Bellamy to Celtic

[Leyton388]

Lets get in there with a cheeky £3m bid.

[red g]

dont think they want to sell to us or spurs as we are rivals.

[Craig_H]

We should employ Kia Joorabchian to buy him, and then we can buy him off Kia.

[Fivex]

Gone to Cardiff on loan - (almost) official

Craig Bellamy will join Cardiff City on loan on Tuesday, BBC Wales understands.

A news conference is set to be held later in the day to confirm the Championship club's capture of the Manchester City striker. Bellamy spent Monday in talks with an unnamed club and had been given permission to train with Cardiff. Manchester City must name a 25-man Premier League squad by 1 September and Welsh captain Bellamy, 31, had already been told he was being left out. However he was also being linked with a move to Tottenham, Fulham and Celtic. Bellamy said last week he would be happy to play for Cardiff as his family was based there and the club said they "would love" to sign him.

The Eastlands outfit would prefer him to move to the Championship rather than a Premier League rival - and the huge wealth of his current club means they have an unprecedented amount of control over the future of a player whose colourful career has taken in eight clubs already, and who has cost a near total of £45m in transfer fees. He was linked to Tottenham, who beat Roberto Mancini's City team to the last Champions League place last season. However, Spurs manager Harry Redknapp conceded: "They wouldn't want to loan him to us. I don't think they want to loan anyone to us. "Good luck to Cardiff but it would be a waste of an outstanding player. He should stay in the Premier League for sure."

Bellamy himself is so exasperated with his situation at Eastlands that he even spoke last week of quitting football altogether.
"This game is ruthless; I might finish, full stop," he stated. He has been a Premier League regular since joining Coventry from Norwich in 2000 - except for a five-month loan stint at Celtic during his time at Newcastle United - and has also played for Liverpool, West Ham and Blackburn Rovers. His friend, Derby County's Robbie Savage, told BBC Radio 5 live: "He's disappointed he's not in the City 25. He thinks he should be in, as I do and the majority of supporters in Britain would. "He wants to play football and is a fantastic player."

[Kenneth]

So he's chosen to go to Cardiff rather than Everton. Fair enough I guess.

[Fivex]

I don't see what the problem is myself, in fact I quite respect the decision, **** what 'Arry's saying to him; "throwing his career away"

[PTP]

hell of a signing for cardiff.

[Rich]

Wonder how much of his massive wages Cardiff will be paying...

[Vermilion]

Great decision, he lives there, a mile from training and next door but one to the manager, it's perfect for him imo, he has all the cash he needs, Citeh will be stumping up for his wages (mostly)...it's win win for him.

Good that he didn't feel himself beneath playing in that league too, be good to see more players do things like this, going back to their home town club while they still have something to offer, it's circumstances i know that have allowed him to do this..but i think it's a perfect fit.

[red g]

Wonder how much of his massive wages Cardiff will be paying...

think its fair to say that anyone City want of there books for the next 5 years will have to be paid off significcantly!!

[Vermilion]

think its fair to say that anyone City want of there books for the next 5 years will have to be paid off significcantly!!

If he was on 90k at Citeh, i reckon they must be paying atleast 60k of that still ?

[red g]

If he was on 90k at Citeh, i reckon they must be paying atleast 60k of that still ?

Its Peter Risdale so i fully expect him to offer to pay half there wages, even though city only wanted a quarter.

[Rich]

If he was on 90k at Citeh, i reckon they must be paying atleast 60k of that still ?

I don't think Cardiff will be forking out more than £10k a week on him to be honest.

[Fivex]

Jimmy and God were on a fair bit more than that though, surely?

[Rich]

They might have been on more but Cardiff are totally skint now - probably because they used to pay out big money for old premiership players.