Here are your Cardiff City headlines for Wednesday, May 10.
Whyte bids farewell
Gavin Whyte has confirmed his departure from Cardiff City in a social media post in which he admitted he would have liked to have been given more of a chance during his time with the club.
Whyte was brought in by Neil Warnock and did well early on under him, but as managers changed, so did the Northern Irishman's position within the squad.
Although Whyte had a number of admirers among supporters, he never quite convinced another manager to take a punt on him, despite having a brief resurgence in the side under Mark Hudson.
After four years, he said he is now looking forward to a new challenge in his career.
"My time at Cardiff has now come to an end. This has been a place where my family has called home for four years. To all the players managers staff and the fans that I have worked with throughout the years, thank you!" he wrote on Instagram.
"I wish I had more a crack at it but hey! Thank you for letting me be a part of your team!
"I haven’t been this excited in a while with football. I feel I have a lot more to give, I can’t wait for my next challenge."
The winger, 27, has been linked with his former club Oxford United as well as their League One rivals Portsmouth, managed by his old team-mate John Mousinho.
2023/24 campaign start date confirmed
Cardiff City's 2023/24 Championship campaign will begin on the weekend of August 5, it has been confirmed.
The fixtures for next season will officially be released on Thursday, June 22 at 9am.
A full list of the key dates ahead of the 2023/24 EFL season are:
Fixture Release Date – Thursday 22 June 2023, 9am
Start Date – Saturday 5 August 2023 (with a likely live game on Friday 4 August)
Carabao Cup Round One – w/c 7 August 2023
Carabao Cup Final – Sunday 25 February 2023
Championship Play-Off Final – Sunday 26 May 2024
Purse: The future is bright
Cardiff under-21s manager praised the young defenders he entrusted for the 4-2 victory over Crewe Alexandra yesterday and believes the future could be bright for City.
In their last game of the season, captain Owen Pritchard netted twice while Cian Ashford and Japhet Matondo rounded off the scoring in the triumph in Leckwith.
Looking ahead to next season, Purse opted to play a number of under-18s and first-year scholars for the clash, including inexperienced defenders Josh Beecher, Luey Giles and Dylan Lawlor.
Speaking about the final-day win, Purse said: "I think it's a good way to end the season. Going forwards we showed some good bits of quality; we scored four and maybe could've gotten more as well.
"On the back end of that, we've conceded two sloppy goals, but that's a learning curve for the young back four that we had. You look at that back four, and three of them are first-year scholars, so from that point of view you look at it and you think that the future is bright.
"Overall we had some really good bits of possession that I was pleased with, and it's nice to end the season with three points whilst giving some experience to some young scholars that should now be looking to push on and be involved with the U21s next year."
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