I've been trying my best but I can't find Cardiff franchise club on here at all, click on the link and see if you can http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Premier_League_clubs
Don't know if this has been posted before, just found it on the 'cardiff city and Swansea city banter page' on facebook. Obviously originally posted by a cardiff fan... Heard this little snippit? Jose Mourinho this week flew into Kuala Lumpur for a private dinner reception with Vincent Tan. It was a very small affair with only Tan, Mourinho, Singapore billionaire tycoon Peter Lim who owns the MUFC bar/restaurant franchise in Asia and has previously been linked with buying LFC, the VP of the Malaysian FA, a few inner-circle Berjaya execs, and two other powerful SE Asian figures in attendance. It is my understanding that Mourinho was presented with a proposition to take over at CCFC upon us gaining promotion to the Premier League. Mourinho responded that he has a contractual obligation with with Real Madrid until 2016 and is happy in his current role. Pressed on whether this could be addressed should the situation change, Mourinho replied that he still had ambitions in international management, but would not discount an opportunity of the right scale. Tan then outlined where he saw the development of football heading over the next ten years. He believes that future is in China and South-East Asia with football operating under a series of US style franchises, some of which he envisioned being imported from Europe. The logic is that players will follow where the money goes so long as the profile is high enough. He cited Shanghai Shenhua as an example of a local franchise already in the process of development and anticipated them challenging Europe's top football brands for Asian marketshare within a 5-year window. Effectively they are looking at the formation of an Asia based Super-League outpaying and outplaying anything Europe has to offer. To do that though it is believed that existing brands will need to be leveraged or else it will end up like the J- League or MLS. There are already outline plans for a 16-city format, with the initial interest spanning from Singapore, KL and Bangkok in SE Asia, Tokyo, Yokohama and Osaka in Japan, Seoul in Korea, 5x major Chinese cities, with potential to expand the franchises into Indonesia and India. Some of the the money men behind this make Tan look like a pauper. Not only that, but it is thought that state money will be backing the scheme (Mourinho was also slated to meet the Malaysian PM) to ensure it's success. I don't want to jump to conclusions guys, and make of this what you will, but don't things like 100 million squids of investment now make a little more sense?
I no longer visit the cardiff board,my GP having strongly advised against it. However,if this is the type of stuff they are putting out over on the dark side,they are surely living in a cocoon of delusion.
****ing hell fire !! Jose for Cardiffred dragons... So many holes in this story you could use it to water plants !! The Asain market may have money now,but the wheel is starting to turn for them too, when we are all broke we stop buying tat from china, they are starting to feel it there now. Having a big league full of star players ? like in the arab states,the J-league or MLS ?? how well are they doing ? the asain market is about buying into prestige! it always has been!! sales of anything British like fine Whiskeys,Jaguar motor cars,Burberry etc etc is what people aspire to not buying or using their own rubbish! its the same with the football, Manchester United,Liverpool,Barca,Real madrid are the rolls royce of sporting institutions THATS what people want to be part of they want to watch Manchester United play Liverpool or Real play Barca, they buy into everything these clubs offer,sporting History and prestige is important to the asain fans they get the idea of what being part of a club is all about they understand what it means to have a club identity. This is why cardiff red dragon fc are doomed to failiure over there, they are no different to hysung f.c or patiya rovers !! no history,no identity therefore no presitige!! and prestige is very important. I wonder what Jose Mourinho will make of Jason perry giving him stick on the radio phone in show??
I've never been on their forums, can't really be arsed with them. I do like arguing with the skiprats on that facebook page though which is where I found this. They are actually more deluded than the English side
I'll leave that to you Norway, I don't really like bothering about them, I just thought it was worth a mention on this thread. I thought it fitted quite nicely under comedy classics
A new classic from Legoland. Work for free ! 1000 words, that's really optimistic. http://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10335~2816680,00.html
unfortunatly this happens over here all the time - get work experience, in fact our government are "trying to find out if it is breaching the fair work practices act" or whatever they call it so it musn't be an uncommon thing to do
I don't think the owners of Cardiff care about any laws Musty, they think they're above it. It just goes from one debacle to another over there.
