Millwall player for Cardiff?????

Cardiff linked with Millwall's left-winger Dave Martin who was playing non-league Dartford football back in 2007 and before that was Slade Green FC. He gone a league break by joining Crystal Palace for a fee of around £25,000 with then manager Peter Taylor signing him up to a saw another to hand him a two-and-a-half-year contract.While at Palace, he only started two League games his season was blighted by injury.

He was next off to Millwall in January 2008 for an initial fee of £50,000, which could become £100,000 depending on appearances. He was a regular last season and help Millwall to the play-off final losing to Scunthorpe. Ridsdale and co are willing to offer close to Millwall's £1m valuation.

Like always, these rumors come with a health warning we will just have to wait and see...

McCormack Birmingham Target

Chairman Peter Ridsdale has slapped a hefty transfer fee on the head of striker Ross McCormack hopefully put off his many suitors who are reported to be chasing him. Ridsdale and Boss Dave Jones have been in talks with him and he has a offer of a new four-year contract but he is in no hurry to sign and at the moment he is keep his option open.

The player who was a bargain buy from Motherwell signing for only £110,000 back last summer and scored a fist full of goals in his first season to help the Bluebirds within one game of the play-offs. Cardiff only missed out on the play-offs by one goals and it is still playing on McCormack mind that he missed to penlitys and that could have taken City to the play-offs. He has always indercated he wanted top-flight football and saying, “I’m happy at Cardiff and I’m enjoying my football. But ever since I was a kid, I’ve wanted to play in the Premier League. Offers from there don’t come very often.
“I watch the Premier League on TV like everyone else and it’s always been my ambition to go up against Cristiano, Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney. It’s flattering to hear Cardiff value me at £6. If a team from the Premier League comes in for me and is willing to pay the right money, obviously it will be hard to turn down.”

'Oh, what's occurring?' with Joe ....... Dave

It would seem at Peter Ridsdale and Dave Jones are so sure they will sell Joe Ledley this summer that they have still to offer the player a new contract. Ledley only has one season left on his original contract and walk away free if he remains that the club and start looking for a new club in January.

It has been reported that Ledley had turned down an offer new improved offer before the end of the season. Ledley has never outwardly called for a transfer; only expressing a desire to play in the Premier league one day, it has been lead by the club mainly suggesting the need to sell to balance the books.

Ledley received an offer hours before the summer deadline last summer so he could be left in limbo until the last day of this summer transfer window. There has been a lot of paper talk that this club or that club have been interested but both the player and even chairman Ridsdale has said no offers have been received, in the press he said today, "I don’t know anything about any transfers.
"Cardiff haven’t offered me a contract or anything yet so I just have to wait. I have to get out there and perform as well as I can and whatever happens, happens.
"It’s obviously down to the club not me and nothing has happened yet.
"I haven’t turned down a contract. We had a meeting and they just asked me how I was feeling.
"I said I was disappointed with how the league went and that was it. There’s been no contract on the table whatsoever.
"I know that and so does my agent. There’s no point arguing over that and, while I have a contract with Cardiff, I will play for them."

Chairman's company goes bust

Cardiff City chairman has suffered another business blow according to the News of the World Sunday newspaper, the consultancy firm he owns has gone bust.

Last month according to accounts filed by the club with Companies House, showed Ridsdale took a 50% pay cut last year. The figures showed in 2006-07 his consultancy firm WH Sports was paid £1,034,490 for his services to the club. That included a bonus of £500,000, paid to him for saving the club from liquidation. However, in 2007-08 financial year, Mr. Ridsdale’s method of remuneration changed, putting him directly on the club’s payroll. WH Sports was paid £325,000, on top of which the chairman was paid £204,000 directly.

WH Sports have now gone bust owing the dreaded taxman £374,000 the biggest creditor with other debts of £36,000. The revelation is said to be an embarrassment to the Cardiff chairman with the paper suggesting it could lead to fans calling for his head. It looks unlikely the fans overall are happy with his chairmanship of the club, however a number of fans are unhappy with manager Dave Jones and could link the two.

Story in News of the World

Jones interested in MK Dons defender?????

