Cardiff City: Bluebirds relaxed over Nathan Trott’s future

Cardiff have overseen new deals for a string of players but are yet to confirm whether midfielder Wintle, defender Ng or full-back Bagan – who was last weekend named in the EFL League One team of the year – will be part of next season’s plans.

Asked whether a decision will be made before Saturday’s final home game, the manager said: “All those players have had incredible seasons and they’ll be under consideration for Saturday.

“It’s been a really busy period and the focus has always been on these remaining games. Once they’re finished then all those different situations contractually between players and clubs would be dealt with.”

Cardiff’s early promotion does allow the club to make a head start on plans for life back in the Championship having had to deal with third-tier football for the first time in two decades.

But Barry-Murphy said there would be no “knee jerk” responses to promotion, saying work has remained consistent with the club’s recruitment team.

“I think our idea is always to move the club forward really quickly, try and improve the squad, try and improve all aspects of the club and if that remains the theme of what we’re trying to do, then it means we’ll be fine,” he added.

Barry-Murphy said he was still savouring the club’s promotion – sealed in dramatic fashion at Reading last weekend – and paid tribute to his players’ efforts to follow that up with a home win, a result that relegated Port Vale.

“There’s a great sense of pride in what we’ve done,” he said.

“It’s difficult to predict what level of performance we could reach based on the euphoria that we felt on Saturday, so I’m very pleased with the players that we managed to create a chance in the second half and play well enough to win.”