With My Little Pick and Shovel - A Cardiff City Story

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AUGUST
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Football is back following the 2020 European Championships! (Won by Spain who beat Greece 2-0 in the Final)

EUROPEAN SUPER CUP
Cardiff City 4-1 Manchester United
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Meret, Smalling, Ilori, Burke, Bazoer, Cook, Zielinski, Rossiter, Duelund, Oliver (James 64), Perovic
Revenge is a dish best served cold! We banished the memories of our 4-1 dismantling in the Community Shield last season by smashing the seemingly unstoppable European champions Manchester United by 4 goals to one. Cardiff lad Rhys Cook opened the scoring early on before United equalised. We confounded all expectations, however, by going on to attack United and score 3 more against a side featuring Breel Embolo, Andriy Yarmolenko, Danilo, Niklas Sule and Viktor Fischer

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-0 Everton
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Meret, Smalling, Ilori, Burke, Bazoer, Green, Rossiter (Poyet 76), Zielinski, Duelund, Oliver (James 76), Perovic
A solid victory over Everton wrapped up within 20 minutes by two Dusan Perovic goals, a comfortable way to start the league season

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Burnley 0-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Smalling, Ilori, Burke, Bazoer, Green, Zielinski, Rossiter (Poyet 85), Duelund, Oliver (Boyle 72), Perovic (Ings 67)
What is it with us and Burnley? Its as though they know exactly how to deal with us, it's a strange one

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-0 Southampton
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Meret, Bazoer, Burke, Smalling, Rossiter (Ilori 39), Green, Zielinski, Duelund, Angerschmid, Oliver, Perovic (Ings 65)
We left it late against league leaders Southampton but at least we grabbed the three points. We pushed and pushed but seemed unable to score until new signing Reece Burke opened his account for the club with a towering header on 82 minutes. Only 4 minutes later, Zielinski was fouled in the box, giving Mikkel Duelund (Who was playing in midfield today) the opportunity to make it 2-0. An opportunity he took, opening his account for the season in the process

LEAGUE TABLE
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A solid start to the month, picking up 7 points and my fourth trophy as Cardiff City boss

TOP SCORER: DUSAN PEROVIC (4 GOALS)​
 
SEPTEMBER
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Can we continue our good start to the season into the second month?

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Chelsea 1-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Smalling, Ilori, Burke, Bazoer, Green, Rossiter, Duelund, Angerschmid (Poyet 62), Oliver (Avdijaj 66), Perovic (Boyle 66)
Gutting. Goncalo Guedes (Who started the Europa League final for Benfica) scored in the 88th minute of what had been an even game to consign us to our first defeat of the season. Our strikeforce just wasn't at the races today and couldn't finish anything, still, quite encouraging as it shows we can compete with the best in their own back gardens

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 1-0 Watford
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Meret, Smalling, Ilori, Burke, Rossiter, Green, Grant, J.Williams (Poyet 72), Angerschmid, Oliver (James 72), Perovic
A solid home victory over Watford following some European exploits, not bad.

LEAGUE CUP THIRD ROUND
Cardiff City 0-1 Bristol City
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Kyle, Bazoer, Grant, Cooper, Poet, P.Boyle, Soumahoro, Johansen (Rossiter 81), Duelund, Oliver (Avdijaj 45), Sampson
7 players made their first appearance of the season today, including young goalkeeper Andy Kyle, who made another Man of the Match performance (His second in his three appearances for the club). Disappointing to lose to our rivals, but this means less fixtures and fresher players, so I don't mind losing

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Derby County 3-2 Cardiff City
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Meret, Smalling, Ilori, Burke (Duelund 45), Grant, Green, Rossiter, Bazoer, Angerschmid, Oliver, Perovic (Ings 69)
A very disappointing loss to Derby in a game we really should have won. We took the lead twice, only for the Rams to hit back with goals of their own, Ogo Obi put in a good performance for them and England Under 20 international Kaylen Hinds hit us on the break with his first goal of the season. Poor.

LEAGUE TABLE
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A poor month sees us slip down the league table. My personal ambition this season is to qualify for Europe, the board's is a top half finish, while the media predict us to finish 9th

TOP SCORER: DUSAN PEROVIC (6 GOALS)​
 
OCTOBER
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Can we improve on a poor September as the league really gets going?

