Magnus Levken

ANOTHER NORWEGIAN


Cardiff manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer could boost the Norwegian contingency in his playing squad by moving for Magnus Lekven in the next few days and add another familiar face to Manchester United fans.
Solskjaer is signing young midfielders Mats Moller Dahli and Magnus Wolff Eikrem, who both figured at United’s academy, but the more defensive-minded Lekven is also in his thoughts.
Lekven is 25 and has been playing in Denmark for Esbjerg who finished fourth in the league and reached the Danish Cup final where Lekven was awarded the game’s ‘Cup Fighter’ award.
He has four international caps and could help share the burden felt by Gary Medel in Cardiff’s midfield.

Bluebirds swoop: Magnus Levken could be the next Norwegian to join Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in Cardiff.

Wicked Whisper
Which Premier League striker was rumbled as he tried to sneak out of the team hotel for a trip to a local ‘dancing bar’ when he bumped into two of the club’s coaches who were leaving the said venue as he walked up to the door. Bribes were exchanged to ensure the manager didn’t get to hear.
The signings of Dahli and Eikrem are no real surprise considering Solskjaer’s role in their initial development at Old Trafford and he will draw from that experience also by looking at Hannover’s Mame Biram Diouf.

Diouf was in the reserve side that Solskjaer coached at United and his improvement helped secure his move to the Bundesliga.
He has since become a target for Stoke City who have been trying since the summer to tie up a deal for around £3.5million despite the Germans’ albeit unrealistic £10m valuation.
However, Diouf is out of contract in the summer and could be allowed to leave now for £2.5m.

Recruitment drive: New manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wants some fresh faces in at Cardiff

Solskjaer will rival Stoke and their cause has been helped after Senegal forward Diouf missed training at the weekend.
New Hannover coach Tayfun Korkut said: ‘I need to be able to plan with one good attacker. A transfer in the winter is no issue for me.’


Cardiff are also favourites to sign Wilfried Zaha on loan from United.

A little more on Levken http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Levken

Im hearing Zaha might of hit a stumbling block - Nani is supposedly injured and Ashley Young is definetely injured, so Moyes might need Zaha as cover.

A defensive midfielder as cover makes sense. I always think Gunnarsson is more of a box-to-box midfielder

"Wild speculations with no root in reality"
"He has picked up two norwegian midfielders and that's probably enough"
"Neighter my agent or I have heard anything about this"
"Background for speculations probably that Solskjær wanted to get me to Molde"
"Premier League sounds great but thinks Bundesliga is more tempting"

http://www.tv2.no/2014/01/07/sport/fotball/premier-league/landslag/5206098#.Us013fTuKrE

Thanks Ludd,