Dyer signs new deal

SotonNathan Dyer has signed a new three-year deal at Southampton to stay until 2011 and hopes to win his place back in the first team.

The former England Under-19 international has now returned to full training with his immediate future sorted, but has accepted he faces a big task winning his place back boss Jan Poortvliet's first-team plans.

"I am delighted to have got it all resolved and to have signed," he told the club's official website. "I never wanted to leave the club, it was just a question of getting it all settled.

"Now I have to try and win back my place because Bradley Wright-Phillips has been playing well on the right and scoring goals and Lee Holmes looks a very good player.

"It will not be easy to force my way back in but I will be working hard in training and in games to try and force my way back in."


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