Cardiff set to be priced out of the market on strikers
With Neil Warnock and the Cardiff hierarchy now targeting four more signings before the transfer window shuts on August 9, which of the reports can we believe and which are nonsense?
Media Wales
By Dominic Booth
Wednesday 20th June 2018
Oumar Niasse
Niasse looks set to leave Everton this summer after two years on the fringes to Goodison Park. There is no doubt the Senegal striker would surely be a good signing for someone.
Warnock was asked as much during a stint on the radio recently, joking that he'd love to snap up the 28-year-old, with a new frontman high on the Bluebirds' summer agenda.
Reports thus emerged touting Cardiff for a cut-price Niasse transfer.
With the Bluebirds set to be priced out of the market for two of their first choice striker targets, Andre Gray and Salomon Rondon, the Niasse deal makes a great deal of sense, although there has been no information from the Cardiff camp that Niasse — at this stage at least — is a target.
Likelihood of a move? 5/10
Dan Gosling
With Cardiff making no secret of the fact they need midfield additions — plus Premier League experience — Gosling's name cropped up in reports that claimed a £5million bid was imminent.
That would represent good value for money. Add in the fact that Bournemouth look braced to allow a midfield player, either Gosling or Harry Arter, to leave this summer and the rumour seems to stack up.
Either on loan or on a bargain permanent deal, this one could have legs.