Sunderland striker Fraizer Campbell would be willing to leave the Stadium of Light and join Championship side Hull City, according to a report in The Sun.
The former Manchester United forward had a loan spell with the Tigers between 2007/08, and his father Keith reportedly said:
“Fraizer would definitely be interested.”
Earlier in December, fpormer Sunderland boss and current Hull manager Steve Bruce was given the go-ahead by the club to make a £7 million bid for the 25 year old, in a bid to boost the side’s promotion hopes. Hull are currently second in the Championship, in an automatic promotion spot, but could use the extra firepower to get them over the finishing line this year.
Cambell is Bruce’s number one transfer target and it is thought he has the backing of owners Assem and Ehab Allam in his pursuit to re-sign the forward.
Bruce initially signed Cambell for Sunderland for £6 million in 2009, one year after the striker scored 15 goals whilst on loan at Hull from Man United which helped fire them into the Premier League.
The player returned to Old Trafford in 2008 but failed to cement a place in Sir Alex Ferguson’s side, and again found himself loaned out, this time to Tottenham, before he was eventually sold to Sunderland, where he has scored 10 times in 63 appearances.
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3 Comments
£7M ??? What planet are you lot on… The guy has 6 months left on his contract. Was bought by Sunderland for less than £6m and has been seriously injured twice- try £700,000 and you might be nearer the mark…
£7 million ? NEVER !
We bid that for him when Phil Brown was in charge!
He can only be worth about £1.5 to £2 million now, as his contract expires in the summer !!!
I agree that 7m is well well over the top.
I also think there are a lot of other strikers that I would rather have…graham would be nice to name one
BUT, and here it is, remembering back to when went up last time, and that was solely his doing, not that this deserves payback, what sticks in my mind is how desperate I was for a good striker…one never materialize, it became very annoying, I would of loved Campbell to sign, as we all would have at the time, who’s to say this time is gonna be all that different?? Maybe a bit with Bruce but how much? And we get him now so promotion is much more likely, to fall at the last fence would be gutting! 3Million though would be more that generous with the short amount of time left, I think there playing on past ties and what he did.