No injury worries for former Leicester City star Nicky Adams

Aug 23 2010 By Jacob Murtagh

Nicky Adams

BRENTFORD new-boy Nicky Adams insists he's no crock.

The 23-year-old wide man's move to Griffin Park stalled earlier this summer as the Bees waited for him to recover from surgery on a knee injury he picked up last campaign, coupled with the change of manager at the Walkers stadium.

But he finally completed his switch from Leicester City on Thursday, making his debut as a second-half sub at Swindon 48 hours later.

And Adams reckons he'll be firing on all cylinders after a full week's training with his new team-mates at Jersey Road.

He said: "I got tackled at the end of last season and a bit of my knee broke off which needed cleaning out.

"I wanted to be here sooner, but with my knee and stuff I had to do a pre-season and play some games.

"I had to wait until I had done some rehab to start training again. I think I'll be up to speed in the next week or so."

Adams was part of the Leicester side which won promotion to the Championship two seasons ago, but after a good start with the Foxes he soon found himself surplus to requirements and was shipped out on loan to Rochdale and Leyton Orient.

But he reckons he could be facing his old employers next season with Brentford.

"There's a good set of players here," he added. "We want to be pushing for the play-offs and hopefully promotion.

"It wasn't a tough decision to leave Leicester - I wanted to play first-team football. When we were in League One and got promoted I played a lot more, but a new manager came in and had different plans so it was time for me to move on."

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