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Cardiff City Striker Set to Leave:

Thu Aug 13, 2026 8:24 am

Roko Simic 23 yrs old next month ,joined Cardiff City 2 yrs ago and apparently City paid in the £millions??????


On 30 August 2024, Šimić signed a four-year contract with Cardiff City.

Two days later, he was loaned to Kortrijk in Belgium for one season.The loan was terminated on 6 January 2025.

Simic joined Cardiff from Salzburg in the summer of 2024, with Erol Bulut seemingly distancing himself away from the transfer at the time, but has yet to make a first-team appearance for the club??

This was totally down to the Hierarchy and had nothing to do with City’s management.

Was immediately sent to Tans other Club but got injured.

Simic has Cost Cardiff City a fortune in wages, yet No appearances.

Lokomotiva are prepared to take Simic on a free.

Re: Cardiff City Striker Set to Leave:

Thu Aug 13, 2026 8:34 am

Reminds me of the striker Malky signed. Velikonja.

Re: Cardiff City Striker Set to Leave:

Thu Aug 13, 2026 10:35 am

Forever Blue wrote:Roko Simic 23 yrs old next month ,joined Cardiff City 2 yrs ago and apparently City paid in the £millions??????


On 30 August 2024, Šimić signed a four-year contract with Cardiff City.

Two days later, he was loaned to Kortrijk in Belgium for one season.The loan was terminated on 6 January 2025.

Simic joined Cardiff from Salzburg in the summer of 2024, with Erol Bulut seemingly distancing himself away from the transfer at the time, but has yet to make a first-team appearance for the club??

This was totally down to the Hierarchy and had nothing to do with City’s management.

Was immediately sent to Tans other Club but got injured.

Simic has Cost Cardiff City a fortune in wages, yet No appearances.

Lokomotiva are prepared to take Simic on a free.

I’ll put money on it that neither player was signed by a manager. :thumbup:

Re: Cardiff City Striker Set to Leave:

Thu Aug 13, 2026 10:42 am

bluebirdoct1962 wrote:
Forever Blue wrote:Roko Simic 23 yrs old next month ,joined Cardiff City 2 yrs ago and apparently City paid in the £millions??????


On 30 August 2024, Šimić signed a four-year contract with Cardiff City.

Two days later, he was loaned to Kortrijk in Belgium for one season.The loan was terminated on 6 January 2025.

Simic joined Cardiff from Salzburg in the summer of 2024, with Erol Bulut seemingly distancing himself away from the transfer at the time, but has yet to make a first-team appearance for the club??

This was totally down to the Hierarchy and had nothing to do with City’s management.

Was immediately sent to Tans other Club but got injured.

Simic has Cost Cardiff City a fortune in wages, yet No appearances.

Lokomotiva are prepared to take Simic on a free.

I’ll put money on it that neither player was signed by a manager. :thumbup:


Agree.

Re: Cardiff City Striker Set to Leave:

Thu Aug 13, 2026 10:56 am

If we investigated limited funded clubs who took a punt on strikers for a few million I would not be surprised if 80 to 90 % were failures.

Basic skilled strikers sadly attract inflated fees & wages.

Clubs any striker is a silver bullet to success.

All decent strikers are already at bigger clubs .

So I understand the punt on this lad and others over the years .

Tan isn't purposely wasting his money I think he hopes one may become that silver bullet.

Re: Cardiff City Striker Set to Leave:

Thu Aug 13, 2026 11:01 am

New Day Rising wrote:If we investigated limited funded clubs who took a punt on strikers for a few million I would not be surprised if 80 to 90 % were failures.

Basic skilled strikers sadly attract inflated fees & wages.

Clubs any striker is a silver bullet to success.

All decent strikers are already at bigger clubs .

So I understand the punt on this lad and others over the years .

Tan isn't purposely wasting his money I think he hopes one may become that silver bullet.


Salech is 1 that has /should make money also Zohore did somehow

Re: Cardiff City Striker Set to Leave:

Thu Aug 13, 2026 12:07 pm

We’re no different to other clubs at all.

Win some, lose some.

Re: Cardiff City Striker Set to Leave:

Thu Aug 13, 2026 12:15 pm

OriginalGrangeEndBlue wrote:We’re no different to other clubs at all.

Win some, lose some.


That's true.

I bet all clubs have numerous tales of woe to tell about money wasted on strikers over the years.

Re: Cardiff City Striker Set to Leave:

Thu Aug 13, 2026 6:15 pm

You only need to speak to a Sheffield Wednesday supporter and mention the name Ugbo. They paid £2m from memory and he has taken them for a ride over the last two years- downed tools. Has nos been offloaded this summer to a club in Cyprus.

Re: Cardiff City Striker Set to Leave:

Thu Aug 13, 2026 6:57 pm

Velikonja made no sense, he was smashing goals in for the reserves unbelievably so, yet never got a game for us really, and the scraps he had he didn’t look the player he did in reserves.

Seems to have made a career doing just that, when he plays he scores but limited game time at most clubs he was at.

Simic was a strange one, we had some Spanish guy the same as these pair, Gurrero or something, another who came with a goalscoring record and amounted to nothing

Re: Cardiff City Striker Set to Leave:

Thu Aug 13, 2026 10:28 pm

1 out up top need another in to replace .