Unconfirmed reports (in the Irish Independent) state that Sunderland are engaged in talks with Charlton about signing Andy Reid. I hope that there is no substance to this. Reid is one of our few Premiership quality players and was always a likely target, but there were hopes that his injury would protect him from interest.
Some of the Addickted think this story might have legs as Sunderland are looking for a left-sided player, having found Stephen Hunt a dead end. Reid did, of course, agree to stay until at least the end of the season.
There are also rumours that we are interested in Greg Halford, so a swap deal may be in the offing. But do we need another right back? It is arguable that Halford looked good at Colchester, but has struggled at Reading and Sunderland.
And how much would we get for Reid? Halford plus £2m would only buy us one player and we would lose our most creative player.
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I agree it would make no sense to sell Reid and use half the money to buy another right-back. And I don't want us to sell Reid. But Pardew clearly has some juggling to do and if he feels that selling Reid is the only way to get the money to strengthen in other areas so be it. Probably we will have to reserve judgement until the end of the month. Let's just hope that this time, in sharp contrast to recent years, we end January in a better condition than we start it.
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