Tamworth put Nick Wright on transfer list
Dec 12 2009 by Colin Stoner, Birmingham Mail
ENGLAND C international Nick Wright has been told he is playing for his future after being placed on the transfer list by Tamworth.
The 22-year-old striker, by his own admission, has struggled to reproduce the scintillating form which helped the Lambs to win the Blue Square North title last season.
Now manager Gary Mills feels it could be time for Wright to move on.
The former Blues front-runner has been put on the list, although the Lambs stress there is no financial need to sell. Instead they hope the move will spark Wright back into form.
Assistant boss Darron Gee said: “It’s totally a football decision, it’s nothing to do with finances.
“We have had a long chat with him and possibly Nick needs to get away to another club. By his own admission, he has not been doing as well as he did last year.
“That doesn’t mean he will be going. Sometimes you make these decisions and you get a response. If Nick starts to find the form we know he is capable of, starts scoring goals and he wants to come off the list, then nobody will be happier than the gaffer and myself.
“But at this moment in time he knows now he is playing to stay at the club, or to get away.”
Two Blue Square North clubs have already made preliminary inquiries although it is unlikely that Wright would want to drop back to that level.
Wright’s lack of goals has been indicative of the side’s failure to find the net in recent weeks.
“We have been playing well but it’s the inability to score goals that has hurt us,” said Gee. “There’s been some bad finishing but we have also not had any luck.”
Tamworth travel to Mansfield Town today for their FA Trophy first round tie seeking to end a run of four games without a goal.
Wright is a fitness doubt with a back problem, while on-loan Simon Russell will not be allowed to play by parent club York City.
Fellow loanee Simon Brown, who spent four years at Mansfield, can feature, however, after being given permission by Wrexham.
