Cardiff City news 03/07/00

Mon 3rd July 2000 - Walton completes move

Mark Walton has completed his free transfer from Brighton. Mark will now challenge Jon Hallworth for the no. 1 jersey with first year professional Paul Buttery as the third choice keeper. 31 year old Mark is overjoyed at moving to Cardiff. He has signed a two year deal after declining the offer of a similar contract at Brighton.

Chris Roberts has blown his chance to sign for Exeter City. Grecians boss Noel Blake had offered a two year contract to Roberts and had agreed to Cardiff's insistence of a 50% sell on clause but Exeter withdrew their offer after being "messed about" by the player. Blake said "He wanted to join Exeter for the wrong reasons. I have decided to withdraw the offer. We may have missed out on a good player, but I only need players who want to play for Exeter City".

There have been links over the weekend to Wolves' young Welsh player Ryan Green. It appears Wolves maybe willing to let him out on loan to City but there is no confirmation from Ninian Park. Also linked again last week was Dave Greene the Colchester player that was heavily linked to City last season. No further news on either of the Green(e)s at the monent.

So as we stand at the moment we have the following squad.

Goalkeepers
Paul Buttery
Jon Hallworth
Mark Walton

Transfer list
Seamus Kelly

Defenders
Jeff Eckhardt
Andy Legg
Russell Perrett
Lee Skelly
Scott Young

Transfer list
Jorn Schwinkendorf

Midfielders
Willie Boland
Mark Bonner
Jason Bowen
Matt Brazier
Danny Hill
Josh Low

Out of contract
Jason Fowler

Attackers
Rob Earnshaw
Kurt Nogan
Kevin Nugent

Transfer list
Jamie Hughes
Christian Roberts
Dai Thomas

To round up then as we stand now we have 17 full time professionals. One player waiting to make his mind up and 5 players on the transfer list.