' ALL MALKY MACKAYS TRANSFERS AT CARDIFF CITY '

2011/12 Permanent Signings
Craig Conway
Don Cowie
Andrew Taylor
Rob Earnshaw
Aron Gunnarsson
Joe Mason
Kenny Miller
Rudy Gestede
Ben Turner
Elliott Parish
Kadeem Harris

2011/12 Loan Signings
Filip Kiss
Haris Vuckic
Liam Lawrence


2012/13 Permanent Signings
Joe Lewis
Filip Kiss
Jordon Mutch
Etien Velikonja
Kim Bo-Kyung
Heidar Helguson
Craig Bellamy
Matthew Connolly
Tommy Smith
Craig Noone
Nicky Maynard
Fraizer Campbell
Simon Lappin

2012/13 Loan Signings
Kerim Frei
Simon Lappin
Leon Barnett


2013/14 Permanent Signings
Andreas Cornelius
John Brayford
Simon Moore
Steven Caulker
Gary Medel
Maximilliano Amondarain
Kevin Theophile-Catherine
Peter Odemwingie


These are the 32 permanent signings that were brought in by Malky Mackay and the 6 loan signings he made during his 2 and half years as Cardiff manager.

There were a few others brought in specifically for the development squad like Luke Coulson and Rhys Healey.

So there is the list of players now let's debate on the impact that these signings had for the club and whether or not Malky failed or delivered in the transfer market.

Malky Malkay became Cardiff City Manager in the 2011/12 season.

2011/12 Season Carling Cup Finalists drawing with Liverpool at Wembley 2-2 and losing on penalties.
2011/12 Season Play off Semi finalists losing to the eventual winners West Ham.

2012/13 Season Runaway Champions of the Championship, Our first Major Title since 1927 and first manager to take us up to the Premier League in 51 years even with all the politics going on behind the scenes regarding our Identity.

2013/14 Season Premier League, Never in a relegation place and things only started to go down hill when Malky's boss started publicly slating him and going in the dressing room and also telling our manager how to manage.


' MALKY MACKAY " THANK YOU

Most were good but this business about Cornelius needs explaining.

I think it's quite damning that after signing 32 players only 8 are regulars in the squad now.

I think it's quite damning that after signing 32 players only 8 are regulars in the squad now.

Premier League is way way above the class of the Championship. It takes at least 2 seasons to build a Premier League Squad

Most were good but this business about Cornelius needs explaining.

And I cant wait to hear Malky's explanation, not just Tans spin

Even Ole was a massive admirer of Cornelius.

It's not past transfers.

It's the summer window when he had to turn out championship squad into a premiership squad. He wasted 35 million pound and didn't do it.

Steve Bruce spent much less and managed to do it.

You do not get promoted to the premier league and spend millions on a youngster from the Danish league and pay him 45k a week.

There's no point looking at who he signed in the championship it's a completely different kettle of fish. He prove he wasn't cut out for the premier league. He spent days ass licking Tom ince when it was plain to see too all of us he wasn't going to come here.

2011/12 Permanent Signings
Craig Conway - good signing , deserved more of a chance DELIVERED
Don Cowie - Good signing , Solid player for a championship team DELIVERED
Andrew Taylor - not a fan at all but I suppose good value for money as a squad player in lower leagues DELIVERED
Rob Earnshaw - should have come back sooner - desperation buy imo FAIL
Aron Gunnarsson - good business quality player DELIVERED
Joe Mason - great signing , needed more chances DELIVERED
Kenny Miller - wrong tactics for him to shine like he can FAIL
Rudy Gestede - great find from nowhere DELIVERED
Ben Turner - good signing for championship level .DELIVERED
Elliott Parish - no comment FAIL
Kadeem Harris. - ?? What can you say about a player never given a chance FAIL

2011/12 Loan Signings
Filip Kiss - worth the gamble , hit and miss DELIVERED
Haris Vuckic - worse than useless , FAIL
Liam Lawrence - too old and made no impact FAIL


