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Dimitris Goutas' interview in greek about Cardiff City with his departure being confirmed
I'll translate below ����
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"The Championship is really as difficult a league as they say.
Games every three days. Intensity. I didn't expect it to be like this.
I knew it was difficult, demanding, but it's one thing to say it, another to live it and understand it."
4:10 PM · Jun 12, 2025
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"You have to be physically, mentally absolutely ready. Always.
And always, in everything, at full intensity.
Duels, "stick", a lot of "stick", the referees reinforcing it and not giving fouls at all."
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"I enjoyed the game, the atmosphere in the stadium.
Every match had around 20,000 people in the stadium. Whoever we played with, whatever we played for."
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"I suffered with their English. You don't even understand it.
And that's without counting the fact that not everyone speaks English, but the local dialect, which is simply impossible to understand, to listen to, to speak."
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"How did I end up in Cardiff?
Erol Bulut knew me from my time in Turkey and Sivasspor.
The truth is that at first I was a little wary, but now that I've experienced it, only now can I understand what it was exactly."
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"Think about the level.
In the first season in the division it was Leicester, Southampton, Leeds.
Insane level, Premier League teams. It was fire.
Nothing scared me. Not even when I realized that it would actually be different."
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"And that happened right away. I was playing in my first match, at Leeds.
We were leading 2-0 at half-time. I was fine.
The second half starts, a corner kick, I take a step back to make a jump, the opponent comes, hits me in the head, knocks me down."
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"I get up and immediately think about protesting.
Everything we're used to. But I turn around and see that none of my teammates are around to support me.
They're gone, they're not even paying attention to the situation."
"I get up and immediately think about protesting.
Everything we're used to. But I turn around and see that none of my teammates are around to support me.
They're gone, they're not even paying attention to the situation."
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"And then I realize... 'Dimitris, welcome. Now join the dance and dance like they dance here'"
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"From that moment on. From the first game.
And I was lucky that it happened that way.
I continued, I accepted it and from then on, in everything, in training, in games, in my daily life, in my mindset, I adapted straight away."
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"Because that's how it is.
If you want to play, if you want to star, there is a very specific way you have to approach the game and its logic."
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"And that's what you need to claim and win promotion.
Be on fire. And of course you need depth in the roster.
That is, 30 players, otherwise it won't work.
You have to have a lot of players who are ready."
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"Always in good physical condition, mentally, physically.
It requires quality, of course, it requires "dirt".
That is, to be able to, to know how to respond to the specific way of playing.
And it also requires luck."
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"Such are the paces, such are the demands, such is the competition, that once it gets you down, its hard to turn around, hard to get away.
No matter what youre chasing.
Thats how we went about trying to get there last year losing points at the end and risking it for no reason."
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"And that's how we finally got it this year.
What was the problem? Maybe we were too relaxed.
And not just us on the field.
Everyone around the team, even the fans. No pressure, no disapproval."
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"You see, in the game where we were relegated and mathematically, I expected that when I left, things would be very difficult.
But there were 100 people and they were waiting patiently, kindly, for autographs."
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"We fell and yet we had a sponsored night to recognize the best player of the season. The whole atmosphere had nothing to do with Greece or even Turkey."
makes some good points
Here (Greece), you know. Chaos, swearing, not being able to go out on the street.
There, a completely different environment.
It might have only been like that in our group. Am not sure."
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"In general, the way everyone was treated and approached, didn't make you feel like "wake up, we're going down".
I don't know if we would have stayed in the division if I had stayed in the team.
I think it was a cycle that closed anyway."
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About Sio
"He was a huge help when I was in Cardiff.
He has a way of decompressing those around him, of making them relax.
And I told him that when he left. I would collapse without him being here."
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"And I collapsed. I didn't have a person to shout to, to have fun with, to vent to.
It was a big deal for me.
And yes, he keeps telling me that it's time to come back."
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Then says that he played every game his first season and he was decent n then about his family, national team, previous clubs etc
He mentions difficulties with the local dialect, just like Burgstaller did a few weeks ago. Do we need to be recruiting an elocution coach?
It all sounds Greek to me
It's a bit bizarre really. How all these footballers manage to settle and do well in and around merseyside, Glasgow, tyneside, Midlands I don't know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
Pretty good interview, we don't really get to hear that much from ex players. Some of it regarding the attitude around the club was pretty damning although he seems to have just gone with the flow which is a bit disappointing.
It's a much different fan base to even when I was a boy 20 odd years ago, some for the better, some for worse. I think overall though we have had the life sucked out of the club.
He faded when we lost Siopis. He was a big loss If we are honest, we took two important players out, because Riza couldn't get the best out of them.
he did fall off after sio left
Arf a Daark in Roaf Paark wiv a Claaark's puye!Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
Perhaps all foreign players should have a copy of a Frank Hennessy record to play and learn
How many of the players and staff that he worked with are from Kairdiff?Quote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
I doubt that he heard a Cardiff or South Wales accent very often.
Dai Hunt greeting the players as they arrive for GamesQuote:
Originally Posted by Undercoverinwurzelland
It's really fecking weird, wonder if it's part of some onboarding deck that they give to foreign players or something for it to have been mentioned twice. Even the most Cardiffian doesn't have a strong accent or dialect compared to anywhere north of the Watford gap, and as noted our staff and players would be from all over the place.Quote:
Originally Posted by RichardM
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Originally Posted by Wash DC Blue
The bit about them feeling relaxed and not feeling any pressure is very concerning!
