Cardiff City fans want Wales striker Craig Bellamy to be the next manager following sacking of Dave Jones
Craig Bellamy is likely to be the preferred choice of Cardiff City supporters to become the club’s new manager following the dismissal of Dave Jones on Monday.
After you: Wales striker Craig Bellamy (right) is the fans' choice to succeed the sacked Dave Jones (left) Photo: ACTION IMAGES
By Graham Clutton 9:46PM BST 30 May 2011
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The Championship club announced Jones’s departure following a seven-day review into a season that finished with defeat by Reading in the play-off semi-finals this month.
Bellamy, 31, who spent last season on loan at Cardiff from Manchester City, is being linked with the post along with Chris Hughton, Alan Curbishley and even Martin O’Neill.
Lack of experience is almost certain to count against Bellamy’s chances of taking the job but there were suggestions last night that the striker could still return to Wales next season in a joint assistant manager/player role.
Jones, the former Southampton and Wolves manager who had been with Cardiff for six years, was the longest-serving manager in the division. He took the club to the FA Cup final in 2008. However, with pressure from supporters mounting, chief executive Gethin Jenkins confirmed that it was time for a change.
“We would like to thank Dave Jones for his considerable efforts,” said Jenkins. “He leaves his post in the knowledge that he has left the club in a far better position than when he arrived.
“A search will now begin for a new manager, which will be led by myself and director Alan Whiteley.”
Jones’s time in charge of team affairs was punctuated by turmoil off the field, with the club facing winding-up orders, transfer embargoes and takeovers.
However, they appeared to have come through the other side with the construction of a new stadium and the arrival of new Malaysian investors to help the club negotiate their debts, estimated at £30million.
Cardiff were beaten by Blackpool in the 2010 play-off final and faltered again at the end of the present season.
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