Josh Bowler is determined to prove there is a healthy life beyond the Premier League waiting room. Two Premier League clubs have forked out £3.8m for the services of Bowler, yet the Cardiff City loanee has yet to play a first team game in the top-flight for either club.

Poland manager Michal Probierz said he is working on his side’s mindset after a disappointing Euro 2024 qualifying campaign that could now end with a shootout against Wales. “The meeting between Wales and Finland promises to be interesting. We haven’t watched these teams yet, but we know that Wales are playing very well. But we definitely have a chance to qualify for the championships,” Probierz said.

Wales must navigate the play-offs in March to reach the European Championship finals next summer. If they do so, it will be Wales’ fourth major tournament out of the last five.

Rob Page will fly to Switzerland on Wednesday, hoping the luck that avoided Wales against Turkey will be there when the Euro 2024 play-off draw is made. The Wales manager was left angry and frustrated that key decisions did not go in Wales’ favour during their 1-1 draw at home to the Turks on Tuesday night.

Wales’ Olympic gold medallist Lauren Price will face former European champion Silvia Bortot on December 10. The fight takes place on the undercard of Chris Billam-Smith’s WBO world cruiserweight title bout against Mateusz Masternak in Bournemouth.

Wales’ players have been told to forget about the back door and knock down the front. Manager Rob Page has insisted there is no talk within his squad of play-offs as they head into their final Euro qualifying pool match against Turkey in Cardiff on Tuesday night.

Jack Simpson, the former Cardiff City defender, has been handed a six-game ban and an £8,000 fine by the FA after admitting directing a racial slur towards team-mate Rohan Luthra. Simpson committed the offence during a pre-season tour of Portugal with Cardiff in July.

Wales midfielder Jordan James is targeting Euro 2024 qualification after enjoying the “best night of my life” against stellar Croatia trio Luka Modric, Mateo Kovacic and Marcelo Brozovic. Croatia have often carried the tag of having the best midfield in world football, but they had few answers in Cardiff last month as Wales beat them 2-1 to keep hopes of playing at Euro 2024 alive.

Erol Bulut accused Cardiff City of lacking fight as they succumbed to a 3-2 home defeat to Norwich City that dropped the Bluebirds down to ninth in the Championship table. Defeat was Cardiff’s first in four matches, and Bulut slammed his players for their shoddy set-piece defending against the Carrow Road outfit.

Erol Bulut wants to hit the January sales and look for items that move Cardiff City from pretenders to contenders for promotion. Cardiff host Norwich City on Saturday with the club looking to maintain their promotion challenge against rivals many thought would be better placed in the Championship at this stage than 17th.

Erol Bulut has praised his Cardiff City players for their progress but urged them to extend their run of clean sheets. The Bluebirds manager was pleased his team were able to keep their opponents scoreless for a third successive match, although they had to settle for a goalless draw at the weekend at Stoke City.

Karlan Grant has been backed to get his career back on track by keeping Cardiff City’s promotion surge rattling along. Grant was once a £15m player at West Brom and playing regularly in the Premier League.