CARDIFF CITY FRY-ed

Perterborough Director of Football BARRY FRY has poured cold water on his club selling star striker Craig Mackail-Smith to Cardiff City or anyone else in the near future along with his other stars. City have been linked after boss Dave Jones was spoted watching Posh win at Walsall last weekend.

It's a standard football reaction whenever a player is specualted in the press - show me the manager or owner who outright says that they want to sell - but Cardiff are surely planning ahead to new arrivals and possible departures in Janaury and, you'd hope, they're want to strike fast and early.

I MEET BARRY FRY IN 2002

(It Made His Day!)

Back to MacKail-Smith and Fry told Sky Sports last night that, "We are trying to build a team here capable of winning promotion and Craig is part of that, so we won't be looking to sell him any time in the near future. We had a bid of a million pounds offered to us a year ago for him, which we turned down flat, and we are not interested in selling our best players. The board have backed the manager all the way and have proven, by rejecting big offers for both Mackail-Smith and Aaron McLean, that they have the backbone to keep our stars here."

Wonder where he'll go in January then?!?!?