The Cardiff City Herald
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
No thanks: Nathan Collins rejects the move
Cardiff City had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Brentford, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets14 Feb 2028
Door shut on Nathan Collins
Cardiff City asked and Brentford said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Roko Šimić scores twice — 8.31
Two goals and a mark of 8.31 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market14 Feb 2028
Héctor Solano hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Cardiff City can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Words at Cardiff City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matheus França 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.
Match12 Feb 2028
Cardiff City get the job done against West Bromwich Albion
A 3‑1 win over West Bromwich Albion, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Illan Meslier
“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.
Match8 Feb 2028
A bad afternoon for Cardiff City against Wrexham
0‑1 to Wrexham, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Hugo Bueno in the eights
A performance of 8.25 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Joel Bagan at his very best
- Squad Tempers go at Cardiff City
- The dugout Matheus França is still paying for one afternoon at Cardiff City