UPDATED ' Cardiff City make £500,000 Bid for Championship '

UPDATED 25/12/15

The whole deal on offer is worth £500,000.

By SIMON JONES

DAILY MAIL

Cardiff City have made a £450,000, bid for Bolton midfielder Josh Vela

Bolton were placed under a transfer embargo on Thursday and are facing a winding up order over an unpaid tax bill as takeover talks rumble on.

They need to sell some of their squad with Vela, Mark Davies and Zach Clough among the most viable assets.

Cardiff City have made a £450,000 bid for Bolton midfielder Josh Vela


Vela in action for Bolton during their Championship clash with Charlton at The Valley last week

The 22-year-old Vela attracted interest from Liverpool as a teenager and impressed them again last season when he faced them in the FA Cup.







Cardiff City make £500,000 Bid for Championship Midfielder

HITC Sport understands the Welsh club are hoping to land the talented youngster

Wednesday 24th Dec 2015

Cardiff City have made a bid to sign Bolton Wanderers starlet Josh Vela, HITC Sport understands.

The 22-year-old midfielder has come through the youth ranks at the Lancashire club and has made over 50 first-team appearances.

Aged 17, Liverpool tried to sign him and he has continued to attract interest from a number of Premier League and Championship clubs.

The likes of West Ham United, Leicester City, Burnley and Ipswich Town have all been following him closely but now Cardiff are hoping to win the race for his signature.

HITC Sport understands The Bluebirds have made an initial offer of around £500,000 and they are hoping that Bolton's precarious financial situation will see them accept.

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good signing if you can get him and a snip at that price

I don't much about him tbh If we are going to take advantage of Bolton's mess i suggest we should try and get that Zac Clough as well.

I don't much about him tbh If we are going to take advantage of Bolton's mess i suggest we should try and get that Zac Clough as well.

Yeah clough looks very good

I don't much about him tbh If we are going to take advantage of Bolton's mess i suggest we should try and get that Zac Clough as well.

And Mark Davies

Cardiff City make £500,000 Bid for Championship Midfielder

HITC Sport understands the Welsh club are hoping to land the talented youngster

Wednesday 24th Dec 2015

Cardiff City have made a bid to sign Bolton Wanderers starlet Josh Vela, HITC Sport understands.

The 22-year-old midfielder has come through the youth ranks at the Lancashire club and has made over 50 first-team appearances.

Aged 17, Liverpool tried to sign him and he has continued to attract interest from a number of Premier League and Championship clubs.

The likes of West Ham United, Leicester City, Burnley and Ipswich Town have all been following him closely but now Cardiff are hoping to win the race for his signature.

HITC Sport understands The Bluebirds have made an initial offer of around £500,000 and they are hoping that Bolton's precarious financial situation will see them accept.

My mates a Bolton fan and doesn't expect this to happen with some big clubs sniffing, highly rated. If this is true the clowns ego think we are asset stripping can finally lay low. Is Tan taking the gamble?

Cardiff City make £500,000 Bid for Championship Midfielder

HITC Sport understands the Welsh club are hoping to land the talented youngster

Wednesday 24th Dec 2015

Cardiff City have made a bid to sign Bolton Wanderers starlet Josh Vela, HITC Sport understands.

The 22-year-old midfielder has come through the youth ranks at the Lancashire club and has made over 50 first-team appearances.

Aged 17, Liverpool tried to sign him and he has continued to attract interest from a number of Premier League and Championship clubs.

The likes of West Ham United, Leicester City, Burnley and Ipswich Town have all been following him closely but now Cardiff are hoping to win the race for his signature.

HITC Sport understands The Bluebirds have made an initial offer of around £500,000 and they are hoping that Bolton's precarious financial situation will see them accept.

My mates a Bolton fan and doesn't expect this to happen with some big clubs sniffing, highly rated. If this is true the clowns ego think we are asset stripping can finally lay low. Is Tan taking the gamble?

What tan taking a gamble biding 500k? Id hardly say thats breaking the bank and taking a gamble personally.

Bolton's car boot sale has started

Boltons ground is literally 2 mins from where I live so I get to photograph their games quite a bit. Josh Vela is a snip at £500k and, in my opinion, would be a good signing.

I personally would like to see Zach Clough being signed. He has been injured this year but last season was scoring for fun - and he is a superb Free Kick taker. I do know that some clubs were valuing him in the region of £3-5m and I know one Premiership scout said he would be worth £10m in around 4 years time. So if we could pick him up cheaply I would be well happy!

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BY GRAHAM SMEATON

DEC 25, 2015



Bolton are one of the teams that, on Thursday, were placed on a transfer embargo after breaching the Football League Financial Fair Play limits permitting a £6m loss in a financial year. Now Josh Vela, one of their more viable assets is a target for Championship rivals Cardiff, according to a report in the Mail Online.

The penalties for failing FFP limitations, severely restrict what a club can do regarding signing new players. Whilst they are not victims of a total ban on signings, they can only sign players if they have a squad of less than 24 ‘established players’, any signing cannot cost more than £600,000 per annum and if they have 24 players then there is a case of ‘one in, one out’ – the incoming player must be 75% or less than the salary cost of the player leaving or the £600,000 per annum cost, whichever is the lowest. What they cannnot do is pay an actual transfer fee.





Facing this prospect, it is likely that Bolton will need to sell some of their more viable assets and this is likely to include Josh Vela and also others such as Mark Davies and Zach Clough. With regard to Vela, the Mail Online report that Cardiff have jumped ahead of other teams and lodged a £450,000 bid for the youngster’s services. Vela has risen through the youth ranks at the Reebok Stadium and is a player who attracted interest from Liverpool as a teenager, impressing the Reds further when he faced them in last season’s FA Cup.

Vela has made 12 appearances for Bolton this season (one as a substitute), totalling 997 minutes and has scored one goal. He is a tidy passer of the ball (78.3 accuracy) and at quite a high volume of attempts (40.7 per typical 90 minutes.) With Bolton being in the state that they find themselves, what with the transer embargo and also a potential winding up order from HMRC over an alleged unpaid tax bill, Cardiff have leapt ahead of teams like Leicester City, Burnley and ipswich Town and the Bluebirds hope to sign him next weekend when the January transfer window opens.

Boltons ground is literally 2 mins from where I live so I get to photograph their games quite a bit. Josh Vela is a snip at £500k and, in my opinion, would be a good signing.

I personally would like to see Zach Clough being signed. He has been injured this year but last season was scoring for fun - and he is a superb Free Kick taker. I do know that some clubs were valuing him in the region of £3-5m and I know one Premiership scout said he would be worth £10m in around 4 years time. So if we could pick him up cheaply I would be well happy!

What's Mark Davies been like for them? Was excellent a few seasons back but seems to have gone off the radar a bit as far as I know.

Make a move for Lennon as well