Opinion: Cardiff City should do all they can to secure permanent addition of 29-year-old

Since the turn of the year, Cardiff City have seemingly flushed out the weaknesses they had in their squad and become a very solid team who are showing signs that they could be play-off contenders in 2022-23.

The Bluebirds were really struggling under Mick McCarthy in the first few months of the season, with a run of eight straight defeats signalling the end in the dugout for the Yorkshireman.

Steve Morison stepped up from the under-23’s to take charge temporarily, and he clearly made a decent enough impression to be handed the job on a full-time basis until the end of the season.

That has now been extended beyond the conclusion of the current campaign, and whilst Cardiff are still languishing in 17th position, there has been clear improvement and that may have stemmed from some key January additions.

Whilst they may have lost the creative Ryan Giles and Wales international Kieffer Moore, Cardiff regrouped and added some talented Premier League youngsters in Tommy Doyle and Cody Drameh, as well as some experience up-front in the form of Uche Ikpeazu and Jordan Hugill.

Cardiff’s last 12 Championship matches, starting with an impressive 2-1 win over Nottingham Forest at the end of January, has seen Morison’s side pick up 23 points out of a possible 36, which over the course of a full season would be play-off chasing form.

There could be many reasons as to why Cardiff are more successful now than they were months ago, but the presence of Hugill at the top end of the pitch must be one of those.

An experienced figure who has played for multiple Championship clubs, Hugill endured a nightmare time at West Brom in the first half of the season and he seemingly had zero luck in-front of goal.

Nevertheless, Morison wanted to add