Source: Team_Talk
Simmo keen for first-team football
Stoke goalkeeper Steve Simonsen is not ruling out a permanent move away from the club this summer in a bid to find first-team football.[LNB] Simonsen, who has played 187 games for the Potters since signing on a free transfer from Everton in July 2004, is third choice behind Thomas Sorensen and Asmir Begovic and spent the final seven weeks of the season on loan at Sheffield United.[LNB]He was given a new one-year contract by the Potters towards the end of the season and Tony Pulis would prefer to loan rather than sell the 31-year-old.[LNB]However, Simonsen is ruling out nothing and he told BBC Radio Stoke: "The manager has known me a long time and he knows it would benefit me hugely to be playing regular football.[LNB]"Whether that comes in the form of a loan move or a permanent move I don't know but I wouldn't rule it out."[LNB]