2012/13 Permanent Signings
Joe Lewis - shown nothing to warrant a starting place FAIL
Filip Kiss - deserved his chance at a permanent contract didn't quite work out FAIL
Jordon Mutch - Malkys best signing DELIVERED
Etien Velikonja. - no comment FAIL
Kim Bo-Kyung. - came with huge potential , stalled recently .DELIVERED
Heidar Helguson - right guy right time DELIVERED
Craig Bellamy - tbh no matter who the manager craig would have come back DELIVERED
Matthew Connolly - not enough chances good squad player DELIVERED
Tommy Smith - journey man hardly seen FAIL
Craig Noone - what a signing DELIVERED
Nicky Maynard - injury prone panic buy FAIL
Fraizer Campbell - Malkys best value buy DELIVERED
Simon Lappin - desperation signing FAIL

2012/13 Loan Signings
Kerim Frei - outstanding talent never played him ?? FAIL
Simon Lappin - never understood this signing FAIL
Leon Barnett - fantastic - should have signed him permanent FAIL FOR FAILING TO DO SO


2013/14 Permanent Signings
Andreas Cornelius - big gamble lost the lot FAIL
John Brayford - confusing signing FAIL
Simon Moore - one for the future UNDECIDED
Steven Caulker - great signing DELIVERED
Gary Medel - world class DELIVERED
Maximilliano Amondarain - the invisible man FAIL
Kevin Theophile-Catherine - good player will get better DELIVERED
Peter Odemwingie - wrong tactics for his style of play FAIL



I make that 50/50 not good enough I'm afraid

I don't understand why people list his signings made two years ago and mark them as a flop. Saw someone do it in another thread.

Of course the likes of Filip Kiss and Kenny Miller would be flops in the prem, but they weren't bought for the prem!

Year on year, the transfers Malky has made have served the club well. People were moaning about Mutch and Nooney both benched against the Jacks... Who signed them? Malky.

Malky Malkay became Cardiff City Manager in the 2011/12 season.

2011/12 Season Carling Cup Finalists drawing with Liverpool at Wembley 2-2 and losing on penalties.
2011/12 Season Play off Semi finalists losing to the eventual winners West Ham.

2012/13 Season Runaway Champions of the Championship, Our first Major Title since 1927 and first manager to take us up to the Premier League in 51 years even with all the politics going on behind the scenes regarding our Identity.

2013/14 Season Premier League, Never in a relegation place and things only started to go down hill when Malky's boss started publicly slating him and going in the dressing room and also telling our manager how to manage.


' MALKY MACKAY " THANK YOU

That's not quite true though is it annis, the first game of the season away to west ham we were dire, at home to everton we did not have one shot on target, we were dire away to crystal palace, aston villa , norwich and stoke, our first half performance at home to newcastle was another sub standard effort, these were all before tan and malky fell out.

I don't understand why people list his signings made two years ago and mark them as a flop. Saw someone do it in another thread.

Of course the likes of Filip Kiss and Kenny Miller would be flops in the prem, but they weren't bought for the prem!

Year on year, the transfers Malky has made have served the club well. People were moaning about Mutch and Nooney both benched against the Jacks... Who signed them? Malky.

SPOT ON Alex

Malky said Jordan Mutch would end up being one of his best signings in time

Malky never gave up till he got Craig Noone

How much are they both worth today?

I don't understand why people list his signings made two years ago and mark them as a flop. Saw someone do it in another thread.

Of course the likes of Filip Kiss and Kenny Miller would be flops in the prem, but they weren't bought for the prem!

Year on year, the transfers Malky has made have served the club well. People were moaning about Mutch and Nooney both benched against the Jacks... Who signed them? Malky.

SPOT ON Alex

Malky said Jordan Mutch would end up being one of his best signings in time

Malky never gave up till he got Craig Noone

How much are they both worth today?

There is nothing wrong with saying if a signing was good or bad at the time of signing for the position we were in the league at that specific time . A lot of his signings were flops , that is undeniable but he also made a lot of great signings .

Malky Malkay became Cardiff City Manager in the 2011/12 season.

2011/12 Season Carling Cup Finalists drawing with Liverpool at Wembley 2-2 and losing on penalties.
2011/12 Season Play off Semi finalists losing to the eventual winners West Ham.

