Cardiff boss Dave Jones has confirmed that they will ask FIFA to be compensated for the loss of Joe Ledley.
The midfielder has still to sign the offer to join Celtic but Cardiff are resigned to losing their Welsh internationalist.
A move to an English side would have required a transfer fee but Ledley’s likely decision to move outwith England opens up a grey area for the Welsh club.
Jones admitted: “We’ll try to get our compensation through the training rule, we’ll have to battle that out with Celtic
“There is training compensation when you cross a border, we’ll be arguing that out now.
“There are set figures with FIFA, we’ll have to take it and see what goes. We only get compensation for his training through the academy years, that’s how it works.
“But we never had an offer from any Premiership club so forget all that has been written, all of these two and three million bids. We never had that, we never got to the stage where we could negotiate with a club.
“Joe has been available for a long time. I’m disappointed that I’ve lost a very good player but if that’s what he decides I wish him all the best.”
Ledley returned to Cardiff without completing his move to Celtic with suggestions that he returned for family reasons.
Celtic will await anxiously to see if the player will sign up and join the club on their four match trip to North America on Monday.
Stoke City have been heavily linked with the player but Jones has admitted that Cardiff haven’t received any offers from English clubs.
The Cardiff boss added: “We were never made an offer from Stoke or from any other club for Joe. He has been a free since December and anyone could have contacted us to try and sort something out rather than go to a compensation ruling.
“I’m close friends with Tony (Stoke boss Pullis) but he never made an offer, he wanted a player swap and we weren’t prepared to do that- now Joe has decided that he wants to go to Celtic so all the best to him. We move on.
“We made Joe a fantastic offer to stay but he decided that he wanted to ply his trade elsewhere.
“It seems to be a done deal with Celtic although he hasn’t been in contact with us, he’s gone to the Premier but the wrong Premier.
“I’m a little bit surprised but sometimes you have to make your bed and lie in it and that’s what Joe has done.”
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