Here are your Cardiff City headlines for Thursday, April 13.
Lamouchi: I've had no message from above
Sabri Lamouchi says he has not spoken to owner Vincent Tan about the club's current plight and insists he is only focussed on achieving survival this season.
Steve Morison and Mark Hudson openly spoke about their frequent conversations with the owner before and after every match, however Lamouchi does not appear to have the same amount of dialogue with Tan.
"I didn't talk with the club about the situation," Lamouchi said when asked whether he had spoken to the owner.
"I am just focusing on the players and to get out of this situation. As you know, it's not easy, but we try to do our best."
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Full injury bulletin
The manager did provide a full injury break down ahead of the club's trip up to Sunderland this weekend.
He hopes to have a mostly full squad from which to choose on Saturday, however they are waiting on Rubin Colwill's hip injury. Lamouchi said he would speak to the medical team ahead of training on Thursday morning.
"For the moment we don't have any players out. We have some small problems, but everyone should be training today," added the head coach.
"For me, when you finish a game, you can start another one. But sometimes you get some small problems and you can't. That was the case with the captain. He finished very well (against Sunderland) and I hope he will be available for Saturday.
On Callum O'Dowda, he said: "He should be on the (training) pitch today. With me, he has been more out (of the team) than in, unfortunately for me!"
Ebou Adams trained on the pitch at Cardiff City Stadium on Wednesday during the club's open day. But when asked if he had any chance of featuring this season, Lamouchi said: "It was his first session with us yesterday. So, we will see."
Cardiff 'a lot more direct' under Lamouchi
Sheffield United boss Paul Heckingbottom has branded Cardiff City's football under Sabri Lamouchi "a lot more direct" than when they last faced them.
Mark Hudson was in charge when the Blades beat the Bluebirds 1-0 at Cardiff City Stadium back in November, but it's been all change since then.
Speaking about Cardiff under Lamouchi, Heckingbottom said: "It's been different of late, they've been playing a lot longer and lot more direct.
"It's simple in what we are going to face. We are going to have to deal with that and balls on to our back line and into our box and do all the things we pride ourselves on and do them really well, and then, with the ball, we want the same approach as we had against Wigan."
On the prospect of Cardiff scrapping for their Championship survival, he added: "That's what we saw against Wigan, you know it's a cup final for Wigan and it will be for Cardiff because they need the points.
"That's why every game is tough at this stage of the season. We have been preparing for this and building for it. We are not taking any game lightly at all, playing against a side who are scrapping and fighting and who will make it as difficult as possible for us."
Meanwhile, Heckingbottom confirmed Max Lowe is back available for the Blades for the visit of Cardiff this weekend.
Warnock: I thought Cardiff would 'fly' to safety
Neil Warnock says he is surprised and sad to see Cardiff struggling to avoid the drop and thought they would "fly away" to safety a few short weeks ago.
Warnock, now in charge of relegation rivals Huddersfield Town, has done a fantastic job up in Yorkshire and the Terriers look likely to be safe after some impressive results of late.
Cardiff, though, have struggled and have only one win in their last five matches.
Speaking about the Bluebirds, Warnock said: "I'm sorry to see my old club Cardiff struggling a little bit. I thought a couple of weeks ago that they were going to fly away really, they've got some decent players.
"But you've just got to worry about yourselves really and we've just got to put in a good performance at Swansea to try and come away with something."
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