Kieron Dyer is being moved on. But where to?

Harry Redknapp has begun to shape things up at Queens Park Rangers.  He inherited an unwieldy and over-large squad when he took over and his inevitable stream-lining has started.  The first out of the door…?  Kieron Dyer.  The ex-England midfielder, who has played for four clubs during his career and also represented England thirty-three times seems to have played his last game at Loftus Road.

The Ipswich born player has been blighted by serious injuries and bouts of daftness throughout what could have been a glittering career.  He started out for his local club Ipswich Town and quickly gained a place on several Premier League team’s radars as an exciting young talent to watch.  Three years after making his debut as a seventeen-year-old at Portman Road he moved to Newcastle United for £6 million.  He played for the Toon 190 times but his injury and other troubles began there and haven’t stopped since.

He has now only made fifty appearances in the last five and a half seasons.  This is a rather unfortunate tally for someone who travelled to the 2002 World Cup and 2004 European Championships and played a role in the qualification for both of those tournaments.

Never one to shy away from things whether it was on-pitch fighting or alleged off-pitch filming (of the rude kind) he now faces a tough search for a new team.  In order to appeal to prospective employers he could probably do with a new pair of legs.  His old ones had plenty of skill in them but never seemed to be able to stay working for long enough.

Peter Stickney

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