Paolo Di Canio offers Lee Cattermole a fresh start
Paolo Di Canio has revealed he turned down an offer from an unnamed Championship club for the services of Lee Cattermole last week.
Di Canio told The Mirror: “We have to be honest. He wasn’t in the plan. But I spoke to him, for 30 minutes. I told him to have a future here he had to convince me because I told him my regime is completely different to what he had until last year.
“I said now you can be a part of a squad that wants to play good football. You can be better than before. It’s up to you. You have to jump. You have to back my regime.
“I decide the discipline, the behaviour, the rules. But we will be stronger than before.
“I said 'I know what you feel. You are upset. But you have one of the most honest managers in the world who tells you. If you train bad or behave badly off the pitch, like you did, I don’t know, in the past, you can’t stay in the squad.
"I have to be honest, he wasn't in my plans. I told him, to have a future here he had to convince me.
"I need British players, I need the quality, the intensity. I need the fire. He's full of enthusiasm and it's a new start for him."