Wales Online batting for Bulut again.

[the other bob wilson]

Not having a go at you here, but this bollocks about Bulut not being able to get the players he wanted really makes me laugh. After all, wouldn’t all Championship managers like to be able to spend more money and bring in better players if they could? What makes Bulut so special in that regard? And what evidence is there to suggest he’d bring in genuinely decent players if he did have more to spend?

This is the Championship and he took a job at a mid-ranking club that loses millions every year. Like most managers in this division he was never going to have much money to spend. And if he was banking on signing Kieffer bloody Moore, then more fool him.

One thing’s for sure, he had a bigger playing budget here than he did at any of the minor Turkish clubs he’s managed. As for Fenerbache, I’ve no idea what he was able to spend as manager there, but whatever it was it didn’t do him much good as he was given the boot after eight months.

I can only think that some supporters still believe the stuff Wales Online printed about Bulut when news of his appointment first broke this time last year. I read that first story thinking how come I’ve never heard of this bloke before if he is this major figure on the European mainland whose appointment is apparently such a coup?

Our Chairman himself has said we had the sixth biggest wage bill in the Championship, I still don’t see how he could have known that at the time he made the claim, but I’d say it’s reasonable to assume now that it’s been in the top ten - if it has been, then, despite the big climb up the table compared to 22/23, I’d say Bulut under achieved by getting us to twelfth.

I accept that’s an interpretation which can be argued against quite easily, but I maintain that our improvement in league position in the season just ended was not matched by an improvement in the quality of football played. Wayne Rooney didn’t get much right at Birmingham, but I think he was correct when he said that what Cardiff can do is find a way to stay in games in which they are second best. That’s something in our side that shouldn’t be played down and it’s exactly what Mehmet Dalman said about Bulut in that first press conference after his appointment.

However, much has been made of our nineteen wins, but in how many of those were we obviously the better side? Around a quarter of them I’d say. How many times could we say we wuz robbed after one of our twenty two defeats? Strangely enough, the first game I think of there is Ipswich away - in fact, I’m struggling to think of another one after that.