Ex-Cardiff City player Joe Ledley has expressed his desire to return to Cardiff one day in the future and play for his old club. Well I for one hope he stays in Scotland playing Sunday league football in a two horse race of league glory. Celtic are no better than a Championship team and would struggle to win promotion if they were in it. Yes they have beaten the odd Premier League team in Europe, but how would they fair week in week out grind of the league.
I was happy for him to leave to look for a high level of football the Premier League or even one of the big European League, but the Scottish Premier League, what a joke. I don't care about the money he was never going to sign a new contract unless Cardiff won promotion and then I would have to say maybe.
He used Cardiff City to putting himself in the shop window for his last season, but no one bit Cardiff's hand off in the January transfer window. Why would any club in their right mind pay out a few million quid when in a few months they could get him on a free transfer. Stoke wanted him in the summer it was rumour, not one of the bigger Premiership clubs, but a good bottom half of the table club. They once offer £6million so him, but it was Celtic who got the players signature.
The Cardiff manager Dave Jones never wanted to sell him or let him go, but the right offer could have swayed the Cardiff City board so sell. They took a gamble in keeping him for the finally season of his contract it just didn't workout. Maybe they should have sold him the previous summer.
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