Bogle set to go Dutch as Pardew swoops in
BLUEBIRDS striker Omar Bogle is on the verge of completing a loan move to ADO Den Haag until the end of the season, the Western Mail understands.
The Bluebirds forward was last night linked with a swap to the Dutch Eredivisie, having barely featured since manager Neil Harris took the reins of the Welsh capital club.
Alan Pardew heads up the Den Haag coaching staff, along with his assistant and fellow Brit Chris Powell, and has largely used this window to recruit players from these shores.
He has already secured loan deals for Middlesbrough’s Sam Stubbs, Leeds United’s Laurens De Bock, Leicester City’s George Thomas and Brighton’s Tudor Baluta.
We now understand that Bogle will become the fifth player poached from a British club for the Dutch outfit and that deal is set to be announced imminently.
City boss Harris confirmed there would be one more senior departure in this window, however he would not divulge whether Bogle was that player. However, the Western Mail understands that the striker, whose Cardiff contract runs out at the end of the season, will indeed leave before the window closes tonight.
“One of the lads will be leaving the building to go and play first-team football somewhere,” Harris said.
“Until it is finished, done, agreed and ratified, then obviously we won’t announce that.
“But I am 98 or 99 percent sure that is going to go through.”
In terms of incomings, City announced their first winter signing on Thursday morning in the form of Bournemouth left-back Brad Smith, who has penned a loan deal at
Cardiff City Stadium until the end of the season.
Harris has made clear his intent to sign a left-back and a forward player this month, so with one of those areas ticked off the list, will there be another new face before the window closes?
“Quite possible,” he added. “I’m very hopeful. I’ve said all along I want to sign a couple of players and the areas we wanted to strengthen and we’ve signed a left back.
“I’ve said I want to sign an attacking player and my thoughts haven’t changed. It wasn’t a scramble to get Brad in and we’re not scrambling to sign a player for tomorrow.
“An honest assumption of where we are is that we are delighted with the group we have got – there’ll be another player leaving in the immediate future – and it’s about adding to that and supporting that.
“I’ll only sign players at the right value, at the right price and at the right time.
“Ideally, we’d have one more. I’m hopeful we sign somebody in the next 30 hours.
“Is it possible? Twists and turns of course, but we are not scrambling.”