Walsall reject Tom Bradshaw bid

Walsall have rejected a bid from a Sky Bet Championship side for striker Tom Bradshaw.

The Saddlers do not want to sell their 12-goal top scorer but face a fight to keep him this month.

Press Association Sport understands they have dismissed an offer from the unnamed club but are braced for a further approach over the weekend.

Birmingham, Wolves, Preston and Huddersfield are all linked with the 23-year-old, who has 18 months left on his current deal.

Bradshaw has scored 32 goals in 62 games for the Saddlers and netted 20 times last season, despite missing 20 games with hamstring problems.

This season the forward has netted a League Cup hat-trick against Nottingham Forest and had scored in three straight games before injury in December.

His form saw him rewarded with a first senior Wales call-up, where he was an unused substitute for their 3-2 defeat to Holland in November.

Bradshaw made a first-team return after a month out with an ankle injury in the weekend's 3-0 defeat to Rochdale, which saw the Saddlers lose ground at the top of Sky Bet League One.

The forward is expected to feature in Saturday's FA Cup trip to Brentford after playing 45 minutes and scoring in Walsall's 5-2 under-21 loss to his former club Shrewsbury this week.

Bees boss Dean Smith signed Bradshaw for Walsall from the Shrews in 2014 before moving to Griffin Park in November.

Replacement Sean O'Driscoll has won three out of his four games with Walsall third in Sky Bet League One, three points behind leaders Burton.