Excitement is slowly ramping up at Cardiff City this summer. Erol Bulut has signed a new deal, the transfer window is open and the Bluebirds are looking to build on a mid-table finish next term. Supporters have every right to be brimming with anticipation ahead of next season and Bulut himself is understood to be champing at the bit to get back in the saddle and continue to build on the foundations laid last term.
The club are positive and hopeful that next season will bring more progression and even a tilt at the top portion of the table. But they have a transfer window to navigate first, of course. READ MORE: Bluebirds players shock Bulut as club legend retires with immediate effect READ MORE: Erol Bulut reveals bold personal ambition in first TV interview since new Cardiff City deal Bulut came into the job last year confident that he could re-energise the club and while he did that, it was likely a trickier job — and division — than he had bargained for.
He will be far better for that experience, of course. There will be lessons learned from his first summer in British football. While Cardiff experienced two tough transfer windows for different reasons — although they did well considering the circumstances — the manager will want a better hit-rate this summer as the club zero in on quality over quantity.
That is perhaps not so much of a lesson, per se, because Cardiff's busy summer last year was borne out of necessity after the previous iteration of the Bluebirds' .