January Transfers: The Best Ranking Mid-Season Transfers to Come – Part 2
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Santa Cruz is a player who has a strong presence on the football field, and is ideal for a lower tier club wanting to make a name in the top division and to establish their own presence and identity there.
He is 6ft 2in tall and has only made twenty appearances for the Citizens, and his time with them looks to be over. Right now his future club seems to be Wolfsburg.
Shaun Wright-Phillips
Shaun Wright Phillips is a 29-year-old English international who plays for Manchester City. He plays as a right winger and is rumoured to be on the move this January.
He began his career with Nottingham Forest’s youth academy in 1993 and spent a further four years with them. He then moved to Manchester City and made his way into the first team squad in 1998. He has netted 26 goals in 153 appearances for the Citizens.
He moved to Chelsea in 2005, and fit in well with the squad. After playing 82 games for the Blues over three years, and scoring four goals, he moved back to Eastlands in 2008.
Since his return to Manchester City, Wright-Phillips has made fifty-nine appearances and scored nine goals. He now seems a likely candidate to be sold in the next transfer window.
He has also been a part of the English national team since the U-21 level in 2001. He made the cut into the first team squad in 2004 and has made 36 appearances for the Three Lions since then, scoring six goals as well.
He has a knack to be one of the speediest players on the field, and despite being 5ft 5in tall, he moves around with a lot of agility.
His second spell with the Citizens has been a rather unsuccessful one, especially after he fell behind the likes of Adam Johnson and James Milner in selection. It is widely speculated that the only thing left for Wright-Phillips to do is to move away from the Stadium of Light.
Jordan Henderson
Jordan Henderson is a 20-year-old midfielder who currently plays for Sunderland. He started playing at Sunderland’s youth academy in 2006 and made it into the first team squad in 2008.
Since then he has made 47 appearances for the club and has scored just a single goal. In 2009 he was sent on loan to Coventry City, where he has scored one goal in ten appearances.
Henderson has also been a part of the English national team from the under-nineteen level in 2009, he moved up the ranks swiftly before making it into the Three Lions senior squad this year. He has made jut a single appearance without any goals scored.
Henderson is one of the youngest players to have made the list in the January transfer window. He is a young talent that a lot of clubs are interested in bagging, as he recently made his senior England debut against France.
He has a very promising future ahead of him as major English clubs like Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Manchester City have all been linked with the player.
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