Steve Morison makes Cardiff City transfer revelation on potential summer signing

Cardiff City manager Steve Morison has revealed he has been tracking a potential summer signing since February, making this transfer admission to Wales Online.

The Bluebirds were given plenty of time to plan for the summer after managing to steer themselves away from the relegation zone this calendar year, having more than enough breathing space to plan for life in the second tier once more over the last couple of months.

And with their survival officially being confirmed in the early stages of April, they have been able to fully ramp up their preparations for around a month now and that could pay dividends for next season with several first-teamers out of contract.

10 senior players’ deals are set to expire this summer and with Alex Smithies and Marlon Pack’s departures already confirmed, it would be no surprise to see more players follow them through the exit door in the coming days and weeks.

As well as this, all five of their loanees in Alfie Doughty, Tommy Doyle, Cody Drameh, Jordan Hugill and Uche Ikpeazu are due to return to their respective parent clubs and this will leave the second-tier side with considerable gaps in their senior squad.

However, Cardiff boss Morison has offered a reassuring message to supporters, saying he is already close to one signing who he has tracked for a while.

He said: “It’s a process that we’ve been planning for a long time, for example one of the players we’re not far away from signing, we did our first report on him way back in February.

“This process isn’t just me picking players I want, which has happened previously at this football club. This isn’t the manager just going around and picking players he wants.

“There’s a process, we have a recruitment team, we highlight positions,