3:30pm Friday 9th July 2010
By Brian Owen
Jimmy McNulty has revealed it would probably take Championship football to tempt him away from Albion.
But the left-back insists he is concentrating on winning back his starting spot with the Seagulls, despite a summer of interest from Scunthorpe.
Glanford Park boss Nigel Adkins was impressed by McNulty during a loan spell in the latter weeks of last season.
Scunthorpe, who are still in the market for a left-back despite the loan signing of Eddie Nolan from Preston this week, remain interested in taking him back on a permanent basis though the size of a fee for a player with two years left on his contract could prove prohibitive.
McNulty missed last year’s pre-season as he recovered from internal injuries which saw him lose a kidney. He never had a decent run as first choice last season and moved north after Marcos Painter made the left-back berth his own.
McNulty said: “Brighton were happy for me to get out on loan and I was fortunate it was in the Championship.
“I want to get in the team here and I’ve told the manager that. It's the first time I've not been first choice.
I’ve had interest from a couple of clubs in this division but, if I was to move on, it would be to play Championship football. I feel Brighton are becoming one of the big clubs in League One so why go to another club in this division?”
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