Hull linked with move for Defoe

Hull City manager Steve Bruce has declared his interest in signing Toronto FC striker Jermain Defoe, according to the Mail Online.

The England international moved to the MLS outfit from Tottenham Hotspur for £6m twelve months ago, and so far has twelve goals in seventeen appearances for the club.

Queens Park Rangers have also been linked with a move for the former Portsmouth and West Ham United man, with Hoops manager Harry Redknapp having worked with the 32 year old at both aforementioned clubs.

Defoe, who won the last of his England caps in a 2-0 friendly defeat to Chile in November 2013, was placed on the stand-by list for last summer’s World Cup finals in Brazil but did not make Roy Hodgson’s final squad of 23.

Hull won two of their last three games to lift themselves to fifteenth place, and can now be backed at 9/4 to be relegated to the Championship.