The Cardiff City Herald
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Yousef Salech scores twice — 8.66
Two goals and a mark of 8.66 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Cardiff City rebuffed over Lyle Foster
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Burnley have kept their man, and Cardiff City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Cardiff City make their move for Márk Kosznovszky
$580.0K on the table at Portsmouth. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Cardiff City go back to the board over Elkan Baggott
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $368.6K — a club that wants Elkan Baggott enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Lois De Bruyne due for a Cardiff City medical
Everything agreed with Mouscron, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Cardiff City bid $340.0K for Elkan Baggott
The offer went to Millwall this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Market17 Aug 2026
Cardiff City sell Callum Robinson for $860.0K
Callum Robinson has left for Beroe in a $860.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Calum Scanlon runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Cardiff City
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Yousef Salech
- Market Joseph Harvey steps up from the Cardiff City academy
- Market John Cunningham steps up from the Cardiff City academy