New owners ?

[dembethewarrior]

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Stupidest post I've read in a while to be fair

Haven’t you seen blue lewj's replies to me today?

[delmbox]

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Haven’t you seen blue lewj's replies to me today?

blue lewj is just frustrated and putting the cart before the horse a little bit, this is ridiculous

[PontBlue]

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Who are the “very young” players you expect to be in the starting line up next week? It looks like Bagan will be, but who else? Giles is only twenty, but played a season in the Championship last year. After years of giving young players no chance at all, City have become like nearly every other club in that they have a core of four or five young pros who might see some first team action if we’re nit by injuries, illness and/or suspensions.

If that happens there's a very good chance ball retention and playing style will improve.

[Hilts]

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Haven’t you seen blue lewj's replies to me today?

I havent seen anything close to as stupid as suggesting us getting hammered 5 nil every week is a realistic prospect.

[the other bob wilson]

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If that happens there's a very good chance ball retention and playing style will improve.

I tend to agree, but I thought yesterday was an improvement when it came to keeping the ball and we played fewer long balls.

[stan butler]

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That's a shame it's bullshit: I was getting excited about the prospect of Tan selling up.

Who will take us over then any ideas?

[dembethewarrior]

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Who will take us over then any ideas?

They don't care..

Don't have a plan, but also don't care as long as its not Tan. Idiotic really.

[stan butler]

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We've signed 4 players this summer (one on loan) which puts us in the top half of most active Championship clubs. Everyone is looking at balancing the books after covid, Fulham aside.

We're finally investing in youth/future of this club so really weird time to want him to go.

How do you know there was a big deal recently that fell through? Seriously, how do you know that?

He's one if the gullible few who believes anything the club basher says/posts

[RonnieBird]

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Judging from responses so far, no-one else has such a fear.

I take no pleasure whatever in recalling the evening of the Emiliano Sala tragedy.
I noticed a French newspaper report of a missing plane en route from Nantes to Wales. Unusual route and knowing that the poor young man was travelling overnight I followed up and was reluctantly convinced VERY early what had happened and to whom.

I posted it sometime between 10pm and midnight on *****’ forum and if it still exists you can probably see the disbelieving and quite nasty tirade I received, which went on for about 24 hours until the dreadful truth emerged.

Point being not that I’m claiming some brilliant insight but that it’s very possible for an apparently unlikely truth to be picked up on correctly. Now I don’t either, for one moment, claim that my speculation on this matter is correct, but I thought Taunton , of all people, would know that a majority of opinion on a factual matter is no indication whatsoever that they have it right.

[RonnieBird]

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We censor a bloke from Cardiff’s name ?

[RonnieBird]

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Is that fair on his dad, who had exactly the same name ?

[the other bob wilson]

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I take no pleasure whatever in recalling the evening of the Emiliano Sala tragedy.
I noticed a French newspaper report of a missing plane en route from Nantes to Wales. Unusual route and knowing that the poor young man was travelling overnight I followed up and was reluctantly convinced VERY early what had happened and to whom.

I posted it sometime between 10pm and midnight on *****’ forum and if it still exists you can probably see the disbelieving and quite nasty tirade I received, which went on for about 24 hours until the dreadful truth emerged.

Point being not that I’m claiming some brilliant insight but that it’s very possible for an apparently unlikely truth to be picked up on correctly. Now I don’t either, for one moment, claim that my speculation on this matter is correct, but I thought Taunton , of all people, would know that a majority of opinion on a factual matter is no indication whatsoever that they have it right.

Relying on "I was right once, so I might be again" is a bit feeble isn't it?

Saying something like "If the assembled squad starts getting hammered 5-0 every game" could be taken as just a way to get across the notion that we're going to struggle, but then you qualify it with "as is quite a possibility to be frank and realistic" takes it onto a different level. What you say could legitimately be called frank, but realistic? No chance! Tell you what, if and when we've lost our tenth consecutive match 5-0 this autumn, I'll join all of the others on here in hailing you as a genius - you can't say fairer than that!

You've posted some strange stuff in recent weeks - you advocate us paying £12 million or whatever it was for Harry Wilson and then casually declare we should sell Gavin Whyte because he's not good enough. You seem oblivious to the facts - for most Football League clubs (i.e. those not in receipt of parachute payments), paying fees for players is on hold for a while and, if they are one of the few able to do so, I'm sure they're looking to spend what little they do have on better than Gavin Whyte. As for Wilson, you really expect the man who is, reportedly, putting £3 million a month into the club to fork out four times that on a player? Understandably, Vincent Tan has decided the club (i.e. him) has to cut down on the transfer spending and, anyway, even if we were able to match Fulham's offer for the player, I'd say it's very doubtful he'd opt for us having had experience of the "Cardiff way" last season.

[Spooky Tree]

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'mare thread

[Allez Allez Allez]

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'mare thread

It's a mare OP with the 5-0 drubbings every week, and gets worse as people seem to be taking issue with this rather than the main point.

Ronnie Bird does make a point about how long Tan can be expected to bankroll the club. It's a shame that pedantry has won this thread because the main part of his post, for me, was this line:
"it won’t take Sri Vincent Tan long to start losing most of his considerable investment."

Tan recently cashed in on his LA shares, and he has already proven the point
"How do you make anyone a millionaire? Answer: Give them a billion, and get them to invest in football".

Tan has lost most of his investment, that much is plainly obvious. If the right offer comes along, he has already said he'd be willing to accept. There was interest a while back. The list of prospective owners of Cardiff City won't include Hammam or Ridsdale will it?

With everything that has happened in recent months, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that Tan's valuation of the club has become more realistic, and that may tempt previous interested parties in coming forward.

[lardy]

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It's a mare OP with the 5-0 drubbings every week, and gets worse as people seem to be taking issue with this rather than the main point.

Ronnie Bird does make a point about how long Tan can be expected to bankroll the club. It's a shame that pedantry has won this thread because the main part of his post, for me, was this line:
"it won’t take Sri Vincent Tan long to start losing most of his considerable investment."

Tan recently cashed in on his LA shares, and he has already proven the point
"How do you make anyone a millionaire? Answer: Give them a billion, and get them to invest in football".

Tan has lost most of his investment, that much is plainly obvious. If the right offer comes along, he has already said he'd be willing to accept. There was interest a while back. The list of prospective owners of Cardiff City won't include Hammam or Ridsdale will it?

With everything that has happened in recent months, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that Tan's valuation of the club has become more realistic, and that may tempt previous interested parties in coming forward.

So the question is why do billionaires invest in football teams? I'm sure they expect to lose money, but they must get benefits of other sorts - whether it's vanity, prestige, profile, or commercial benefits for their other companies, I don't know. But there must be something other than money, as there are more solid financial investments around.