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 1-1 AFC Bournemouth
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Meret, Smalling (Duelund 24), Ilori, Burke, Rossiter (James 61), Green, Zielinski, Bazoer, Angerschmid, Oliver, Perovic (Avdijaj 76)
We dominated the game, having 23 shots to their 4. Mardco Angerschmid scored his first for the club early on, only for a Matt Ritchie winder-strike just before half time to spoil the fun

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Manchester City 1-0 Cardiff City
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, Bazoer, Burke, Smalling, Poyet, Green, Zielinski, Duelund, Angerschmid (Ilori 64), Oliver, Perovic (Boyle 64)
Another defeat to add to our dismal run domestically, Kevin De Bruyne's first half strike has left us 3 games without a win in the Premier League, very poor

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur​
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Meret, Bazoer, Burke, Smalling, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski, Duelund, Angerschmid (Poyet 62), Oliver (Boyle 62), Perovic
Well that's one way to end our poor run! Greig Boyle scoring in the third minute of injury time to bag us the three points in what was an evenly contested match. Alex Meret even saved a penalty.

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Liverpool 0-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Smalling, Ilori, Burke, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski, Bazoer (James 87), Angerschmid (Duelund 61), Oliver (Boyle 61), Perovic
We were very tired as we took on Liverpool at Anfield and it showed, wit the hosts dominating proceedings. We had our chances, however and held on, defending superbly against a Liverpool team including players such as Sergio Aguero and Manolo Gabbiadini. We made similar changes to the ones we made against Spurs and they worked wonders, with us winning the game late on once again

LEAGUE TABLE
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A mixed month, but a positive one overall, gaining 7 points from 4 tough matches

TOP SCORER: DUSAN PEROVIC (8 GOALS)​
 
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Unlikely to be updates over the weekend as I will be in France

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NOVEMBER
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A pretty strong showing in October, picking up 7 points, more of the same here please!

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-1 West Ham United
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Meret, Smalling, Ilori, Burke, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski (Poyet 65), Duelund, Angerschmid, Oliver (Boyle 65), Perovic (Grant 87)
The super sub is at it again! We dominated possession today as West Ham scored their only chance of note, levelling early in the second half, only for Glaswegian striker Greig Boyle to dash the Londoners hopes of returning home with a point

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Stoke City 0-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Smalling, Ilori, Burke, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski, Bazoer (Duelund 89), Angerschmid, Oliver (Boyle 45), Perovic
A tight match at the Britannia lead to a goal-less draw between the two sides, not much happened as Stoke seemed happy to defend, breaking down many of our attacks

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 2-1 Swansea City
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Meret, Bazoer, Burke 79, Smalling, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski, Duelund (Nakagawa 79), Angerschmid (Grant 57), James (Ilori 79), Perovic
The match was a lot easier than the result would have you believe, Swansea didn't threaten much and we dealt with them pretty easily, continuing to dominate despite the red card. Mikkel Duelund scored the winner on his 150th league appearance for the club

LEAGUE TABLE
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A good month sees us sitting the European spots as we enter December, good stuff

TOP SCORER: DUSAN PEROVIC (10 GOALS)​
 
It has taken a few years on loan in Sweden for these guys, but they finally have work permits!

LAERCIO
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Spent 4 years at Halmstads BK in Sweden, making 91 league appearances for them and scoring 3 goals. In that time he has also accumulated 25 caps for the Brazilian Under 20s. He is 579 days away from qualifying for the Swedish national team. Shall I send him there again so he can play for them?

YOON DAE-DONG
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He didn't serve as long as others did in Sweden, managing 3 tours of duty, appearing for Halmstads 37 occasions whilst playing for South Korea

JHONNY TORRICO
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A veteran of Sweden, the Bolivian Bulldog (They don't call him that) made 92 league appearances for Halmstads, scoring 32 goals for the Swedish side (He played on the wing). Some say Jhonny, who has 30 caps and 1 goal for Bolivia, is the only Bolivian to speak fluent Swedish

SHOTA BREGADZE
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Ah Shota, according to a recent survey the 21 year old is the third best Georgian player in the world (He just about beat a six year old named Steve, who finished fourth). Shota made 94 league appearances in his 4 years at Halmstads, as well as 28 appearances for the Georgian national side. He has never scored a goal in his life.

