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    Hammers skipper Neill hopes to get new deal

    Thursday, August 21, 2008

    West Ham captain Lucas Neill has had 'preliminary' talks with the club about a new deal. The 30-year-old admits there is 'interest from elsewhere' but he insists he is proud to be captain of Hammers and intends to remain so. A pre-season move to Manchester City where he would have been reunited with his former Blackburn boss Mark Hughes appeared to be a possibility after suggestions that Hammers manager Alan Curbishley was under instruction to cut the club's wage bill. Neill led Australia to ...

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