Every manager has his favourites.
Sam Allardyce has Kevin Nolan, Manuel Pellegrini has Martin Demichelis, Harry Redknapp has Jermain Defoe, Sam Allardyce has Abdoulaye Faye, David Moyes has Marouane Fellaini, Harry Redknapp has Niko Kranjčar, and Sam Allardyce has Jussi Jääskeläinen.
When someone mentions the name Neil Warnock, which player do you immediately think of?
That’s right, Paddy Kenny.
Neil Warnock and Paddy Kenny reunited. Again. Again. Again. pic.twitter.com/6TQnc3Ioxf
— EAMO (@EamoV1) February 19, 2016
Kenny has played under Warnock at Bury, Sheffield United, Queens Park Rangers, Leeds United and Rotherham United.
So when ‘Colin’ (look it up) was appointed as Cardiff City’s new manager, people’s minds instantly went to the same place.
https://twitter.com/BatesyLufc/status/783577984770924544
If Neil Warnock is going to be announced new Cardiff City boss today, I expect keeper Paddy Kenny to be in Cardiff by teatime
— Peter Shuttleworth (@PeteShuttsy) October 5, 2016
Cannot fault Cardiff for getting warnock in, performed miracles at Rotherham, wonder if kenny sat by his phone 😂
— Marv 🎃 (@xmarvx) October 5, 2016
https://twitter.com/NeilA188/status/783587342175105024
Neil Warnock gets #CardiffCity job, first signing has to be Paddy Kenny, surely?
— Mark Dorman (@reacherman123) October 5, 2016
Cardiff are currently 23rd in the Championship with just eight points and eight goals from their opening 11 games, having sold or released 16 players over the summer.
Last year they secured a top-half finish, despite having lost a large proportion of their Premier League squad in the 18 months after their May 2014 relegation.
The poor start to the campaign saw the Bluebirds part ways with Paul Trollope, who had only taken over from predecessor Russell Slade at the end of last season.
They are hoping Warnock will be able to achieve what he did at Rotherham, where he lifted the club out of the bottom three with an 11-match unbeaten run at the tail end of last season.
It might sound far-fetched, but Cardiff actually might need a new keeper right now. In a brilliant display of forward-planning, they let Joe Lewis leave on a free over the summer and sold Simon Moore and David Marshall, before panicking and realising that left on-loan Ben Amos and perennial back-up Ben Wilson (17 career appearances in five seasons) as their only options between the sticks.
They have since brought in free agent Brian Murphy, but Kenny – currently without an appearance for current club Northampton Town – would surely be a handy dressing room addition…
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