As the only person on here arguing that he should be given a chance I'm buzzing about this
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Cardiff City academy player promoted to first team permanently as problem position emerges
The Bluebirds player has been permanently promoted to the first team after impressing for the youth team
Cardiff City have promoted Michael Reindorf to the first-team training squad permanently after his run of goals for the youth team.
The 19-year-old signed as a free agent in the summer having left Norwich City, this weekend's opponents, for Omer Riza's side, and has impressed in front of goal, scoring 12 times in total for the under-21s.
The forward also put in solid showings against Bristol Rovers and Southampton in Carabao Cup matches, providing his first senior assist against the Saints for Rubin Colwill's screamer, but has not featured in a Championship matchday squad so far this term
And Riza has taken note of Reindorf's form for the under-21s and has made him a permanent fixture in first-team training sessions, however it sounds like there is a way to go before he leapfrogs others in the pecking order. Sign up to our daily Cardiff City newsletter here .
"I've been to a lot of the under-21s games, I try to go to as many as I can. I couldn't get to the Swansea one because I was down in London," Riza said
As the only person on here arguing that he should be given a chance I'm buzzing about this
In each League Cup match he showed more desire, ambition, intent and energy than Kanga has in the entire season to-date.
Lets hope he is up to it.
He is only a young lad.
Riza can do no wrong at the moment
I’m worried that this means Robinson has a long term injury.
The rest of Riza's comments:
"He is doing well and working hard, the under-21s are doing well, credit to the staff there, Blox (Matthew Bloxham) and the other staff who are around it. He's doing some really good things in and out of possession, but he's got a lot of work to do. He is still young and he's only come in this year.
"I've sat with Michael a few times and he is now finally, over the last two or three weeks, he's been training with the first team, because I thought that was important, you can't just call players up into a first-team environment and think they are going to play without training.
"He hadn't trained before them. It was on and off, but now he's full-time training with the first team. Now he'll have his chance to prove what he can do.
"I did say to Michael that he had to be better than the other players who are playing and training with you every day, day in, day out, to get the opportunity to play. At the moment he's doing OK. He's got to keep working hard. There's been some nice moments at times but there are things that still need a lot of work.
"That's no disrespect to him. He is a young lad who is in and around the first team at the age that he is. He has come in to Cardiff and already got his debut, but we have to be sensible in our approach."
Hey Siri, show me an example of a low bar:
"I did say to Michael that he had to be better than the other players who are playing"
My take on what Riza said was that Reindorf is not ready to start for the first team, and has a lot of things to learn before he could be relied on. But I thought Riza left the door open to a few sub/cameo appearances before Christmas if the other striker options continue to underperform.