Blake points finger at Cardiff board after Bulut exit

Former Cardiff City striker Nathan Blake believes nan sacking of head Erol Bulut has highlighted nan failings of nan club's hierarchy.

Bulut departed connected Sunday, six winless games into nan 2024-25 play pinch 1 extremity and 1 constituent astatine nan ft of nan Championship array successful their worst convention commencement for 94 years.

Blake told BBC Radio Wales: “It’s not conscionable a problem that’s travel astir now, I’ve been saying it for six aliases 7 years, possibly longer. I don’t look astatine nan level astatine Cardiff and deliberation really they cognize what they’re doing.

"They’ve been successful complaint 10, 11 possibly 12 seasons now truthful it’s a monolithic gamble, you’re gambling pinch a batch of money, but it seems to be, astatine nan extremity of nan day, 1 singer, 1 song, 1 personification makes decisions and those decisions aren’t ever to nan use of nan club.”

The hunt is now connected for a 5th caller head successful nan abstraction of 3 years, prompting Blake to say: "Whoever takes nan occupation is simply a brave person."

In December 2020 during a slump nether Neil Harris, Blake was "almost sick of his ain voice" successful urging nan nine to adopt a accuracy that players, fans and unit could support.

In September 2021 arsenic nan extremity of Mick McCarthy's reign was connected nan horizon, Blake said: "The decision-making astatine nan apical has been beautiful woeful."

The consciousness of a Bluebirds permacrisis remained successful early 2023.

Bulut was initially successful complaint connected a one-year woody completed successful June 2023. He signed a caller two-year statement aft prolonged negotiations successful June this year.

“It seems to beryllium a spot of a merry-go-round for Cardiff erstwhile managers do travel in," said Blake.

"There seems to beryllium a batch of toing and froing whether he was going to get a caller statement and past a fewer players signed and past it seemed to conscionable autumn disconnected nan separator of a cliff.

"Why? I don’t know, but erstwhile you commencement nan play poorly and you can’t prime up a consequence and you’re conceding truthful galore goals, that was, I think, a awesome problem for them, assurance gets knocked."

Blake says nan hunt for a 12th imperishable head successful Tan's 14-year reign is simply a "minefield".

Former Wales world Blake added: "You’ve sewage to get to a constituent astatine immoderate constituent wherever nan owners and nan president and CEO, they beryllium and look astatine themselves and inquire nan mobility ‘are we doing this right, is this nan correct measurement to spell astir things?’.

"But it won’t happen, there’s nary benignant of self-revision of thing aliases looking astatine thing they do, it’ll conscionable beryllium nan aforesaid old, aforesaid old. Whoever takes nan occupation is simply a brave person, that’s each I’d say.

"There’ll ever beryllium personification because personification ever thinks they tin move it around, ‘I tin do better, I tin negociate this situation’.

"But until you get successful nan business that I deliberation nan past 12 aliases 13 managers person recovered themselves in, you realise it’s not arsenic straightforward arsenic it should be.

"You’ve not sewage nan backing, you’re not making decisions, there’s nary benignant of accuracy astatine nan club. It runs deep.”