Mick McCarthy (Ex-Republic of Ireland manager) has assumed responsibility for the remainder of the season after Neil Harris was sacked.
There are some part conclusions on his new arrangement in any case, given his solid history in the Championship, the 61-year-old accepts he can prevail upon his naysayers. Even stating if he does well thee may be a possibility of a longer deal with the club.
“I have got to earn that long-term deal with my performance and the performance of the players,” said McCarthy.
“That’s ultimately my job, to get them to play well and win games and see what we can do this season.”
Cardiff went to the well experienced McCarthy in the wake of firing Harris following a run of five progressive class routs which had left the Bluebirds fifteenth in the Championship, while they likewise tumbled out of the FA Cup during that spell.
Nonetheless, when his arrangement at Cardiff was affirmed, the response from supporters was mixed, with some highlighting what they saw to be McCarthy’s pragmatic playing style.
McCarthy responded: “Me and my style of football is trying your best to win the game, but it is by passing the ball to one another, however that might be.”
“Everybody is entitled to an opinion. I’m sure if you ask every Cardiff City supporter you would get a long list of people they would like to employ, maybe a lot of people in front of me,” McCarthy said. to the BBC
“I can’t do anything about that. The club have entrusted me with the job of trying to improve the team, somebody who’s got a lot of experience in this league and had sustained success in it.
“And if that’s for a short period of time or a long period of time, I am not interested in that. I just want to come in, enjoy these 22 games and do as well as I possibly can.
“Then, hopefully, the ones who didn’t want me here will be thinking ‘you know what, fair play to the club, that was a good decision and we want to keep Mick’.”
“If my players want to play to the best of their ability, we will win games and get up the league.”
‘Opportunity here with good players’
Cardiff arrived at the Championship play-off semi-finals last season and were expected to challenge for advancement again in this campaign. But they suffered 10 losses from their opening 13 games.
McCarthy says he really believes there is potential in this Bluebird squad but he is reluctant to set defined targets for this season.
“When we start picking up points we can set targets,” he said.
“To come in and say, on the back of the defeats we have had, that the target is now the play-offs, some of them will wonder if I’ve gone off my rocker.
“If we beat Barnsley, Millwall, maybe we can say it. But we need to get back to winning games.
and will now be adding Cardiff to that list too
“The first thing I did when I got the call, that I could speak to the club about this job, I looked at the squad and thought, ‘Wow, they have got some good players, a good squad’.
“I watched them play at Nottingham Forest when I was doing a co-commentary while I was out of work and I was really impressed, played really well up there and won the game.
“I am thinking, ‘there is an opportunity here with good players’.
McCarthy was not long unemployed prior to joining Cardiff, having left Cypriot bosses Apoel before in January after only two months in control.