Andreas Cornelius

[Ivortheengine]

When Andreas Cornelius signed a five-year contract for Cardiff City in July 2013, he had just turned 20 years of age. To put that into perspective, he was a few months younger than Chanka Zimba is now. He'd had one full season in the Danish Superliga and had finished top scorer with 18 goals in 32 appearances. He was also already a full Danish international and had scored a hat-trick for his national team against Canada and further goals against Mexico and the Czech Republic. He clearly had bags of potential.

During the car crash season that was 2013/14, Cornelius was given a grand total of six months to prove himself and he was injured for a significant portion of that time. By the time Vincent Tan had made him a scapegoat for the club's failings and had shipped him back to Copenhagen, he was still just 20 years-old.

His transfer was clearly an error of judgement on Mackay's part and the player obviously couldn't cope with the weight of expectation that was placed on him. However, given what he had done before he arrived in Cardiff, the way in which he was written off and publicly humiliated was clearly ridiculous. But let's be honest, much of what was going at Cardiff City in 2013/14 was clearly ridiculous.

You are spot on. McKay was way out of his depth , but by the time the owners realised it, it was far to9 late. He should have been relieved of his duties the minute promotion was achieved. It was never going to work.

[the other bob wilson]

You are spot on. McKay was way out of his depth , but by the time the owners realised it, it was far to9 late. He should have been relieved of his duties the minute promotion was achieved. It was never going to work.

Yeah, we could have had Ole for the whole season then. People can go on till the cows come home about how Mackay got us relegated, but the facts are that we were clear of the bottom three when he left and yet we ended up bottom of the league - we were undoubtedly a worse side in the second half of 13/14 than we were in the first half of that season (eighteen points from the first nineteen, seventeen points from eighteen under Mackay and twelve from nineteen in the second half, eighteen under Ole).

[2b2bdoo]

Yeah, we could have had Ole for the whole season then. People can go on till the cows come home about how Mackay got us relegated, but the facts are that we were clear of the bottom three when he left and yet we ended up bottom of the league - we were undoubtedly a worse side in the second half of 13/14 than we were in the first half of that season (eighteen points from the first nineteen, seventeen points from eighteen under Mackay and twelve from nineteen in the second half, eighteen under Ole).

We will never know either way, personally thought he should have gone after Villa away, we were getting worse and worse and more defensive game by game. Not sure we even had a shot at Villa and that was before all the bullying and racist evidence (allegedly?)

Personally think we made the same mistake twice on promotion and both Malky and Warnock should have been instantly replaced.