Karlan Grant has been backed to get his career back on track by keeping Cardiff City’s promotion surge rattling along. Grant was once a £15m player at West Brom and playing regularly in the Premier League.

Rubin Colwill has finally wised up and is delivering on his rich promise, according to his Cardiff City manager Erol Bulut. The Bluebirds boss praised his midfielder for taking on board advice after Colwill scored the second goal in his team’s 2-0 win at home to Bristol City. The victory in the Severnside derby has lifted Cardiff up to fifth in the Championship table after back-to-back victories.

Anyone who saw Yakou Meite at his rampaging best for Reading would know why Cardiff City took a punt on the striker. When fully fit and firing, Meite was one of the most dangerous strikers in the Championship as his 42 league goals in 156 appearances (only 102 starts) would testify.

Cardiff City manager Erol Bulut heaped praise on his players after watching his team bounce back into the Championship play-off places with a thumping 4-0 win at Huddersfield. The Bluebirds ended a three-game winless streak in some style with their biggest win of the season.

Erol Bulut has ordered his Cardiff City players to harden up after they lost their third match in five to drop further down the Championship table. A 1-0 reverse at Blackburn Rovers has left the Bluebirds in 11th place as they crashed to a third successive away defeat. Joe Rankin-Costello’s first goal of the season earned Blackburn their victory – Rovers’ only on-target attempt of the afternoon.

Kidology, mind games, or maybe just an off-guard truth – whatever it was, Michael Duff must have his players wandering at Swansea City. After going on a five-match unbeaten run – with four successive victories – the Swans players might have imaged their boss would be bigging them up before they take on Championship leaders Leicester City this weekend.

Cardiff City striker Callum Robinson is convinced the Republic of Ireland are heading in the right direction despite their disappointing Euro 2024 qualifying campaign. Ireland will not be in Germany for next summer’s finals – barring an unlikely series of results elsewhere which could hand them a second chance via the play-offs – after taking just six points from their first seven Group B fixtures, with just a tough trip to the Netherlands next month to come.

Manager Rob Page says Wales should not move home games to the Principality Stadium ahead of Euro 2028. The UK and Ireland’s bid to host Euro 2028 was formally approved on Tuesday, with the 74,500-capacity home of Welsh rugby in Cardiff among the 10 venues to be used for the tournament.

Erol Bulut has suggested his Cardiff City players have believed too much in the hype after they were held to a 1-1 draw at home to Watford. After four successive victories sent them surging up the Championship table, the Bluebirds have suffered defeat at Middlesbrough and were denied a win by the Hornets.

Aaron Ramsey has been ruled out of Wales’ three remaining European Championship qualifying matches after Cardiff City confirmed his absence would be measured in months rather than weeks. The 32-year-old Wales captain hasn’t played since twisting his knee in a freak training incident last month.  Wales boss Rob Page had resigned himself to being without his skipper for next week’s key clash with Croatia in Cardiff, but now he will have to count him out of the final group games against Turkey and Armenia. 

Wales will be without star striker Brennan Johnson for their crunch Euro 2024 qualifier against Croatia as well as Aaron Ramsey. Skipper Ramsey had already been declared unfit because of a knee injury a fortnight ago by his Cardiff City manager Erol Bulut, but Wales boss Rob Page had hoped Johnson would make it.

Erol Bulut claimed tiredness was a factor in Cardiff City losing their unbeaten streak with a 2-0 defeat at Middlesbrough. The Bluebirds conceded two second-half goals to slide out of the Championship play-off places as their four-game winning sequence came to an abrupt end