Sunday, 25 April 2010

SM: Hart to return 10/11

Simon Mullock has a report in the Sunday Mirror that Joe Hart will be brought back next season to compete with Shay Given:

The England keeper, who lost his place to Given when Mark Hughes drafted the Irishman in from Newcastle for £8m in January 2009, has enjoyed a sueprb season on-loan at Birmingham.

He is reluctant to return to City as an understudy to Given and both Birmingham and Arsenal are ready to offer him a permanent move away from Manchester.

But City manager Roberto Mancini has decided that he needs two international-class goalkeepers in his squad and wants Hart back.

If Shay Given's recovery from injury takes him into August then there is certainly a case for bringing back Joe Hart anyway. But putting that to one side I'm not one of those behind the idea of bringing Hart back to MCFC next season, for reasons I outlined here.

1 comment:

Scragg said...

I've heard he could be out until October Jack. This is a recurring problem and if he needs his shoulder pinning back it could even end his career