Cardiff City have completed the signing of Sunderland
striker Fraizer Campbell for a fee reported to be £650,000.
The 25-year-old one-cap England international has joined on
a three-and-a-half-year deal, and has flown out to Dubai to join his new
team-mates on their warm weather training camp.
Campbell came up through the youth ranks at Manchester
United and enjoyed loan spells at Tottenham Hotspur, Royal Antwerp and Hull
City, the latter during the 2007-08 season, where he notched 15 goals in 34
appearances as Hull sealed promotion to the Premier League.
He joined Sunderland for £3.5m in 2009, but injuries have
ravaged his time in the north east and he only managed six goals in 58
appearances for the club. With his contract up at the end of the current
campaign, Sunderland have decided to cash in now.
Campbell’s sole England appearance came as a substitute in
their 3-2 friendly defeat to Holland in February 2012 as interim manager Stuart
Pearce tried a number of untested youngsters ahead of last summer’s Euro 2012
campaign.
He will wear the number 27 shirt at Cardiff, and offer
competition to a front-line already boasting Etien Velikonja, Robert Earnshaw,
Tommy Smith, Rudy Gestede, Joe Mason, Heidar Helguson, Craig Bellamy and the
long-term injured Nicky Maynard.
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