Seemingly the teams and manager thought we were too good to go down and would always pick up enough points
Yeah he clearly found it very strange - even from the fans there was very little pressure it seems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitman
I liked this passage - someone should show this to Daland.Quote:
The second half starts, a corner kick, I take a step back to make a jump, the opponent comes, hits me in the head, knocks me down.
I get up and immediately think about protesting.
Everything we're used to. But I turn around and see that none of my teammates are around to support me.
They're gone, they're not even paying attention to the situation."
And then I realize... 'Dimitris, welcome. Now join the dance and dance like they dance here'
I still think there's a player in there if he can adapt to the physicality of the league.
Apathy has set in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
Malky, Warnock didn't need a threat from the owner to gee up the club, but they also ensured the right types were in that dressing room.
Data-driven recruitment misses the key ingredient, character. Plus, everyone has data-driven recruitment nowadays, we are so far behind, we may as well rip it out and go old school.
When i was a kid i used to look up to footballers as men, adults. But as a 57 year old they are kids/young men and they smelled weakness in their manager and took the mick. Its what happens in real life, why shouldn't it happen at a football club. In past years, though Bellers, Cowie, Taylor, Conway, Kev, McPhail, Peltier, Bamba, Morrison, Bennett, Gunnar, Ralls, Hudson, Turner run the dressing room.
We had Ralls and the ever so nice Ramsey and Chambers
And its still missing, we are going to have a bunch of kids. It looks like it gets coached out of them at the academy.
We sleptwalked into relegation in super slow motion and we all knew this was the year. I still haven't renewed, i will, but the enthusiasm has gone. I met up with my mates this week and we all complained that we only had three sessions pre and after the game last season, we lost that much interest.
Perhaps he was just pointing out the cultural differences but it's nonsense to think we didn't know we were in trouble and I imagine everyone in the club knew too. Watching the team submit every week helped with that. But just because fans tried to get behind the team or were philosophical or had a greater sense of perspective doesn't mean we were culpable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rjk
And what if we did start throwing rotten fruit? Someone like Ryan Wintle would tell us all to calm down. The players and manager would say we all need to stick together.
This reminds me of another thing becoming more common in football - the waving of arms by players to get the crowd going. Oh are we not making enough effort? Are we losing/going down because of the atmosphere? No, the team were crap, Dimi.
Interesting interview, mind.
The Manager was the problem, he kept taking the rap and not passing it down to the players. I've said all season they were getting an arm around the shoulder when they needed a hard kick up the arse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitman
Will BBM give them a hammering when they are constantly making mistakes and not closing down quickly enough? I doubt it somehow, we needed a junior Warnock type, Nathan Jones, then probably Evatt, followed by Buckie was what we needed.
the days of a kick up the arse are going, would professional footballers respond to that now ? ? I dont knowQuote:
Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
Buckie. Just how many baby names are you going to give to an out if work manager who is not Cardiff bound (allegedly)?Quote:
Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
The only players who can draw conclusions about how the fans perceived last season are Joe Ralls, possibly Perry Ng and perhaps the likes of Isaak Davies and Rubin Colwill. The rest of them haven’t been here long enough to understand or appreciate what it’s been like watching Cardiff City play for the last five seasons. This applies particularly to those supporters who rarely get to watch away games where I’d say that, generally speaking, we’ve done okay during the 2020s. At home though, it’s been miserable watching us play. I’m not going to repeat all the stats, they been posted on here before, but here’s one - in four of the past five seasons, we’ve lost more home games than we won and, in the other one we won ten and lost ten.
People call for protest marches and it seems like Goutas is saying the fans should have been harder on the players last season, but I would argue that a majority of the predominantly home support have been ground down, first by dull and ugly football which at least saw us winning pretty regularly to dull, losing football where you’d see the same mistakes being repeated time after time. Put all of that with chronic ineptitude in the Boardroom and from the owner and it’s led to support that has had its joy and enthusiasm reduced to the extent that apathy rules these days.
He was a problem. He was by no means the only problem. We'd been circling the drain for 4 seasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by North Cardiff Blue
Well said.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
I take that interview as he expected more aggression and anger from the fans towards the team and the players and he's right. We have become far too soft in the last 20 years. Days of Ninian where we made the ground a hellhole not just for opposition but for players on our own team that didn't perform.
Ninian Park a hellhole:hehe: a shithole more like. The days that it was intimidating were very few & far between. Funny how some seem to liken it to a regular Boca/River Plate atmosphere.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bald Barry Bastad
But thankfully we have a scapegoat of Tan, where everything that goes wrong on the field is his fault.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bald Barry Bastad
As it has been June 2012
Being critical of an owner who, if not at the Man City or Newcastle level, would still be considered by all of us to be very rich, has overseen a football club that is in a much position in almost every respect than it was on the date you mention hardly qualifies as scapegoating, it's more stating facts.Quote:
Originally Posted by WJ99mobile
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Originally Posted by Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
MeiteÂ’s reaction to mild criticism that, as a striker, he hadnÂ’t scored many goals? He threw his toys out of the pram.
Then, when one went in after a cross diverted in, off his head, you would have thought that it was the equivalent of just “needing one to go in off his backside”.
But no, he probably thought “right that showed you lot, didn’t it”, and reverted to type. By which I mean like watching a combination of a Darlek and a Dodge-um attempting to play football for the very first time.
Are we sure they aren't referring to Welsh?Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger
Good post :thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bluebirdman Of Alcathays