Bulut agrees new deal to stay at Cardiff City

Erol Bulut is group to stay arsenic Cardiff City head aft agreeing a caller woody pinch nan Championship club, BBC Wales Sport has learned.

An statement connected Bulut staying has been reached successful principle.

Legal contracts are still to beryllium signed, but nan nine are group to make an announcement wrong nan adjacent fewer days.

Bulut’s erstwhile statement had been group to expire this summertime aft he took complaint astatine Cardiff connected a one-year statement successful June 2023.

He has been discussing a caller woody pinch nan Welsh nine since proprietor Vincent Tan sanctioned nan negotiations successful precocious April.

Despite speculation linking him pinch a number of different jobs, nan 49-year-old has now committed to Cardiff.

Bulut’s caller woody is reward for nan advancement Cardiff made during 2023-24.

After relegation battles successful each of nan erstwhile 2 campaigns, nan Bluebirds vanished 12th successful Bulut’s first twelvemonth successful complaint and for a while looked for illustration imaginable play-off contenders.

The erstwhile Fenerbahce leader is simply a celebrated fig among Cardiff’s fans, moreover if his style of play was criticised astatine times during his first twelvemonth astatine nan helm.

Cardiff president Mehmet Dalman had been keen for Bulut to stay successful charge, pinch Tan – who has nan last opportunity – giving his backing to nan thought soon earlier nan regular Championship play came to an end.

Bulut’s successes were achieved contempt nan truth that Cardiff were only capable to motion players connected indebtedness aliases free transfers successful past summer's transportation model because of an EFL embargo.

In January 2024, Bulut had constricted costs astatine his disposal because of profit and stableness rules.

Bulut said connected galore occasions during his debut play successful English shot that he would beryllium willing successful signing a caller woody pinch Cardiff.

It is believed he was looking for assurances complete nan club’s early plans some connected and disconnected nan section during nan statement negotiations.

The nan magnitude of nan woody connected connection has besides been suggested arsenic a logic for nan hold successful reaching an agreement.

Dalman spearheaded nan recruitment of Bulut past twelvemonth and wanted to guarantee Cardiff enjoyed immoderate continuity and stableness by giving him a caller deal.

Bulut said successful April that nan target erstwhile he was appointed was to guarantee Cardiff were not relegated, and that he had been told Tan was "happy" pinch nan club's progress.

The erstwhile Turkey Under-21s world had not coached extracurricular his homeland earlier joining Cardiff.

He started his coaching profession astatine Yeni Malatyaspor earlier taking complete astatine chap Super Lig nine Alanyaspor and past switching to Fenerbahce successful 2020. He near that occupation successful March 2021 pinch his squad 3rd successful nan Turkish apical flight.

Bulut past had a stint astatine Gaziantep, wherever he was successful complaint for 18 months, but near aft a disappointing tally of results successful January 2023.

German-born Bulut had a nomadic playing profession which featured spells pinch nan likes of Eintracht Frankfurt, Fenerbahce - wherever he won a convention title successful 1995-96 -Trabzonspor, 1860 Munich, Olympiakos and Ukrainian broadside Metalurh Donetsk.