Andy Rinomhota out: 2 deals Cardiff City can be expected to make before the EFL kick-off on August 9th | OneFootball

Football League World looks at Cardiff's likely transfer business in the coming weeks

The transfer activity at the Cardiff City Stadium has been ramping up over the last week.

Cardiff City have suddenly sprung into life in the summer market by acquiring both Chris Willock and Calum Chambers on free transfers following their respective departures from QPR and Aston Villa. Further additions can only be expected to follow too, with Cardiff likely to have a series of targets lined up over the coming weeks.

There are few tangible transfer links at this moment in time, but you'd hazard a guess that Erol Bulut will be in for at least a striker - most likely two - another winger, a central midfielder and further depth in the full-back slots while any unprecedented player departures could also force the Turk's hand back into action.

Cardiff will be sanctioning a whole host of player departures before the 2024/25 EFL campaign commences, too. They'll be eager to avoid falling foul of the EFL's Profit and Sustainability rules which proved so detrimentally restrictive to their transfer designs in January, and compliance will require balancing of the books and a commitment to bringing money into the club through sales alongside shelling it out.

Therefore, it feels like a good time for Football League World to summarise two deals that Cardiff can be expected to make ahead of August 9.

In: Tyrese Campbell

Cardiff have been linked with Tyrese Campbell along with a host of other clubs, as per the Daily Mail. They're doubtlessly pursuing a seasoned centre-forward and have already displayed a willingness to optimise the free agent market by snapping up Willock and Chambers.

Campbell may turn out to be one of the most sought-after out-of-contract names in the weeks to come, as he remains unattached following his departure from Championship rivals Stoke City earlier this summer.

He isn't the 15-20 goal striker that Cardiff supporters will be craving as a belated replacement for Kieffer Moore, whose own saga with Cardiff has finally concluded by signing for Sheffield United, but he represents a versatile, high-potential option that could well directly contribute to 10-15 goals overall across the course of a full season.

Capable on either flank as well as through the middle, you get the impression that the very best is yet to come from Campbell, who has had to contend with injury problems alongside Stoke's unstable high managerial turnover - a factor which Cardiff are all-too-familiar with.

They now have stability under Bulut though, and he'll have rightful designs of engineering a push towards the second-tier play-offs next term. Campbell, no doubt, could well be central to such ambitions.

Out: Andy Rinomhota

According to transfer guru Darren Witcoop on X, Andy Rinomhota is the subject of interest elsewhere ahead of a likely summer departure.

Witcoop claims that newly-relegated League One outfit Birmingham City are among Rinomhota's suitors, some of whom are interested in taking the peripheral midfielder on loan. Regardless of the terms, any deal is likely to bring Rinomhota's Cardiff career to an end as his contract is set to expire next summer and there currently appears very little prospect of renewal.

Rinomhota was a regular during his first campaign with the club after arriving from Reading but was jettisoned down the pecking order once Bulut was appointed last summer, playing just three times in the Championship before heading out on loan to Rotherham United in January.

He was, of course, part of the Millers side that finished rock bottom of the division with only 27 points to their name, which certainly hasn't done him any favours back in the Welsh capital.

It's yet to be disclosed who else is in the Rinomhota race, but one way or another it's safe to say he'll be moving on.