Transfer-listed Crewe striker Anthony Elding would be open to joining local rivals Port Vale should Micky Adams register an approach.

Vale are one of a host of clubs currently linked with the 27-year-old after he was told last weekend that he is free to leave Gresty Road due to the number of strikers ahead of him in the pecking order.

"Port Vale have shown interest and they are a club I would think about joining if something was offered to me," he told The Sentinel.

"It is obviously a very nice thing to hear that so many clubs are chasing you, although the only firm contact I know Crewe have had is from Burton.

"It has been a torrid time for me at Crewe and I have reached the point in my career where I need to move on and to be playing regularly week in, week out."