Tonight’s Cardiff City news as three new players on radar and Bulut demands better transfer structure
Here are your Cardiff City headlines for Friday, January 19.
New midfielder on City’s radar
Erol Bulut has added Badou N’Diaye on to his list of potential midfield transfers, according to reports in Turkey.
We know Cardiff are looking to add as many as six new players in the next 13 days, which at the time of writing feels like a tall order with no additions expected before tomorrow’s Championship game with Plymouth.
Midfield is an area Bulut has wanted to properly address since last summer, but has so far managed to add only Manolis Siops to his roster in that position. Sign up to our daily Cardiff City newsletter here.
has already stated that he’s had to pivot and opt for alternative players in fear of waiting until the end of the window and being left empty-handed and reports in Turkey now claim N’Diaye could be a left-field addition this window.
Reporter Ertan Süzgün suggests the 33-year-old Senegal international, who plays for Adan Demirspor, is on Bulut’s list. Samsunspor and Pendikspor, who beat Cardiff to the signing of Umut Nayir, have also been mentioned in dispatches.
N’Diaye has probably best known on these shores for his three-year stint with Stoke City, but has played for Turkish giants Galatasaray in his time, too. He is yet to score for Adana Demirspor this season after a fruitful 2022/23 campaign which saw him net eight times and assist five times from central midfield.
Erol Bulut wants better transfer structure
Erol Bulut says Cardiff have to improve their scouting network and other “small details” regarding the way they work in the transfer market in order to take the club to the next level.
This week, the Bluebirds appointed Andrii Fedchenkov as lead scout, having worked at big European clubs such as PAOK and Shakhtar Donetsk. It perhaps points to the direction in which Cardiff, and Bulut, want to go with regards to recruitment, not only now but potentially in the summer if the manager stays on.
Bulut spoke last week about wanting certainty over his own future in order to revamp the club in order for it to be fit for purpose and match the manager’s own ambitions of getting into the Premier League. And that goes for transfers, too. He believes improvements can be made in order to ensure they are getting the right players in during each window, every season.
“I think we need more quality scouts like him, to work all over and to watch all over. I cannot follow it as manager, I have to prepare training sessions and focus on my team,” Bulut said when asked about Fedchenkov’s appointment.
“We have got in one quality, good guy. He was in PAOK before, Shakhtar (Donetsk) too. I think he will be helpful for us, what he knows. He has data he can show us and bring us players to watch and to say if they are good for us.
“On this, we have to work a lot. Not only on this, we have to work on many small detail inside the club to get a better level, to get the club to a better a level. We need a better structure.
“We can not hope, or just say it’s luck, no, it’s not like that that. It’s not about luck. We have to build. We have to build.”
