In the build up to tomorrow's big home sell out game versus Newcastle United, Cardiff City talisman JOE LEDLEY has turned down the club's latest contract offer.
Joe - with less than a year on his current deal - had been holding out for a Premiership move but with no club making a bid for him in the latest transfer window, he will remin at Cardiff for the time being. Rumour has it that Joe is on "just" (!) £7,000 a week, the result of turning down contract talks and offers for more than a year.
Cardiff City have offered to double his pay and insert a sale clause to a Premiership club for a release fee should the club languish in the Championship. The offer may seem good on the one hand but it would leave Joe well behind other players at the club and it would appear that Joe is seeking parity with the best paid players - which you can understand when he is one of the team's stars, has arguably been penalised for being a local boy and, if other rumours are true, could have been earning £25k weekly if City had agreed to sell him for £6M to Stocke City last January.
Hopefully the club and player could find a happy balance soon as Joe has confirmed that he is more than happy to pen a new deal while Peter Ridsdale and Dave Jones want to sort it out but Ledley told the South Wales Echo, ""It's down to the club. If they want me to sign, they have got to put a contract to me. I want to remain here and if the contract is right, I will sign it. At the moment the contract is not right. If it's good enough, I will sign it. At the moment, I'm still trying to sort one out."
Back to you Mr Ridsdale
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