Lawrence was looking for a possible summer move for Chipperfield who would have been going into the last year of his contract.
Another name not coming to Cardiff City is Luke Guttridge. From no-where Luke has been linked to Cardiff City after Dave Kitson left the Abbey Stadium for Reading but Cambridge boss John Taylor says
"I suppose it's inevitable that now the top scorer has gone there are going to be stories about the lad who is our best player at the moment. But I'm a friend of Cardiff boss Lennie Lawrence from our Luton days and he hasn't spoken to me about Luke."