IBRAHIM DOSSO
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The man has 34 caps for the Ivorian Under 20s side. 34. He's also not bad, making 78 league appearances in Sweden, conceding 71 and keeping 31 clean sheets.

LEONARDO BLANCO
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A 22 year old with 7 caps for Colombia you say? Not bad, he played 87 times for Halmstads, averaging a rating of 7.22 over 4 years in Sweden

Please spare a thought for Olger Gamboa, a 21 year old winger with 26 caps for Costa Rica, who will be entering his fourth season on loan at Halmstads, but this time without his mates
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Some say he's so Swedish he's won Eurovision, which he did in 2018 with a catchy number called "Please Take Me Home"
 
DECEMBER
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A good November, can we follow up with a good December?

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Aston Villa 0-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Bazoer, Ilori, Cooper, Grant, Green, Zielinski (Rossiter 76), J.Williams, Angerschmid, Oliver (Boyle 77), Ings
A very disappointing draw away to Villa in a game we really should have won. Poor.

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 0-0 Crystal Palace
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Meret, Smalling, Ilori, Burke, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski, Bazoer, Angerschmid, Oliver (Avdijaj 68), Perovic (Boyle 57)
A second 0-0 draw in a row, this time at home to Crystal Palace. We had 17 shots and 56% possession, incredibly disappointed not to win

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Leicester City 2-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Bazoer, Burke, Smalling, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski, Duelund (Avdijaj 83), Angerschmid, Oliver, Perovic (Boyle 63)
Another disappointing result, conceding 2 in the last 10 minutes to a Foxes side on a similar level to us quality-wise, a win here would have made the month look decent.

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Newcastle United 1-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Bazoer, Burke, Smalling, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski, Duelund (Grant 67), Angerschmid, Oliver (James 67), Perovic
We took the lead against a Newcastle side chasing the Champions League spots but looked the poorer of the two sides, especially in the second half. You could see Newcastle's equaliser was coming and when it came I feared that we would lose the match. Fortunately we didn't.

FA CUP THIRD ROUND
Cardiff City 0-0 Reading
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Meret, Gunter, Burke, Bazoer, Nakagawa, Poyet, Grant (Zielinski 74), Cook, James, Angerschmid, Boyle
We reverted to the 4 at the back formation we won the Championship with for this game in order to give some fringe players some first team minutes, we'll be doing the same thing at the Madejski

LEAGUE TABLE
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A very poor month with now victories, including a draw against Reading sees us slip out of the European spots

TOP SCORER: DUSAN PEROVIC (11 GOALS)​
 
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DUO LEAVE BLUEBIRDS
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Cardiff City have today announced the departures of Danny Ings and Diego Poyet on multi million pound deals

First to leave the Bluebirds was Danny Ings, who has joined Serie A leaders Napoli for a fee of £7m.

Ings, who has played for 6 different clubs before joining Napoli, signed for Cardiff from Liverpool for £3.4m in 2019. He went on to make 30 league appearances for the Bluebirds, scoring 12 goals. Ings made 4 league appearances this season, scoring none

Ings, who has cost a total of £38.5m throughout his career, has scored 84 goals in 270 appearances. Scoring goals for Bournemouth, Dorchester, Burnley, Liverpool, Watford and Cardiff.

The second to leave Cardiff was Uruguayan international midfielder, Diego Poyet, who complained to Cardiff manager Matthew Hawkins about a lack of first team football.

Poyet, who joined Cardiff from Chelsea for £8.25m in 2019, has joined Spanish champions FC Barcelona for £20m.

Poyet, 25, made 16 league appearances for Cardiff in his time at the Bluebirds, lifting the Europa League and European Super Cup.

Poyet, who has made 54 appearances for Uruguay, has become Cardiff's record sale by joining Barcelona for £20m
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WALES 2020
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I'm gonna be straight with you, the Welsh team are a mess. We were knocked out of our European Championships group fairly easily, we were smashed by Ireland in the Nations League and then the Welsh FA called me in to make it worse.

RESULTS
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Dreadful. In fairness I only managed the last 5 and only picked the squad for the last 4. For that reason I won't post about the first Belgium game

FRIENDLY
Slovenia 0-0 Wales
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Morris, Lockyer, Grant, Dummett, Huws, Cook, Ramsey (Evans 45), Allen, James (Knight 61), Bale, Burns (Vokes 61)
A steady, if uninspiring start as Wales manager. I tried to implement my 3-5-2 formation from Cardiff and we were poor, we're going to need a different formation.

