oh, i didnt add, the publicity stunt bit was typed with a bit of sarcasm, hence the ! i want to hear the chairmans answer to the question i posed in the title...
"If history within football has taught us anything then it is there is another wealthy benefactor around the corner that will step in at the 11th hour if needed " THIS. The Malaysians want to you to believe they will walk. They bloody well won't so you should all grow a collective pair, do a Harry Enfield and shout NO! "Reject and go bust"????? They are turning out to be exactly what some of us thought.
Possibly, I look it as businessmen who are saying we will make a large investment but on our terms. Which is logical. As I keep saying, I wish we could get investment without having to change anything, but the owners don't seem to have that as an option. I try to look at it from both sides. If I was going to invest 100 million, I would want it to be on my terms as well!
Inclined to agree and even if they did I think it would be good for football in general. If one set of investors do this, how many others will try to apply the same tactic to get their own way?
Bollucks. So where was this wealthy benefactor when you went bust twice Aussie? What's to say this mythical white knight of a "wealthy benefactor" riding to our rescue would be any better than what we have now? I'm not happy at all with these proposed changes, but the harsh realities of modern football seem to fly over the head of some on here.
I fully accept that Siam, and I am sure every person reading that would be exactly the same BUT, should we (as supporters) allow it happen? They have given two options so why call not call their bluff and tell them to bugger off and see what happens Ultimately they are now demonstrating that they do not care about Cardiff City. How can they be if they are openly stating they are prepared to let the club die by not adding further investment? Surely that is a clear enough message to anyone?
The days of investment and loans are gone due to the Finacial Fair Play rules. We either change or die.
Calling their bluff is a dangerous game Andy. If we are wrong, they leave, no white knight..........And you are saying we should call their bluff on 100 million to change aesthetics.....a very big call indeed. If it was Norwich, and you had our debt, I think you would think very hard before calling anybody's bluff.
You may well be right, but I would remain bloody furious. Putting my club in your position, and as I said before there is no guarantee that any amount of investment is going get promotion, the scenario of the club dying may only be delayed for a couple of years when the sanction kick in, depending on what the sanctions are I guess. If it is heavy points deduction then there is a risk of L1 football returning to South Wales. It is a massive gamble for both the club and the investors but typically they are businessmen and with that comes a certain amount of self belief (or arrogance if you prefer) that they are kings of their little world and nothing is going to stop them conquering all that dare stand in front of them.
why did they not invest when they came in from the start??? you had a better team and a better manager then....there is something fishy going on with these asians, I bet they knew from the start that they were going to rob cardiff from their identity and would drop a couple of million here and there to keep everyone sweet without busting a gut of real investment that everyone thought would happen when they took over.....Why hold the club to ransom of my way or the highway and who really thinks they will invest £100 million anyway. they wont and you know they wont they have been there long enough to invest in the club already and they have not.....Alarm bells are ringing all over cardiff at these farce so called investors that cant do anything being called bluebirds but for some mysterious reason can as red dragons......What is the hidden agenda that is so important that they cant do as bluebirds...
Dai - you are either on a deliberate wind up mission or you don't understand the first thing about investing. Your question about why the Malaysians didn't take this stance when they first got involved with the club demonstrates the latter. When they TG first came along and subsequently introduced VT, the club's finances were in meltdown. There was no way they were going to do any more than necessary to keep the club running whilst they sifted through the mess and got a handle on things. With Hamman/Langstone still threatening and the likes of the Revenue to sort out along with other creditors, stability was all that was needed . It now would appear that they have got the measure of the outstanding issues of three years back and are confident enough to take the initiative. Hence the proposed investment in the club - and yes, I mean investment, not loans.
all i know is you have a bunch of pretend investors that have done nothing but keep the wolf from the door since they have been there without any investment in the playing side of the team. Now they come up with a ludicrous scheme of perhaps if we make a promise of £100 million (nice round figure by the way) you are to lose everything cardiff have stood for for a billionaire play things whim.....you wont get £100 million in a month of sundays and you know it...They have not invested in the team since they have been there. Its A joke and making cardiff a joke team.....If it was not so serious it would be laughable.......Even your past players smell a rat.... It would never happen with us as we are proud of our history and no amount of monopoly money can buy that....
Short memories some people Sparkey, like the Leeds clown that said they are the whites, always have been always will be. Don't even know the history of their club. Can we have the original chocolate and yellow as the away strip?
Hi superswan. Phew! I don't know where to start really as I'm not really sure what you're saying here. "pretend investors"? Who do you mean? "keeping the wolf from the door without investment"? Surely keeping the wolf from the door has required significant investment. "£100 million a nice round figure"? Well yes it is. Should they be looking at their crystal ball and have it down to the last penny? "Not invested in the team"? Well they've kept their wages going when we were operating at a loss. "A joke team"? You probably mean club, but who apart from those with ulterior motives, can be proven to see us as a joke? "Your proud history". Well a ours is equally proud (arguably with more to be proud of), but it's just that...history. As I said on an article on your board recently, our respective clubs have been dealt different hands in recent times and this has led to us taking different paths.
i'm sceptical about the £100m and it sounds like a headline figure to me as well, but 'pretend investors' when they are proposing to invest tens of millions on their (in my opinion unreasonable) terms? come on. as for the 'this wouldnt happen with us' moral high ground crap, it could easily happen to most clubs. we didnt vote the malaysians in, we have no say in who the club sells the club to, and most importantly we have no say in this... if it wasnt for the fans having a 20% or so share of your club it could happen to you, though you wouldnt have generated that much interest in the past few seasons with investors. also, new question that has to be asked: how come tony fernandes, owner of QPR (also malaysian and looking to exploit interest in malaysia presumably) hasnt done anything like this? if the gains were massive from rebranding red then surely he would be considering it? though the reason he's in the business of owning a club is that he wants to be revered and worshipped / on a big publicity drive.
