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Cardiff City interested in signing German striker Dominick Drexler - reports


Friday December 8th 2017


By Ian Mitchelmore


Reports suggest Aston Villa and Newcastle United are also interested in the German forward


Cardiff City are interested in securing the services of German striker Dominick Drexler from Holstein Kiel, according to reports.

The Bluebirds have been rocked by the news that star forward Kenneth Zohore is set to be out of action until the New Year while Rhys Healey is still recovering from the injury he suffered in Cardiff's 5-0 thrashing of Rotherham in February.

It has given summer signings Danny Ward and Omar Bogle the chance to shine in recent weeks, but reports from Germany claim Neil Warnock could still be keen to bolster his attacking options to sustain his side's promotion bid.

German media outlet Kicker have reported that the Bluebirds - along with Championship rivals Aston Villa - are both monitoring the striker while they also claim that Newcastle have watched the 27-year-old on numerous occasions.

Drexler has been in red-hot form for second division outfit Holsten Kiel so far this season, scoring 10 goals in all competitions to help fire his side to the top of the 2. Bundesliga standings.

The German started his professional career with Bayer Leverkusen and played for the club's reserve side during the 2009-10 campaign before joining FC Rot-Weiß Erfurt.

He spent three years with the 3. Liga side - scoring 16 times in 81 appearances for the club - before signing for SpVgg Greuther Fürth.

Drexler then had a two-year spell at WfR Aalen before joining current club Holstein Kiel in the summer of 2016.

We don't need another striker! I make it we have at least 5-6 in contention and only 1 can play...

We don't need another striker! I make it we have at least 5-6 in contention and only 1 can play...

do you really think that? Bogle looks good but how many will he get. Ward is very hit and miss.
I dont think we have any strikers who will get 15+ as Zohore is off doing xmas shopping.

We only need 2 players, another play maker like Tomlin and a striker.

We don't need another striker! I make it we have at least 5-6 in contention and only 1 can play...

do you really think that? Bogle looks good but how many will he get. Ward is very hit and miss.
I dont think we have any strikers who will get 15+ as Zohore is off doing xmas shopping.

We only need 2 players, another play maker like Tomlin and a striker.

You can easily turn that argument on it's head by saying how do you know Drexler would do any better? I agree with T1JMO we have enough strikers who are just getting into their stride. We don't need to undermine them by bringing in another unproven striker when the limited recourse we have could be better used else where.

We don't need another striker! I make it we have at least 5-6 in contention and only 1 can play...

do you really think that? Bogle looks good but how many will he get. Ward is very hit and miss.
I dont think we have any strikers who will get 15+ as Zohore is off doing xmas shopping.

We only need 2 players, another play maker like Tomlin and a striker.

You can easily turn that argument on it's head by saying how do you know Drexler would do any better? I agree with T1JMO we have enough strikers who are just getting into their stride. We don't need to undermine them by bringing in another unproven striker when the limited recourse we have could be better used else where.

im not talking about Drexler himself, im just saying we need another striker. Although i forgot about Healey, i think he could do a job. I just think too much is left on Bogle's shoulders.

Come on lads wake up. Where would you go if you were him. Villa huge club, Newcastle huge club or Cardiff small club. Wages huge.

Doesn’t really matter how many players we have in certain positions if the in coming player is better than we got it’s a no brainer.

To make certain of promotion the more strikers the better. I remember Newcastle going up as Champions one year and they were buying up all the strikers they could get their hands on.

Zohore, Ward, Bogle, Healey, Gounongbe - that's enough strikers for 1 position - even after getting rid of Pilkington!

The money would be better spent on midfield.

Rhys healey not good enough neither is gounoughbe. Ward hit and miss. Bogle still has alot to prive in my eyes so another striker be really good

Ward hit or miss?
He is on fire and so is Bogle .

I think Bogle will prove to be a better striker than Zohore. In my opinion he is more natural goal scorer than Zohore, and given the opportunity could easily be a 20 goal a season striker.

looking at this Drexler blokes career stats bit puzzled at the article/apparent interest tbh.

27 years old spent his whole career playing for teams prob worse than ourselves and scored 10 this year in bund 2 {4 pens }

made up article

ward is hit and miss. when hes good hes great, but many a time hes been ineffective. Either down to marked out the game or not playing to his strengthens.
i dont think hes a bad player though.
Bogle has been great though recently.

We only have really 3 strikers who are first team, Zohore, Ward and Bogle. But Zohore has been missing all season.

9/10 teams get promoted and a striker has 20 goals in them. i cant see that for any of ours.

ward is hit and miss. when hes good hes great, but many a time hes been ineffective. Either down to marked out the game or not playing to his strengthens.
i dont think hes a bad player though.
Bogle has been great though recently.

We only have really 3 strikers who are first team, Zohore, Ward and Bogle. But Zohore has been missing all season.

9/10 teams get promoted and a striker has 20 goals in them. i cant see that for any of ours.

last time we won the league by 8 points our top scorer had 8

ward is hit and miss. when hes good hes great, but many a time hes been ineffective. Either down to marked out the game or not playing to his strengthens.
i dont think hes a bad player though.
Bogle has been great though recently.

We only have really 3 strikers who are first team, Zohore, Ward and Bogle. But Zohore has been missing all season.

9/10 teams get promoted and a striker has 20 goals in them. i cant see that for any of ours.

maybe ours would if they had more game time..?????
but neither ourselves or Hull won promotion with anyone near 20 goals..and i think you will find there is always a team promoted without one...last season Huddersfield went up with Kachunga top scorer on 12.

Rhys healey not good enough neither is gounoughbe. Ward hit and miss. Bogle still has alot to prive in my eyes so another striker be really good

Agree with you .

Hoillet and NML chipping in with plenty of goals as well .

We need a midfielder enforcer

On one site he was called an attacking midfielder ,who can also play left-wing and striker.
I imagine Newcastle would be favourites to sign him.

On one site he was called an attacking midfielder ,who can also play left-wing and striker.
I imagine Newcastle would be favourites to sign him.

winger makes a bit more sense than a striker whose career average is 1 goal in 5 mostly in the third tier of the german lge.

Rhys healey not good enough neither is gounoughbe. Ward hit and miss. Bogle still has alot to prive in my eyes so another striker be really good

Agree with you .

Hoillet and NML chipping in with plenty of goals as well .

We need a midfielder enforcer

Only sensible post in this thread

We are and continue to be lightweight in midfield we have been very fortunate the last 4/5 games that teams haven't taken their chances as we have been outfought in midfield game after game we don't have a ball winner in there and unless he goes back to playing Jamba in the hole then we will continue to get over run and put unneeded pressure on the back four

Without a shadow of doubt we need another striker when you see the fire power of teams like wolves whether this Drexler is the guy is another matter

Ward hit or miss?
He is on fire and so is Bogle .

Both have fantastic goals per game ratio this season all considered