David Carney’s transfer to Blackpool in the English Premier League is good, not only for himself but for the Socceroos. Carney, who has had a fairly nomadic existence in his career so far, playing for seven different clubs, has made the smart choice to head back to England.
He’s taken a one-year deal with tiny Blackpool, who have just been promoted.
It’s smart for a number of reasons: he should get ample playing time at Blackpool, as this a club with a reported 10,000 pound-a-week wage ceiling and no big-name stars.
The odds are, too, that Blackpool will be relegated next year, but with a one-year deal, Carney can put himself in the shop window in England and hopefully secure a bigger move at the end of the 2010-2011 season.
More game time for Carney in a tougher league will only help the Socceroos. Carney is seen as the long-term answer to Scott Chipperfield in the left back spot, although he has yet to completely convince as a defender. But as a natural left-footer – a rarity among the Aussie football ranks – its important he continues to improve for the national side, as with Harry Kewell perhaps not having long left with the Socceroos either, his future may lie further up the field at left-midfield.
Carney has shown flashes of brilliance for the Socceroos, most notably with a wonderful goal against Ireland in a friendly.
He also just picked up a Dutch league championship with FC Twente last season. He needs to become more consistent in international football and regularly show the promise he displayed at Sydney FC and at Everton when he was a youth teammate of Wayne Rooney. Playing against the best in the world every week, and coming under the guidance of a talented but eccentric manager in Blackpool’s Ian Holloway, should help.
It’s a shame Mark Schwarzer didn’t get his dream move to Arsenal, and then Fulham snapping up Adam Federici from Reading as his replacement, as they would have been two more transfers that would have benefited the Socceroos and Australian football.
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