a scandalously porous defence he should hotfoot it to Newcastle and if he wants to get injured then West Ham is the place to go…Villa it is then!
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Tagged Under: Aston Villa FC, newcastle united, nickey shorey, Reading FC, West Ham FC
woodinho - May 22nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm
AVFC all day!
SOTC scum!
Paul - May 22nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Would love to have him at WH. Good defender with a great left foot. Also, seems to contribute more to Reading’s team than you’d expect from a left back - though maybe that’s more about how bad Reading have been opposed to how good he is - probably debatable.
He was also bought up round the corner to me in Chadwell Heath near the training ground and is a hammer through and through! Wwe love a local lad in the team.
And we could definitely do with some competition for Linda at left back and also cover for injuries. George was just about our only player that managed the whole season without a serious injury so surely it’s only a matter of time that he’s hit by the curse of Chadwell Heath!!
Get him in I say, no more than £5m though.
Scott Fitzgerald - May 22nd, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I cannot see him joining West Ham unless he gets a massive pay rise in comparison to your other defenders ie Lucas Neill although he is a hammers fan i feel its more likely he will join Villa…If you want your england career to flourish Villa park is the place to be Martin O’Neill is the best manager to do for his career i reckon if sidwell joins which seems to be a given i reckon he will follow suit
Paul - May 22nd, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Hope you’re wrong Scott but I’m not going to argue with you about who I’d prefer to play for, MON or Curbs? - Your man MON wins that debate hand down everytime.
Realistically though, our best hopes to get him rest on the fact that he’s a WH fan and also would probably have a better chance of being guaranteed 1st team football every week at Upton Park.
Matt H - May 22nd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I would like him at VP to challenge Bouma. However if Villa and WH go in for him I wouldnt like to choose. NUFC have a snowballs chance in hell of signing anyone =p
Chris F - May 22nd, 2008 at 1:52 pm
newcastle have as much to offer any player as villa do next season, except they could probably offer better money.
Ben B - May 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
He’s not exactly young any more, is he?
Paul - May 22nd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
How old is he then?
roy - May 22nd, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Future England star? Do me a favour. Worth about £3-4m max. Hopefully not coming to WH.