Could Vaulks be set for a move over the bridge?
Cardiff City midfielder Will Vaulks is reportedly attracting interest from Severnside rivals Bristol City.
According to the Daily Mail, the former Rotherham star has also caught the eye of Stoke City and League One side Sunderland.
Vaulks was signed by previous boss Neil Warnock for a fee of around £2m last summer, but has so far struggled to nail down a regular first-team place for the Bluebirds, making just nine Championship appearances this season.
Game-time has admittedly improved since the arrival of new boss Neil Harris, but questions over his long-term future at Cardiff City Stadium remain.
Bristol City were first credited with an interest in the Wales international back in 2016 when the player was still at Falkirk, but were eventually beaten to his signature by the Millers.
Speaking about potential signings, boss Lee Johnson told Bristol Live: “I think we need to get a couple in. I think that you need quality, not quantity and that’s the problem because there isn’t a lot.
“You’ve got to either go the extra mile financially to do it, whether that be on a long term or a short term, or you’ve got to stick with what you’ve got and promote from within.
“I just think that there’s not much moving because it’s like a house chain.
“If something happens in that particular club where a player gets injured, what happens is, the chain completely falls down where we want their players, teams want our players and then teams at that club then can’t get rid of their players and it’s a domino effect that moves through football.
“What’s more than likely is a mad rush in the last 48 hours of the window.”
Whether or not there will be a late scramble to bring Vaulks on board remains to be seen, but the player himself appears focused on fighting for his place at Cardiff City Stadium.
He said earlier in the month : “For me I have played all my career from 19 until this year, it has been by far the hardest six months I have had as a player, apart from the part where you’re trying to make it when you’re 18 or 19 but that is different but now it has been really tough.
“It is not what I thought I was signing to do, not that I was given false promises but it has not gone the way I would have liked it to or the fans would have want of wanted it to. But I have got time on my side and I don’t want to give up.
“I have had to do it a load of times throughout my career, fight back from being in tough situations so under the new manager I am ready to fight to get into the team every week. That is where I want to be, he knows that, so I will be doing everything that I can in training to make that happen.”