Loan bid for Cort rejected

By Peter Donnelly
July 11 2003

Newcastle United have rejected a loan offer from Cardiff City for striker Carl Cort. City boss Lenny Lawrence is keen to bring in Premiership players for his coming Division One campaign.

Injury-prone Cort has rarely featured for United since he joined from Wimbledon back in the year 2000, for £7 million pounds. Last season he only made three first-team appearances, however his scoring record isn't too bad, netting seven league goals in 19 starts since his arrival.

It is known that Sir Bobby Robson would only want a permanent deal to take place if he was going to let Cort leave, which would obviously result in Newcastle gaining some of the £7 million pounds they spent on him back.

Alan Shearer, Craig Bellamy, Shola Ameobi and Lomana Tresor LuaLua are all ahead of him in the picking order though and with Cort's consistant injury problems it leaves his future at St. James' looking bleak.