Jermaine Wright

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Personal information
Jermaine Wright
Full name	Jermaine Malaki Wright
Date of birth	21 October 1975 (1975-10-21) (age 32)
Place of birth	Greenwich, England
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position	Midfielder/Defender
Club information
Current club	Southampton
Number	10
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1992-1994 1994-1998 1996 1998-1999 1999-2004 2004-2006 2005 2006 2006-present	Millwall Wolves → Doncaster Rovers (loan) Crewe Alexandra Ipswich Town Leeds United → Millwall (loan) → Southampton (loan) Southampton	000 0(0) 020 0(0) 013 0(0) 049 0(5) 184 (10) 038 0(3) 015 0(2) 013 0(0) 078 0(1)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 08:55, 05 May 2008 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Jermaine Malaki Wright (born 21 October 1975 in Greenwich), is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder/defender for Southampton.

[edit] Playing career

Wright started his career at Millwall as a trainee, but moved to Wolverhampton Wanderers, and after a loan spell at Doncaster Rovers he joined Crewe Alexandra in February 1998 for a fee of £50,000. At Crewe, his career took off under the guidance of Dario Gradi, who switched him from the right wing to a creative role in the centre of midfield.

In July 1999, after rejecting the offer of a new contract, he was transferred for a fee of £500,000 to Ipswich, where George Burley saw him as a replacement for Kieron Dyer, who had just been sold to Newcastle United. His career thrived under the guidance of Burley but then stalled after he surprisingly opted to move to relegated Leeds United rather than Everton in July 2004.

However he fell out of favour at Leeds in 2005 and was loaned out first to Millwall (where he had started his career) and then, in January 2006, to Saints where he linked up with Burley once more. It took a few weeks for him to regain match fitness but he then shone during the successful run at the tail-end of the 2005-06 season.

After his loan spell ended, he returned to Elland Road where the remaining year of his contract was cancelled by mutual consent. He returned to Southampton for a trial during pre-season training and signed with the club on July 10, 2006 on a two-year deal keeping him at St Mary's until June 2008.^[1] He scored his first Saints goal in the 2-1 home defeat by QPR on 30 September 2006.

Jermaine is the cousin of former Arsenal star Ian Wright^{[citation needed]}, and currently plays alongside Ian's son Bradley at Southampton.