“ ALL EROL BULUTS JANUARY 2024 TRANSFERS “

THE FIVE NEW PLAYERS:


Famara Diedhiou - Loan (Grenada)

Nathaniel Phillips - Loan (Liverpool)

Josh Wilson-Esbrand - Loan (Manchester City)


Ethan Horvath - Nottingham Forest ( Undisclosed)

David Turnbull - Celtic £1mill over 3 years / plus extras




“ 14 PLAYERS WENT OUT “


Erol Bulut:

“This is the first year for me here in English football. It’s a limited budget to make five or six players. It’s not easy. So no one can say why we didn’t take certain players.”


“If I showed you my list of strikers… but in the last few days if you hear you’ve only got a budget of £10 you can’t do it. That only happened in the last three days! “

“So we have to look at other options, the best for Cardiff City to bring good players in.”







“ ALL EROL BULUTS JANUARY 2024 TRANSFERS “




“ 14 PLAYERS OUT / 5 PLAYERS IN, INCLUDING 3 LOAN PLAYERS / WAGES DRASTICALLY REDUCED “



14th player to go out:

02 /02/2024: We are delighted to announce that Ollie Denham has joined the club on loan from @CardiffCityFC

Ollie Denham 22 years old in a couple of months joins Irish club Sligo Rovets on loan.

Denham had spent the last 5 months at Championship club Dundee United but only made 2 Sub appearances and was sent back.



01/02//2024: Josh Wilson-Esbrand’s Defender aged 21 Signs on loan for Cardiff City
Started in West Ham youth, went to Manchester City in 2021 made 0 appearances:
Sent out on loan to Coventry City last season made 14 appearances.



01/02/2024: Jake Dennis, It is understood the Under-21s goalkeeper, will join Gloucester City on a loan deal.



01/02/2024: Vontae Daley-Campbell has today departed CCS by mutual consent.

He was on high wages and was just sitting there.

City had to give him a big pay off though.







01/02/2024: Nottingham Forest have agreed a deal for goalkeeper Ethan Horvath to move to Cardiff. The 28yr old has Signed for Cardiff City.



01/02/2024: Rotherham have agreed a permanent deal to sign Cardiff midfielder Andy Rinomhota.


01/02/2024: David Tunball has signed till the summer of 2027.


Celtic accept £2mill deal for Midfielder David Tunball the fee of £1mill over 2 years plus £1mill on appearances etc

Tunball aged 24 has played over 100 games for Celtic and scoring 25 goals.



01/02/2024: Goalkeeper Rúnar Alex Rúnarsson's loan in the Welsh capital has ended and he has returned to parent club, Arsenal.
He immediately signed for FC Copenhagen until 2028 apparently.




31/01/2024: Striker James Crole aged 20 Signed for Scottish outfit
Queen’s Park.

Xavier Benjamin aged 19 gone to Dunfermline.

Ryan Kavanagh aged 21 soon off to Truro ( Lower Non League )




31/01/2024: CONFIRMED CARDIFF CITY SIGN STRIKER FAMARA DIEDHIOU AGED 31 ON LOAN FROM GRANADA



31/01/2024: Derby County agree deal to sign Cardiff City’s Ebou Adams on loan to the end of the season.




29/01/2024: Cardiff City beat Championship rivals Blackburn Rovers to the signing of Liverpool defender Nat Phillips aged 26.
The centre-back joins the Bluebirds on loan until the end of the season. He has travelled down to south Wales today.

Phillips made 6 ( 3 starts )appearances for Celtic in 5 months.





23/01/2024: Ryotaro Tsunoda is 25 yrs old in a few months and played 16 matches in his professional career in Japan and has been sent straight out on loan.
Albeit going straight out to Tans Belgium Club rock bottom of their league.






22/01/2024: Scottish Championship Club Dundee United Asked Cardiff to take back Ollie Denham as they were not going to play him in their first team and after 5 months they only gave him 43mins of football and that was in the Scottish Cup.




15/01 /2024 Returns Jonathan Panzo - Returns to Nottingham Forest after only 4 appearances


12/01/2024 Malachi Fagan-Walcott has joined Scottish club Dunfermline on loan ( Not the Scottish Premiership).


12/01/2024 Kieron Evans joins Non League Gateshead on loan and then his contract expires with City in June.

10/01/2024 Loan player Ike Ugbo was sent back to his club.

