Ben Foster: Loan or Transfer Rumours

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Foster seals Blues move
Keeper hoping to find regular first-team football at St Andrews

Birmingham City have completed the signing of Ben Foster for an undisclosed fee from Manchester United.

The 27-year-old goalkeeper has penned a three-year deal at St Andrews.
Blues boss Alex McLeish moved for the England international after Manchester Cityrefused to consider the prospect of selling Joe Hart.

Hart spent the 2009/10 campaign on loan at Birmingham and a number of assured displays saw him voted into the Premier League Team of the Season.

Having missed out on the opportunity to bring him on board on a permanent basis, McLeish has wasted no time in finding a replacement.

With Foster having found first-team opportunities difficult to come by at Old Trafford, he was only too happy to discuss a move to the Midlands.

A lack of football with United cost him a place in England's World Cup squad heading to South Africa this summer and he knows he needs to be playing regularly if he is to force his way back into the fold.

Determined

Foster is determined to prove himself at the highest level, having struggled to make an impact at Stoke City and Manchester United.
He was snapped up from non-league football by the Potters in 2001 but spent much of his four years at the Britannia Stadium out on loan.

It was during a spell with Welsh outfit Wrexham that he caught the eye of Sir Alex Ferguson, who took him to Old Trafford in 2005.

Injuries and the fine form of Edwin van der Sar blocked his path to the first team with the Red Devils, but he enjoyed two productive loan spells at Championship outfit Watford between 2005 and 2007.

The 2009/10 campaign looked like being the one in which he made his big breakthrough but, after a bright start to the season, he soon found himself back on the bench.

He leaves United having made just 23 senior appearances in five years.

source: skysports.com