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I wouldn't use the word happy but I'm not against him.
I'd assume most people are in the same boat.
All the hate stems from a few poor managerial choices (and as such player recruitment), but ones many on here agreed with at the time.
You're apparently missing the fact that Mehmet Dalman was brought into the club more than a decade ago by Vincent Tan and elevated to the position of Chairman by Tan, while Ken Choo is merely one of Tan's stooges - an employee who does what he's told.
Make no mistake, it's Tan who controls CCFC, not his subordinates.
Sala transfer. Why did Tan say yes to Warnock when the transfer committee had aleady opposed it. Biggest mistake in the history of CCFC ?
I can't imagine one set of fans would be jealous of our change of colour from blue to red, I went along with it but when questioned by anyone you just had to agree, it was ridiculous and caused so much harm to the club.
The Sala case has been another stick to beat us with and could have been handled so much better.
Add in a total lack of communication with the fans and putting a car salesman and a bean counter in charge of the club yer I guess there's rivers of jealousy up and down the country.
From Tan's point of view I believe it's a lack of trust in football people to protect his investment in the club that's the issue. Having had his fingers burnt by some poor expensive purchases by Malky and Warnock, he is probably reluctant to employ a DoF/Advisor, believing incorrectly that he can steer the club in the right direction without any outside 'interference'.
It is surprising though that he hasn't looked at the success of teams like Brighton and Brentford and tried to emulate the planning that has gone into making them the thriving clubs they are today.
I'm baffled there seems to be people who still want to support him.
I can't get into this "better the Devil you know" argument. That throws any ambition out of the window and I actually think it's a form of Stockholm syndrome.
I'm not a regular watcher of The Apprentice but the one thing that strikes home whenever a task fails is usually a lack of preparation or research into it. It's usually fatal when candidates on there think they know what they're doing based on gut instinct or misguided belief.
Tan bought us without knowing a single thing about owning a football club. He's got a board that knows nothing about football. Has he, at any stage, looked at how other successful clubs operate? I doubt it.
Managers always seem to rate Dalman highly, but I wonder if that's down to Dalman not having a scooby doo and gives managers some sort of free reign, as much as Tan will allow, anyway?
It does come with a solution. Shape up or actively look to sell the club. People will buy a club with potential at the right price.
If he doesn't have a serious rethink then we may be in a worse place than before he arrived very soon.
The argument that all debts are payable to him isn't rhe case anymore either. If Dalman's firm and the like now want their pound of flesh they can and will.
We need a club strategy an identity and something like a Director of Football (on the Board and reporting direct to the owner) who can plan, recruit, oversee the full age and gender range of club teams - especially the work of the Academy - and ensure that there is continuity and progression whenever a manager leaves (is poached by a Premier League club for eye-watering compensation).
There were a couple of times when Tan seemed open to that approach - when Glenn Roeder came in as an advisor and when Slade was given that Head of Football (?) title after he was sacked. Neither lasted long and the Slade one looked like a ‘soften the blow’ non job - although maybe he could have made something of it if he hadn’t left for another go at management?
Is Tan’s mam still around to nudge him in the right direction?
A cabal of about 20-25 people on this board who hate Tan (and always have) is hardly representative of our fan base either. Most people would have more common sense than that.
Tan must be a brilliant business man otherwise he wouldn’t have been so successful. Inspired management choices are likely to have been made by him in his commercial life away from football.
Why doesn’t he learn from his mistakes at Cardiff City - he must have the intelligence to do just this? It is galling this seems not to be the case.
Without his money we would have really struggled- I don’t see anyone else offering £3 million per month to keep us afloat. So far from perfect, reluctantly I am luke warm happy with Tan as we seemingly have no other choice.
A lot of people who hated Tan left when we turned red and haven’t come back ( there was a whole row of season ticket holders behind me who cancelled en masse and very few have returned since). I rarely attended a game in red but came back when we returned to blue. Maybe it’s my age but I’m convinced a little bit of passion for our club died in all of us when he went through with that monstrosity of a decision , even if you carried on going to games, it’s never been the same since. The promotion under Warnock was good but nowhere near the levels of passion I saw for the club in the Dave Jones era and before