Erol Bulut may make huge Cardiff City decision amid new Vincent Tan update: View | OneFootball

Cardiff City supporters have been understandably excited to hear that owner Vincent Tan is set to open talks with Erol Bulut over a new deal with Vincent Tan, but perhaps they shouldn't get too excited yet.

Bulut took over at the Cardiff City Stadium last June, and the Bluebirds have enjoyed a decent season which has seen them finish comfortably mid-table, a huge improvement on last season where they would have been relegated had it not been for Reading's points deduction.

However, despite this vastly improved campaign, it's taken until the final week of the season for the club's owner to open talks with Bulut over extending his one-year deal at the club, which seems a strange move on the face of it.

With this in mind, perhaps there are no guarantees that Bulut will extend his deal in the Welsh capital, and supporters should perhaps wait until he puts pen to paper on a new deal before getting carried away.

Vincent Tan may have left it too late to keep Erol Bulut

Considering that Erol Bulut has done a good job in stabilising Cardiff after a few really poor seasons, you'd have thought that securing his future at the club on a long-term basis would have been done months ago, so leaving it until the final week of the season clearly suggests that Vincent Tan has doubts over him.

It's almost like Tan has been reluctant to commit in case the club could find better than Bulut, but now with time running out, he's been forced to commit to him or risk losing him.

It would be quite easy for Bulut to have become disillusioned with the way he's been treated by Cardiff, and you would not blame him in the slightest if he decided to walk away from the Welsh capital this summer, particularly as he's been linked with Turkish clubs like Besiktas recently.

Bulut hasn't been shy in saying that he wanted his future at the club sorted sooner, and leaving it this late in the season is far from ideal for all parties involved.

The Bluebirds boss has shown that he's a considerable upgrade on any manager the club have had since Neil Warnock, but bafflingly, the club's hierarchy don't seem overly keen on him.

It's a strange situation, and most clubs in Cardiff's situation would have sorted out a new deal a long time ago. The Bluebirds will only have themselves to blame if Bulut decided to walk this summer.

Perhaps Cardiff's hierarchy have been reluctant to commit to Erol Bulut because they believed they could have done better, but this is a club that finished 21st in the Championship last season.

Granted, they made some quality additions like Manolis Siopis and Dimitrios Goutas last summer, but finishing mid-table is clearly a decent season given what they've been through in recent times.

Cardiff were also dealing with a transfer embargo which meant they couldn't pay fees for players, so they were never going to sustain a bid for promotion or even the play-offs.

In hindsight, Cardiff starting the season so well was probably a bad thing as it meant expectations became greater than they should have been, and when the Bluebirds began to fall down the table, Bulut came in for criticism.

Bluebirds' owner Vincent Tan is hardly known for his understanding of football or for being a rational thinker, so perhaps we shouldn't be surprised it's taken so long for the club to open talks with Bulut.

After all, this is a man who wanted to re-appoint Steve Morison last summer, less than a year after sacking him. Morison recently led Sutton United to League Two relegation, just for added context.

This season should have been seen as one of reasonable progress for the Bluebirds, but you can't help but feel like Tan finally deciding to open talks with Bulut at this stage is too little, too late.