Bolton Wanderers manager Owen Coyle has revealed that defender Andy O’Brien had been given permission to speak to Town and Cardiff City prior to agreeing to join the Whites on a permanent basis earlier this week. O’Brien has agreed a two-and-a-half-year deal with the club with whom he has been on loan since October but with the formalities still to be completed.
Coyle said: "It has certainly not happened yet, but Andy was given permission to speak to Leeds, as he was with Cardiff and Ipswich.”
Former Irish international O’Brien, 31, was previously with Bradford, Newcastle and Portsmouth.