Paul Trollope could lose his job as Cardiff City Head Coach this week but what sort of manager do Cardiff need to replace him?
Cardiff City manager Paul Trollope
Cardiff City sunk to another league defeat on Saturday with a loss to newly promoted Burton Albion and Paul Trollope’s position has come under a huge amount of pressure as a result.
The Bluebirds have now lost six games in their last seven and currently sit just one spot from the bottom of the Sky Bet Championship.
If Paul Trollope does get the axe, what kind of boss would Cardiff need to employ?
Over the last few years, Cardiff have employed a series of managers who have been afraid to take risks, especially on young players. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Russell Slade and Paul Trollope have seemed afraid to risk youth players, especially when things are going wrong.
It seems when things are taking a turn for the worst at the Cardiff City Stadium, the man in charge tries to persist with the same old line-up, the same ‘big players’, and hope they come out the other end, and that needs to change.
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Cardiff need a manager who is not afraid to take risks and is not afraid to completely mix things up if key players are not performing. Even if it means throwing young talent on the field like Matthew Kennedy, Cardiff need to be bold enough to change the focus of their play.
The Bluebirds have a squad capable of competing for the play-offs or at least top-half so to be where they are in completely unacceptable but they find themselves there because, once again, there’s been too much stubbornness in the new way of playing and a complete lack of versatility from Paul Trollope.
Trollope was labelled a tactically intelligent coach when he took the reigns at Cardiff but he failed to spot that this wasn’t a team in need of a completely new direction and it couldn’t afford to be off the pace early-on in this tricky league.
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Cardiff now need a manager who will force the squad into gear and do whatever it takes to lead them further up the table, even if that does mean upsetting ‘big players’.
I would also suggest that Cardiff need an experienced head to put things right. An overdose of experimentation may have cost them this season already so an experienced coach with tactical nous needs to come in and get the squad back to basics and back on form.
Time is surely up for Paul Trollope and if he is given more time, I fear Cardiff will have left it too late to save their fast-dying season.
Cardiff’s Manager Paul Trollope
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