Young Tom Ince with father Paul …. does success run in the family?
All in all it’s been a frustrating week or more for the Bluebirds regarding transfer news.
The reality of being one of the favorites for the drop is certainly making it difficult to tempt the players Malky Mackay wants. The transfer wrangling is not over yet by any means but as the top of the wanted list move elsewhere or wait, the level of available player must naturally drop. Mackay may already be onto his Plan B players.
The Tom Ince saga played out to the end with the player deciding to stay home in Blackpool to be with his new born child. As the only club willing to pay Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston’s stiff asking price, there were no other bidders for Ince, it does seem like he is playing the field and waiting, despite his fatherly reason to the contrary.
Blackpool will now have to take a reduced fee in the winter transfer window or see their star performer leave for nothing when his contract expires next year. Somehow that doesn’t seem Oyston’s preferred option and I’m sure his manager Paul Ince is fully aware of that.
So, what’s the chance that before the end of this transfer window a suitable club will come in with a bid, probably lower than the one Cardiff offered and Ince will be ready and willing to move?
If that happened I’m sure Blackpool would take the money, reduced or not and new father Tom Ince will move on to a club he and his father Paul are happy with at a price the buying club is willing to pay. Reality bites when you are new to the Premier League, in more ways than one.
With the loss of Ince it now seems likely Cardiff are moving for Albert Adomah, the 25 year old Bristol City flier. Ghanaian international Adomah looks a major come down from Ince, not even a Plan B player but will only cost a fraction of the price, something over a million pounds or so.
Cardiff also looked to have lost out in an effort to sign Hal Robson-Kanu the Welsh International from Reading. He looked a good alternate to the loss of Ince and appeared to be Malky Mackay’s real back-up Plan B. The former Arsenal trainee has decided to sign a new contract with the Royals attempting to get back into the Premier League with them.
The Victor Wanyama saga is also over as Cardiff refused to increase their 10 million pound offer and the Celtic midfielder headed back to the south coast and first suitor Southampton. The Saints upped their overall offer by meeting the demands of the player and his agent and the deal was quickly done.
There are rumours of other players, mostly continental, who have been approached by Cardiff without success, no need to go into their well-publicised names here.
Malky Mackay’s scouting team will have to open some more computer files and dig a little deeper into the memory banks for the players Cardiff will need to maintain Premier League status next year. Even at 7.5 million pounds the one player who is in, Andreas Cornelius can’t do it alone.
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