{"id":543312,"date":"2020-02-09T07:33:57","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T12:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=543312"},"modified":"2021-03-17T19:11:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:11:36","slug":"report-celtic-lining-up-deal-for-cardiff-city-winger-josh-murphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/02\/09\/report-celtic-lining-up-deal-for-cardiff-city-winger-josh-murphy\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Celtic &#8216;Lining up&#8217; Deal for Cardiff City Winger Josh Murphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celtic are preparing to lodge a bid for Cardiff City&#8217;s Josh Murphy after a failed January attempt, according to Phil Cadden of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/sport\/football\/5263703\/celtic-summer-deal-cardiff-city-josh-murphy\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scottish Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Celtic &#8216;Lining up&#8217; Deal for Cardiff City Winger Josh Murphy<\/h2>\n<h3>Failed January Bid<\/h3>\n<p>The Scottish Sun claim Neil Lennon will lodge a bid for Murphy this summer after his plans to bring the winger to Scotland failed last month.<\/p>\n<p>Lennon reportedly tried to sign Murphy on transfer deadline day but was unable to complete a deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old is now understood to be a target for the Hoops this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy is under contract until 2022 after signing from Norwich City in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He was part of the Welsh side that were relegated from the Premier League that term.<\/p>\n<p>The talented winger has made 51 appearances in all competitions since joining the Bluebirds.<\/p>\n<p>His goalscoring record has proven to disappoint some though having only found the net seven times.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy made over 100 appearances in all competitions for Norwich City before heading to Wales &#8211; he scored 20 goals in 104 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the interest in Murphy, Cardiff City boss Neil Harris insisted his future remains in the Welsh capital.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if the winger has a future at Cardiff, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/51386194\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harris said<\/a>: &#8220;Of course he does.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;He divides opinion within the fan base. I get that all the time when I&#8217;m stopped in coffee shops or supermarkets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He divides opinion. That is ultimately what he is as a wide player.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he&#8217;s hot, like he was against Reading, he&#8217;s unplayable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And when he&#8217;s not and when it doesn&#8217;t quite come off for him, you can question how much he&#8217;s done on the pitch. But that is the sort of player he is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Murphy joined Cardiff City for \u00a311 million in June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"dE848KEkRE1UofRVUq-KZA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1069812312\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'dE848KEkRE1UofRVUq-KZA',sig:'eWYLqRJ3pbR88L3YrtLGP3xPCKW-OVaZtCHT_C9K2Mg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1069812312',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celtic are preparing to lodge a bid for Cardiff City&#8217;s Josh Murphy after a failed January attempt, according to Phil Cadden of the Scottish Sun. Celtic &#8216;Lining up&#8217; Deal for Cardiff City Winger Josh Murphy Failed January Bid The Scottish Sun claim Neil Lennon will lodge a bid for Murphy this summer after his plans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3040,"featured_media":543315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2509,8428,33,8427,28],"tags":[38,375,197,168,4888,478],"class_list":["post-543312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-league-football","category-cardiff-city","category-celtic","category-championship","category-scottish-premiership","category-transfers","tag-cardiff-city","tag-celtic","tag-championship","tag-efl","tag-josh-murphy","tag-scotland"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}