Marlon Harewood heading out the door this week

March 17, 2009 by Martin Banks · 2 Comments
Filed under: Aston Villa, Transfer News 

The big striker has fallen well out of favour at Villa Park, seeing 4 other strikers get a taste of the action this weekend whilst he twiddled his thumbs. A small part of me feels he should have been given some chance in the last month, as the people filling his boots haven’t been doing a good job of it, but now he looks set to go out on loan for a while and then leave in the summer.

Championship sides Sheffield Wednesday and his former club Nottingham Forest are both interested in a months loan of the Hare’s services, possibly leading to a summer acquisition. Harewood, however, will first hold out for a Premier League side, but the 2 teams that appear most interested in him are Hull and Stoke, neither of which have any idea yet if they’ll even be Premier League teams next season.

Harewood will not endure another season on the sidelines, so it’s near enough guranteed that he will move on in the summer, drawing to a close a stint with us that proved to have little joy for the big man. Hopefully MON has a striker in his summer sights that will solve the problem that Harewood and Heskey have failed to.