There is a very interesting post/thread on ****/CCF from a Sarajevo fan. The main point is to ask for advice about contacting Tan to explain the concerns of many Sarajevo fans about how the club is being run, and 'broken promises' about investment. But as a thumbnail sketch on the state of one of Tan's other clubs it is well worth a read:
http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/vi...p?f=2&t=183528
Hello everyone,
First I want to apologize because my english is not perfect but I believe you will understand me.
I've registered on this forum to hear you opinion about situation in my club because as you know Vincent Tan is owner of FK Sarajevo also same as of Cardiff City FC.
Vincent Tan bought most of our club because he can not be 100% owner based on rules of our country. After he came here, everything was perfect. We had debts of around 3 mil euros, and he payed them off. He invested money to build academy, and he said people from Cardiff City will be here to teach our kids, and later we could sell them to your club or send them on loan to his other clubs. That did not happen, but academy is there. Results of academy are 2 players in our first eleven and one of biggest talents in europe, Nedim Hadzic. As we heard he is going to be sold to Benfica.
He invested more money in our club and we were able to loan Matej Delac from Chelsea FC, Mate Jajalo from FC Koln. We signed Milan Stepanov, player who used to be central back of FC Porto for few years. We brought Ikande who was youngster of AC Milan.
We won one Cup and we became champions two years ago.
But we were surprised that Vincent Tan was in this city only two times. He sent some Malesian people here to keep control, but that did not happen. In fact, people from our country took control over club, finances and everything. They started to steal money and we had "war" with them. Two of most important persons in that time were Dino Selimovic and Abdulah Ibrakovic. They resigned from their positions under pressure of us (fans).
We tought things will be better, but than people from our board came and said WE DO NOT HAVE MONEY FOR SIGNINGS. That can not be truth, because as we know, we have deal with Vincent Tan that every year he is going to invest 4mil, and we sold 3 players in total of around 3mil euros.
Point of this what I am writing here is to see, is there any way that we (fans) can reach someone close to Vincent Tan or something like that, and present him how do WE feel, because we do not believe our board is sending him right reports.
Probably for you guys, these amounts are funny, because you sell and buy players for lot of more money, but salaries here for football players are around 2 or 3k euros.
By the way, as supporter of FK Sarajevo (our color is maroon and our arch rivals has blue colors), I support you and your demands of getting your color and club back to you,
Thank you for reading this and I hope you will give me some smart advices what we could do as supporters
Best regards
Ultrajvosa
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