Cardiff City has being linked with MK Dons Spanish defender Miguel Angel Liera who has turned down a one-year contract offer with the length and terms unacceptable. The player will be available on a free transfer from the 1st July and a host of clubs are lining up with offers.

He played 34 league games last season scoring two goals in his first season with the MK Dons after joining for Spanish second division club Hercules Alicante on a free transfer. He helped MK Dons to the play-off and receiving excellent reviews for the run up to the play-offs. It is all a rumour at this time so we just have see if the Bluebirds are interested.

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Betting 2009/10

The early betting on who will win the Championship next season see's the three relegated Premiership teams are taking up the top spot, now there is a surprise.

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City looking to Everton Striker?

There was a short article in today’s Daily Mail suggesting the Cardiff City boss Dave Jones was interested in taking Nigeria international Victor Anichebe on a season long loan.

Anichebe is not the most prolific of strikers, he only scoring one goal last season in 22 games some of which were off the bench. There could be a deal to be done between the two clubs that could see the Everton striker coming in a permanent deal if Jones rates him that highly has Everton boss David Moyes is interested in Cardiff City midfielder Joe Ledley, a player plus cash deal maybe. He is on the Everton injury list but he will be fit for pre-season for whichever club he ends up with.

Ledley is in transfer market for the right price and with a valuation of £6m on his head but so far only a rumoured £3.5m has have been mentioned.

I hate the play-off’s

I watched the Burnley v Sheffield Utd play-off final and was glad we were not there, I do not think I could take the heartbreak of failure it was bad enough missing a play-off spot. Sheffield Utd was odds on favourite to win the prize of the Premier League and the £60m pay day today but it means nothing if you do not score the goals to win the game.

I have one message to Cardiff City boss Dave Jones..... ‘Automatic Promotion’, it is a must and a goal, no messing with the lottery that is the Play-off’s. Look at Sheffield Utd they finish third in the table four points ahead of Burnley who finish the season in fifth place if it was not for play-off Sheffield would be planning for a season in the Premier League. Good luck to Burnley next season I think they are going to need it, or could they do a Hull City.

Next season is going to be hard if not harder an last with the three relegated teams with their pockets full of parachute money (13m) you would expect them to be looking for a top six finish at least. Then you have Reading, Sheffield Utd and Preston who all missed out through the play-off’s hoping to be in the pack. It will be interesting to see what the fixtures throw up on the 17th June.

A quiet Sunday

The silly season surrounding transfer talk has not started has of yet, but with the season finally ending maybe it will start up. I the papers today there are only two stories involving Cardiff City players.

Ross McCormack is according to a report is being trailed by up to six ‘top-fight clubs’ with a fee of £5m being quoted. Three of the clubs names are Sunderland and promoted Wolves and Birmingham with the Bluebirds opening up contract talks with the Scottish International striker.

On the flipside Welsh manager John Toshack thinks it is unlikely that the Bluebirds would get £6m for want away midfielder Joe Ledley and would be lucky to get half of that because Ledley only has a year left on his contract. With Everton, Stoke, Wolves and Wigan are all said to be interested in the services of the City player.
Toshack said, “Joe has only got a year left and clubs who are interested in signing him will bear that in mind.
Cardiff could have sold him for £6m – but this year in might be £3m.
If Cardiff had gone up this season it would have been perfect.
“I think Joe’s ready for the Premier League – he’s very versatile and he’s played a lot of international games.
“But he’s got to make sure it’s the right offer. He mustn’t join a Premier League club just because it’s in the Premier League.”

If Cardiff don’t sell him or he won’t sign a new contract he could walk away from the Cardiff City Stadium for next to nothing but a high fee looks likely because on the number of teams interested so we could see a bit of a auction take place.

There is only one team left to join us in the Championship next season the loser of the Sheffield United and Burnley play-off finial at Wembley tomorrow. Three teams join us today Scunthorpe wins of the Division 1 play-off finals and relegated Newcastle and Middlesbrough.

