The Cardiff City Herald
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Ronan Kpakio at Cardiff City
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ronan Kpakio is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Yousef Salech signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yousef Salech commits to Cardiff City for another 5 years.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words at Cardiff City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bazoumana Touré 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Ryan Wintle has improved at 30, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Alex Robertson
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match21 Aug 2027
Yousef Salech sends Cardiff City past Preston
It finished 2‑1, and it was Yousef Salech’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cardiff City.
Market23 Aug 2027
Mark Grant steps up from the Cardiff City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mark Grant has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market23 Aug 2027
Oliver Lawrence steps up from the Cardiff City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Oliver Lawrence has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Cardiff City promote Anthony Foster from within
- Market One of our own: Simon Hunter joins the Cardiff City first team
- Player ratings A masterclass from Yousef Salech