The Cardiff City Herald
Boardroom29 May 2028
Pressure builds in the Cardiff City boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
The dugout29 May 2028
Laurence Maguire: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cardiff City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad29 May 2028
Tempers go at Cardiff City
Perry Ng was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market29 May 2028
A season away well spent by Ollie Tanner
44 games, 14 goals, and a squad option that has arrived without a fee attached. The interesting question at Cardiff City now is not whether he plays but who he displaces.
Squad29 May 2028
Words at Cardiff City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ashley Phillips 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.
The dugout29 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Ashley Phillips
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout29 May 2028
David Turnbull knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and David Turnbull trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout29 May 2028
Andy Cannon has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Cardiff City will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market29 May 2028
Alex Robertson linked with a move away
The name of Alex Robertson keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Cardiff City say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Market Andy Cannon placed on the list
- Squad Nathan Trott is the talk of the training ground
- Squad Tiger Tobin is out on the grass again