New Cardiff City Books Launch

Annis Abraham Jnr has knock out another new book to add to his ever grown list of publications. The launch for the book will be on Saturday June 6th at Ninian Park, if there is, anything left after the souvenir hunter finish and it will be the very last official events at Ninian Park will take place on Saturday June 6th, 2009. The event kick-off at 12 noon in the Canton Suite until 2pm and the bar will be open

The book is titled "CARDIFF CITY FANS THROUGH THE YEARS" and it will contain over 500 Colour photos of City fans through the decades. A number of old players will attend Phil Dwyer, Jason Perry, Scott Young, Andy Legg along with Chairman Peter Ridsdale.

It will be a double launch with ex- Valley Rams supremo and co-founder Gwyn Davies will be giving his book its first official outing. The book titled " THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CARDIFF CITY VALLEY RAMS" is about the Valley Rams organisation set up by Gwyn and Corky.

WAG 20 DANIELLE LLOYD

It has been some time since we have entered the world of the WAG so today we opening the file again. Some WAG’s find love and a lot find a story and one runs WAGing has a business the serial Danielle Lloyd

Lloyd hit the WAG road at a tender age, first she had been Miss England in 2004 and when on Miss World where she came nowhere and was out beauty by Amy Guy from Wrexham Semi-finalists. In 2006, she was vote Miss Great Britain but was stripped of her Miss Great Britain 2006 title after posing for nude pictures featured in the December 2006 edition of Playboy magazine and her alleged affair with one of the pageant's judges, her then-boyfriend, Spurs striker Teddy Sheringham.

After the Big Brother racist row Sheringham split with Lloyd in 2006 and then she went on a footballer ‘s collection spry clocking a report seven in three years and in no particular order Jermain Defoe Spurs, Ryan Babel Liverpool, Marcus Bent Birmingham, Armand Traore Arsenal, Gerard Pique Barcelona, and Alan Hutton Spurs have all been and gone. That works out if you count the latness one a turnover on one every five mouths if you run them all back to back.

She is now back at her favorite hunting ground Tottenham Hotspur Football Club whose manager Harry Redknapp recently called the Lloyd type “busy cows” and wished his player would find wife’s not trophy wife’s. She is dating midfielder Jamie O’Hara now and could her be the one unlike all the others, time will tell.

Some interesting facts about the lad magazines favorite, over the last three and a bit years we all have seen her breast rise from 32AA to a fuller 32DD with the help of the surgeon’s knife three times. However, my all time No.1 was in 2006, she made an appearance on BBC One's Test the Nation and when asked "Who was Winston Churchill - a rapper, US President, the PM or King?” Lloyd answered, "Wasn't he the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me - that's black."
Ex-Cardiff City youngest Chris Gunter how is now at Tottenham maybe should watch is back he could on the list.

WAG rating 6

Poll upset

The Football Association of Wales have been criticised by former Premier League referee Graham Poll after they cleared Cardiff City over the coin-throwing incident at the Cardiff/Swansea game back in April.

Match referee Mike Dean hit on the head by a coin thrown by a Cardiff City that drawing blood. According to the FAW, no disciplinary action will be taken because of the swift response by the club in arresting a suspected at the game with the help of CTV footage. Poll sited the responds to an incident back in 2006 when Newport County had a similar problem and they were fined £3.000 for failing to control their fans.

But Cardiff City were quick to condemn the incidents with Cardiff chairman Peter Ridsdale and manager Dave Jones even Cardiff City fans have called for such incidents to stop. A man from Pontypridd later appeared before Cardiff Magistrates' Court over the incident at Ninian Park and admitted the charge of "throwing a missile towards the pitch".
Poll said: "There seems to be a reluctance to act with strength, to act to say... 'this is not acceptable'.
"All too often referees are accused of behaving differently with the biggest clubs... and yet it seems that the FAW have fallen into that trap as well.
"They [Newport] were fined heavily and yet Cardiff City - once again - escaped.”

Poll and a lot of others find the whole player in the ‘English league’ but discipline falling under the remit of the FAW, it can be famously slow on some occasion and Poll believe the incident was dealt with by the Football (England)Association Cardiff would have been more harshly. He when on to say on the BBC website "The point is if you keep saying, 'ah, well they've acted swiftly, well done,' nothing will ever change and as I said at the time it wouldn't have been such a bad thing had the referee said 'I'm abandoning the match'.
"That's happened in Europe. It's happened to Anders Frisk, one of the most senior referees of all time, and I'm not sure that's not the right thing to do now."