EUROPEAN NATIONS LEAGUE DIVISION B
Wales 1-1 Ireland
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Morris, Gunter, Grant, Dummett, Taylor, Ramsey (Evans 58), Allen, Cook, Bale (Huws 45), James, Roberts (Burns 68)
I deployed a 4-2-3-1 formation at home to Ireland and it almost worked, with us dominating the first half and deserving another goal, unfortunately Ireland levelled before half-time, throwing a spanner into the works and forcing a draw.

FRIENDLY
Armenia 0-0 Wales
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Morris, Yorwerth (Richards 45), Grant, Walsh, Huws (Dasilva 45), James, Ramsey, Allen (King 50), Bale, Harris, Roberts (Thomas 67)
Another game, another draw! We trialled the 3-5-2 again and deserved to win but we just couldn't finish our chances, disappointing but a definite improvement

EUROPEAN NATIONS LEAGUE DIVISION B
Belgium 6-2 Wales
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Morris, Henley (Richards 45), Grant, Yorwerth, John, Ramsey, Allen, Bale, Harris (Sampson 45), James, Roberts
A poor start and a poor finish made the result look worse than it was. We matched the Belgains in general play only for a couple of wonder strikes to put us 3 down at the break. We rallied following Yorwerth's own goal, scoring 2 goals in quick succession, only for Romelu Lukaku to make the gap 4 once more with 2 late goals. Gareth Bale's goal made him Wales' record goalscorer with 29 goals for Wales.

EUROPEAN NATIONS LEAGUE DIVISION B FINAL TABLE
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Poor.

Our World Cup Qualification group has been drawn
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Not bad, it could have been much worse​
 
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GROUP STAGE
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A mixed group sends us to exotic places, Italy, Switzerland and Turkey are those places, can we get through the group?

MATCHDAY 1
Cardiff City 2-0 FC Basel
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Meret, Smalling, Burke, Ilori (Nakagawa 64), Poyet (Angerschmid 57, 64), Cook, Bazoer, Rossiter, Duelund, Oliver, Perovic (Ings 56)
For a long time it looked like it just wasn't going to be our night as we dominated the Swiss champions. We tried and tried but just couldn't score. Then we got a red card. Woeful. Somehow, however, dropping to ten men seemed to benefit us as we went on to score 2 goals in the last 15 minutes to beat Basel. Strange one.

MATCHDAY 2
Galatasaray SK 0-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Bazoer, Ilori, Smalling, Gunter, Rossiter, Nakagawa, Zielinski, Duelund, Oliver, Perovic (Boyle 60)
We entered the house of fun and returned with all three points! Our trip to "****" was lovely, like a trip to the countryside and we managed to give our fans something to cheer. A pretty tight game saw wing-back Yusuke Nakagawa win it for us

MATCHDAY 3
Cardiff City 1-1 S.S.C Napoli
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Meret, Bazoer (Avdijaj 73), Burke, Smalling, Poyet, Green, Zielinski (Ilori 56), Rossiter, Angerschmid, Oliver, Perovic
We were all over Napoli today, clocking up 17 shots to their 6 but we just couldn't put one in the back of the net after Dusan Perovic equalised for us on the stroke of half time. A draw is still a good result though.

MATCHDAY 4
S.S.C Napoli 0-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Smalling, Ilori, Burke, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski, Bazoer (Grant 45), Angerschmid, Oliver, Perovic (Boyle 67)
What a result! A pretty tight game away in Italy has ended with Marco Angerschmid etching his name into the Cardiff City history books with a goal that could be vitally important in putting us through to the knockouts

MATCHDAY 5
FC Basel 2-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Smalling, Ilori, Burke, Rossiter, Green, J.Williams, Duelund, Angerschmid (Poyet 63), James, Perovic
A very disappointing way to lose our unbeaten run in the Champions League but, meh. We racked up 17 shots today but only managed 3 on target which tells you everything you need to know. We played n our change strip of Black and Yellow today, I quite like it

MATCHDAY 6
Cardiff City 1-1 Galatasaray SK
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Meret, Bazoer, Ilori, Smalling, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski, Duelund (Poyet 80), Angerschmid, Oliver (Boyle 63), Perovic
A disappointing end to a good campaign. We battered Galatasaray, having 16 shots and 8 on target (compared to their 5 shots and 2 on target) but we couldn't convert and were punished by the counter-attack in the closing stages. Ironically I was interested in signing Stoyan Trifonov in the summer.

