Moyes ready to test Hemdani´s resolve Jul 8 2004
By Andy Hunter, Daily Post
MARSEILLE captain Brahim Hemdani is on David Moyes´s transfer wish-list, the Everton manager confirmed last night.
Moyes, anxiously awaiting an answer on the contract offer to Wayne Rooney, wants to add the versatile 26-year-old ( left) to a threadbare squad that boasts only one new addition so far this summer, £450,000 Markus Bent.
Hemdani is in the final year of his Marseille contract and this week insisted he would stay at Stade Velodrome despite interest from several Premiership clubs.
Moyes, however, hopes to test that resolve with a firm bid for the former French under-21 international and has also revealed his pursuit of Millwall playmaker Tim Cahill.
" Hemdani is a player we have an interest in," Moyes told the Daily Post. " And we have made an enquiry about Cahill."
Manchester City and Bolton have also been linked with Hemdani, a midfielder who operated in central defence for much of last season as Marseille reached the UEFA Cup final.
When told of rival interest the former Cannes and Strasbourg player said: " I have one year left on my contract with Marseille and I am happy here.
" I am currently in Albertville with the team for a week´s training and I would not have come if I didn´t intend to stay. Joining a foreign club will happen.
" An experience abroad is part of the career of a professional footballer nowadays.
" But at the moment changing clubs is not my priority. When the time comes I will know it and I will go."
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