Cardiff City completed a successful Wednesday after confirming the record signing of Michael Chopra and the contract extension of fellow striker Ross McCormack by confirming the capture of Charlton Athletic skipper Mark Hudson.
Hudson is seen as the replacement for Roger Johnson and was highly respected at Crystal Palace where he was a pivotal player, the only grumbles mainly surround his lack of pace, but he took the opportunity to jump ship on a free to Charlton last summer. That may have been financially worthwhile but it was a footballing disaster with The Addicks bottom of the Championship and relegated.
The fee - reportedly worth upto £700,000 or £1,000,000 (depending on which newspaper you read) is Cardiff's 3rd signing of the summer following Chopra and also goalkeeper David Marshall who joined from Norwich City.
McCormack commented on his new extended contract that, "I am really pleased to have sorted things out. I enjoyed last season. Like the other lads, I want the opportunity to go that step farther than last season.”
Jones is looking to bring in 5 more players but, clearly, in order to do that, he needs movement out of the club.
Key man Joe Ledley is still hoping for a Premiership move with Everton interested but no club has yet made their move leaving Joe in pre-season training with City but with a contract running down.
Warren Feeney is set to be confirmed as a Leeds United player before the weekend but the club wouldn't mind losing the likes of Paul Parry, Tony Capaldi amongst others.
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