Cardiff City chairman Gethin Jenkins says the recent takeover of his club by a Malaysian consortium means the Bluebirds do not have to sell striker Michael Chopra. Town are understood to have made offers of up to £4 million for the former Sunderland man, although Jenkins says reports of a bid are "speculation".

Jenkins, whose club settled their £1.9 million tax debt last week, said: "We're not in a position where we need to sell. With the new investment we're building a strong platform to go forward.

“And Michael Chopra is contracted to us and the reports of the bid is just speculation."

Town boss Roy Keane is understood to want to pair Chopra, who he signed when manager of Sunderland, with Connor Wickham next season.

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Blue4life added 16:06 - Jun 16 thats him out of reach then lol! sincerely hope not though!!
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Marshalls_Mullet added 16:07 - Jun 16 I hope we have some contingency plans. Am looking forward to the season under Keane, but dont have a great deal of confidence in his scouting network, judgement and contacts.
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ozzy_333 added 16:17 - Jun 16 well that seems like chopra is out of the equation then unfortunatly unless the prospect of keano makes him want to move .....? there is hope yet . what other proven strikers can we get for 4.5 mil ?
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floridaboy added 16:19 - Jun 16 Good riddance I say. Lets start looking at strikers with a bit of hunger ie Charlie Austin or Ricky Lambert and we will have some change as well from the so called £4m Roy was prepared to pay for Chopra
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IpswichElvis added 16:22 - Jun 16 I agree with Florida boy above.
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Suffolk_n_Good added 16:23 - Jun 16 I must admit the tone of this does make me feel somewhat uncertain as to the chances of securing Chopra.....
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OsborneOneNil added 16:24 - Jun 16 Said earlier, I'd be amazed if he came here.
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AJblue added 16:38 - Jun 16 Seems to me this is just another game of transfer "chess", as in your move Mr Keane. We will either sign him or not, simple really, in the meantime i will sit back and enjoy the "chase" and see who else we get linked with. Either way i doubt much will happen until that little thing in South Africa is over anyway.
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BseaBlue added 16:39 - Jun 16 DO DO DO, Chopra is a no go
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bedsitfc added 16:40 - Jun 16 hope he does come as he will almost certainly score 15 - 20 goals a season but he is expensive, just wondering if we should be looking at less pricey players. as above lambert, austin, bogdanovic, tudgay, billy sharpe, hooper and then have more to spend on other areas like full backs
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Blue4life added 16:59 - Jun 16 Yes Ricky Lambert would almost certainly be signed for around 3 mil and thts lower than the price we will pay for chopra. However I really hope Chopra comes, he must be thinking about it bcoz of his relationship with keano.
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Mungo added 17:00 - Jun 16 This doesn't mean a lot. Any club in their position would say the same thing. We don't have to sell either, but if someone offered us £4m for Jon Walters (for example) I think we would take it! If I recall correctly, Cardiff have been saying this sort of thing for years and often do sell someone, usually for a massively inflated price. Chopra is still available if RK really wants him (and ME is prepared to pay for him).

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naaridge1coly7 added 17:17 - Jun 16 so an end to yet more false hope and a complete loads of wasted hours writing on here....we should all know by now that no decent players want to come to this club or play for keane...VERY OBVIOUS!!!! One thing i do know is that ME's Helicopter was definetely in town this alvo cos it flew right over my shop on hadleigh road industrial estate-lets just hope he was going in to give him his marching orders.....watch this space......

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wazza added 17:18 - Jun 16 They do not have to sell but he is having talk with Jones upon his return and if his heart is not in it and he want to leave (to join whoever) then he can i guess
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RetroBlue added 17:20 - Jun 16 sounds to me like Cardiff trying desperately to hang onto their striker. Town have made several bids to them ....if it was a no sell policy , why the repeated bids ? Also, Chopra might like to speak to Roy Keane if Town have met their valuation, as we appear to have done so!
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ipswich1992 added 17:28 - Jun 16 Sounds to me like there just trying to get more money out of them. If we knew they had to sell them we could be more firm and offer no more but this may make us raise our bid to 5 million. Besides I have a good witness that he was seen viewing a house in martlesham last weekend!
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bedsitfc added 17:33 - Jun 16 ipswich1992 - he is not back in the country yet after being away for a fortnight
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denhamblue added 17:34 - Jun 16 yawns,
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Bergholtblue added 17:53 - Jun 16 Deja Vu. Another summer of chasing a striker who ends up staying put or goes elsewhere and we are no further forward building a team.
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ipswich1992 added 18:03 - Jun 16 When I say last weekend I mean not the weekend just gone the one before that. He was seen in his car with a personilised number plate Reading ch09ra!
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tractorboybig added 18:06 - Jun 16 Chopra has a choice. Stay with a team that reached the play off final, is keeping its players and buying others to improve, or come to Ipswich??? not much of a choice unless he is coming for higher wages.
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itfc1981 added 18:11 - Jun 16 Hooper would be a better bet, he's scoring record ismuch better. hes younger too.
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pimballwizard added 18:19 - Jun 16 ipswich 1992 ... /I reckon someone might have taken the "P" out of your number plate ..
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Monkey_Blue added 18:27 - Jun 16 Someone said we have made repaeated bids....cardiff say not. I would take that more seriously as the stories saying we had never came from the club. personally I'd rather spend 1.5 on austin as I think there are far more goals in our strikers than was shown last season. We dont need a 20 goal striker to get promoted, thats proven in the stats from last year...none of the three promoted sides had one, they just had good teams.

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Monkey_Blue added 18:29 - Jun 16 Although theres nothing wrong with a striker scoring 20 goals, but dont need to spend 4m in the fake belief thats what you need to go up
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