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The fee for Hurst is yet another complicated one as they always seem to be these days with Carlisle United, all the information that has come out so far being that it could rise to a maximum total of £145,000 dependent on appearances, those apparently a big factor in the make-up of the fee.
Hurst began his career with Sheffield United after coming through their youth ranks, his first-team debut at Bramall Lane being in September 2003 at the age of 18 in a Carling Cup home game against QPR. Chances were limited at the Blades though and he made his first loan move in March 2004 when he joined then League Two side Boston United where he made three starts, four substitute appearances and scored one goal.
A few odd games off the bench followed back in Sheffield the next season, where he only ever made one start and four substitute appearances in almost four years. Life back on the road soon beginning when he went to Stockport for a three-month loan spell in February 2005, Hurst starting all his 14 games for the Hatters while scoring one goal in the process.
It was straight back out on loan to hometown Chesterfield in August 2005 where he spent almost 18 months in three seperate loan spells at Saltergate, making 63 starts, eight substitute appearances and scoring nine goals. His full debut for the Blades finally coming on his return to Sheffield against Swansea in the FA Cup in January 2007, three years and four months after he had made his first start off the bench.
That would prove to be his last game at Bramall Lane as he was then packing his bags to go to Scunthorpe again in January 2007 in a loan deal that was then made permanent in May that year at the end of the season for a hearty sum of £200,000. The 23-year old making a total of 59 starts and 15 substitute appearances, while scoring four goals, at Glanford Park before he signed a new two-year contract with the Iron in July 2009.
The continued good form of Martyn Woolford, signed from York in August 2008, has kept Hurst out of the Scunthorpe side recently though, which is where Carlisle come in as the Chesterfield-born winger searches for regular first-team football. Hurst, after training with the Blues today, more than likely to make his Cumbrians debut tomorrow at one of his former loan sides, that being a Stockport County outfit who now have former Carlisle boss John Ward as their assistant manager.
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