Cardiff City to sign up to 15 new players in transfer window amid meetings with Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea

Cardiff City's summer promises to be an exciting ride, from an onlooker's perspective. The door will be revolving in and out so much that next season's starting XI will bear little to no resemblance to the one which started this campaign.

Given how this season began, many will view that as a positive. Things need freshening up and the upcoming window presents Cardiff with the biggest opportunity they have had in quite some time to do just that.

As a minimum, it is understood the club are looking to bring in 10 players. Should more players leave, it could be as many as 15. That is the size of the task at hand, but it is one which the club view as an opportunity to change their future for the better.

Cardiff have been hamstrung by exorbitant wages, lengthy contracts and dwindling player values for too long and the next few months will go some way to trying to alter that and drag up both the club's value and their positioning in the Championship table.

There are 10 first-team players out of contract in June. The club are keen to keep hold of Joe Ralls, while talks are still ongoing regarding Sean Morrison's future. As for the other eight, well, it could be that they all leave for pastures new.

There has been talk in some circles of a wage cap being implemented at Cardiff from next season onwards, but it is understood they are working on an average wage structure. There is a figure Cardiff want all their first-team players' contracts to average out at, meaning if one player is offered a particularly high wage then it would affect the players on the lower end of the scale, with less scope to offer them more money.

That is the sort of predicament Cardiff find themselves in at the minute as they look to slash outgoings on