Last weekend it seemed very likely that I would have a third new signing ro talk about in this piece, but there’s been nothing yet and, with the first team squad flying out today for their week in Austria, it seems likely that we may have to wait a while longer for the players I feel we need to match, let alone improve on, last seasons mid table finish. There have been a few names given as possible targets of ours, but I’ll not mention them at this stage because there’s nothing that has happened yet to make them anything but speculation. It does look as if there has been a bid of £5 million f ..read more

Finally, some transfer news to convey with City, seemingly, on the brink of announcing the arrival of two players, both of whom I’d rate at a higher level than I was expecting from us this summer. The first one to emerge was QPR forward Chris Willock who was strongly linked with City on Wednesday. The rumour gathered pace an hour or two later when QPR confirmed that Willock had left the club after his contract had expired and talks about him renewing his deal had failed to reach a positive conclusion. After that, the links with City only grew stronger and major outlets like the BBC were soon ..read more

A few things to report this week. For example, those of us who won’t be celebrating our sixtieth birthday again will have noted that the club’s pre season fixture list was completed with a significant game that will have sent us veterans back fifty six years to 1968 as we recall a Semi Final in the European Cup Winners Cup. Almost certainly unfairly, I have had whatever the opposite of a soft spot is for HSV Hamburg ever since they beat us in the last minute of said Semi Final thanks to a goalkeeping blunder. It’s amazing to think that it all occurred more than half a century ago and I really ..read more

I mentioned last week that the next seven days would, finally, provide some worthwhile news regarding Cardiff City and it turned there was even more of it than I was expecting. The squad returned for pre season training early in the week and there was a new face among the coaching staff to greet them. I remember Omar Riza as a player, but I knew nothing of his work in the coaching field, it turns out that he has a fairly impressive CV and I’ve read that he specialises in attacking play – if that’s true, then I’d say his appointment is a welcome one. On the playing front, it’s been confirmed t ..read more

Typical! A few hours after I wrote a piece on here bemoaning the lack of news and discussion points on the Cardiff City side, the FAW go ahead and create the biggest Welsh football story of the summer so far by announcing that team manager/head coach Robert Page has been sacked! Here’s a few thoughts on yesterday’s news and once I’ve finished with them, I may be clearer in my mind as to whether I agree with the decision or not. The first thing I’d say is that the news of the dismissal came as a surprise. In particular, I’m talking about its timing – I would have thought that most would have b ..read more

I started writing these weekly reviews this year about a month ago, so I reckon this is the fifth one I’ve done and, increasingly, I’m thinking why am I bothering because, confirmation that Erol Bulut will be staying apart, there’s been virtually nothing to report in that time. We’re now about halfway between our last Championship match of 23/24 and our first one of 24/25 and there’s nothing that has happened yet to get supporters enthused for the new season. As far as the managerial situation is concerned, I’ll say that the new manager of Fenerbache has been called the Portuguese Erol Bulut ..read more

Nothing much to report on the City front this week apart from the news that it looks like they’ll be having a pre season training camp in Austria and there are some names to mention of the transfer speculation front, Firstly, there was something online about us and Luton being interested in Southampton’s Ross Stewart. The Scottish international striker is a twenty seven year old target man striker who was something of a late developer as he only moved into the professional game at the age of twenty with Albion Rovers (actually, that’s not really true, because Albion are only a part time club ..read more

Just as they did last year, Cardiff City waited (or, maybe, were forced to wait might be more appropriate this time around) until the first week in June , that’s a month since they last played, to confirm who their manager would be for the season which will be starting in two months time. There were times when I was pretty sure that Erol Bulut would not stay at Cardiff beyond the one season, but, recently, it seemed pretty clear that City wanted him here for 24/25 and it became a case of the longer it was taking to get an announcement, the more likely it became that Bulut was staying – if he ..read more

I’m a member of Cardiff City Supporters’ Trust and have been helping them out on the Admin side of things for nearly fifteen years. However, with all due respect to those who give up their time to represent their members, what the Trust has to say on a City related subject shouldn’t really be the most newsworthy thing to happen to Cardiff City in the past week as we approach the opening of the transfer window and the return of the players to training after their holidays in the next few weeks, with no clue yet as to who will be the manager when preparations for the new season begin in earnest ..read more

Thirteen years can seem like an eternity when you’re in the first quarter of your life, but for those of us who are likely to be in our last one, it’s nothing but the blink of an eye almost. It was thirteen years ago that Neil Lennon, who was then manager of Celtic, implored his team “not to do a Cardiff” when they travelled to lowly Inverness Caledonian trying to keep their fading title challenge alive. Lennon was referring specifically to City’s implosion aa few days earlier against a Middlesbrough team with nothing to play for at Cardiff City Stadium in early May 2011. It was our penultima ..read more