Healy looking for a way out of Sunderland

20 January 2010 16:55
SUNDERLAND striker David Healy has issued a come and get me plea to potential buyers as he looks for a way out of the club.[LNB] The 30-year-old Northern Ireland international has made just six appearances for the Black Cats this season, all of them as a substitute, and has not started a single league game for the club in the one and a half years since his £1.5m arrival from Fulham.[LNB] Healy told BBC Sport: "I know my future is not going to be at Sunderland.[LNB] "I'm more than willing to go back to the Championship and get back to enjoying my football again.[LNB] "It's been a disappointing time and people have said that it's time to move on, but when you have a contract and a family where you live, sometimes it's difficult."[LNB] Healy has been linked with several Coca-Cola Championship clubs in recent weeks and is not aware of anything concrete.[LNB] However, he has admitted a return to seemingly Championship-bound Leeds would appeal to him.[LNB] He said: "I haven't got my eye on anywhere. I have been linked to a number of Championship clubs, but I can't name anybody.[LNB] "But it's two weeks until the end of the transfer window and I know that things aren't going to progress for me at Sunderland.[LNB] "If there was a club I was ever going to go back to play for, it would be Leeds. I have huge affection for the club."[LNB] Healy's lack of football has had an unwelcome effect on the international front, where he lost his place in the starting line-up for the November friendly against Serbia, the first time he had been dropped for a home game at Windsor Park since he made his debut in February 2000.[LNB]

Source: Northern_Echo