Dick Advocaat - Turns down Cardiff job

[superfeathers]

Bacuna plays for him in the Curacao side - maybe it was all a big plan to bring him back to Cardiff!

Maybe it was Bacuna who stopped this deal happening after telling him what a circus it is here! Who would’ve known the £3m wasn’t a total waste

[2b2bdoo]

Testing the waters of a 77 year old. I don't care whatever way you spin it, this is absolutely mental.

Nothing really to spin lol. Could just be an agent knowing the club may be looking for a manager and looking to make him an option. Seems to be dismissed pretty quickly.

[2b2bdoo]

Exactly. This story is obviously nonsense. It’s a clear conspiracy to discredit Vincent Tan and derail City’s bid to stay in the Championship that is being orchestrated by a random bunch of Dutch and Scottish journalists.

How dare they? Bastards, the lot of them…

Odd

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Nothing really to spin lol. Could just be an agent knowing the club may be looking for a manager and looking to make him an option. Seems to be dismissed pretty quickly.

He's 77. He doesn't want a full time job, he's said that repeatedly. He got annoyed when he was asked about it. The club clearly sounded him out. There's nothing to dismiss, it happened.

[2b2bdoo]

He's 77. He doesn't want a full time job, he's said that repeatedly. He got annoyed when he was asked about it. The club clearly sounded him out. There's nothing to dismiss, it happened.

By who at the club?

[North Cardiff Blue]

Claims we've approached him to be manager, and his wife has told him to turn it down.

He's 77, so might be able to win our YPOTY

Maybe he wants the World not to forget him, a final shout for attention?

I can't see it myself but with Tan we can never be sure.

[Bobby Dandruff]

This emergence of this story will be more than a little embarrassing for the club's hierarchy, especially given the timing. I wouldn't mind betting we'll see a public denial on the club's website in due course, or maybe Dalman will speak to his friends at Walesonline.

Why on earth would the club bother to comment publicly and put something on the web site?!

They behaving ridiculously at times but that is just a stupid thing to say.

[the other bob wilson]

Why on earth would the club bother to comment publicly and put something on the web site?!

They behaving ridiculously at times but that is just a stupid thing to say.

The problem is they behave so ludicrously at times that, without a denial, people will believe that they approached a seventy seven year old who, it seems, has no desire to return to club management- they wouldn’t believe a story like this if it was about, say, twenty teams in this division, but they would if it was Cardiff.


I think there’s a better than even chance that, whatever division we’re in, we’ll be looking for a new manager again this summer. If it’s believed that we approached a seventy seven year old who was publicly critical of the club, what effect will that have on the type of candidate we attract in a few months time? If there is another side to this story which paints City in a better light, then they need to get it into the public domain somehow.

[Tuerto]

Maybe he wants the World not to forget him, a final shout for attention?

I can't see it myself but with Tan we can never be sure.

The world not to forget him................

[Tuerto]

Maybe it was Bacuna who stopped this deal happening after telling him what a circus it is here! Who would’ve known the £3m wasn’t a total waste

Bacuna would have done the opposite. given his contract length. Dickie boy would have been signed up until he was 80 knowing our lot.

[The Lone Gunman]

The problem is they behave so ludicrously at times that, without a denial, people will believe that they approached a seventy seven year old who, it seems, has no desire to return to club management - they wouldn’t believe a story like this if it was about, say, twenty teams in this division, but they would if it was Cardiff.

The point (which was clearly lost on one particular individual) is that this story could easily be destabilising for the manager and his squad at a critical time if it is true that the hierarchy were recently seeking to replace Riza with Advocaat.

A denial and a vote of confidence in the current manager might help under the circumstances. However, the problem is the story is so bizarre it must surely have a strong element of truth to it. After all, why would a journalist ask a 77 year-old Dutchman about an approach from Cardiff City in the first place, and why would he confirm that had happened if it hadn’t?

[Pedro de la Rosa]

Maybe he wants the World not to forget him, a final shout for attention?

I can't see it myself but with Tan we can never be sure.

He didn't bring it up for Christ's sake. That meant the journalist had been told by someone else, and the Advocaat got seriously annoyed at the story. Advocaat has won league titles at 3 clubs and the UEFA Cup, he doesn't need Cardiff City to stay relevant.