Wes Brown has been a free agent since he was released by Sunderland in the Premier League season of 2015-16.

Ever since he became a free agent, the English defender has been training with Blackburn Rovers and there is a chance that he could turn into a summer signing for the English League Championship club, depending on how he performs in the upcoming few weeks.

The 36 year old English defender is currently recovering from a calf injury that he sustained and when Wes Brown does indeed get completely healed and ready to perform in a match, Brown is going to be tested and evaluated. Depending on how the veteran defender performs in these tests and friendly encounters, it will determine on whether or not he gets a contract with Blackburn Rovers.

The manager of Blackburn Rovers, Owen Coyle has recently talked about Wes Brown and his current situation as the Scottish manager said: “Wes is still here. I’ve been so frustrated for him. He’s a great man, he’s a fantastic player, and he was out on Monday doing a little bit, so hopefully he’s progressing the right way.

“He’s had an ongoing calf problem so I think to be fair to Dave Fevre and the group they shut him down a little bit to allow it to clear completely.Hopefully now he’s stepping up to do some positive training and then we’ll look to get him in some behind-closed-doors games at some point and we’ll take it from there.

“We’ve had a good chat and I’ve told him he can stay here as long as he needs to get fully fit and once he’s up and running, and he’s feeling good about himself, and I’m feeling good about the situation, we’ll have a chat man to man.“He’s comfortable with that, as I am.”

Owen Coyle stated that he will give enough time to Wes Brown so that the defender can recover and he even has the chance to get in the first team and perform consistently.

After being released by Sunderland, Wes Brown is now searching for a new club, for a place where he can perform and probably spend the last few years of his career. One of the clubs that has been linked with the veteran defender is Blackburn Rovers as this is where he is currently training right now after his time with Sunderland reached its limit.

The head coach of Blackburn Rovers, Owen Coyle has revealed details concerning the possibility of signing Wes Brown as he said: “Wes Brown has had such an illustrious career and is an outstanding player. The games he played last year with Sunderland in the Premier League, he was an outstanding player. I said to Wes come in and enjoy his pre-season and have a look at things. He has a number of offers on the table and he was in no rush. So I said, ‘Why don’t you come in, enjoy what you’re doing here, feel good about your game, and you and I will have a chat going forward’. It’s as simple as that.”

Wes Brown is currently training with Blackburn Rovers for pre-season training and depending on how he performs there; it will be a big factor in whether or not the experienced defender does or does not join the Championship League club within the upcoming few days or weeks.

According to the manager of Blackburn Rovers, Owen Coyle believes that there are other clubs interested in signing Wes Brown which is a fairly surprising thing as the 36 year old player has consistently struggled with fitness during his career which has made it difficult for him to hold a place in the first team of different clubs but it seems like there still are a few teams that are willing to take a risk and sign him up despite these fitness issues and his elevated age.

Sunderland are reported to be seriously in search for a new central defender ahead of the coming season. The club has made the finding a priority, according to reports.

The club released Wes Brown from his current deal after their last season performances. Brown spent five years at the club but the consistent injuries made the club trigger the release. The player joined from Manchester United for over a million Pounds in transfer fee. He was developed by the Red Devils academy until he joined the senior team far back in 1996. The 36-year old player English played over 350 games for Manchester United before his move to Sunderland.

Captain John O'Shea is also approaching the final 12 months of his Black Cats deal, forcing the club to look out for decent central defenders to fill the void.

The club made acquiring Tomkins from West Ham a priority, but the Hammers have put a £12m price tag on the 27-year-old player. Sunderland would need to spend a lot to land the player but they are hesitant based on the age of the defender. He was set to arrive at the club during the January transfer window but the deal fell through. The price tag might not allow the deal go through this time around again.

Following a frustrating time last season, Sunderland midfielder Seb Larsson might decide to leave the club. He is yet to decide as he is away on national duty at the Euro 2016 in France. Larsson started just five Premier League games last season and is approaching the last year of his Sunderland contract. There are reports that Leeds United have approached the player for a move away from the Stadium of Light but the no news has been heard from the player’s camp.

Sunderland are reported to be seriously in search for a new central defender ahead of the coming season. The club has made the finding a priority, according to reports.

The club released Wes Brown from his current deal after their last season performances. Brown spent five years at the club but the consistent injuries made the club trigger the release. The player joined from Manchester United for over a million Pounds in transfer fee. He was developed by the Red Devils academy until he joined the senior team far back in 1996. The 36-year old player English played over 350 games for Manchester United before his move to Sunderland.

