Delron and Anderson

Last updated : 19 July 2006 By Les Roberts

Ok, so the story is a few days old now but there's not much else happening so here goes…


The Blues have taken 29-year-old South African forward Delron Buckley on trial for a few days as he tries to engineer a move to the Premiership.


According to his agent he likes to play to a quick style, whatever that means, and he wants a fresh challenge after spending the best part of his career in the German Bundesliga.


He began his career at South African side
Butcherfille Rovers of Durban but moved to Germany when he was just seventeen, signing for Vfl Bochum.


In the summer of 2004 he transferred to
Arminia Bielefeld where he stayed for a year before moving to Borussia Dortmund last summer.


His goalscoring record is not too impressive as he netted just 10 goals in 110 games for
Vfl Bochum and did not score any goals in 28 appearances for Dortmund last season.


His best return was 15 goals in 29 games during his season at
Arminia Bielefeld.


He's also netted nine goals in 60 games for the South African national side.


Moyes doesn't sound to bothered about signing him as he has said that he's happy to give him a chance to impress but there are no further developments regarding the player.


Another player that has caught the attention of many recently is Anderson da Silva.


We took over the players registration from
Uruguayan club National Montevideo last summer but loaned him out to Malaga while we tried to sort out a work permit.


Everton have now said that the player won't actually be joining us any time soon as there are still problems with immigration officials over his work permit.


In other news, Joleon Lescott is looking to return to training at the end of the week as he is recovering from a virus that kept him out of the Port Vale game on Saturday.


It was thought that he'd caught Mikel Arteta's chicken pox but he's not got a face like a 14-year-old with a soap aversion so it looks like it was just a case of him throwing a sickie so he could catch some rays on Saturday afternoon.


He'll probably miss tonight's match at Preston but he may be fit enough to face Celtic on Sunday.

We'll have more of yesterday's news tomorrow…