Neil Harris offers key update on Cardiff City transfer targe

Neil Harris offers key update on Cardiff City transfer target

By Dean Cooke

16/08/2020

Cardiff City manager Neil Harris has stated that there’s an opportunity for Dion Sanderson to comeback to the Bluebirds after a successful loan spell last season.

The right-back was exceptional in the last campaign and after coming to the club on loan from Wolverhampton Wanderers, he continuously impressed and developed into a good player both going forward and defensively.

Cardiff will hope they can get a deal over the line for him to stay for yet another campaign at the club, knowing that it will help them in their bid for promotion next season.



Harris has expressed that there is a possibility that he could stay, and has stated that right-back is a position that needs to be strengthened within the squad.

Harris said: “There’s possibly the opportunity for him to stay with us moving forward. Leandro Bacuna was exceptional in midfield and moved to right-back for experience and was very capable.

“But we are looking for a right-back to strengthen us in that area. Then after right-back we’ll look at positions where we feel we’re a bit short and need to tinker.”





The Verdict

Sanderson was terrific last season and really impressed for Cardiff showing exactly why Wolves rate him so highly.

The Premier League side believe he can go and become their first choice full-back in the coming years but he has to keep playing games and developing before Wolves offer him that chance.

Cardiff is the perfect place for him to spend next season as everybody at the club now knows him and he’ll have no problem settling into the squad environment seeing as he was there in the last campaign.

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Neil Harris' update on Wolves defender Dion Sanderson and Cardiff City's Premier League scouting

The boss has given an update on his plans to sign a right-back as well as discussing the Bluebirds' hopes of snapping up Premier League talent

By Ian Mitchelmore


Sunday 16th August 2020


Neil Harris admits it is possible Wolves star Dion Sanderson could return to Cardiff City this summer.

The Bluebirds are eager to bolster their options at centre-back following Lee Peltier's move to West Brom in January and Jazz Richards' recent exit.

Sanderson spent the latter half of the 2019/20 campaign on loan with Cardiff, making 10 Championship appearances as the Bluebirds secured a place in the play-offs.

And Harris admits right-back is an area of his squad that he's determined to strengthen in the transfer window, with Sanderson being a serious option in that department.

"It is possible. As ever, I have to be respectful that Dion is like other players that we might look at who are contracted to other clubs," said Harris.

"With Pelts leaving in January and going to West Brom and gaining another promotion, and Jazz leaving after lockdown, that left us with young Dion who did brilliantly at times and developed really well with us.

"There’s possibly the opportunity for him to stay with us moving forward. Leo Bacuna was exceptional in midfield and moved to right-back for experience and was very capable.

"But we are looking for a right-back to strengthen us in that area. Then after right-back we’ll look at positions where we feel we’re a bit short and need to tinker.

"We always have to be thoughtful to what clubs need over the course of the pre-season period or next season.

"With some clubs in the Premier League still finishing games, some of them are still playing in Europe, we'll be looking at loaning off Premier League clubs.

"The Premier League has not finished that long ago, and, ultimately, our season only finished a couple of weeks ago, so it's really focused the attention on the transfers at the moment because of the short period between the end of the season and pre-season starting for Cardiff City on Monday.

"Will we be able to get a right-back in by Monday? Hopefully. But we might also have to be patient as well because of the elements I've talked about.

"Dion will be involved in those thought processes, as are other players.

"Are they needed by their clubs? Are they needed in the short-term or long-term?

"Clubs aren't ready to make those decisions at the moment and we've had the same examples with some of our young players that we've had enquiries about for loans that we're not ready to make those decisions at the moment."

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