Town and Leicester City are reported to be ready to offer Cardiff City £350,000 for central defender Anthony Gerrard. Elsewhere in today’s tabloids, the Blues are again mentioned in connection with Peterborough midfielder George Boyd.

Gerrard, 26, is set to leave the Welsh club after apparently falling out of favour with manager Malky Mackay. The cousin of Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard, he came through the ranks at Everton and while with the Toffeemen spent time on loan with Accrington Stanley and Walsall before joining the Saddlers on a permanent basis in May 2005.

Four years later, the 6ft 2in tall defender moved to Cardiff for a fee believed to be in the region of £200,000.

Liverpool-born Gerrard spent the whole of 2010/11 on loan at Hull City before returning to the Bluebirds for the 2011/12 campaign.

The former Republic of Ireland U18 international came on as an injury time sub in this year’s Carling Cup final and missed the decisive spotkick during the penalty shoot-out, his cousin having already missed for Liverpool, who took the trophy.

Gerrard made 22 starts and three sub appearances for Cardiff during 2011/12, scoring two goals.

Meanwhile, the Blues, Burnley, Middlesbrough and Derby are all reported to be showing interest in Posh midfielder Boyd, who is up for sale having refused to sign an extension to his contract which has a year to run.

Peterborough are said to have put a price of more than £1 million on the 26-year-old former Stevenage man.

In April, Blues boss Paul Jewell played down the chances of Town signing either Boyd or team-mate Paul Taylor.

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Surco72 added 10:37 - May 14 The captain is very important on the pitch ,he controls ,leads by example and gets others doing their job ,that is why Edwards cannot captain next season as he does not do his own job properly and is constantly being told where to stand by his team mates . We have a number of luxuries in our squad Jet ,Martin,Carson,Edwards,Bullard who need a strong captain in the centre constantly in their ear ,which as Keanish has said has been missing for some time especially by having 4-5 different captains in a season .

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radiogaga added 13:38 - May 14 Captains are very important... Equally important is that we have a group of players who can lead and work together. Any team with passengers that cannot take control of a situation is going to struggle to succeed. That is my view..
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radiogaga added 13:40 - May 14 Norris and Leadbitter were pathetic captains both in terms of their leadership qualities and also their commitment to the club. There must be another Matt Holland out there somewhere!
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Skippy93 added 18:57 - May 14 On a side note, did anybody else briefly, just for a second, get a little bit lost in the moment when they read the headline: "Town linked with Gerrard move" - it wasn't Anthony I first thought of!
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tractorboy81 added 21:09 - May 14 How are we going to afford all these players if we have a financial fair play rule coming in? Money is all their interested in after all!
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yorksblue added 08:48 - May 15 Timmy H Sadly deluded that the one's we have are good enough!
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thechangingman added 14:46 - May 15 Boyd!!!! PLEASE let us get after Boyd with a vengeance!!! IMO he's EXACTLY the kind of player we need at Town to nail our colours to the mast!!!! Personally, this signing would be VERY exciting for me!!!!
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