The interview with BBC Radio Nottingham by the Nottingham Forest chief executive Mark Arthur has set the board rooms here in South Wales alight with both Cardiff City and Swansea City reacting to the comments made. Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins is incense with comment make about his player midfielder Darren Pratley also a target of Forest.
Cardiff’s chief executive Gethin Jenkins plus manager Dave Jones angry with Jenkins releasing a statement,
"I would like to thank Mr Arthur for his interest in our football club
"Though would suggest that he direct his attention towards internal Nottingham Forest issues and problems than any blatant public attempts to unsettle members of our playing squad."
Boss Jones in an interview with BBC Wales’s football reporter Rob Phillips he said "If that's not blatant tapping-up then I don't know what is.
"The league needs to have a look at it."
Cardiff, are in the middle of negotiating a new contract with midfield Whittingham and have found the comments unhelpful. The Forest chief executive also implied that the player was unhappy at the club and wanted the move. That suggestion enraged the Cardiff manager into saying,
"He has no right to say it.
"And he should go though the proper channels to say it rather than through the media, spouting off that my player is unhappy.
"If he is talking to Whitts on that score, it must be his brother because that is not Whitts is telling me.
"We've put an offer to Peter Whittingham and his stance is he wants to see what happens here, whether the club wants to move forward.
"Now he has those reassurances, now we can go back to him and can start the negotiations again.”
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