Tommy tired of reserves

Last updated : 19 December 2007 By Tom Vickers
Tommy Sorensen is aiming to forget his recent Villa Park nightmare with a move away from the Claret and Blue.
The Danish Number one has fallen down Martin O'Neill's pecking order, slipping behind on-loan Scott Carson and Stuart Taylor.
Sorensen signed for Villa from Sunderland in a joint deal with Gavin McCann and started well under then manager David O'Leary. He helped the club to a top six finish and the brink of European qualification.
However, as O'Leary's reign started to turn sour so did Sorensen's position as Villa's Number one. 'Tommy' as he is known made a number of high profile errors including a big blunder in a defeat to fierce rivals Birmingham City at St Andrews. He was briefly replaced with Gabor Kiraly which also turned out to be a failure.
Since Martin O'Neill has taken over Sorensen has played mainly reserve team football as Scott Carson was signed on-loan from Liverpool at the beginning of the season.
Former Arsenal man Stuart Taylor has been highly impressive when coming on as a sub and consequently Sorensen is out in the cold.
His contract runs out at the end of the season and he is free to talk to foreign clubs in January.
Sorensen was fuming as he told the Birmingham Mail:
"I am simply not interested any more. Villa have shown that they have no interest whatsoever to invest in me.
"Even if the manager personally offered me a new contract, I wouldn't sign it."
So it seems Sorensen is on his way out and although he has undoubted ability as a shot stopper the shaky Dane may not receive gratitude and a warm goodbye  from the Villa faithful.