Here are your Cardiff City headlines for Monday, August 8.
Morison still mulling over transfers
Cardiff City boss Steve Morison has still not made a concrete decision on incomings and outgoings as he cited a "strange month" of fixtures coming up.
The Bluebirds have Portsmouth in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night plus five more Championship games before the transfer window closes on September 1. Morison has brought in 14 players but has not ruled out bringing more in before the deadline.
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Also, there will likely be players who will head out on loan, too, but the manager said all that will become clearer later on in this hectic month.
After the Reading game, he told WalesOnline: "It's a strange month. You're looking at the squad and thinking, 'Do I bring someone in? Do I let someone go?' There are so many inconsistencies across the board at the minute, by the time you get to the end of the transfer window and you start going into September, you should start to see a pattern. Hopefully you will see a pattern in results as well.
"We have eight games in August so maybe we will assess the squad going into Millwall in the first week of September."
Report links ex-Villa striker with Bluebirds
A report from Belgium has linked former Aston Villa striker Ally Mbwana Samatta with a loan move to Cardiff City.
The 29-year-old forward is currently with Fenerbahce, having spent last year on loan at Antwerp, following a failed 18-month stint with Premier League side Villa.
And Belgian journalist Sacha Tavolieri has reported that Cardiff were one team who were in talks over a potential loan move for the striker.
However, WalesOnline has been told that Samatta is likely to head back to his former club Genk, in Belgium, where he made his name with an impressive 75 goals in 191 games between 2016 and 2020.
Rowberry: Colwill must add one thing to be multi-million-pound player
Former Cardiff City first-team coach James Rowberry believes the sky is the limit for Rubin Colwill and believes improving his heading ability could add millions to his price tag one day.
Colwill is still working his way back to full fitness after being out with injury during pre-season and he expected back into the first-team fray at the end of this month.
And Rowberry, who was at the club when the playmaker broke through but left last year to become Newport County manager, believes Wales international Colwill has a huge future ahead of him.
"Rubin can be anything he wants to be," Rowberry told the latest episode of EJFOF. "One thing that Rubin got for him was a growth spurt when he first started in the under-23s, which he got through, that was a big one for him. I'm convinced he is still growing, hence the injuries, I'm adamant of that. He is still learning his body. He is a specimen.
"Rubin's technical ability, he is just adding elements to his game. I remember just going out in the afternoon with him and trying to practice his heading. If he added that bit to his game then he can become a multi-million-pound player, because he has got all the attributes.
"And he is so coachable. The more he's coached the better he is going to get and his coachability is there. You can see why he was around the Welsh squad and why Albert (Stuivenberg), when he was there, took a shining to him. That's a sign in itself. If he can keep showing that then the world is his oyster. There's a few of them there at Cardiff."
Speaking about taking over at Rodney Parade last October, Rowberry added: "It came at the right time. I mean this respectfully, but I didn't want to be the guy who had been at Cardiff for that long. It was finding the management team.
"I started with Gabbs and Youngy and went all the way through to Mick (McCarthy) and TC (Terry Connor). It was my time to become a manager I think. It was fortunate that the Newport job came up when Michael (Flynn) decided to leave. To develop something and be passionate about it, I'm from the city and I live in the city, I'm a Newport boy.
"I learnt my trade at Cardiff and the FAW, that gave me a good pedigree to get into Newport and become manager there. I'm so grateful and I want to repay the people who showed faith in me."
O'Dowda: We were 'nowhere near it' at Reading
Callum O'Dowda has said Cardiff were "nowhere near" good enough in their 2-1 defeat by Reading.
The Republic of Ireland winger was the standout player for the Bluebirds that day, scoring his first goal for the club before being denied a second courtesy of a fantastic save by Joe Lumley minutes later.
And, writing on Instagram after the game, the Bluebirds wide man said on Sunday: "Big thanks to all the fans yesterday for the support. We were nowhere near our best. New week, let’s go."
Jamilu Collins was another one who waded in, writing: "Disappointed with the result yesterday, just want to thank you Bluebirds fans for being there for us. We go again!"
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