2012/13 Season Runaway Champions of the Championship, Our first Major Title since 1927 and first manager to take us up to the Premier League in 51 years even with all the politics going on behind the scenes regarding our Identity.

2013/14 Season Premier League, Never in a relegation place and things only started to go down hill when Malky's boss started publicly slating him and going in the dressing room and also telling our manager how to manage.


' MALKY MACKAY " THANK YOU

That's not quite true though is it annis, the first game of the season away to west ham we were dire, at home to everton we did not have one shot on target, we were dire away to crystal palace, aston villa , norwich and stoke, our first half performance at home to newcastle was another sub standard effort, these were all before tan and malky fell out.

Forst game in Prem and yr having ago at Malky
What happened v Man City
Tan wanted top 10 a Fact.
By midd Oct Tan started on Malky a fact.
Before the Newcastle game Lim stormed in the dressing room and gave a message from Tan and embarrassed Malky infront of his players, ALL will eventually come out.

Don't understand the point of this, he's gone and nothing can change what's already happened.

It's not past transfers.

It's the summer window when he had to turn out championship squad into a premiership squad. He wasted 35 million pound and didn't do it.

Steve Bruce spent much less and managed to do it.

You do not get promoted to the premier league and spend millions on a youngster from the Danish league and pay him 45k a week.

There's no point looking at who he signed in the championship it's a completely different kettle of fish. He prove he wasn't cut out for the premier league. He spent days ass licking Tom ince when it was plain to see too all of us he wasn't going to come here.

Do you really think Caulker, Medel and KTC were a waste of money?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... eague.html

Don't understand the point of this, he's gone and nothing can change what's already happened.

U need to ask Tan and Lim that question after their latest statement today.

Malky Malkay became Cardiff City Manager in the 2011/12 season.

2011/12 Season Carling Cup Finalists drawing with Liverpool at Wembley 2-2 and losing on penalties.
2011/12 Season Play off Semi finalists losing to the eventual winners West Ham.

2012/13 Season Runaway Champions of the Championship, Our first Major Title since 1927 and first manager to take us up to the Premier League in 51 years even with all the politics going on behind the scenes regarding our Identity.

2013/14 Season Premier League, Never in a relegation place and things only started to go down hill when Malky's boss started publicly slating him and going in the dressing room and also telling our manager how to manage.


' MALKY MACKAY " THANK YOU

That's not quite true though is it annis, the first game of the season away to west ham we were dire, at home to everton we did not have one shot on target, we were dire away to crystal palace, aston villa , norwich and stoke, our first half performance at home to newcastle was another sub standard effort, these were all before tan and malky fell out.

Forst game in Prem and yr having ago at Malky
What happened v Man City
Tan wanted top 10 a Fact.
By midd Oct Tan started on Malky a fact.
Before the Newcastle game Lim stormed in the dressing room and gave a message from Tan and embarrassed Malky infront of his players, ALL will eventually come out.

To me the first game of the season was very important, (to lay a marker down so to speak) it was our first game at that level for 51 years and we were pathetic, yes man city was great along with a few other games but i was replying to where you said it went down hill after tan and malky fell out, we were dreadful in quite a few games before this happened.

Don't understand the point of this, he's gone and nothing can change what's already happened.

U need to ask Tan and Lim that question after their latest statement today.

I said in a previous post that I couldn't see the point in their statement, they weren't telling us anything we didn't already know and were just opening up old wounds. We can't undo what's done, but we can try and influence the future. One thing they can never change though, is our proud history.

I think it's quite damning that after signing 32 players only 8 are regulars in the squad now.

Premier League is way way above the class of the Championship. It takes at least 2 seasons to build a Premier League Squad

I would expect more than 3 of this year's signings to still be regulars in the squad though :shocked:

Everybody keeps bringing up noone.

Why did it take him so long to get on the pitch. Didn't get a chance till the man utd game?

It's not past transfers.

It's the summer window when he had to turn out championship squad into a premiership squad. He wasted 35 million pound and didn't do it.

Steve Bruce spent much less and managed to do it.

You do not get promoted to the premier league and spend millions on a youngster from the Danish league and pay him 45k a week.