10/01/2024 Eli King called back by Cardiff City from League 2 Morecambe and set back on loan to Ross County.

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Some will be completed late tonight or before 12pm tomorrow as long as paper work was done.

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Underwhelming transfer window for me annis still think we lack quality upfront

Underwhelming transfer window for me annis still think we lack quality upfront

Sam,

You only have to read what Buluts been saying for weeks and then today.

He wasn’t fully backed, but he has worked 24/7 and has got a team together that will keep us up.

I just hope Erol Bulut stays for next season and they finally back him.

Plus:


Jake Dennis could be heading out this evening.

It is understood the Under-21s goalkeeper, will join Gloucester City on a loan deal.

The Wales youth international will ply his trade in the National League North. Gloucester sit in 22nd in the table.

I think FFP has been a major factor in this window. I also think we need 2 or 3 windows to build a squad that can challenge. the removal of dead wood this window is perhaps more important than the signings we make. This season we are not quite good enough even with these additions but I hope we can finish in the top 10. Keeping Bulut for next year is the next task and back him in the summer. We need a long term plan.

Underwhelming transfer window for me annis still think we lack quality upfront

Sam,

You only have to read what Buluts been saying for weeks and then today.

He wasn’t fully backed, but he has worked 24/7 and has got a team together that will keep us up.

I just hope Erol Bulut stays for next season and they finally back him.

Annis

Do you truthfully believe that it is only Erol Bulut that has been working hard to get transfers in? I don`t think either that he has been involved in the deals to get players out to free up money for a wages budget.

He has now been offered a contract extension which hopefully he will accept and work with the rest of the club on a plan for the Summer transfer window when more funds should be available due to the release of out of contract players. The constraints of P&S will still come into play however ,so hopefully Mehmet Dalman and Vincent Tan have agreed on the way to create more income to assist with this.

Underwhelming transfer window for me annis still think we lack quality upfront

Sam,

You only have to read what Buluts been saying for weeks and then today.

He wasn’t fully backed, but he has worked 24/7 and has got a team together that will keep us up.

I just hope Erol Bulut stays for next season and they finally back him.

Annis

Do you truthfully believe that it is only Erol Bulut that has been working hard to get transfers in? I don`t think either that he has been involved in the deals to get players out to free up money for a wages budget.

He has now been offered a contract extension which hopefully he will accept and work with the rest of the club on a plan for the Summer transfer window when more funds should be available due to the release of out of contract players. The constraints of P&S will still come into play however ,so hopefully Mehmet Dalman and Vincent Tan have agreed on the way to create more income to assist with this.

I don’t believe Keith one word Dalman or Tan ever says.

Please you can keep defending Dalman & Tan it’s pointless with me as I know a lot more than you think.
Let’s leave it there.

15 YEARS OF BULLSHIT FROM THIS REGIME:



I do believe Erol Bulut
On what he has said today and other stuff he has said for weeks:


Erol Bulut:

“This is the first year for me here in English football. It’s a limited budget to make five or six players. It’s not easy. So no one can say why we didn’t take certain players.”


“If I showed you my list of strikers… but in the last few days if you hear you’ve only got a budget of £10 you can’t do it. That only happened in the last three days! “

“So we have to look at other options, the best for Cardiff City to bring good players in.”

How many start at Watford? All bar goalkeeper??

Gents let’s stick to the football side

I think Sawyers is still there. And Rinamohta is only a six-month loan, we are still saddled with him from July 1 for another 12 months.

Also the club need to make proper and final decisions on the likes of Denham, Benjamin, Antwi, Davies, Bagan, Crole, Lohra, King and that Walcott (defender). I see little point in continuing to fund youngsters who are never going to cut it at Championship level and beyond. Only one or two of those mentioned got any chance.

Underwhelming transfer window for me annis still think we lack quality upfront

Not sure if signing below par players that nobody else wants is working hard. This transfer window has been shocking we are under these restrictions due to poor running of the club it's a joke. Missing out on top players and scraping the barrel for 4th or 5th choice players is shocking. The fact we have had to ship out so many players goes to show how terrible the club has been run. As for finances why don't tan get us a front of shirt sponsor that pays us anything ? Is it because he gets tax relief at home to benefit him. I'm done with this board now it's rough we have no ambition



Sam,

You only have to read what Buluts been saying for weeks and then today.

He wasn’t fully backed, but he has worked 24/7 and has got a team together that will keep us up.

I just hope Erol Bulut stays for next season and they finally back him.

