Player recruitment and development

[J R Hartley]

Let me ask you a question: do you think Cardiff City Football Club has been one that has recruited well and where a good percentage of players have developed significantly during the last decade or so?

Depends how you look at it. Whilst we may have not developed many young players we have been promoted twice to the Premier League in that time. So we obviously made some players better.

Every club would like to get promoted with a team full of developed players but how often is that the case? Most clubs buy their way out of this division. Thats just the way it is.

Lets cut the bullshit, this is just another of your threads with the hidden message being an attack on Vincent Tan.

Let it go mun.

[The Lone Gunman]

Lets cut the bullshit, this is just another of your threads with the hidden message being an attack on Vincent Tan.

Oh yeah, that's the 'agenda', of course it is.....

As it happens, I believe Tan is largely blameless for this area of the club's operations. As often as not, he's backed his managers with reasonable sums of money. The problem is that, by and large, they've brought in players that either aren't capable of progressing past Championship level or aren't even good enough for the second tier.

It's telling that, of the players the last manager assembled last year for a tilt at the Premier League, only two are playing top flight football this season. One, who was here on loan, can't even get on Crystal Palace's bench, while the other is turning out for a side who are 17th in the French league.

[J R Hartley]

It's telling that, of the players the last manager assembled last year for a tilt at the Premier League, only two are playing top flight football this season..

Yeah, that tends to happen when a club gets relegated after just 1 season. It was a squad made up of players who had never played in the Premier League, or those that had operated previously in the top flight, were deemed not good enough so its not that telling.

Its not like we signed a load of established Premier League players, they spent one season with Cardiff, and they are shit. The players were not good enough for that level to begin with.

[The Lone Gunman]

Yeah, that tends to happen when a club gets relegated after just 1 season.

Like when the club was relegated after just one season in 2013/14?

[J R Hartley]

Like when the club was relegated after just one season in 2013/14?

So the recruitment in the last decade has been good then? Make your mind up.

[The Lone Gunman]

So the recruitment in the last decade has been good then? Make your mind up.

It's been brilliant, as clearly demonstrated by the wealth of talent in the current squad and the glorious careers of those who have flourished after spending time developing at Cardiff.

[J R Hartley]

It's been brilliant, as clearly demonstrated by the wealth of talent in the current squad and the glorious careers of those who have flourished after spending time developing at Cardiff.

The current squad has players with more premier league experience than most clubs in the division.

How many Preston players have gone on to have glorious careers? Millwall?

We are what we are. A championship club with championship players.