TABLE
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DRAW
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****.​
 
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LOAN DEALS THE ORDER OF THE DAY AT CARDIFF CITY
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Cardiff City have today announced the completion of three loan deals, with two players joining the club and one leaving

Firstly, the Welsh club announced the departure of Albanian striker Donis Avdijaj, who has joined German side VfL Wolfsburg until the end of the season, with the Germans paying the Bluebirds £100,000 per month for his services.
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The German born star has scored 6 goals in 8 games for Albania

Avdijaj, 24, made 6 league appearances for the Bluebirds this season, scoring none as he played second fiddle to Serbian striker, Dusan Perovic.
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The Albanian has been known to be outspoken

The deal has come following a breakdown in communications between the striker and manager Matthew Hawkins, who told the German born star he wasn't performing well enough when given the opportunity

Cardiff then announced the signing of two players, both from Premier League sides

First to sign for the Bluebirds was Manchester United defender Aleksandar Dragovic, who has signed to plug a gap in the Bluebirds defence
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The Austrian defender has made 55 league appearances for United

The Austrian defender, 29, has barely featured for the Red Devils over the past two seasons, making just 6 league appearances as United won back to back titles
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Dragovic playing for Basel, with whom he made his name

The defender, who has 81 caps for Austria, was signed from Dynamo Kyiv for £19m in 2017 and has won 2 Premier League titles and 1 Champions League with United
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The second player to join Cardiff was Lewis Cook, who's signed on loan from Chelsea until the end of the season

Cook, 24, joined Chelsea in the summer transfer window from Everton for £19.5m but has been sent out on loan having made just 7 appearances for the Blues
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Cook playing for Leeds

The Yorkshire man, who has won both the Under 19 and Under 21 European Championship titles with England, started his career at boyhood club Leeds, making 183 league appearances for them before being sold to Everton for £7.25m in January 2019
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BLUEBIRDS BREAK RECORD
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Cardiff City have today announced the signing of Timo Werner from Juventus for a club record fee of £12.5m

The signing follows the sale of Danny Ings to Napoli for £7m and the loan of troublesome striker Donis Avdijaj, who's moved to Wolfsburg for the rest of the season

Werner, 24, has joined the Bluebirds after a few tough years in his young career, which have seen him go from highly-rated youngster to another "could have been" in the eyes of most pundits and commentators

Werner's career started at boyhood club VfB Stuttgart, where he scored 49 goals in 159 league appearances. The striker scored 33 goals in 65 league appearances in his last 2 seasons in Germany, prompting Barcelona to end the strikers 16 year affiliation with the club through an offer of £13.5m

Werner scored 2 goals in 19 league appearances for the Catalan side, who he lifted the Spanish Cup with in 2019, he started just on league game for Los Cueles before leaving for Juventus in 2019

Werner scored 6 goals in 19 league appearances in his debut season in Italy having been bought for £18.5m to replace Leo Baptistao and Iago Aspas

Things didn't work out in Turin, however, as he made just 1 substitute appearance in the league this season

Werner hopes Cardiff is where he will turn his career around​
 
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JANUARY
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We need results and we need them now

FA CUP THIRD ROUND
Cardiff City 0-0 Reading
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Meret, Gunter, Bazoer, Burke, Nakagawa, Poyet, Grant (Zielinski 74), Cook, James, Angerschmid, Boyle
A very disappointing home draw against Reading gets our FA Cup campaign going. We went to a 4-2-3-1 and it just didn't work

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Arsenal 4-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Bazoer, Ilori, Smalling, Rossiter, Nakagawa (Angerschmid 59), Green, Zielinski, Duelund, Oliver, Perovic
They scored their first 3 shots which killed any chance of us coming back and destroyed our confidence, poor

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 0-1 Manchester United
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Meret, Bazoer, Burke, Smalling, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski, Duelund, Angerschmid, Oliver (Boyle 70), Perovic (Avidjaj 70)
United have shots. Lots and lots of shots. They had 20 shots today despite us oth having the same amount of possession. We just couldn't score. Poor.

