ALAN PARDEW wants to make Ravel Morrison his first signing at ADO Den Haag.
The 26-year-old joined Sheffield United on a one-year contract last summer but has only featured three times, with just one of those coming in the Premier League.
Ravel Morrison (left) is reportedly the No.1 target for Alan Pardew (right) at ADO Den HaagCredit: Reuters / AFP
Blades boss Chris Wilder is allegedly willing to allow the former Manchester United and West Ham midfielder leave this month.
And Sky Sports claim Pardew has made the midfielder his No1 target at the Dutch club.
Den Haag unveiled the ex-West Brom and Crystal Palace boss as their new manager on Thursday.
Pardew, 58, is hoping for reinforcements before he takes charge of his first game at home to Eredivisie’s bottom club RKC Waalwijk on January 19.
And he has already admitted that he will be targeting players from the UK to bolster his side’s survival hopes.
He said: “The club is in a bad position. The team look like they need help and confidence in what they’re doing.
“I think additional players would help them, and of course I’ll look at the British market because it’s a market I know well.
“I’ve had a lot of lovely messages and good feeling from within the game. I have a lot of friends and I’m going to lean on them to hopefully get one or two players that can help this club.”
Meanwhile any hopes Morrison had of finally emerging as a Premier League regular for the newly-promoted Blades have been dashed.
He has played just 12 minutes of league action — in the 2-1 home defeat by Leicester on August 24 — as well as two starts in the Carabao Cup.
In 2012, Sam Allardyce took a punt by paying £650,000 to bring him to West Ham from Old Trafford and he started promisingly, most notably scoring a wonder goal against Tottenham at the White Hart Lane.
Yet it soon fizzled out and he was sent out on loan to Birmingham, Cardiff and QPR before joining Italians Lazio on a free.
Again he barely played and was soon offloaded to Mexican side Atlas and then on to Sweden before arriving at Bramall Lane.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
