Cardiff City transfer bulletin as multiple clubs want striker and star says 'it was hard to leave'
Kion Etete is attracting interest and could leave Cardiff City on loan before the January transfer window closes.
That's according top talkSPORT's transfer expert Alex Crook, who reports a number of League One clubs are keeping tabs on the forward.
Crook wrote on X: "#CardiffCity striker Kion Etete expected to leave on loan this month. Has a host of League One clubs interested."
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Etete, who joined from Tottenham in 2022, has only six months left on his Bluebirds contract. With Yousef Salech recently joining Cardiff for a significant fee and with Calum Robinson in goalscoring form, game-time is likely to be limited for Etete at Cardiff City Stadium, despite their woes at the bottom of the table. Sign up to our daily Cardiff City newsletter here.
The 23-year-old has missed the majority of the season so far through injury, only seeing minutes in the FA Cup clash with Sheffield United earlier this month.
If Etete were to leave the club, he would become the second striker to leave this month, following Wilfried Kanga's loan recall to Hertha.
Salech announced himself to the Bluebirds faithful with an injury-time equaliser against Millwall in midweek.
And former Bluebirds defender Steven Caulker believes Cardiff are finding form at the right time.
"It was really, really important [at Millwall] just to keep momentum," Caulker told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.
"It's six games unbeaten and seven if you include the FA Cup as well. I just think when the team's down the bottom fighting for points, those last-minute equalisers do feel like winners.
"I feel Omer's (Riza) doing a good job. He started off really well, had a rough patch, and Cardiff seem to be turning a corner."
It's Derby next up for Riza's men, and another opportunity to move themselves out of relegation trouble. "You don't want to be in that relegation zone in March, you don't want to be there in April, and you certainly don't want to be there May," Caulker added.
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"I think they're full of confidence and they've got, let's say, a winnable game on the weekend against Derby County, which would actually see them start to pull away from the relegation zone [if they win]. So fingers crossed the momentum stays with them."
Meanwhile, Malachi Fagan-Walcott says it was hard to leave Cardiff earlier this season but says he's loving life with York City.
The defender has already established himself as a mainstay with the Minstermen, scoring in the midweek win over Oldham Athletic.
Fagan-Walcott told the YorkPress: “It was, it was an easy decision for me (to join York). It was hard to leave Cardiff but I felt as if development for me, this was the best thing for me.
“I’m young and I need to play games, I’ve been here before and had been here since the beginning of the season, and I’ve enjoyed every second of it.
“When the time came and my agent told me there were talks about it, I was 100 per cent from the beginning. He [Callum Howe] helps me, he said before I came, are you going to tell them that I keep carrying you through?
“He helps me a lot, it’s a privilege to be fair. He doesn’t miss a header, he wins everything and there are little things that I can pick up on because he has played many more games than me. Big praise to him.”
