Warnock why I let Bobby Reid go and the team will shape up

The reasons Cardiff City have let Bobby Reid leave and how Neil Warnock's new-look side will now line up


08th August 2019



Star man Reid has joined Fulham in a transfer package that could be worth more than £10m to Bluebirds




The Cardiff City mantra this summer has been for Neil Warnock to compile a squad better than the one that won promotion from the Championship last time out.

Keep the Premier League players, supplement them with incomings, and the team would invariably be superior.

A key plank in that was the presence of Bobby Reid, who with Josh Murphy joined last summer for the Premier League campaign.

They would make the difference, we felt, yet on the final day of the transfer window Reid has departed.

So Cardiff have suddenly let their best player go, having previously sold their best striker, Kenneth Zohore, and their best defender, Bruno Manga.

There have been a number of incomings, including strikers Robert Glatzel and Isaac Vassell, Bristol City midfield warhorse Marlon Pack, plus Aden Flint and Will Vaulks.





But why has Reid been permitted to leave, let alone to join one of Cardiff's expected promotion rivals Fulham?

It's a question Bluebirds fans everywhere are asking and one Warnock will address when he meets the Welsh media for his customary pre-match Press conference on Friday morning.


As the shock waves subside, what appears to be coming across loud and clear is that Reid felt it was time to go.

The style of football adopted by Cardiff didn't suit him. His silky skills would be better off utilised in a team prepared to play more pass and move, rather than route one.

Actually, Cardiff did just that when they beat Manchester United 2-0 at Old Trafford on the final day of the Premier League season, Reid, Zohore, Josh Murphy and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing linking superbly and producing some brilliant football up top when suddenly given the freedom to do so.



Many fans hoped it was to become the template for the new season, but the reality is Cardiff were always going to revert to type once the Championship action got back underway.

Risk-free football, get it up early to the big man, dominate set-pieces, attempt to grind the opposition down. It's worked well enough for Warnock over several decades as a manager in the lower divisions, so why change?

Cardiff, it seems, didn't want to keep a player who felt he could produce better performances in a different team more suited to his particular skill set. The deal they struck with Fulham, whilst enormously complicated, will eventually net them more than the £10million they paid to Bristol City a year ago.

Pretty much what we've all said, not a Warnock player, doesn't offer what Warnock wants from a forward player and we will get more than £10Million for him.

Pretty much what we've all said, not a Warnock player, doesn't offer what Warnock wants from a forward player and we will get more than £10Million for him.

So why sign him then? And hes out on loan so what 10m?

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