The Hull City keeper, who is due to play Villa in January had this to say of the recent speculation linking him with Arsenal "My only focus this season is to keep us in the Championship and help us finish as high as possible."

Not sounding like George Bush he went on "That is honestly the truth and I'm not looking any further than that. Every single player wants to play in the Premiership and it would be great to do that - with Hull."

It sounds like he is going to give it this season and if things don't work out, which they could, he may well be on his way to probably not even the highest bidder just a Premiership club.

Good luck to the lad and why did we ever get rid of him?