examining the final destinations of the last five managers of Cardiff City
In recent years, Cardiff City has gone through a number of managers as the Bluebirds attempt to compete for promotion back to the Premier League.
Since Cardiff’s relegation to the second level, the past two seasons have been challenging.
Cardiff had the humiliating experience of losing four local derbies to Swansea City despite finishing the league towards the bottom of the standings.
In 2022–2023, the club narrowly avoided relegation by finishing five points ahead of Reading in 22nd place.
The EFL deducted six points from the Royals, which made the difference between Reading’s relegation to League One and Cardiff’s retention in the Championship.
The five previous managers of Cardiff City are currently where?
Since then, Erol Bulut has been in command of the team in an effort to turn things around, and the Turk is having a good time in Wales.
Here, we examine the 48-year-old’s predecessors to see where they ended up after leaving Cardiff.
Despite only having a brief tenure as Cardiff’s manager, Lamouchi guided the team away from League One relegation.
After the conclusion of the previous campaign, the 51-year-old broke off contact with the Championship team.
Since then, he has stayed unemployed and has tried to avoid the media attention while looking for a new managerial position.
Hudson only oversaw the first team squad for a few months during his brief tenure as Cardiff’s manager.
Before taking over permanently, the coach was initially appointed on an interim basis, however he only held the position from November to February before being removed.
Since then, Hudson has made a comeback to coaching and joined the Sheffield United coaching team under Paul Heckingbottom.
Morison led Cardiff for 11 months before being fired in October 2022.
The former forward maintained a low profile after leaving the Bluebirds.
But he returned to management over the summer, taking over non-league team Hornchurch, a significant drop down the English football pyramid.
McCarthy took over as Cardiff’s manager in January 2021, although he only held the position there until October 2021, despite having a successful first season.
The seasoned coach had a break from teaching for about 18 months before returning to it with Blackpool late in the previous campaign.
Before the Seasiders took his position, he only played in 14 games.
The ex-Ireland manager is currently unemployed.
The only manager on this list to have led Cardiff for an entire year is Harris, who served in that capacity from November 2019 to January 2021.
Before being fired, the 46-year-old managed Cardiff for 62 games, winning 24 of them.
Harris afterwards accepted the position as manager of Gillingham, where he supervised the team’s relegation to League Two.
The former forward guided the team to 17th place in the standings in their debut season in the fourth tier, but he has continued in the position despite the subpar performances under his watch.
Now, Gillingham wants to compete for re-promotion to League One this year.
After a difficult start to the season, Sunderland has recovered and is currently on a scorching run of form, winning five of their previous six games.
Their offensive prowess has resulted in two or more goals being scored in each victory, including a 5-0 triumph over Southampton.
Brother Jude Bellingham, who is flourishing at Real Madrid, praised Jobe Bellingham on his performance for Sunderland.
Sunderland has bounced back from some difficult early-season setbacks to take up right where they left off last time out and continue their push for promotion.
After a six-year absence, they are aiming to rejoin the Premier League, and their recent hot streak isn’t hurting their prospects.
Although their first two games saw back-to-back losses to Ipswich Town and Preston North End that left fans feeling pessimistic, they have already won five of their previous six matches to ensure that it was only a blip.
They have scored two or more goals in each of their games, with their 5-0 thrashing of promotion favourites Southampton and back-to-back 3-1 triumphs at QPR and Blackburn Rovers being the standouts.
The lone exception, though, was a narrow 1-0 loss at home to fellow high-flyers Cardiff City, which was made possible by a late Mark McGuinness goal.
But returning to how things have been going recently, their most recent triumph came last night when they defeated Watford 2-0.
Watford lost against Sunderland.
All things considered, Sunderland entered the match against struggling Watford at home as heavy favourites, and they showed exactly why by cruising to a 2-0 victory at the Stadium of Light.
It has now solidified their fourth-place standing, which they will aim to hold going into some intimidating forthcoming matches against Middlesbrough, Stoke, Leicester, and Norwich.
Huggins opened the scoring at home against Watford on the stroke of halftime with a lovely solo goal, and Abdoullah Ba put the result beyond doubt just after the hour mark by converting Jobe Bellingham’s cross.
While there are many Sunderland players who currently merit praise, Bellingham has received it from his brother, which will mean a lot given how well he’s been doing lately.
What was said between Jude and Jobe Bellingham after Sunderland defeated Watford?
On his official Instagram profile, the Sunderland prospect posted: “A terrific win and glad to contribute with an assist.
Jude, Jude’s brother, just wrote “he’s cooking” beneath the post, which attracted a lot of attention and others choosing to compliment Jude on his performances at Real Madrid as well.
