Ronan Kpakio

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14 Edition

The Cardiff City Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Both of them Yousef Salech's — 8.70

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.70, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match31 Oct 2026

Cardiff City cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Michael Reindorf says Cardiff City went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Ollie Tanner was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Costinha falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match31 Oct 2026

Yousef Salech sends Cardiff City past Stevenage

It finished 3‑1, and it was Yousef Salech’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cardiff City.

The terraces2 Nov 2026

One of their own: Cian Ashford

He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Nathan Trott gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match27 Oct 2026

Chris Willock the difference as Cardiff City beat Wigan Athletic

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Chris Willock. 1‑0 against Wigan Athletic, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

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11 Edition

The Cardiff City Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Oct 2026

Gabriel Osho stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Gabriel Osho and Cardiff City agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words at Cardiff City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Costinha is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Cardiff City

Charlie Goode and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad12 Oct 2026

A late step up for Harry Tyrer

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

The dugout12 Oct 2026

Harry Tyrer gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market12 Oct 2026

Cardiff City bring in an old head

Iván Nadal is 39 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Market12 Oct 2026

Experience through the door at Cardiff City

Trevor Spangenberg arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Looking ahead12 Oct 2026

Charlie Goode faces his old club

Blackpool next, and one man in the Cardiff City dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market12 Oct 2026

The Nathan Trott talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Cardiff City know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief