Tic, tock, tic, and tock the new football season is getting ever closer. If you believe the bookies Cardiff City, my team are going to be one of the favourites in the race for promotion.
Pre-season has been so, so but does it matter? Win, lose or draw it means little it’s the first game of the season at Blackburn, which is the most important. I like the look of the new squad and more than happy most of the transfer activity was done before pre-season.
On the other side of the coin, other deals of players leaving the club have dragged on a bit. Will he won’t he rumours surrounding goalkeeper David Marshall, who was not looking to leave the club didn’t stop plenty of newspaper talk about clubs interested in signing him. Some lesser squad players have left but three players transfers have been long and drawn out.
The three in question are/were Steven Caulker, Gary Medel, and Fraizer Campbell all of whom have regularly featured in the sport pages linked with a transfer. Although the Medel is not confirmed, it’s highly likely he will be heading to Italian Football and Inter Milan, if a deal can be struck with the two clubs amid reports of payment issues holding up any completion of the deal. It could be helped along with strong reports of interest from Turkish club Galatasaray who have made an offer for the Cardiff City defender.
The other two now lay there training kit elsewhere. Caulker is now plying his trade back in the Premier League with QPR after a season with the Bluebirds. It turned out to be a prolonged transfer saga for the player played out mostly in the press. At one point, it looked like he could be on his way to Liverpool but reports of high wage demands put them off the signing. The Bluebirds didn’t want to sell their highly rated defender who would probably still be a Cardiff player if they had managed to beat off relegation last season. Fraizer Campbell has moved on to Crystal Palace choosing them over newly promoted Leicester City but somehow I don’t think Cardiff fans will morn his loss.
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