Daily Echo:

SAINTS legend Rickie Lambert's future at Cardiff City is in doubt after Bluebirds manager Neil Warnock admitted the striker may struggle for game time.

With Kenneth Zohore and new signing Danny Ward set to be Warnock's first choice forwards in the Championship next term, Lambert may often be overlooked.

The 35-year-old's goals fired Saints to double promotions in to the Premier League and helped the club to become an established top-flight side, before he left for boyhood heroes Liverpool in 2014.

"If Zahore's fit and Ward's fit, he's not going to get much (game time) at all, is he? He's not daft," said Warnock.

Lambert scored four goals in 13 league starts in 2016-17.

"It's a catch-22 situation for Rickie - he wants to get fit enough to play enough in the Championship, yet he needs games to get himself fit," said Warnock.

"We haven't been able to do that on either front."

"We're back in training this week so I'll be having a chat with Rickie and one or two others over the next week or so," he added.

"I think it (Lambert's future) will be sorted over the next fortnight. I can't see it dragging on into the summer."