Captain John O'Shea is also approaching the final 12 months of his Black Cats deal, forcing the club to look out for decent central defenders to fill the void.

The club made acquiring Tomkins from West Ham a priority, but the Hammers have put a £12m price tag on the 27-year-old player. Sunderland would need to spend a lot to land the player but they are hesitant based on the age of the defender. He was set to arrive at the club during the January transfer window but the deal fell through. The price tag might not allow the deal go through this time around again.

Following a frustrating time last season, Sunderland midfielder Seb Larsson might decide to leave the club. He is yet to decide as he is away on national duty at the Euro 2016 in France. Larsson started just five Premier League games last season and is approaching the last year of his Sunderland contract. There are reports that Leeds United have approached the player for a move away from the Stadium of Light but the no news has been heard from the player’s camp.

The announcement of the Three Lions team for the Euro Championships has been postponed by a few days as Roy Hodgson is not sure about some of the players as far as their fitness is concerned.

Injuries might not let a couple of players whom Hodgson would have wanted as first choice in the team make the cut, but, the boss has plenty to pick from, particularly from those who have surprisingly starred for their teams in the Premiership.

One of the names who, until last summer, wouldn’t have the backing of anyone for a Euro spot is Jermain Defoe.

Hodgson had not taken him to Brazil and after the World Cup; the boss hadn’t looked in any mood to go to the aged players anyway. He had put all his weight behind the youngsters, getting them ready for the Euros and one could have imagined that the last international game for Defoe might already have taken place.

But, now with Danny Welbeck’s knee not healing quickly enough and Defoe having finished the third highest goal scorer in English top tier this season, in spite of being a part of a survival campaign for the Black Cats, here is a chance for the veteran and it’s a big chance.

Hodgson has to see who the in-form players are at the moment. It doesn’t matter if they are going to be in the mix or not a couple of years hence, but, can they get the job done right now, for this tournament? That’s what the question should be. If the answer is yes, then they should go to France and by that logic, Defoe must have the ticket.

Hodgson will, no doubt, be waiting for Welbeck till the last second and only when he is sure the player won’t be available, he will think of a replacement and there is none better replacement than Defoe right now.

Wes Brown’s time in Sunderland has seen the defender having to settle with a place on the sidelines as an unused substitute for a large part of the season and his contract with the Premier League club expires in the summer but the English defender does not have any desire of hanging up his boots anytime soon.

At the age of 36, Brown is reaching the point of his career where players start thinking about retiring but even at his fairly elevated age, Brown wants to continue performing for Sunderland beyond what his contract has stipulated but this will ultimately depend if the Premier League club is interested in keeping hold Wes Brown past the summer.

“I will try to carry on next season. Whilst I'd love to yacht charter Scotland's coasts, I love football and that’s all I’ve ever done. Until the knees can’t carry on, I’ll try to play as long as possible. The age is catching up with me now, but it was just good to sign again last summer. I wasn’t going to stop, I was going to carry on and obviously it was better to stay here, because that’s what I wanted to do.” Sunderland’s Wes Brown said as he voiced his desire to keep on playing for a few more years.

Even though Wes Brown is not planning on retiring and wants to continue performing with the rest of his teammates of Sunderland, the manager of the club Sam Allardyce is already looking for possible replacements and one of the players who is constantly being linked with Sunderland as a defensive reinforcement is the 23 year old Adama Soumaoro who is currently performing for the French side Lille.

Adama Soumaoro is a young player who has managed to attract the interest of Sam Allardyce and a summer move might be made as the English manager wants to lure Soumaoro into the Stadium of Light.

At the age of 36, Wes Brown is reaching the last few years of his career and the English defender is well aware of this.

This is why he wants to spend the remaining months of his playing career performing at his very best and most importantly helping Sunderland in avoiding the bottom relegation zone which is where they are currently positioned.

"At this stage of my career, I treat every game as if it's my last one. I'll give 100 per cent in every game I play and am more than willing and up for Villa. We are way off safety at the minute and it doesn't matter that we have done it before. If you look at the points situation, it probably looks worse than last year but if we can nick a few points soon, we are back in it Anything can happen. I have seen it all at my age." Sunderland’s experienced defender Wes Brown said.

Unfortunately for Wes Brown, he hasn’t been able to help out Sunderland as much as he would like and this is due to him having served a back-up option in this season of the Premier League.

