Blues in £3.8m bid for Boyd
Jan 7 2009 By Andy Walker
Meanwhile, the agent of another initial Blues target, Gaston Sangoy, confirmed contact had been made from the St Andrew’s outfit.
The Argentinian striker’s representative, Christian Otero, told the Birmingham Mail yesterday that Blues had enquired about his client but they were one of several English and European clubs to express an interest in the goal-getter, who is playing in Cyprus for Apollon Limassol.
However, now that McLeish looks set to bag his compatriot Boyd, who has scored an incredible 91 goals in three season for Rangers, any progress on a deal for Sangoy, 24, is likely to be dead in the water.
McLeish brought Boyd, the SPL’s current top scorer by a comfortable margin, to the blue side of Glasgow from Kilmarnock in January 2006 in a £400,000 deal.
During the summer Rangers rejected a £2.5million bid from Blues’ Championship rivals Cardiff City for Boyd, who has previously been described as an ‘enigma’ by his current boss Walter Smith.
Elsewhere, Blues were also yesterday linked with another loan move for a winger, this time for Fulham’s Algeria international Hameur Bouazza.
Bouazza, who is on-loan at Charlton from the Cottagers, would have caught McLeish’s eye back in November when he scored a stunning first-half goal during the Addicks’ 3-2 at St Andrew’s.
