Stoke defender Carl Dickinson would consider leaving the club in an attempt to play regular first-team football elsewhere. The left-back is apparently wanted by several clubs, with the likes of Preston and Sheffield United emerging as favourites to land his signature.
The 23-year-old is set to command a £500,000 fee after expressing his desire to leave the Premier League outfit.
Dickinson told The Stoke Sentinel: "I need to get out and start playing football every week.
"However, it is going to be hard to leave Stoke, because I have made a lot of friends here and the club have been brilliant with me.
"I have had some of the best years of my life here. I will never forget being a part of what the club has achieved.
"To be a young lad playing when the club was promoted to the best league in the world was fantastic. Words can't describe it and it would be nice to be involved in something like that again.
"That set of lads and the spirit in the dressing room was amazing, but the manager has carried that on over the past two years as the club have done well in the Premier League."
