Currie looks to move abroad

10:38am Friday 28th May 2004

DARREN Currie is chasing a move to the Continent after leaving Wanderers by mutual consent this summer.

The midfield conjuror, who won a place in the FA's first ever Team of the FA Cup, is hoping that his box of tricks will be appreciated more on the Continent after Blues boss Tony Adams said he was surplus to requirements at Adams Park.

Currie said: "I would like to play abroad. I think my skills would be better suited over there."

Currie has now put together a video showcase of his talents which his agent is taking around the Continent in a bid to secure his client a dream move.

The 29-year-old nephew of former Leeds and Sheffield United showman Tony Currie says he will turn his back on his homeland with Portugal a possible destination.

Currie was given the five star treatment at last Saturday's FA Cup Final between Manchester United and Millwall after being crowned the Player of the First Round following his two goal salvo in the 4-1 win over Swindon Town.

He joined the likes of Liverpool's Bruno Cheyrou and Arsenal stars Antonio Reyes and Freddie Ljunberg in the FA's inaugural Team of the FA Cup and was given the red carpet experience at Cardiff as a guest at the Millennium Stadium.

He was wined and dined and got to hold the famous trophy itself while mingling with legends such as Sir Geoff Hurst, Paddy Crerand and Trevor Brooking.

Currie said: "It's a day I will never forget. We have been given first class treatment and I couldn't have asked for any more."

But while the FA showed their appreciation of Currie's skills, he has become disillusioned with a section of Wanderers fans who have criticised him this season.

He said: "This has been my best season since being a pro. I've scored nine goals in a team that has been relegated. I've made a lot of other goals and I was runner-up in the Player of the Year award. I think I have done my job.

"Yet I've read on the internet that I'm a luxury, that I don't work for the team.

"It is true that I have been relegated four times in my career but when I got relegated with Shrewsbury I won the Player of the Year, I was only at Plymouth for around six games when they went down, and when Barnet were relegated I was the top goalscorer.

"If I was a snooker player I could accept that it is all my fault because it is one person against another but this is a team game.

"When I first came here the fans loved me because of my skills. They liked what I could do, but now I have been here for some time some of them only seem to notice that I haven't got any pace, and I've always been like that.

He said: "It's like taking a bird out. You go out with her for two years and you take her to the best restaurants and treat her to the best things all the time.

"When you first do it, it is all lovely and she thinks you are wonderful but then she gets used to it because you do all it the time."

Now Currie is hoping to escape his snipers by moving to mainland Europe.

He said: "I would love to go abroad. It is my style of football they appreciate technique and being two-footed much more over there than they do in England."

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