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Everton 0-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Bazoer, Burke, Smalling, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski (Ilori 81), Duelund, Angerschmid (Grant 62), Oliver, Perovic
We won and won with style! We dominated Everton and probably should have scored some more. We had 17 shots with 7 on target and 57% possession. Brilliant.

FA CUP THIRD ROUND REPLAY
Reading 0-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Smalling, Burke, Ilori, Rossiter, Green, Bazoer, Duelund, Angerschmid, Oliver, Perovic
We were poor but still won which is all that matters in cup competitions

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 4-1 Burnley
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Meret, Smalling, Burke, Dragovic (Cooper 84), Grant, Green, Rossiter (James 84), Bazoer, Angerschmid, Oliver (Avdijaj 60), Perovic
One of those rare days where every goes the way you want it to. Dusan was on fire and our defence held strong despite the early wobble

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Southampton 2-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Smalling, Burke, Dragovic, Rossiter, Green (Cook 69), Zielinski, Bazoer, Angerschmid, Oliver, Boyle (Werner 69)
Oh for fu-

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 0-0 Chelsea
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Meret, Smalling, Burke, Dragovic, Rossiter, Green, Bazoer (Grant 61), Zielinski, Bazoer, Angerschmid, Oliver (Werner 66), Perovic
A pretty strong performance at home to Chelsea, it was a pretty even match as well, which makes a point even sweeter

FA CUP FOURTH ROUND
Cardiff City 3-0 Watford
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Meret, Smalling, Burke, Dragovic, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski, Bazoer (Duelund 72), Angerschmid, Oliver (James 72), Werner
What a way to end the month and progress in the cup! A very solid victory at home to the Hornets and was nice to see Timo Werner bag his first goal for the club

LEAGUE TABLE
I forgot to take a screenshot of it, so here's a picture of Hal Robson-Kanu
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Love that guy

TOP SCORER: DUSAN PEROVIC (14 GOALS)​
 
FEBRUARY
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An ok January is followed by a tough month including a game away to Bayern

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Watford 0-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Smalling, Burke, Dragovic, Rossiter, Green, Bazoer (Grant 79), Zielinski, Angerschmid, Oliver (James 79), Perovic
A pretty poor match to be honest with neither team impressing, boring to be honest

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 0-2 Derby County
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Meret, Smalling, Burke, Dragovic, Rossiter (Grant 88), Green, Bazoer, Zielinski (Duelund 88), Angerschmid, Oliver, Perovic
A very poor performance. We created nothing and the few times we ventured forward Derby hit us on the break and scored

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE 1ST KNOCKOUT ROUND 1ST LEG
Bayern Munich 3-1 Cardiff City
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Meret, Smalling, Burke, Bazoer, Cook, Rossiter, Nakagawa (Angerschmid 56), Zielinski, Duelund, Oliver (Werner 86), Perovic
A pretty decent performance away in Germany but we conceded 2 goals from corners which is unforgivable at this level. We rallied in the second half and scored through Dusan Perovic to grab an away goal

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
AFC Bournemouth 0-0 Cardiff City
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Meret, Bazoer, Burke, Dragovic, Rossiter, Green, Zielinski, L.Cook, Angerschmid (Duelund 82), Oliver, Perovic (Werner 62)
A pretty poor performance away on the South Coast adds to our month of woe, we need to turn this around

FA CUP FIFTH ROUND
Cardiff City 1-1 Shrewsbury Town
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Meret, Smalling, Burke, Dragovic, Grant, Green, Bazoer, Zielinski, Angerschmid, Oliver, Werner (Perovic 60)
Jesus Christ. They scored their only shot on target - they only had 2 shots, a very disappointing performance in front of a capacity 42,000 crowd

BARCLAYS PREMIER LEAGUE
Cardiff City 1-3 Manchester City
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Meret, Smalling, Burke, Dragovic, Bazoer, Green, Zielinski, L.Cook, Angerschmid (Duelund 65), Oliver, Perovic (Werner 65)
Another very poor performance to end our month. Timo Werner scored a nice consolation

LEAGUE TABLE
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A very poor month for us

TOP SCORER: DUSAN PEROVIC (15 GOALS)​
 
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