Tigers keen to keep Windass
26 Sep 2008 - 08:55:40
Hull City manager Phil Brown has reassured unsettled striker Dean Windass that he still has a future at the Premier League club.
Windass, 39, revealed earlier in the week that he was seeking showdown talks with Brown after making just one substitute appearance in the top-flight so far this season.
But the Tigers chief claims the veteran former Bradford City and Middlesbrough striker still has a part to play in his squad this season should he accept that he is not a regular starter.
"I know exactly how Dean Windass thinks and how he feels," he told the Hull Daily Mail. "Rightly so, he's not happy.
"In terms of commitment, every time he goes out on the training ground he's a million per cent. If I threw him in tomorrow, he'd be a million per cent.
"He has a part to play off the park and that's a leadership quality you only get in certain players.
"He has to understand that he still has a role to play.
"If Dean Windass wanted to leave this football club, it would be his decision not mine."