Tonight’s Cardiff City news as star admits ‘frustrating’ end to season and player to return for finale.
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Alnwick: Frustrating end to the season
Cardiff goalkeeper Jak Alnwick has voiced his frustration over how his own season ended and vowed to come back stronger again next year.
Alnwick had a terrific first half of the season between the sticks for the Bluebirds and was markedly better than his competition for the gloves at that time; Alex Runarsson.
However, an injury just after Cardiff had signed Ethan Horvath permanently put paid to his season. Fortunately for Cardiff, Horvath has also proved an able shot-stopper, but Alnwick, who has been out for three months with a knee ligament problem, admits it’s been a tough end to the campaign for him personally.
“Frustrating end to the season for me personally with the injury,” he wrote on social media. “Plenty of positive to take from this year. See you all again next season ready for a big one.
Isaac Vassell hits end of the road at Gas
It looks as though Isaac Vassell will not be signed by Bristol Rovers this summer.
The striker just cannot catch a break. After more than four years out, he started training with the Gas ahead of signing a contract with non-league side Bath City. Sign up to our Cardiff City newsletter here.
While playing for the National League South side, the 30-year-old continued to train with Rovers, with manager Matt Taylor previously not ruling out signing the forward after his stint with Bath.
However, Vassell’s stint with Bath only saw him turn out seven times off the bench. It will hardly be a decent sample size for Rovers to make a decision on. And Taylor told BristolLive with regards to Vassell’s future: “He has been [training]. But I think Bath had their play-off game on Tuesday so I think his season is finished. He’s not come in this week on the back of that game. I think he came on for a 20 minute cameo in relation to that.
“We’ll have a conversation with Vas in terms of what’s next for himself but we’ve tried to give him the time and the opportunity with ourselves alongside some competitive football. As with some of our players, he’s just not played enough football for such a long period of time and then the conversations at the end of the season will be for what’s next.”
