Lifelong Birmingham City fan Craig Gardner has been left with a dilemma - to stay with his boyhood heroes in the Championship or to sign for local rivals Wolverhampton Wanderers. Gardner plumped for the Blues back in January 2010 when leaving Aston Villa, but Mick McCarthy remains a keen admirer of the goalscoring midfielder and has wasted no time in submitting a £3.25m bid. Financial problems at St Andrews mean that the bid has been immediately accepted despite the wishes of Alex McLeish to keep his key players at the club, and the choice is now entirely down to the player.
Gardner's arrival at Molineux would see an exit for David Edwards, who has been at the club since 2008. A fee of £2m would be commanded for the Welsh international and there has already been interest from Premier League new boys Swansea City, who see him as the potential heartbeat of their new look midfield, as Darren Pratley seems set to clinch a Bosman move to Bolton in the coming days.
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