Annis

Do you truthfully believe that it is only Erol Bulut that has been working hard to get transfers in? I don`t think either that he has been involved in the deals to get players out to free up money for a wages budget.

He has now been offered a contract extension which hopefully he will accept and work with the rest of the club on a plan for the Summer transfer window when more funds should be available due to the release of out of contract players. The constraints of P&S will still come into play however ,so hopefully Mehmet Dalman and Vincent Tan have agreed on the way to create more income to assist with this.

Not sure if signing below par players that nobody else wants is working hard. This transfer window has been shocking we are under these restrictions due to poor running of the club it's a joke. Missing out on top players and scraping the barrel for 4th or 5th choice players is shocking. The fact we have had to ship out so many players goes to show how terrible the club has been run. As for finances why don't tan get us a front of shirt sponsor that pays us anything ? Is it because he gets tax relief at home to benefit him. I'm done with this board now it's rough we have no ambition.

01/02/2024: David Tunball has signed till the summer of 2027.


Celtic accept £2mill deal for Midfielder David Tunball the fee of £1mill over 2 years plus £1mill on appearances etc

Tunball aged 24 has played over 100 games for Celtic and scoring 25 goals.

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I am with Annis and Kyle this board are a joke

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We are not going up or going down in my view and lett it all to late as Bulut says.

So now there was NO point in spending big.

But the fans will expect some very good signings this Summer and NO more let’s consolidate for yet another year, same old same old. Let’s go for promotion.


YEAR AFTER YEAR / EXCUSES AFTER EXCUSES / NO MORE NEXT SEASON:


BLUEBIRDS

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Gents let’s stick to the football side

I think Sawyers is still there. And Rinamohta is only a six-month loan, we are still saddled with him from July 1 for another 12 months.

Also the club need to make proper and final decisions on the likes of Denham, Benjamin, Antwi, Davies, Bagan, Crole, Lohra, King and that Walcott (defender). I see little point in continuing to fund youngsters who are never going to cut it at Championship level and beyond. Only one or two of those mentioned got any chance.

Hopefully Rinamohta impresses and the club wants to buy him after the loan spell, or attract interest.

As for the young players, there are some that will go back out on loan, maybe better league this time around. Eg. Crole, very natural in front of goal, just needs pro game time so this loan and maybe one next year will be great for him. Don’t want to give up on talent when it’s too late and then we all moan about it.

Some others, if the talent isn’t there, then hopefully sold on.

Not the worst window. January is always tough but the board certainly needed more urgency earlier in the window.

Hopefully the team can do a little better and Bulut gets extended. Then the real window in the summer will be where we see the club’s true ambition.

Erol Bulut on Turnbull: ‘I see a lot of quality. He is a good age, he played the last three seasons with Celtic, scored and assisted many goals. This is what we need in our midfield. He is creative in the offensive shape and he can finalise attacks. We now have good options.’

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THE FIVE NEW PLAYERS:


Famara Diedhiou - Loan (Grenada)

Nathaniel Phillips - Loan (Liverpool)

Josh Wilson-Esbrand - Loan (Manchester City)


Ethan Horvath - Nottingham Forest ( Undisclosed)

David Turnbull - Celtic £1mill over 3 years / plus extras

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Lets see how is goes but unfortunately I don't think we've addressed the fundermental weakness that we lack goals. I'd love to be proved wrong but we seem to be hanging our hopes on a number 9 who's hardly played in 2 years and has managed 1 assist in 2 years of League football.

It's hard to see Welsh internationals like Brooks and Moore going to other championship teams when you feel a real ambitious City might have been able to get them.

At the start of the season when we managed to secure Rambo I thought the board might take a punt on using that signing to spring board a real challenge when Jan came around and we were out of the embargo.

To their credit i thought the summer window was excellent. Players in early and all on frees or loans. You could feel that buzz within the players and fan base and I'm sure that got us through some fine margin games.

This however has seemed all over the place.

Hopefully we do enough to not get dragged into any relegation battle and a better plan and application is seen in the summer.

We are not going up or going down in my view and lett it all to late as Bulut says.

So now there was NO point in spending big.

But the fans will expect some very good signings this Summer and NO more let’s consolidate for yet another year, same old same old. Let’s go for promotion.


YEAR AFTER YEAR / EXCUSES AFTER EXCUSES / NO MORE NEXT SEASON:


BLUEBIRDS

Annis, you have in a nut shell, summed up the situation at our beloved club and how the Board are running things.

