Fa Barclaycard Premiership News( 05 November 2008 )
English Premiership football News
Chopra set for shock Cardiff move
Michael Chopra is set to make a shock return to Cardiff City Fa Barclaycard Premiership Sunderland as a loan-signing and could play at QPR on Saturday.
Chopra, 24, should be back to the Bluebirds for two months to help fill gaps created by injuries to Jay Bothroyd and Ross McCormack.
The move is likely to raise speculation Chopra will be back on a more permanent basis in the January transfer window.
Chopra joined Sunderland from Cardiff, in July 2007 for £ 5m.
Bluebirds chairman Peter Ridsdale said earlier in Wales BBC Sport: "We concentrate on the Fa Barclaycard Premiership and I hope we will have a Premier League by attacking the trusts before Saturday."
McCormack is for a maximum of four weeks and Bothroyd a maximum of eight after suffering injuries in Saturday Hamstring 2-1 defeat by Wolves in the championship.
Ridsdale added: "We are going to the Premier League because it is clear they are the actors in a Caliber and it is more likely that they will have a team large enough to be allowed to have someone on loan.
"None of our Championship Rivals want us to do well during this period so as not to help us in the lower leagues and those who do very many people, if they want to sell at all and, of course, you can not buy until January. "
Boss Dave Jones has only Eddie Johnson and Paul Parry available to fill gaps until a new recruit Orman can be signed and the arrival of a nature to facilitate its concern.
Bothroyd lasted only 13 minutes 2-1 loss Saturday, while top scorer McCormack back to the beginning of the second half having struck his 11th goal of the season.
The duo joined midfielders Mark Kennedy, Riccardo Scimeca and Tony Capaldi mid-term injury list.
Between the two, and McCormack have Bothroyd scored 14 of the Bluebirds' 19 league goals this season, helping to lift Cardiff to sixth in the championship.
"We now need someone because of what happened," said Jones.
"You know now it is five players, and great players for us which is difficult to swallow."
by bbcnews.
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