Joe Ledley - The January Sales Talk Starts Here

According to today's South Wales Echo, Everton are poised to offered £6M for Joe Ledley when the next transfer window opens which is 3 weeks today.

The Toffees have been long rumoured suitors of Joe but failed to move for him and instead opted to try and take Aaron Ramsey who was prised away by Arsenal for £5M.

Newspapers have also speculated that Spurs may bid for Joe who could then team up with the North London Taffia of Ramsey, Chris Gunter and Gareth Bale. It also seems inevitable that Stoke City whose £6M bid was declined in the August window will try their luck again too.

All of this makes it tough, if not impossible, to hold onto a player who is out of contract at the end of next season and who had been unsettled by summer rumours only recently rediscovering his form. When it is rumoured that Stoke were willing to more than treble his Cardiff City salary and dangle the carrot of Premiership football, it is easy to understand why he may have been distracted but it also suggests City have next to nil chance pf gettign him to sign a new deal too.

Of course, it may be mutually beneficial to club and player to sell as City would love to keep Wayne Routledge and Michael Chopra plus add a midfielder to the squad for the run-in. Publicly, they may say they wish to keep Joe but, privately, I can imagine Joe being sold if the only way to raise funds to give them any opportunity to do such deals. .

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