They are bullshitters to a man - and it is obvious even to someone like me who doesn't have the contacts and information relating to the Club.How people on this forum can suggest these liars have any integrity at all is beyond me. Tan and his henchmen are grudge holders and have not run this club with any real ambition since our first promotion to the Premiership. We finally get a manager whose ambition matches the fans but sadly whose ambitions outrun the Board's by a country mile.

We are not going up or going down in my view and lett it all to late as Bulut says.

So now there was NO point in spending big.

But the fans will expect some very good signings this Summer and NO more let’s consolidate for yet another year, same old same old. Let’s go for promotion.


YEAR AFTER YEAR / EXCUSES AFTER EXCUSES / NO MORE NEXT SEASON:


BLUEBIRDS

Annis, you have in a nut shell, summed up the situation at our beloved club and how the Board are running things.

They are bullshitters to a man - and it is obvious even to someone like me who doesn't have the contacts and information relating to the Club.How people on this forum can suggest these liars have any integrity at all is beyond me. Tan and his henchmen are grudge holders and have not run this club with any real ambition since our first promotion to the Premiership. We finally get a manager whose ambition matches the fans but sadly whose ambitions outrun the Board's by a country mile.

Blemmy,


Exactly for years we have been run like a Circus.
Every Season now a joke and full of bullshit.
New excuses time after time.
Pretend New Plans.
We finally have a manager who has spoken out.

Let’s hope Erol Bulut gets fully backed this Summer and NO Delays / No Excuses.


Bluebirds

Underwhelming transfer window for me annis still think we lack quality upfront

Sam,

You only have to read what Buluts been saying for weeks and then today.

He wasn’t fully backed, but he has worked 24/7 and has got a team together that will keep us up.

I just hope Erol Bulut stays for next season and they finally back him.

Annis

Do you truthfully believe that it is only Erol Bulut that has been working hard to get transfers in? I don`t think either that he has been involved in the deals to get players out to free up money for a wages budget.

He has now been offered a contract extension which hopefully he will accept and work with the rest of the club on a plan for the Summer transfer window when more funds should be available due to the release of out of contract players. The constraints of P&S will still come into play however ,so hopefully Mehmet Dalman and Vincent Tan have agreed on the way to create more income to assist with this.

I don’t believe Keith one word Dalman or Tan ever says.

Please you can keep defending Dalman & Tan it’s pointless with me as I know a lot more than you think.
Let’s leave it there.

15 YEARS OF BULLSHIT FROM THIS REGIME:



I do believe Erol Bulut
On what he has said today and other stuff he has said for weeks:


Erol Bulut:

“This is the first year for me here in English football. It’s a limited budget to make five or six players. It’s not easy. So no one can say why we didn’t take certain players.”


“If I showed you my list of strikers… but in the last few days if you hear you’ve only got a budget of £10 you can’t do it. That only happened in the last three days! “

“So we have to look at other options, the best for Cardiff City to bring good players in.”

Annis

Please try and read properly what I said in my post. It wasn`t a defence of Dalman and/or Tan it was merely stating the fact that Erol Bulut, for all the very hard work that he undoubtedly put in to get transfers done, wasn`t acting alone. It took a combined effort from him, the directors, the employed recruitment team , lawyers etc.
Actually all this was confirmed by Erol Bulut himself in an interview published on BBC Wale Sport this morning ,a few quotes from which I set out below so they aren`t misinterpreted

"we have to speak a little differently about transfers generally"

"we can`t forget the limits of the EFL and what we can spend"

"you can only do what budget you have" referencing the EFL constraints

"we`re also discussing this with the board who are working hard on it to open the limit for us to get some transfers"

"some fans who are writing on social media don`t understand this well. It`s not so easy"


Do you now agree that bringing in transfers was as a result of many people at the club working hard on the project?

After we won at QPR, they should have gone all out to sign Bulut’s targets. They didn’t, and we saw at Plymouth how limited the squad was. That resulted in a lot of players playing every game and being tired.

After they didn’t sign those players, they have brought in five decent players and moved a lot of the dead wood out.

These five will improve our team for the rest of the season (Horvath and Turnbull beyond this season as well). Whether it’s enough to really push for the play-offs, I’m not sure.

We are not going to be relegated either.



I do believe that Bulut will stay next season. They will really need to properly back him in the summer so we can make a real push for the top six.

