Tom Adeyemi To Be Unveiled As Cardiff Player Thursday

Cardiff City underlined their determination to land Birmingham City’s Tom Adeyemi by making four separate bids for the young midfield player.

Blues rejected an Adeyemi transfer request and said no to the first three Bluebirds’ offers, but then relented when the fee being offered reached £1m plus add-ons.

Adeyemi is likely to be revealed as a Cardiff City player on Thursday following his medical.

Birmingham manager Lee Clark wanted Adeyemi, the club’s young player of the year last season, to stay and offered him a new, improved contract. But the 22-year-old energetic, box-to-box midfield player was adamant he wanted to sign for Cardiff.

Clark has made it clear he feels Adeyemi, who had a year left on his Birmingham contract, has the potential to become a leading Premier League player and has made the wrong move opting to join another Championship club.

Good news for us then!   

On the face of it, a like for like replacement for Mutch. If he's half as good, he'll be worth the £1m.

He's worth more than £1mil, he's a powerful box-to-box or defensive midfielder. Great signing.

Announced at the press conference at 10.13   

Tom said on City Player "From the outside looking in, Cardiff City has a very strong squad that will challenge for a quick return to the Premier League this season.

“I took no persuading from the Manager to come here. It was a fantastic opportunity for me to work with somebody like him and to play for a club like Cardiff City. I’m very pleased that everything has been completed ahead of the season and now I can focus on fighting for a place in the side and helping us get the season off to a great start.”

Confirmed now. The general consensus is that he's similar to Mutch in a sense that he's box-to-box, but far less of a goal threat.

The question is, did we really need to another centre midfielder? 

Will Adeyemi keep Gunnarsson out of the squad?

Well OGS said that Gunns, Whitts, Adeyemi and Dikgacoi are all Prem quality, meaning that I assume he will rotate them all?

Not convinced Gunnarrson is premiership quality based on his offerings last season, whenever we were forced to swap him and Medel our defence just completely collapsed.

Would assume the choice might be Dikgacoi and Adeyemi, but that would seem very harsh on Whitts considering his impressive preseason. Midfield looking good now too though - any chance of working on the defence now Ole? A couple of top class defenders and I can get genuinely optimistic...

Red614 wrote:Not convinced Gunnarrson is premiership quality based on his offerings last season, whenever we were forced to swap him and Medel our defence just completely collapsed.

Would assume the choice might be Dikgacoi and Adeyemi, but that would seem very harsh on Whitts considering his impressive preseason. Midfield looking good now too though - any chance of working on the defence now Ole? A couple of top class defenders and I can get genuinely optimistic...

I'm surprised that Ole left this to last to sort out...and a few days before the season starts. It's almost as though an injury crisis has forced his hand when it is quiet clearly our 'weakest' area.

Exactly, the loss of Caulker and Medel has been no surprise to anyone except apparently Solskjaer, who has shown very little interest in working to replace the core defensive problems. He went at the striker problem with a sledgehammer and should be commended for that, but if we aren't in the top six by Christmas, I knew where I will be pointing the finger.

Any chance we could talk Tan into letting Ole and Malky co-manage the side?