Cardiff City Cleared

The Football Association of Wales has spoken and not many football fans other than Cardiff City fans could be happy with the outcome of the coin throw incident during the derby game against Swansea at Ninian Park, no action taken.

The biggest cries of stitch-up are coming from down the road to the west in the little dump called Swansea who believes that the Football Association of Cardiff could never find the Bluebirds guilty. The incident was seen live on Sky Sports and took up many column inches in the press for a few days with pictures of referee Mike Dean with blood flowing from his head after the coin-throwing incident Cardiff City chairman Peter Ridsdale said, “We have had full and written confirmation from the FAW there will be no further action.”

The funny thing is that Ridsdale want to pull out of the FAW and join the English Football Association I couldn’t see them being so lenient over the incident. A number of managers have pointed out if Cardiff plays in the English league then all matter to do with disciplinary action should be FA. Normally they make comments when they lose any judgement and their fans starts with the why are they playing in the English League, they should play in the Welsh League

The club and police acted quickly to look at CTV footage and someone was arrested, changed for the coin throwing but it could not be proven he throw the coin, he said he throw some chewing gum but he was he received fined £200 and given a three-year banning order.

Purse signs

Darren Purse will be staying in the Championship after he was release last week by Cardiff with Sheffield Wednesday. He could have gone to Norwich back in January but the deal fell through when Dave Jones decided to keep him has cover. He played little part in the rest of the season and had some hash word for the club weeks before the end of the season over lack of talks about his future with the Bluebirds.

He was linked with the Sheffield club with days of his release along with MK Dons who missed promotion to the Championship via the play-off last night.
He has agreed to sign a two-year deal with Wednesday after boss Brian Laws snapped him up to help strengthen is defence after a mid table finish to the season. The full details of Purse contract will be signed when Laws squad report back for pre-season training, according to their official website. Brian Laws said about the signing, "My main priority this summer is to sign players with quality and experience. In Darren Purse, we have secured the services of someone with both of those qualities in abundance.
"He has experience of getting promoted from this division and of playing at the very top level but most importantly he is a leader on the pitch."

Purse was a good servent Cardiff City since joining the club from West Brom of a transfer fee of £750,000. I wish luck expect for any times he plays against Cardiff City.

New Keeper for Bluebirds

Cardiff City sent home three goalkeepers they had on loan last season leaving only Peter Enckelman has the only recognisable keeper on the books. That all changes today with news from Norwich that Cardiff have agreed 'a six-figure' fee to sign goalkeeper David Marshall from Norwich City. A poor season at Norwich seen them relegated to Division 1.

Marshall Bluebirds chairman Peter Ridsdale confirmed today had been accepted by the Norfolk club and the 24-year-old shot-stopper was due in the Welsh capital to discuss personal terms and take a medical.

Marshall was born in Glasgow and a product of Celtic's youth academy, made his debut for the club as a substitute against St. Johnstone 2003 and over the next four years player 50 games. In 2007 he, a short loan period with Norwich and in the summer joined them for a £750,000 fee and for the last two seasons, he has been first choice keeper. He has won two international cups for Scotland wat back in 2004 and earlier in the year won a B international cap

Bye, bye Joe

It was always going to happen especially after the failure to reach the Premiership, offer on Joe Ledley form an orderly queue please. He only has one-year contract and according to press reports, he has not entered negotiations with the club keeping his options open.

A number of Premiership clubs on red alert with Cardiff expecting bids of £5m+ of the Welsh international which should be bumped up more if a bidding war should take place. Cardiff need to sell has if they do not Ledley could walk away next season with the club losing millions of pounds. If he was to stay with the Bluebirds at the end of the season because he is under 24 Cardiff would be only entitled to compensation and that would be a small amount compared to what he could bring this summer in a transfer fee.

