Tuesday, 6 July 2010
McCormack walks in swing door
Out of the frying pan into the fire for Alan McCormack, revealed as Parky's second signing today, just an hour or so after Frazer Richardson was sold to Alan Pardew's Southampton.
McCormack, 26, was out of contract at Southend United and is a box-to-box midfielder, and ex-midfield stable mate of Nicky Bailey, although it is rumoured that the two had fisty-cuffs prior to Bailey's departure.
Another Irishman, McCormack's strike rate is not anywhere as good as Bailey's, hence £1.4m = free. He played 165 games for the Shrimpers scoring 18 goals. Parky said: "The thing that struck me about him more than anything else was his hunger." Well I guess we haven't seen a lot of that lately.
Out of the frying pan into the fire for Alan McCormack, revealed as Parky's second signing today, just an hour or so after Frazer Richardson was sold to Alan Pardew's Southampton.McCormack, 26, was out of contract at Southend United and is a box-to-box midfielder, and ex-midfield stable mate of Nicky Bailey, although it is rumoured that the two had fisty-cuffs prior to Bailey's departure.
Another Irishman, McCormack's strike rate is not anywhere as good as Bailey's, hence £1.4m = free. He played 165 games for the Shrimpers scoring 18 goals. Parky said: "The thing that struck me about him more than anything else was his hunger." Well I guess we haven't seen a lot of that lately.
Southend are in the High Court on Thursday and have a large tax debt as well as owing money to the PFA and have cancelled Saturday's friendly with Ipswich as they can't get a team out.
McCormack had his contract cancelled mutually after Southend's relegation as they couldn't afford him and recently he has been outspoken about him and his ex-team mates consistently being paid wages late last season.
As I said frying pan and fire.
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