RUSSELL SLADE READY TO CHANGE STYLE OF FOOTBALL & GAME PLAN

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Cardiff City boss Russell Slade claims he's ready to change style of football as January signings aim to make instant impact

Sat 7th February 2015

By Chris Wathan

The Cardiff City manager admits the current game plan is not what is needed to keep the Bluebirds out of a relegation battle


Russell Slade has claimed he is willing to ditch the direct style that has left Bluebirds fans disillusioned – and says he has the players to keep Cardiff up.

But he admitted his men cannot afford to lose at Sheffield Wednesday if they are to keep up their claims that relegation is not a concern at Cardiff City Stadium.

Slade, speaking ahead of a vital trip to Hillsborough on Saturday, deflected questions about the pressure he is under while members of the club’s hierarchy watched on.

Both chairman Mehmet Dalman and chief executive Ken Choo were in the room as Slade discussed what’s needed to be done to turn around the woeful form that has placed the side to within seven points of the relegation places – a gap that could be cut to four by the end of the weekend.


Yet with supporters also making their frustrations known over the increasingly obvious direct style of play, Slade denied he sees long ball as the way out of trouble and suggested he is ready to abandon such plans.

Asked whether he thought the Bluebirds’ unappealing game-plan was based on what he thought was needed to stay out of trouble, Slade said: “No I don’t and talking of style, in terms of possession our numbers were good last week.



“It’s something we worked on to try and keep the battle better than what we had done in previous weeks. I think we were relatively successful with that against a good side.

“If you are saying have I got my best XI yet, in all honesty the answer is no. If you’re saying have we got the best style that suits the group at this moment, the honest answer would be no not yet but that’s understandable because we are in a period of transition which I keep saying and which you can’t get away from. It’s a fact and we can only work on fact.”

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Asked whether that meant fans would start seeing more possession-based football, Slade said players he had brought in on deadline day such as Conor McAleny from Everton and Eoin Doyle from Chesterfield showed that.

He said: “If you are going to bring somebody into the football club like that then you have got to get him on the ball and we will be looking to do that if he is in the team.

“We went to the game on Saturday with a view to trying to win a football match and we will do that again with a hope that this time it will come off for us.”

"But he admitted his men cannot afford to lose at Sheffield Wednesday if they are to keep up their claims that relegation is not a concern at Cardiff City Stadium."


This bit I find a bit confusing. Slade has said he is not worried about relegation, he doesn't see us as being relegation material, however, he says that if we lose our next game he'll start feeling concerned... which is it Mr Slade?

f**k me. He gets rid of some of the best ball players in the Division then says he's bought some players who can retain the ball.


Come on Russell stop babbling and just find a way to please fans with some more entertaining football.

Its excruciating to read.

If we get beat at Wednesday its time to worry but he has his team now so hopefully things will improve for slade hope so fingers crossed.

Embarrassing.

Gonna be interesting now that he has his own players.