Brown keen to keep Turner

16 August 2009 19:58
// A bit of a hack but it works// The article snippet is wrapped onto a second line, even when #article-sub is emptyif( $("div#article-sub").children().length == 0 ) {$("div#article-sub").remove();} Hull City manager Phil Brown is determined to keep Michael Turner at the KC Stadium.[LNB] The centre-back's future has been the subject of speculation for much of the summer after he enjoyed a magnificent 2008/9 campaign.[LNB]Liverpool have been monitoring Turner's situation and Brown has admitted it could be difficult to stop the 25-year-old moving to Anfield.[LNB]However, the Tigers manager has made it clear that he will try his hardest to hold onto Turner, who produced another impressive display in Saturday's 2-1 defeat to Chelsea.[LNB]"You do desperately try to hang on to your better players," said Brown.[LNB]"People have classed the price tag on Michael Turner as ridiculous at £10 million. I think he is worth that to us, it might not be worth that to somebody else, but he is to us.[LNB]"As far as we are concerned that is how big a player he is for us. Michael played 38 games for us last year and never missed a minute. He is being courted by bigger clubs because of the way he can defend.[LNB]"Against Chelsea there was another example of that, but not just from him but also from Anthony Gardner and Andy Dawson. I thought it was a good collective, defensive performance from us."[LNB]

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