A late bid last summer of £6m from Stoke was turn down by chairman Peter Ridsdale and since the list of clubs reported to be showing interest in Ledley has grown. Stoke could still be willing to buy now they are safely in the Premiership for another season but there are some strong mid table teams in the race. Everton and West Ham are rumored to be watch from the sidelines along with Fulham and Sunderland who are not out of danger at the bottom of the Premier League and would be out of contention if relegated.

Ledley has be with the Bluebirds since he was a schoolboy and broke into the first team way back 2004/05 season when he came on has a second half sub against MK Dons in the League Cup, two games later he started against Brighton. He score is first goal in the 4-1 win over West Ham that season.

I wish Ledley the best good luck if he moves on.

Battle funds promised

Cardiff City plan to make an all out push for promotion next season after the disappointment of last season with chairman Peter Ridsdale promising there will be funds for manager Dave Jones. Ridsdale has declared that every penny the club receives in transfer fees are to be ploughed back into new signings. I would like to believe Ridsdale about the money going on players if we sale say one of them for £5m/£6m that is nothing these days in the Championship and the money will probably have to cover wages to.

With three of Dave Jones players rumoured to worth £16m to other clubs but with no firm bids to date, Jones could find his pockets full than they have been since coming to Cardiff. However, would he wanted to lose three of his best players and could he find better. Joe Ledley, Ross McCormack and Roger Johnson could all find themselves in Premier League clubs this summer if they are sold, it was expected by the fans that Ledley could be on is way out he has not signed a new contract and would be a free agent next summer so Jones has to sign him or sell him.

There has also been interest in Roger Johnson last summer there was a £1m+ bid but the club wanted him to stay. News of interest in McCormack is new but not unexpected he is the clubs top scorer and has broken into the Scottish national squad
Chairman Ridsdale said: “We will not sell any player if it’s not right for this football club.
“We need to go into next season with a stronger squad than has just ended the season and that’s why we will be investing in new players.”

We will all have to sit back a wait and see what happens.

McCormack hot property

Sunderland have been reported to want Cardiff City’s top striker Ross McCormack for £5m and today the rumour is another Premiership club have entered the hunt for the player.

Wigan are the least club and their boss Steve Bruce is no stranger to Scottish international McCormack after try to sign the player a year ago for a reported £1m only for the player to turn them down over a fear of not getting regular first team football. He then signed for the Bluebirds for only £110,000. Bruce is willing to offer Jason Koumas has part of the deal if Dave Jones was interested.

The report again in the News of the World had a club insider revealed his girlfriend has failed to settle in South Wales and a move up north would be nearer home.

The return of the Collins

Could Cardiff City boss Dave Jones No.1 summer target be James Collins be same player he sold to West Ham back in 2005 along with ever-injured Daniel Gabbidon? Collins and Gabbidon were a strong partnership in defence while at Ninian Park before both heading to West Ham for a reported £3.5m, in a bid by the Cardiff City board to cut the wage bill.

Dave Jones has twice try to bring the defender back twice on loan but the London club were unwilling to let him go. A source within the club told the News of the World, “Dave really wanted to keep James at Cardiff in 2005 but he had to sell him because the club needed the money.
“Now he wants to sign a big, old-fashioned centre-half and James is the ideal man.”

With West Ham in big financial troubles, Dave Jones could be hoping the need for cash might weaken their hold on the player and they will do business. Collins has been in and out of the team this season and could be interested in regular football but would he be willing to take a possible drop in wages and divisions.

Purse Released

Papers this morning are reporting Cardiff City have released club captain Darren Purse, he would have been out of contract in July anyway after failing to be offered new terms by the club. The whole contract thing hit the press last month when the defender told them the club was not showing him any respect by delaying talks.

Cardiff City boss was willing to let him go during the January transfer window but could not find a replacement for him. Purse was close to signing for Norwich before being told he made to stay at Ninian Park. The comments did on go down well chairman Ridsdale saying, “I’m confused by what Darren has said because the manager and I sat down with him three days before the end of the transfer window.
“He wanted to sign for Norwich City, but we could not find an adequate replacement and he remained.
“We explained at that meeting if City are still in the Championship we would talk about the possibility of another contract. We also said that if we are promoted to the Premier then we could be looking elsewhere.”

