'I do worry' - Cardiff City fan raises Vincent Tan sack fear involving Barry-Murphy | OneFootball

FLW's Cardiff City fan pundit has given his verdict on whether head coach Brian Barry-Murphy should be under pressure amid the club's winless start.

It has been a tough start to life back in the Championship for Cardiff City.

Cardiff secured an immediate return to the Championship last season as they finished second in League One with a total of 91 points, but Brian Barry-Murphy's side have found it difficult in the second tier so far.

Cardiff City's winless Championship start continues after Bolton Wanderers frustration

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Just like last summer, it was another quiet transfer window for Cardiff as they brought in just two new faces, with defender Krystian Bielik making a £2.5 million move from West Bromwich Albion and winger Jack Moylan arriving from fellow newly-promoted side Lincoln City.

The Bluebirds also brought back two of last season's loanees, with goalkeeper Nathan Trott completing a permanent switch from Copenhagen for a fee of £1.5 million and Callum Scanlon returning on a temporary basis from Liverpool.

With the squad still looking light in certain areas, it has been a disappointing start to the season for Cardiff, and they are still waiting for their first victory of the campaign after failing to win any of their opening seven league games.

It was another frustrating afternoon for the Bluebirds as they were beaten 1-0 by fellow strugglers Bolton Wanderers at the Toughsheet Community Stadium on Saturday, with Thierry Gale's 90th-minute header sealing all three points for the Trotters after the visitors had wasted a number of chances.

Having picked up just four points so far this season, Cardiff currently sit just outside the relegation zone, and it does not get much easier for the Welsh outfit as they host sixth-placed Charlton Athletic on Saturday before the international break.

Cardiff City fan verdict issued on Brian Barry-Murphy's future as Vincent Tan fear revealed

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When asked for his thoughts on Barry-Murphy's future, FLW's Cardiff City fan pundit Matt Hall admitted that he is concerned that owner Vincent Tan could decide to make a managerial change, but he insisted that most supporters remain firmly behind the Irishman.

"I do worry that Vincent Tan will pull the trigger," Matt told FLW.

"Ken Choo and Mehmet Dalman are still at the club, but their power has been diluted under Brian Barry-Murphy, so I wouldn't put it past them to advise Tan to make this decision, partly because they may have a bit of a bruised ego at the moment because he's not involving them in processes.

"They don't understand football, and they're not the ones who should be making football decisions, so I think that's where the distrust from fans comes in.

"If you ask the majority of fans, they will be on the side of Barry-Murphy.

"We are a team that is almost very good, and we will be when things click or we get that little bit of luck, even if we can just get that one win over the line.

"If we'd won one of our early games against Derby or Sheffield United as we should have, I think we'd be looking at a different points total as we'd have that monkey off our back.

"If Barry-Murphy stays for the entire season, there is no chance we will get relegated with him.

"He is just a fantastic manager, and I hope he doesn't get poached.

"He has got things wrong, he's not perfect.

"I think this approach to the transfer window was good in theory, but the actual end product was bad.

"We did go for quality over quantity, which is a good approach on paper, but we failed to get most of our targets.

"There's a feeling that we didn't have a plan B, we just settled for what we have, but what we have is nowhere near enough.

"We've got players playing every single week who are lacking confidence and nowhere near the quality required, but there's no options to take them out of the firing line.

"I think the fact we didn't fill in the squad with some loans was a massive oversight, and there seems to be a reluctance to bring in free agents as well.

"We played fantastically against Bolton and should have won the game, but we lost 1-0 purely because individuals weren't good enough on the day.

"I think fans are worried off the back of that.

"We had three pretty positive draws to start the season, then the transfer window closes, and you have back-to-back defeats with abject performances against QPR and Portsmouth.

"That was terrible timing and generated quite a lot of negative noise.

"The Stoke and Bolton games were fantastic, but we didn't get the wins, and that has been the story of the season.

"It's just a bit of a repetitive theme at the moment, but it can definitely be clawed back.

"Fans will be patient with this specific manager, but I think the medicine for the whole situation would be a win against Charlton on Saturday.

"If we do that, the three-week international break will go a lot quicker."

Vincent Tan facing big Brian Barry-Murphy dilemma at Cardiff City

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There is no doubt that Cardiff's performances have deserved more at times this season, but ultimately football is a results business, and Tan will be getting increasingly worried as the club's winless start continues.

While Charlton are currently sixth, they are without a win in their last four games, so it feels like a big opportunity for the Bluebirds to get their first victory of the season on Saturday, particularly with tougher fixtures against the likes of Middlesbrough, Birmingham City and Wolves to come shortly after the international break.

Barry-Murphy has plenty of credit in the bank at the Cardiff City Stadium after masterminding last season's promotion, and it is fair to say that the lack of transfer activity over the summer has left the squad short on quality, which is not necessarily the 47-year-old's fault.

However, Cardiff should arguably have more points on the board after what has been a relatively kind start to the season in terms of fixtures, and Tan may soon have a big decision to make over Barry-Murphy's future if results do not improve.