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Updated : Nick Alford has left the club, Tom Gorringe has also gone and Katy Ann Owens left her role with the club after 7 years on Friday.


Cardiff City have received a bid of approximately £4m for midfielder Gary Medel, it is from a Turkish club which I believe is Besiktas. If City accept this offer then it will be a huge loss financially on a player who cost the club in the region of £11m last summer.

Ole hopes and expects to announce his 5th summer signing by the end of this week and is targeting the centre back and midfield positions as his priority.

The club shop suffered badly over the course of last season and I was told this week that takings were down by £1.5m compared to the season previous when we won the Championship. For what should have been a record breaking season of merchandise sales, City fans decided against buying official gear in their thousands, this was despite any clothing or kit that was blue sold out but such was the limited stock of blue items it didn't help the club shop sales in making greater sales than the previous season.

The board are hoping that we will average 21,000 crowds next season and have budgeted the next campaign on that size crowd.

Going back some 16 months to the Brighton home game that became infamously known as 'scarf-gate', it was Vincent Tan's decision to hand the scarves out as he was impressed by the way Liverpool fans hold their scarves aloft on The Kop, Tan loved the visual so much so that he believed City fans would do similar at the CCS.

It was announced this week that Dick Bate left his position as Academy manager and I understand that Bate left his role two months ago, Bate and Craig Bellamy had a falling out last season and as a result Bate left the club.

Kevin Cooper has left his position as U21/Development coach and I am told that Bellamy was offered the position but he turned down the opportunity to take the role.

Secretary Nick Alford is leaving the club, Alford oversaw the players contracts and would be present when contracts were completed and signed off to complete a transfer, it seems this a fall out from the Malky/Moody situation that engulfed our season in the Premier League.

900 season tickets had been sold for the new upper tier in the Ninian Stand, with some cancelling their season tickets and others requesting to move back to seats in other parts of the ground, I am told that just approximately 500 season tickets are currently situated in the new tier.

The completion date for the new tier is July 15th and they are just a few days behind schedule with a revised date of July 18th currently in place.

New Tier viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142709

Season tickets will go back on sale next month.

The five players that are receiving the most enquiries and a couple have received bids are David Marshall, Steven Caulker, Gary Medel, Jordon Mutch and Fraizer Campbell, Ole and his staff will be pleased if they can keep two of the five as it is expected no matter what the club do three of these will most probably leave namely Caulker, Medel and Campbell.

Marshall has told the club he is happy at the club, his family are settled in the area and he is not pushing for a move.

Ole will do everything he can to try and keep Mutch at the club and sees him as an integral part of his plans.

To end on a good note and positive news, our club have no plans to make cuts of contracted match day staff including the stewards and support staff despite the expected drop in attendances.

I am considering laying on coach travel to Hereford and Yeovil if there is enough interest. Contact me by pm or text if you wish to go by coach to any or both games so I can gauge interest.

id say 4ml is a gd offer for medel, i would snap their hands off, its about what hes worth.

thanks mate good read

he'll be pleased to see the scarfs being held up on 19.27 then

I think we all know that Gary Medel isn't worth the £11m we paid, but just £4m for a 26 year-old with 61 caps to his name, the vice-captain of a world top 15 national side and 88% passing accuracy?

No bloody way.

I think we all know that Gary Medel isn't worth the £11m we paid, but just £4m for a 26 year-old with 61 caps to his name, the vice-captain of a world top 15 national side and 88% passing accuracy?

No bloody way.

i'd wait til after the World Cup! think Chile will do well, in their climate where most teams will struggle with it!

See ya Nick! Bring back Jason Turner as club secretary I say.

http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142712

Cardiff City have received a bid of approximately £4m for midfielder Gary Medel, it is from a Turkish club which I believe is Besiktas. If City accept this offer then it will be a huge loss financially on a player who cost the club in the region of £11m last summer.

Ole hopes and expects to announce his 5th summer signing by the end of this week and is targeting the centre back and midfield positions as his priority.

The club shop suffered badly over the course of last season and I was told this week that takings were down by £1.5m compared to the season previous when we won the Championship. For what should have been a record breaking season of merchandise sales, City fans decided against buying official gear in their thousands, this was despite any clothing or kit that was blue sold out but such was the limited stock of blue items it didn't help the club shop sales in making greater sales than the previous season.

The board are hoping that we will average 21,000 crowds next season and have budgeted the next campaign on that size crowd.

Going back some 16 months to the Brighton home game that became infamously known as 'scarf-gate', it was Vincent Tan's decision to hand the scarves out as he was impressed by the way Liverpool fans hold their scarves aloft on The Kop, Tan loved the visual so much so that he believed City fans would do similar at the CCS.

