City not Signing...

In the last few days IC Wales has completely run out of Cardiff City transfer stories. So much so they have resorted to reporting who Cardiff are not signing. So far this has included ex-City captain Graham Kavanagh and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink. You can see how the various reporters are working. Sitting in their office someone notices Hasselbaink is available. "Reckon City will sign him?" the hack says to his colleague. "Maybe, let's phone Ridsdale". So they Phone the club, get a denial, and there is there story. In the case of the Kavanagh non-story they phone Kav's agent too, who tells them that he hasn't had a game for a few months and might be interested if a team like Cardiff came in. Bang. An exclusive: "City Rule Out Bid For Kav". Pretty weak.

I am hoping that this is all happening in alphabetical order, and am looking forward to the shock headline: "Bluebirds Deny Interest in Zidane". And suddenly we will have re-signed Leo Fortune-West while the press have their back turned. Mind you, that might be an improvement on Thompson. Or Byrne.

I hope we do sign someone new, but I am getting the sinking feeling that as players and agents are approached by Mr Ridsdale they have a tendency to react like any other normal person - to run away as fast as they can keeping their hands tightly on their wallets.