Purse has been with Cardiff for four years after joining the club from West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £750,000 and was a regular in the heart of the defence until Glenn Loovens pushed him to the bench and became Roger Johnson partner in defence. Loovens was sold at the end of last season to Celtic for a fee reported fee of £2.5m.

Purse started of last season back in the heart of the defence but lost his regular spot after the game at Plymouth. Gabor Gypes then bust into the team, he was one of Dave Jones summer signings pushing Purse back to the bench the rest of the season was stop start for him. He should have no trouble finding a new club Norwich could still be interested but they dropped down a division to League 1, Purse would probably like to stay in the Championship.

Sunderland transfer gossip

Sunderland are the least team liked with interest in Cardiff City players, but not Joe Ledley who they were said to be interested in, is time it is Ross McCormack and Roger Johnson. They were watching Johnson but McCormack caught the eye of the scouts and the Sunderland boss added him to his wants list if you are Sunderland are not still out of trouble at the bottom of the Premiership and it not sure that manage Ricky Sbragia survives to be manager for the start of next season.

Sunderland has plans to completely overhaul their transfer policy to sign British-based players who will appreciate in value. They had scouts out watching the Bluebirds at Sheffield Wednesday and have carried out regular checks on the Bluebirds since the turn of the year.

Cardiff have unfinished business with Sunderland over Michael Chopra who was loaned to the Bluebirds until the end of the season with an agreement to buy in the summer leaving a player plus cash option. It's unlikely Dave Jones the Cardiff manager would be unhappy selling to other player but the club needs to sell.

Can Jones be going

Could it be that Cardiff City boss Dave Jones could finally have his pockets full of spending money, well not if he stays at the new Cardiff City Stadium but if he was at Loftus Road how things could change.

The rumour is that Queens Park Rangers have the Cardiff City boss top of their shopping list for a new manager. The big-spending London club has gone through seven managers in two seasons with ex- City player Gareth Ainsworth twice and the least Luigi De Canio fall out with owners Formula 1 tycoons Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore after failure to make the Championship play-offs.

Jones has a good relationship with the Cardiff City chairman Peter Ridsdale and as declared his wish remain at the Cardiff even with the heated debate among Bluebirds fans over should he be sacked over the failure to make the Play-offs. The Cardiff chairman has stated he will give Jones another season to take the City on to their final step, the Premier League.

He would not find it easy to work at QPR has it is wide reported that owner Flavio Briatore has meddled in team selection and has had a fiery relationship with his managers. However, an insider said: “The club believes Jones has done a decent job at Cardiff and has a proven track record at this level.”

Ledley on the move soon?????

I do not think you could find a Cardiff City fan who believes Joe Ledley will be leading the Cardiff players onto the field of the new stadium next season. Teams are reported to be on the trail of the young midfielder and in today’s Daily Mirror Everton boss, David Moyes is hoping to be in front of the rest. He is ready to enter the race for Ledley with a £6m bid if the reports are to be believed.

He hopes a quick bid would put him (Moyes) to the head of the queue, in the report it intimates that the Everton boss has contact about do business as soon as possible. After missing the play-offs and possible promotion to the Premiership Cardiff are in a position that they may need to sell to generate cash for next season campaign.

Moyes is keen on Ledley and has had him watch on and off last season and watch him himself and he is willing to outbid any of his rivals for the Cardiff player. I bidding war would be good for Cardiff, more money in the bank for the Bluebirds. Everton would be a good move for Ledley they are a stable Premiership with the carrot of European football.

Loan players depart

There has been no official released but the rumour is that five of the loan players have returned to their clubs, and are unlikely to return.

The players are the three goalkeepers on loan with Cardiff City Tom Heaton, Peter Taylor and Dimi Konstantopoulos and front man Quincy Owusu-Abeyie and strike Eddie Johnson all five have had little or no success at the club. The keepers had more chances to shine because of the goalkeeping crisis has Cardiff City boss Dave Jones turn to all four throughout the season. That will leave injury hit Peter Enckelman has the only keeper at the club, meaning boss Jones will have to try his luck on bringing in some new blood, he has not been luck saucing keepers.

