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From todays Evening Telegraph
BRENT SET TO RETURN?
Alex Rae’s bid to strengthen his squad could see popular defender Brent Sancho handed a second spell as a Dundee player (writes Tom Duthie).The Trinidad and Tobago international left Millwall last week and there has been immediate interest in him from a string of other clubs including Partick Thistle, QOS and his former employers at Dens Park.
Today, Alex would not be drawn on the chances of a Sancho return, but he will be having a look at a number of trialists in a closed-door game on Wednesday and it is understood the 30-year-old will be playing.
“I’m obviously looking to strengthen the squad and we are short of numbers at the back, so there will be a couple of defenders involved in this game. I’m not saying who they are,” he said.
Sancho first joined up with Dundee during their break in Trinidad in January 2003 when he impressed then boss Jim Duffy in training.
Work permit problems meant it took until that summer for a deal to bring him to Scotland to be tied up, but once they were negotiated, he spent two seasons in the first-team squad, playing 48 times before being released in the wake of relegation from the SPL.
Since then he has been in the lower leagues south of the border, first with Gillingham, and then on a short-term deal at the New Den, but he would seriously consider a return north if a deal could be worked out.
He was one of his country’s star’s in their 2006 World Cup finals campaign, when England’s Peter Crouch infamously pulled his hair in scoring in the nations’ group meeting, but has not played international football since because of a bonus dispute.
Dundee, meanwhile, were one of the few clubs who had no complaints about their weekend Scottish Cup date being called off due to the weather.
A spate of late cancellations on Saturday inconvenienced fans, but the trip to Huntly got the thumbs down first thing and, having seen the surface, Alex had no argument with the decision.
“We’d travelled up on Friday and I went along to the inspection. The pitch was solid and there was no way the game could go ahead, it was just one of these things.”
The squad will head north again tomorrow and one bonus could be the inclusion of Gary MacKenzie. He would have been missing on Saturday because of a groin problem and while he remains a doubt, he might make tomorrow.
“There are a lot of important games coming so I will not be taking any risks with his fitness, but he might make it this time and that would be a bonus,” added the manager. Tickets from Saturday are valid for tomorrow.