It was announced this week that Dick Bate left his position as Academy manager and I understand that Bate left his role two months ago, Bate and Craig Bellamy had a falling out last season and as a result Bate left the club.

Kevin Cooper has left his position as U21/Development coach and I am told that Bellamy was offered the position but he turned down the opportunity to take the role.

Secretary Nick Alford is leaving the club, Alford oversaw the players contracts and would be present when contracts were completed and signed off to complete a transfer, it seems this a fall out from the Malky/Moody situation that engulfed our season in the Premier League.

900 season tickets had been sold for the new upper tier in the Ninian Stand, with some cancelling their season tickets and others requesting to move back to seats in other parts of the ground, I am told that just approximately 500 season tickets are currently situated in the new tier.

The completion date for the new tier is July 15th and they are just a few days behind schedule with a revised date of July 18th currently in place.

New Tier viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142709

Season tickets will go back on sale next month.

The five players that are receiving the most enquiries and a couple have received bids are David Marshall, Steven Caulker, Gary Medel, Jordon Mutch and Fraizer Campbell, Ole and his staff will be pleased if they can keep two of the five as it is expected no matter what the club do three of these will most probably leave namely Caulker, Medel and Campbell.

Marshall has told the club he is happy at the club, his family are settled in the area and he is not pushing for a move.

Ole will do everything he can to try and keep Mutch at the club and sees him as an integral part of his plans.

To end on a good note and positive news, our club have no plans to make cuts of contracted match day staff including the stewards and support staff despite the expected drop in attendances.

I am considering laying on coach travel to Hereford and Yeovil if there is enough interest. Contact me by pm or text if you wish to go by coach to any or both games so I can gauge interest.

Was it Tans idea or was it a bad egg that was at the club

I think we all know that Gary Medel isn't worth the £11m we paid, but just £4m for a 26 year-old with 61 caps to his name, the vice-captain of a world top 15 national side and 88% passing accuracy?

No bloody way.

i'd wait til after the World Cup! think Chile will do well, in their climate where most teams will struggle with it!

Second that. I think that would be really wise. He's worth more than 4m imho.

4 mill good for Medel. Do me a favour.

We were crap last season and yaya toure would have been shit in our team with some of the most inept management ive witnessed.

W8 until he has started all 3 games for chile before selling a proven international for less that than some total shit players are worth.

4 mill. Jesus christ.if he does go for 4 mill, i hope you remember you wanted him sold for that much. Dont start bitching that we under sold him.

@bobbyblue

http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142712

Cardiff City have received a bid of approximately £4m for midfielder Gary Medel, it is from a Turkish club which I believe is Besiktas. If City accept this offer then it will be a huge loss financially on a player who cost the club in the region of £11m last summer.

Ole hopes and expects to announce his 5th summer signing by the end of this week and is targeting the centre back and midfield positions as his priority.

The club shop suffered badly over the course of last season and I was told this week that takings were down by £1.5m compared to the season previous when we won the Championship. For what should have been a record breaking season of merchandise sales, City fans decided against buying official gear in their thousands, this was despite any clothing or kit that was blue sold out but such was the limited stock of blue items it didn't help the club shop sales in making greater sales than the previous season.

The board are hoping that we will average 21,000 crowds next season and have budgeted the next campaign on that size crowd.

Going back some 16 months to the Brighton home game that became infamously known as 'scarf-gate', it was Vincent Tan's decision to hand the scarves out as he was impressed by the way Liverpool fans hold their scarves aloft on The Kop, Tan loved the visual so much so that he believed City fans would do similar at the CCS.

It was announced this week that Dick Bate left his position as Academy manager and I understand that Bate left his role two months ago, Bate and Craig Bellamy had a falling out last season and as a result Bate left the club.

Kevin Cooper has left his position as U21/Development coach and I am told that Bellamy was offered the position but he turned down the opportunity to take the role.

Secretary Nick Alford is leaving the club, Alford oversaw the players contracts and would be present when contracts were completed and signed off to complete a transfer, it seems this a fall out from the Malky/Moody situation that engulfed our season in the Premier League.

900 season tickets had been sold for the new upper tier in the Ninian Stand, with some cancelling their season tickets and others requesting to move back to seats in other parts of the ground, I am told that just approximately 500 season tickets are currently situated in the new tier.

The completion date for the new tier is July 15th and they are just a few days behind schedule with a revised date of July 18th currently in place.

New Tier viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142709

Season tickets will go back on sale next month.

