Nosworthy Set To Sign?
Nyron Nosworthy should be a Stoke City player by the start of next week. He’s a very powerful defender who can play both centre back and right back. He was actually brought to Gillingham by Tony Pulis from Non-League football and has gone on to state many times that he thanks Tony Pulis for him been in Football now; so they have a good relationship to start with. Also we need a new right back and that’s where he is best, a defender with a scary amount of pace, power and natural fitness it’s clear to see why Tony would want him. With reports linking us with household named players a few Stoke fans won’t think he’s good enough but following Stoke for aslong as I have and having a level head I can say now he’ll be a shrewd purchase because I can’t see the figure been anymore than £1.5m and he is off better quality than our beloved Wilko; but if Wilkinson wants to retain his place he’ll have to work hard and battle for it.
Sunderland fan here – Nyron is a far better central defender than a right back. In truth, he was a complete disaster at RB in his first season at Sunderland, only after Keane switched him to CB did we see anything resembling a footballer. As a central defender he’ll give you solid, 100% effort, fantastic last ditch tackling, power in the air, and a great character – as well as a few heart-attacks as he does insist of (usually succesfully) playing himself out of trouble rather than whacking the ball away. He’s a great lad and I wish him all the best wherever he goes.