Cardiff stuck with Feeney, Feeney stuck with Cardiff

After all the talk of moving to Leeds, Hearts, Gromsby and others - it has emerged that the reason for Leeds United's sudden loss of interest in WARREN FEENEY was becuase he failed their medical due to hip damage.

Cardiff City have now decided the only course of action is surgery meaning Feeney will be going nowhere in this transfer window and will stay with The Bluebirds. It is a blow for the player - who wants away to play football - and the club - who need to move men out before others can sign.

Peter Ridsdale confirmed: "Medical staff tell us it's exactly the same problem Roger Johnson had last season. Warren is back with us and will have surgery to sort out his hip. He'll be back to 100 per cent in a short time."

Cardiff will now look to sell or loan out the player in the January transfer window before his contract expires in May. He is still being tipped for a move to Leeds United at that time instead.

La La La La, Sol Bamba

Scotland's Daily Record are linking CARDIFF CITY with a shock move for Hibs' Ivory Coast defender Sol Bamba.

It appears that Motherwell's Paul Quinn remains the key target but the deal appears to be moving very slowly so maybe Dave Jones is looking at other options.

Sol Bamba is highly rated and Hibs fans are displeased by the news, many agreeing he would be a bigger loss -if he leaves - that international striker Steven Fletcher who left to join Premiership Burnley in midweek.

New Targets (including Ched Evans again) linked to City

Transfer window speculation will be rife over the next month. Cardiff City will feature heavily and already are with Joe Ledley talk almost daily news and Dave Jones' hopes, forlorn or otherwise, to keep Michael Chopra and Wayne Routledge beyond their current loan spells.

In the past 24 hours, however, two players have been linked with the club.

One of them is not new. Ched Evans, Manchester City's highly promising young striker, was a player City tried to bring on loan in the summer. At that time, with Man City in Europe and Mark Hughes unable to get the men he wanted, he was part of the set up. The player started or came on as sub 13 times and scored in a 6-0 victory over Portsmouth but has been overlooked in recent times - a 10 minute subs outing in the past 6 weeks has been the full extent of his first team action in that time.

As Mark Hughes gets ready to unload a treasure chest to bring in more players and stars, Evans may fall even further down the pecking order which would mean business could be done this time. The latest rumour, though, has come from pundit and ex-player Malcolm Allen on a weekend Welsh language sports progamme as he hinted Evans is on the way. Is he right? Time will tell.

Another man linked is one-eyed (yep, you read that right, a childhood accident by all accounts) Hibs midfielder Dean Shiels, scorer of 22 goals in 114 games and with 7 Northern Ireland caps. He's the perfect Cardiff target - 23, playing in Scotland, out of contract in the summer - a path well worn by the likes of Ross McCormack and Kevin McNaughton. City are believed to be facing competition from Burnley, Sheffield Wednesday, Ipswich and Burnley amongst others.