Jonathan Clark

Striker - Cardiff City
16 Nov 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Jonathan Clark

53 Edition

The Cardiff City Herald

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets

Cardiff City make their move for Destiny Udogie

$21.5M on the table at Tottenham. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Kion Etete agrees terms with West Ham United

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Cardiff City people have started saying his name in the past tense.

The dugout

Lucas Sergi 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.

Squad

Rubin Colwill: 9 seasons and counting

194 appearances across 9 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Cardiff City know exactly what they have.

Transfer targets

Cardiff City rebuffed over Kieffer Moore

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wrexham have kept their man, and Cardiff City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

Andrey Santos turns down Cardiff City

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Manchester United keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

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.

Market

Eyes on Jonathan Clark again

The phone has started ringing about Jonathan Clark again, and this time the name on the line is ASA Târgu Mureș. Cardiff City are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Lucas Sergi told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Lucas Sergi has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Cardiff City.

In brief

Back issues
8 Edition

The Cardiff City Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Lucas Sergi out for 111 days

111 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cardiff City lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Cardiff City through in the cup

A 1‑0 win over Harrogate Town, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ronan Kpakio

Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Both of them Yousef Salech's — 8.77

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.77, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Andy Cannon goes up and wins it — 7.90

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.90 for the rest of it.

Squad

Cardiff City count the cost of losing Alex Robertson

55 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

A falling-out at Cardiff City

Gabriel Osho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for Cardiff City against Lincoln City

2‑3 to Lincoln City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Transfer targets

Brighton tell Cardiff City: Stefanos Tzimas is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief