Report: Cardiff City and Birmingham go head-to-head for Ipswich Town’s David McGoldrick

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Ipswich Town could cash in on David McGoldrick with Championship duo Cardiff City and Birmingham City interested in doing a deal.

Thanks to the excellent form of summer signings Joe Garner and Martyn Waghorn, David McGoldrick is no longer the main man at Ipswich Town.

And with his contract due to expire at the end of the season, The Sun claims that Ipswich could be willing to part with the 30-year-old striker in a cut-price deal in the summer.

This will go down well with a Birmingham City side who, despite winning their last two games against Reading and Leeds United, are comfortably the Championship’s lowest scorers with 16 goals to their name so far in 2017/18.

The report states that Birmingham boss Steve Cotterill believes McGoldrick, who has six goals himself for Ipswich this season despite missing a number of games through injury, possesses the firepower required to inspire the Blues to safety.

Cotterill will face competition, however, from Neil Warnock’s Cardiff City. The Bluebirds did not have a particularly merry Christmas and have lost their automatic promotion spot to Derby County after a run of four successive Championship defeats.

It is understood, however, that Warnock is a firm admirer of former Nottingham Forest and Southampton striker McGoldrick.

And their interest could be encouraged by the fact that Kenneth Zohore, Cardiff’s top-scoring striker with just four goals this season, has suffered injury problems of his own in recent months.