Quincy Owusu-Abeyie was brought Spartak Moscow and he let slip on SoccerAM he was signing a loan deal with Cardiff. The big question has to be why. He has been a bench warmer since arriving back in January and Jones has used him the grand total of four times all from the bench. Eddie Johnson came in from Fulham on a season long loan and had unforgettable game at Swansea but later became a bit of a cult hero with the fans has he turned his earlier poor form around with some strong displays.

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For Cardiff City chairman and manager Dave Jones love and kisses

Selling – two or one

With no Premiership money coming in next season we all know we will have to sell to help fund the club next season, and we all know who that will be, Joe Ledley. Ledley was offer a chance to talk contract but he wanted to see how the season finished, we all know how so he will be off to pastures new.

Clubs have been falling over one another to be linked with Ledley, Fulham, Wigan, Manchester City, are just a few. The 22-year-old has attracted the attention of Premier League sides in the past with Stoke City having a £6 million bid turned down for the midfielder last summer and another club were turned away in the January transfer window.

With Ledley, the only other player clubs have expressed an interest in is defender Roger Johnson and after his performances this season, I would be surprised if big bids come in for him. If the club need to sell one I would sell Ledley and bend over backwards to keep Johnson. Ridsdale insists any transfer cash will be reinvested in the playing squad.

Jones on Ledley, "If the price is right the club will have to take a calculated view (if an offer comes in for Ledley)," said. "We might have to sell one player and use the money to buy two or three players to help us get to the next stage.
"When the money came in for Joe last time, it came in an hour before the transfer deadline. It was too late for us to find somebody else so it wasn't the right time to sell him.
"Now the decision might be taken if a player has one year left on their contract and the money is right then the decision might be taken out of our hands. You can't let players run down their contracts and go for free."

Dave Jones

I am still incredible angry with Cardiff City manager Dave Jones and the player after their failure to reach the play-offs. If we had made it and have lost fair enough but for the way it all ended was heartbreaking for the fans. I saw Dave Jones is morning on TV saying ‘we had a good season, expect for the last four games’ THE season was about the last four and it also about other games in the season were the players failed to do the business on the pitch, later goals against, to many games drawn.

He has told the players they can expect changes and will sweep out the flops, it would be better to say who will be staying if the truth were told, how sad for some of them jobs will be hard to find this summer.
I am in the Dave Giles (link to story) camp when it comes to Dave Jones he has to go. Chairman Peter Ridsdale and City boss Jones often are quoted saying when it comes to players, we only sell or let someone go if we can find better. Therefore, Ridsdale should be thinking could I find a BETTER manager than Dave Jones, yes so get looking.

In today’s Echo he said he has the bottle to sack Dave Jones has he say’s ‘if the time comes’ but within the next paragraph he is backing Jones for next season with the start of next season starting today has the two men will plot the way forward for the club. The chairman Peter Ridsdale then starts the Dave Jones love-in with quotes like

“I saw it as a coup when we first attracted Dave to Cardiff City.
“One of the best decisions we took was to bring Dave to this football club – and an even better one was to stand firm in the autumn of 2007 and demonstrate it takes time to build a successful football club.
“We remain convinced he is the manager to take us to the next stage and that is the Premier League.

If we need new blood on the player front Jones why not on the management front .

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Early bad news for Sunday, maybe

With Cardiff City boss Dave Jones about to make one of the biggest decisions of the season, who is in the squad for the most important game of the season at Sheffield Wednesday. He must be worried over reports that Joe Ledley is doubtful for the game Sunday. According to reports, he as picked up a hamstring injury and he will be monitored over the next few days.

Just one point will be enough earn a play-off place and if Preston loses or draws Cardiff would be safe but a win is a must for the Bluebirds. One thing for sure Cardiff can now only finish fifth or sixth meaning the 1st leg of the two-legged semi-final will be played at Ninian Park in front of a full house for the very last time and the game will be shown live on Sky Sports.

Cardiff are only two games way from a trip back to Wembley for a battle royal for a place in the promised land of the Premiership and if that’s not a big enough prize for the players they should consider a new job. It best to take each game at a time, every game is a cup final.