Former Cardiff City player and assistant boss Sol Bamba believes the Bluebirds should hand Erol Bulut a new contract.
Bamba was part of Cardiff’s coaching staff last season before he and boss Sabri Lamouchi departed after steering the club to Championship survival.
Lamouchi’s successor, ex-Fenerbahce boss Bulut, signed a one-year Cardiff deal which expires this summer.
“I think they have found a good manager,” Bamba said.
“Everyone says it and I can see from the way the team is playing that the players love him.
“If I could give advice to Cardiff it would be to tie him down, definitely.
“I think eventually they will and it would be the right thing to do because if you want to build anything, you have got to have consistency and a vision.
“I think if you give a manager one year, it’s always hard to have a vision. So hopefully he can sign a new deal and move forward.”
Former Ivory Coast defender Bamba returned to Cardiff in January 2023 having previously spent five years playing for the club.
He was named assistant to Lamouchi, who became Cardiff’s third boss of last season, signing a short-term deal until the end of the campaign.
Lamouchi and Bamba steered Cardiff to a 21st-place Championship finish but owner Vincent Tan opted to overhaul the managerial set-up once more last summer, with Bulut handed a first job in British football.
Bulut has made a positive impact at Cardiff, who looked like play-off contenders in the early stages of the season.
They have struggled for form at times and were well beaten in last week’s south Wales derby, but are in mid-table – well clear of relegation danger – with only eight games of the campaign remaining.
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