Nicky Bailey

Nicky Bailey in the jersey of Southend United

Nicholas Francis " Nicky " Bailey ( born June 10, 1984 in London, England) is an English footballer. He is currently active for the English second division Millwall FC.

Club career

Nicky Bailey began his career at the age of 17 years when unterklassigen amateur club Sutton United. In summer 2004, the midfielder moved to FC Barnet in the Conference National. In Barnet, he was first-team regular and rose with the club in the 2004/05 season in the Football League Two on. In the following two seasons, Bailey succeeded with Barnet relegation. End of June 2007, he spent 175,000 pounds to Southend United in the Football League One. He scored nine goals this season and finished with Southend sixth place in League One, bringing the playoff games have been achieved for the promotion to the Championship. However, Bailey was defeated with the Doncaster Rovers Southend clearly missing out on promotion. Thereafter, the midfielder left the club and signed for Charlton Athletic. Although Charlton in the 2008/09 season the last rank of the Championship and finished descent, Nick Bailey belonged to the root formation, he also scored 13 goals this season, most of the team. In the season 2009/10 Bailey took over the captaincy after the former captain Zheng Zhi has left the club towards Celtic.

In July 2010, the midfielder left the third division side Charlton Athletic and signed a fixed-term three -year contract with Middlesbrough FC. The Boro paid for his services a fee of £ 1.4 million to his former employer Charlton Athletic. Through a contractual clause set Southend United receives a share of 225,000 pounds on the transfer fee.

National

Bailey played four games in 2005 for the English C national team. He was summoned by Paul Fairclough, who was then working as manager of Barnet FC and the English C national team.