Brown wants Windass to stay

Striker keen to be playing on a regular basis

Last updated: 26th September 2008

Dean Windass Hull City

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Hull City manager Phil Brown insists he does not want veteran striker Dean Windass to leave the club.

Windass is keen to hold talks with Brown to discuss his future after making just one substitute appearance in the Premier League so far this season.

He does not want to simply pick up his money and, while Brown understands Windass' frustration, he wants the 39-year-old to stay at the KC Stadium.

"I know exactly how Dean Windass thinks and how he feels," Brown told the Hull Daily Mail. "Rightly so, he's not happy.

Leadership

"In terms of commitment, every time he goes out on the training ground he's a million per cent. If I threw him in tomorrow, he'd be a million per cent.

"He has a part to play off the park and that's a leadership quality you only get in certain players.

"He has to understand that he still has a role to play. If Dean Windass wanted to leave this football club, it would be his decision not mine."

Tigers chairman Paul Duffen suggested the club would not stop Windass from leaving, but hopes last season's play-off hero remains part of Brown's squad.

Duffen said: "Where Dean goes in terms of his career from here is no different to any other player.

"If he feels that as a result of the strength we have in the squad, and the selection decisions the manager makes, that it would be in his best interests to move on, that would be no more dramatic than any other player coming to that decision.

"However, from my personal point of view, I really do hope Dean finds a way to be content to stay."