Cardiff City transfer headlines as door ajar for loan man's return and the Bluebird who 'deserves' contract

Here are your Cardiff City headlines for Tuesday, March 15.

Steve Morison has left the door ajar for Gavin Whyte to play a part for Cardiff City next season.

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The Bluebirds winger is on loan at League One Oxford United and is enjoying arguably his best season in years. The Northern Ireland international has registered 10 assists and scored once as the U's continue their push for promotion to the Championship.

With so many players out of contract at Cardiff in the summer, some fans are starting to believe that Whyte could play a part for the Bluebirds next season. While Morison has been keeping a close eye on the player's progress at the Kassam Stadium, there are seven others also out on loan and he knows he must monitor them all before the big decisions are made in the summer.

"I haven't focused on it too much," he said. "But I get the information and I know how well he is doing. He is one who comes back into the group for next year. I've not seen him here really, I've seen him fleetingly when he came to play for the under-23s once, but I've not seen enough of him.

"I don't know what the situation is because the last two managers shipped him out straight away down to League One with Oxford. He is comfortable there and does really well there.

"From my point of view he comes back into the group, we will assess and then go from there in the summer. I didn't think I needed him back in the January transfer window, I really wanted Ryan [Wintle] and Max [Watters] to come back, but we are still running the rule over them and have an eye on all of them. Gav is someone who has a contract next year and is someone that will come back to us in pre-season."

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