Cardiff City fans see Wayne Routledge as a Premiership-standard player in the Championship while, in the eyes of Villa fans, he's a Premiership man who really belongs to the Championship as evidenced in this article as en example (http://astonvillablog.com/transfer-gossip-21st-dec-08/).
Given this, there's every chance Routledge will stay with City beyond his current mid-January loan and it is very heartening to hear the player himself has apparently expressed his desire to stay. City fans would love it, he's become a cult hero already who excites every time he is on the ball.
Talk is that Cardiff are looking to buy him for £300k in the summer and continuing his current loan until the end of the season. As he's out of contract and not close to the Villa side, signs maybe promising.
However, his form, exceptional skills and goals in his brief time at Ninian Park has surely brought him to the attention of others and QPR, more flush with money than City, are rumoured to be expressing strong interest in taking the player back to London where he's best known after starting out at Crystal Place before a switch to Spurs.
His time in the Premiership with Spurs and Villa hasn't worked out but let's hope that is to the advantage of Cardiff City. Time will soon tell.
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