Cardiff City manager considering quitting the club at the end of the season

Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock is reportedly considering quitting the club at the end of the current season.

The Bluebirds are in a relegation battle with Burnley, Southampton and Brighton & Hove Albion to stay in the Premier League but are 5 points off safety, but the Saints and Seagulls have a game in hand over them and the Clarets.

In November against Brighton, Warnock completed 100 games in charge of the Welsh side, but he admitted that Glenn Hoddle’s heart attack and the helicopter crash at Leicester City had affected him and made his re-evaluate his future. No doubt the struggles to keep Cardiff up and the sad death of new signing Emiliano Sala when the helicopter went missing have also slightly added in making the 70 year old’s mind up too.

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Warnock: "I’m proud of my players. I felt we got let down. When you don't win the game because of nothing to do with yourself, it really is a kick in the teeth.” #CARCHE #CityAsOne

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As quoted by Sports Mole, he said: “You see what happened at Leicester and with Glenn, who I think is a fantastic guy, and it brings it home to you that life is on a thread,” said Warnock, who turns 70 in December and is the second oldest manager in the top four divisions of English football behind Crystal Palace’s Roy Hodgson.

“It’s been one of the happiest times of my life (at Cardiff). Having thought about retiring two or three times, I’m really glad that I didn’t.

“I do feel better for doing what I’ve done here and I don’t think my job’s finished yet.

“But I think another 100 games might be difficult.

“We’ll see how things go this season. There comes a time where I want to see one or two places I haven’t seen before.”

Warnock’s contracted is to end at the end of next season.

He has also said that he looks at Cardiff as his farewell club and doesn’t think he’ll be heading to another club afterwards.

NEIL WARNOCK’S MANAGING CAREER

– GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY (1980–1981)

– BURTON ALBION (1981–1986)

– SCARBOROUGH (1986–1989) (Conference Winners 1987)

– NOTTS COUNTY (1989–1993) (Second Division Playoff Winners 1991 & Third Division Playoff Winners 1990)

– TORQUAY UNITED (1993)

– HUDDERSFIELD TOWN (1993–1995) (Division Two Playoff Winners 1995)

– PLYMOUTH ARGYLE (1995–1997) (Division Three Playoff Winners 1996)

– OLDHAM ATHLETIC (1997–1998)

– BURY (1998–1999)

– SHEFFIELD UNITED (1999–2007) (Promoted as Runners Up from Championship in 2006)

– CRYSTAL PALACE (2007–2010)

– QUEENS PARK RANGERS (2010–2012) (Championship Winners 2011)

– LEEDS UNITED (2012–2013)

– CRYSTAL PALACE (2014)

– QUEENS PARK RANGERS (caretaker) (2015)

– ROTHERHAM UNITED (2016)

– CARDIFF CITY (2016–) (Promoted as Runners Up from Championship in 2018)

And this video perfectly sums up what a manager he has been…