Out of the 20 Premier League matches which have been played at this point so far, Wes Brown has made less than 4 starts. The only real reason of why Brown was featured in these games is because of the injury crisis that is currently affecting the team of Sam Allardyce as the coach has had to make a number of last minute changes.

Standing on the sidelines is probably not the way that Wes Brown would want to spend his last few years but as long as Sunderland is able to survive in the Premier League, the English defender stated that he would be more than happy in seeing that happen even if he has stay out of the pitch. However, if injuries continue hampering Sunderland then Brown will be able to get more time on the playing grounds.

Wes Brown is presently not in favour at all at the stadium of Light despite the fact that Sunderland’s in need of some experience in the backline after their horrible defensive shows of late.

Brown is a wily, old defender and is quite efficient too technique wise. He is somebody, whom many believe, might prove to be pretty useful for Sunderland at this juncture, but, he is not being able to get a look in which is probably a sign that his time at the Premier League Club is up.

If that’s the case indeed, it might mark an end to Brown’s overall career too as being in his late thirties, it’s hard to imagine any club offering a contract to him once he leaves Sunderland.

In this age and time, when the players tend to change destinations pretty frequently, Brown has been somebody who has been quite loyal to the clubs he has been part of in his career.

He served Manchester United for a long duration, one and half decades to be precise and it was the club where he touched the peak of his game.

Most of his best performances came as a Manchester United player only as he achieved both domestic as well as continental glory in the Red jersey.

It was that golden Ferguson era when United had been winning literally everything and one of the most important cogs in their defence was Brown.

Brown’s glorious career at Old Trafford came to an end in 2011 when he made the move to Sunderland.

The veteran has been a decent performer at Sunderland as well, but, now, he is out of the scheme of things over there. He has been seen featuring for the Black Cats just once in the 2015-16 Season.

Chelsea defender Cesar Azpilicueta believes that the duo Cesc Fabregas and Diego Costa will be even more influential in the upcoming campaign since they have already shown signs of improvement over last season.

The two players played a key role in Chelsea winning their first league title after more than five years. Costa ended the campaign with 20 league goals, while Fábregas had another stellar campaign in terms of assists. Even though Costa failed to score in any of the competition apart from the Premier league, it was seen as a successful campaign for the 26-year-old.

Azpilicueta, meanwhile, was extremely solid last season and he will be hoping to continue the same. The former Marseille defender is on the verge of becoming a permanent fixture at left back. His presence has already seen Chelsea move on the verge of selling Filipe Luis back to Atletico Madrid. Ahead of the new campaign, Azpilicueta says that the blues are aware of thesignings made by rivals like Manchester United and Manchester City. Even Liverpool have gone on a spending spree. This is likely to make the upcoming challenge of retaining the title extremely difficult. Chelsea, meanwhile, have not been similarly active in the transfer window.

"We know their quality and, despite what they did last season, they want to do better. They are competitive and have a winning mentality. They will not just settle for what they did before and will want to do more.The season they did before was amazing but they are looking to go even further than they did before for Chelsea.That should worry the other teams. What they do is key for us. The amount of goals and assists these two players give us make the difference,” said the Chelsea defender. The 25-year-old made 33 appearances last season.

Sunderland have extended the contract of defender Wes Brown, who appeared close to leaving the club this summer.

The former Manchester United man had just a few weeks before his contract with the Northeast outfit expired. After managing to secure their Premier League status for another season, the club brought in Dick Advocaat for another campaign at the club.Advocaat revealed that he was stepping down after just a few months at Sunderland. However, he was highly regarded at the club after managing to avoid relegation in a stunning fashion.

Wes Brown had just completed a disappointing season with the club. After having joined the black cats in 2011, he has experienced relegation trouble since his time at the club. It does not appear to go away any time soon, but Brown has been partly blamed for the poor defensive performances by the team. The team had conceded 53 goals in just 38 league games. Even though they averaged more than a goal per game in terms of conceding, the team could manage only 31 goals in the attacking side. Since his move to the Stadium of Light, Brown has featured in 80 matches for Sunderland.

His most productive time came during his spell at Manchester United where he won 17 major titles before his move to Sunderland. Meanwhile, the club’s star striker Jermain Defoe has comparedAdvocaat to Chelsea boss José Mourinho.Advocaat has been a winner in terms of club career and it is only at Sunderland that he is involved with relegation fight. Defoe is hoping thatAdvocaat transforms Sunderland into a club that will be capable of finishing in the top half of the league table. Last season, the club avoided relegation by the skin of their teeth after finishing three points above Hull City, who were relegated.