Town’s move for Hull City midfielder Jimmy Bullard is still very much in its early stages, according to reports in East Yorkshire this morning. Blues boss Paul Jewell is understood to have spoken to his Tigers counterpart Nigel Pearson yesterday regarding his interest in his former Wigan player.
A source at Hull is reported to have said that the proposed loan deal is still in its "early days" with Jewell and Bullard believed to be planning talks in the next 48 hours, after Town’s Carling Cup semi-final second leg at Arsenal.
If the player agrees in principle to making the switch, which the Tigers would welcome, the clubs would have to come to an arrangement regarding the 32-year-old’s £45,000-a-week wage, the issue which led to a summer loan to Celtic breaking down.
The Blues would be looking to pay only a proportion of Bullard’s salary, which was agreed as part of a deal which runs to 2013 during Hull’s time as a Premier League club.