July 29, 2003
Craddock: Wolves & Sunderland agree a fee
Press release from Sunderland AFC
Sunderland Football Club has announced that it has agreed a maximum fee of £1.75 million with Wolves for defender Jody Craddock.
The club has confirmed that it has given permission for Wolves to speak to the player and it is expected that Craddock will travel to Wolverhampton tomorrow to discuss personal terms.
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Squad announced for trip to Hearts tomorrow
Paul Thirlwell and Thomas Butler have been selected for the squad to play against Hearts tomorrow (30th) in the club's continuing pre-season programme, after putting in impressive performances for Sunderland Reserves against Durham City last weekend.
Both players got on the scoresheet in the second string's 8-1 rout of Durham at the Archibald Stadium, at the same time as their colleagues in the first squad were carving out a 2-2 draw against Hibernian.
The squad for tomorrow's match against Hearts is:
Poom, Wright, McCartney, Craddock, Bjorklund, McAteer, Thirlwell, Whitley, Kilbane, Butler, Thornton, Stewart, Kyle, Piper, Oster, Williams, Clark, Proctor.
Ressies match fixture date change
Press release from Sunderland AFC
Sunderland's reserve fixture against Manchester United has been moved from Wednesday 26 November to Thursday 27 November - kick off 7pm at the Archibald Stadium.
Wolves swoop for Jody
Premiership new boys Wolverhampton Wanderers have confirmed this morning that they have made an official approach to Sunderland about taking defender Jody Craddock to Molineux.
Wolves chief executive Jez Moxey said "We haven't spoken to the player yet, but I can confirm we would be interested if everything was to our satisfaction.
"We have had talks with Sunderland but nothing has been finalised."
Craddock, 28, joined Sunderland in the summer of 1997 along with Kevin Phillips, coming from Cambridge Utd for £300,000 and has made 158 appearances for us.
