Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

[Citizen's Nephew]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

Theres a list of depressing options.

Mike Flynn is one of them.

Why?

[goats]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

Theres a list of depressing options.

Mike Flynn is one of them.

Completely inept tactically and no way got what it takes to manage ccfc according to a player I know who worked under him

[Hilts]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

Why?

He has no CV to take over a Championship club.

If he hadnt been a manager of a club just down the road he wouldnt even be mentioned.

Ive seen plenty of lower league highlights and ive seen L1 teams play better passing football than us. Why arent these L1 managers being mentioned. Answer they are not 10 miles down the road.

I also saw the whole of the L2 final and both sides were utter garbage. Nothing I saw made me think id want him here.

Hes just left a mid table L2 outfit.

If hes the best we can do then yep its seriously depressing.

Of course he may turn out to be some genius but his CV shouldnt have him near a job like ours.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

He has no CV to take over a Championship club.

If he hadnt been a manager of a club just down the road he wouldnt even be mentioned.

Ive seen plenty of lower league highlights and ive seen L1 teams play better passing football than us. Why arent these L1 managers being mentioned. Answer they are not 10 miles down the road.

I also saw the whole of the L2 final and both sides were utter garbage. Nothing I saw made me think id want him here.

Hes just left a mid table L2 outfit.

If hes the best we can do then yep its seriously depressing.

Of course he may turn out to be some genius but his CV shouldnt have him near a job like ours.

How about Duff of Cheltenham and someone like Artell of Crewe who have a promotion on their CV? Mind you, Flynn would as well were it not for a pathetic referee at Wembley back in May.

[Hilts]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

How about Duff of Cheltenham and someone like Artell of Crewe who have a promotion on their CV? Mind you, Flynn would as well were it not for a pathetic referee at Wembley back in May.

Duff appears highly thought of and apparently play good passing football I just doubt we will play comp.

The Morecambe manager had a promotion on his CV. They were worse than Newport. Wouldnt want him or Flynn.

[wberksblue]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

Lest we forget that the vast majority of City's fanbase stood passively by while their club's identity was being stripped out from under them. Be realistic, what do you think the supporters are likely to do in the current circumstances?

Yep, good point, the fans are far more likely just to show apathy by not turning up. Something active needs to be done though.

[wberksblue]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

If the club is being stripped bare then why did we turn down offers for Kiefer Moore and Cieran Brown?

As much as I don't think the board has a lot of footballing nous, it's pretty blatant that Moore scoring goals is the only hope we have of staying up this season. Especially when the offers came so late, it would have been suicidal to sell him. They know the importance of the club avoiding relegation.

Marley Watkins signing for a couple of weeks and then leaving I think proves my point. The board didn't want to sign anyone that McCarthy couldn't guarantee was going to start regularly, so he wasn't signed. Same with Wintle and Murphy being loaned out - we clearly more options in the squad, but because they weren't guaranteed starters we shipped them out.

[wberksblue]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

So what would you define as ‘properly support the business’ then. Conservative estimates say that he has pumped over £200m into the club since he came here and that he was covering losses of £3.5m a month during lockdown. Not enough for you though apparently.

How many Championship clubs have spent big this season - hardly any and most are taking severe cost cutting measures. We are not alone in this but there is no evidence that we cant survive or that Tan is going to pull the plug either.

What would happen if Tan did ‘walk away’. We would go bust is the answer but apparently that is preferable to you than him continuing.

How do you know what our players have been earning ?

Your post is all guesswork and supposition but I am not surprised that some people of here have agreed with it, as there has been an agenda to get rid of Tan by some almost since he arrived and every manager we have had in the last 8 years has been castigated and ridiculed almost as soon as they get their feet under the desk.

I'll judge the owner of the club by their merits, it's nothing to do with an agenda against Tan. And even if there was, wouldn't people have the right to question someone who changed the club's kit colour, has seemed to show very little interest since we went back to blue, and has such a limited knowledge of football that they'd make decisions such as appointing the work experience boy as Head of Recruitment?

No one is saying these aren't difficult circumstances, but I refute the idea that we should just bow down and be grateful to an owner whose aim is ultimately to make money from a business. At least question what is going on?

[City123]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

Lost interest but still responsible for tactics. Its the silly season.

It really is incredible how, in the minds of some, Tan has gone from a disinterested absentee owner to someone picking the team overnight. All based of course on a comment from a man these people think is a clown!

[Citizen's Nephew]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

He has no CV to take over a Championship club.

If he hadnt been a manager of a club just down the road he wouldnt even be mentioned.

Ive seen plenty of lower league highlights and ive seen L1 teams play better passing football than us. Why arent these L1 managers being mentioned. Answer they are not 10 miles down the road.

I also saw the whole of the L2 final and both sides were utter garbage. Nothing I saw made me think id want him here.

Hes just left a mid table L2 outfit.

If hes the best we can do then yep its seriously depressing.

Of course he may turn out to be some genius but his CV shouldnt have him near a job like ours.

Well, I agree that it's seriously depressing. I don't subscribe to the view that there are huge differences in English football leagues these days nor do I subscribe to the view that a person's CV, when it comes to our squad, should be the main deciding factor. There's the top half of the EPL, the bottom half of the EPL and the top 4-5 clubs in The Championship and then there's the rest of us. When I don't go to Cardiff home matches I go to a lot of L1, L2 and non-league football as well as the Cymru Premier and am regularly reminded of how bad it is at CCFC. There are plenty of L1 and L2 sides that would beat us.

[Hilts]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

Well, I agree that it's seriously depressing. I don't subscribe to the view that there are huge differences in English football leagues these days nor do I subscribe to the view that a person's CV, when it comes to our squad, should be the main deciding factor. There's the top half of the EPL, the bottom half of the EPL and the top 4-5 clubs in The Championship and then there's the rest of us. When I don't go to Cardiff home matches I go to a lot of L1, L2 and non-league football as well as the Cymru Premier and am regularly reminded of how bad it is at CCFC. There are plenty of L1 and L2 sides that would beat us.

Im playing 5 a side shortly give us a keeper and wed beat that lot that on Saturdays display. 😂

[Forgotmyoldaccount]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

We have a footballing idiot running operations :facepalm::facepalm:

[Dorcus]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

I'll judge the owner of the club by their merits, it's nothing to do with an agenda against Tan. And even if there was, wouldn't people have the right to question someone who changed the club's kit colour, has seemed to show very little interest since we went back to blue, and has such a limited knowledge of football that they'd make decisions such as appointing the work experience boy as Head of Recruitment?

No one is saying these aren't difficult circumstances, but I refute the idea that we should just bow down and be grateful to an owner whose aim is ultimately to make money from a business. At least question what is going on?

Hear hear with bells on!

An intelligent view at last. 👍

[Do me a Faerber]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

He was at the Reading game when we got promoted.

Got carried onto the pitch by club employees, making it look like he was Mr Popular.

[Dorcus]

Re: Mehmet Dalman's extraordinary meeting with City supporter representatives yesterday.

Got carried onto the pitch by club employees, making it look like he was Mr Popular.

I bet for him that little cameo was worth all the millions he's put into the club. He probably thought Alex Ferguson look at me now.