There's no point looking at who he signed in the championship it's a completely different kettle of fish. He prove he wasn't cut out for the premier league. He spent days ass licking Tom ince when it was plain to see too all of us he wasn't going to come here.

Do you really think Caulker, Medel and KTC were a waste of money?

Caulker and Medel are the only improvements to our squad. Is KTC really that good?

Cardiff's best player this year has been David Marshall, last year it was Mark Hudson year before that Peter Whittingham. All Dave Jones signings.

Mutch is too injury prone to be worth much more than we paid for him at the moment and Noone has all the talent in the world but is inconsistent in that cannot produce it week on week.

Some decent signings to get us up with a couple of Premiership players in Mutch and Noone. Can't fault him for that, the football wasn't great but he did what was asked of him. It was always going to be tough to get quality players in during the Summer, Malky was young and unknown to overseas players and Cardiff were always considered to be relegation material so yes we had to pay over the top for Medel and Caulker. Cornelius was another thing altogether though. Malky and Moody should never have presented the player to the club for what it took fee and wages wise to get him here. It is of course possible he may grow into a good player, although I strongly doubt it, but we needed a striker ready for the Premiership now not someone who may turn out to be good in the future

It's not past transfers.

It's the summer window when he had to turn out championship squad into a premiership squad. He wasted 35 million pound and didn't do it.

Steve Bruce spent much less and managed to do it.

You do not get promoted to the premier league and spend millions on a youngster from the Danish league and pay him 45k a week.

There's no point looking at who he signed in the championship it's a completely different kettle of fish. He prove he wasn't cut out for the premier league. He spent days ass licking Tom ince when it was plain to see too all of us he wasn't going to come here.

Do you really think Caulker, Medel and KTC were a waste of money?

Medel and KTC are.

KTC started off well, we all thought Malky unearthed a gem but after time we saw how poor he is as a defender and was eventually put behind the likes of Kev and Fabio recently.

Medel has had his moments where he ran the midfield but worth 11m? Not a chance. Defensive midfielder's shouldn't go for that much unless they are consistently good which Medel hasn't been.

Caulker is probably our only summer signing that had played well for the majority of the season and was value for money.

I think it's quite damning that after signing 32 players only 8 are regulars in the squad now.

Premier League is way way above the class of the Championship. It takes at least 2 seasons to build a Premier League Squad

Not true. If you stay up in your first season, like the jacks, Norwich and Southampton did, then you've got a premier league squad. Otherwise you would have got relegated. Ideally it will be stronger after 2 seasons but you can go up, strengthen wisely and do the job.

I think it's quite damning that after signing 32 players only 8 are regulars in the squad now.

Premier League is way way above the class of the Championship. It takes at least 2 seasons to build a Premier League Squad

Not true. If you stay up in your first season, like the jacks, Norwich and Southampton did, then you've got a premier league squad. Otherwise you would have got relegated. Ideally it will be stronger after 2 seasons but you can go up, strengthen wisely and do the job.

And Malky would of kept us up

His season in the prem and things going down hill had nothing to do with Tan, MM was doing a good job of that and we was heading for the relegation zone with him being our manager.

Watching the Southampton game, he had to go.

I think it's quite damning that after signing 32 players only 8 are regulars in the squad now.

Premier League is way way above the class of the Championship. It takes at least 2 seasons to build a Premier League Squad

Not true. If you stay up in your first season, like the jacks, Norwich and Southampton did, then you've got a premier league squad. Otherwise you would have got relegated. Ideally it will be stronger after 2 seasons but you can go up, strengthen wisely and do the job.

And Malky would of kept us up

Easy to say as it can't be proved but I very much doubt it.

I think it's quite damning that after signing 32 players only 8 are regulars in the squad now.

Premier League is way way above the class of the Championship. It takes at least 2 seasons to build a Premier League Squad

Not true. If you stay up in your first season, like the jacks, Norwich and Southampton did, then you've got a premier league squad. Otherwise you would have got relegated. Ideally it will be stronger after 2 seasons but you can go up, strengthen wisely and do the job.

And Malky would of kept us up

No way.
Camping on the edge of the area after 75 minutes will only get you so far.