Man u latest club in premier league to say ffp meant couldn't bring in the striker ten hag wanted?
If they got problems with ffp what is it like for rest football in UK?

Man u latest club in premier league to say ffp meant couldn't bring in the striker ten hag wanted?
If they got problems with ffp what is it like for rest football in UK?

Allan, they are all terrified because of the charges already against Everton and Forest.

In the past PL clubs will have gone past the rules a little bit because they knew they’d just get a small fine.

But with the new profit and sustainability rules, they know the punishments are much tougher.

January is obviously much quieter than the summer anyway. But not many clubs have really been spending big because they know it could lead to points deductions if they don’t comply with the rules.


I expect things to change in the summer and clubs will start to spend big money again. By then they would have properly got their head around the new rules.

Man u latest club in premier league to say ffp meant couldn't bring in the striker ten hag wanted?
If they got problems with ffp what is it like for rest football in UK?

Allan, they are all terrified because of the charges already against Everton and Forest.

In the past PL clubs will have gone past the rules a little bit because they knew they’d just get a small fine.

But with the new profit and sustainability rules, they know the punishments are much tougher.

January is obviously much quieter than the summer anyway. But not many clubs have really been spending big because they know it could lead to points deductions if they don’t comply with the rules.


I expect things to change in the summer and clubs will start to spend big money again. By then they would have properly got their head around the new rules.

Probably for premier league clubs ... but efl clubs obviously the margins are smaller as income is much lower.... the main problem is making sure what spend in one season doesnt restrict following season like it as effected city despite embargo....theuir are several championship clubs who must be warey of it next season after pushing boat out this one... one answer to manage things is to have a very good manager who gets more out of average players.

Man u latest club in premier league to say ffp meant couldn't bring in the striker ten hag wanted?
If they got problems with ffp what is it like for rest football in UK?

Allan, they are all terrified because of the charges already against Everton and Forest.

In the past PL clubs will have gone past the rules a little bit because they knew they’d just get a small fine.

But with the new profit and sustainability rules, they know the punishments are much tougher.

January is obviously much quieter than the summer anyway. But not many clubs have really been spending big because they know it could lead to points deductions if they don’t comply with the rules.


I expect things to change in the summer and clubs will start to spend big money again. By then they would have properly got their head around the new rules.

Probably for premier league clubs ... but efl clubs obviously the margins are smaller as income is much lower.... the main problem is making sure what spend in one season doesnt restrict following season like it as effected city despite embargo....theuir are several championship clubs who must be warey of it next season after pushing boat out this one... one answer to manage things is to have a very good manager who gets more out of average players.

The thing is though, it’s normally a domino effect from PL clubs down to EFL clubs.

So if a PL club spend a lot of money on a Championship player early in the window, then that Championship club will start buying players and so and so on.

But because there’s been no early big signings from PL clubs, it stops all those other clubs from spending a lot of money.

Man u latest club in premier league to say ffp meant couldn't bring in the striker ten hag wanted?
If they got problems with ffp what is it like for rest football in UK?

Allan, they are all terrified because of the charges already against Everton and Forest.

In the past PL clubs will have gone past the rules a little bit because they knew they’d just get a small fine.

But with the new profit and sustainability rules, they know the punishments are much tougher.

January is obviously much quieter than the summer anyway. But not many clubs have really been spending big because they know it could lead to points deductions if they don’t comply with the rules.


I expect things to change in the summer and clubs will start to spend big money again. By then they would have properly got their head around the new rules.

Probably for premier league clubs ... but efl clubs obviously the margins are smaller as income is much lower.... the main problem is making sure what spend in one season doesnt restrict following season like it as effected city despite embargo....theuir are several championship clubs who must be warey of it next season after pushing boat out this one... one answer to manage things is to have a very good manager who gets more out of average players.

The thing is though, it’s normally a domino effect from PL clubs down to EFL clubs.

So if a PL club spend a lot of money on a Championship player early in the window, then that Championship club will start buying players and so and so on.

But because there’s been no early big signings from PL clubs, it stops all those other clubs from spending a lot of money.

That's very true ned ... but think premier clubs more and more going foreign as lot cheaper . ... let's hope we got money to spend as need around 8+ players next season

Massive improvement for me .
Great signings under the circumstances.
I had fears we would be in a relegation fight but I know think we could make a play off if Bulut can get them playing .
Also they have done great things in getting rid of a few which should allow for better signings in the summer .