The five players that are receiving the most enquiries and a couple have received bids are David Marshall, Steven Caulker, Gary Medel, Jordon Mutch and Fraizer Campbell, Ole and his staff will be pleased if they can keep two of the five as it is expected no matter what the club do three of these will most probably leave namely Caulker, Medel and Campbell.

Marshall has told the club he is happy at the club, his family are settled in the area and he is not pushing for a move.

Ole will do everything he can to try and keep Mutch at the club and sees him as an integral part of his plans.

To end on a good note and positive news, our club have no plans to make cuts of contracted match day staff including the stewards and support staff despite the expected drop in attendances.

I am considering laying on coach travel to Hereford and Yeovil if there is enough interest. Contact me by pm or text if you wish to go by coach to any or both games so I can gauge interest.

Was it Tans idea or was it a bad egg that was at the club

even the same bad egg that gives carl his info maybe???

Medel is overrated. He's one dimensional and whilst great at sweeping up his passing stats are so high as he mainly takes the safe option. He offers next to nothing going forward. He's worth around £6m at most and there are as Roathie correctly stated numerous players like him out there for a similar price or cheaper.

Given our crap season and his shocking form towards the end of the season £4m seems about right. Also the fact he's Chilean would make him cost less as he doesn't class as home grown.

There are numerous better options out there than him and we got mugged off for him big time.

http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142712

Cardiff City have received a bid of approximately £4m for midfielder Gary Medel, it is from a Turkish club which I believe is Besiktas. If City accept this offer then it will be a huge loss financially on a player who cost the club in the region of £11m last summer.

Ole hopes and expects to announce his 5th summer signing by the end of this week and is targeting the centre back and midfield positions as his priority.

The club shop suffered badly over the course of last season and I was told this week that takings were down by £1.5m compared to the season previous when we won the Championship. For what should have been a record breaking season of merchandise sales, City fans decided against buying official gear in their thousands, this was despite any clothing or kit that was blue sold out but such was the limited stock of blue items it didn't help the club shop sales in making greater sales than the previous season.

The board are hoping that we will average 21,000 crowds next season and have budgeted the next campaign on that size crowd.

Going back some 16 months to the Brighton home game that became infamously known as 'scarf-gate', it was Vincent Tan's decision to hand the scarves out as he was impressed by the way Liverpool fans hold their scarves aloft on The Kop, Tan loved the visual so much so that he believed City fans would do similar at the CCS.

It was announced this week that Dick Bate left his position as Academy manager and I understand that Bate left his role two months ago, Bate and Craig Bellamy had a falling out last season and as a result Bate left the club.

Kevin Cooper has left his position as U21/Development coach and I am told that Bellamy was offered the position but he turned down the opportunity to take the role.

Secretary Nick Alford is leaving the club, Alford oversaw the players contracts and would be present when contracts were completed and signed off to complete a transfer, it seems this a fall out from the Malky/Moody situation that engulfed our season in the Premier League.

900 season tickets had been sold for the new upper tier in the Ninian Stand, with some cancelling their season tickets and others requesting to move back to seats in other parts of the ground, I am told that just approximately 500 season tickets are currently situated in the new tier.

The completion date for the new tier is July 15th and they are just a few days behind schedule with a revised date of July 18th currently in place.

New Tier viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142709

Season tickets will go back on sale next month.

The five players that are receiving the most enquiries and a couple have received bids are David Marshall, Steven Caulker, Gary Medel, Jordon Mutch and Fraizer Campbell, Ole and his staff will be pleased if they can keep two of the five as it is expected no matter what the club do three of these will most probably leave namely Caulker, Medel and Campbell.

Marshall has told the club he is happy at the club, his family are settled in the area and he is not pushing for a move.

Ole will do everything he can to try and keep Mutch at the club and sees him as an integral part of his plans.

To end on a good note and positive news, our club have no plans to make cuts of contracted match day staff including the stewards and support staff despite the expected drop in attendances.

I am considering laying on coach travel to Hereford and Yeovil if there is enough interest. Contact me by pm or text if you wish to go by coach to any or both games so I can gauge interest.

Was it Tans idea or was it a bad egg that was at the club

even the same bad egg that gives carl his info maybe???

Some say I make it all up and it's bullshit

I thought it was Burton or Feeney that told me such things

No it must be Sam

Never mind this is the site that keeps on giving

@bobbyblue

We paid way over the odds, huddlestone is a far better player and he cost 5mil, plus hes home grown. not even chile play him at dm, they chuk him in defence cos hes shit going forward.

Did they activate a release clause? If not, then we should hold out until the after the world cup.

http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142712

Cardiff City have received a bid of approximately £4m for midfielder Gary Medel, it is from a Turkish club which I believe is Besiktas. If City accept this offer then it will be a huge loss financially on a player who cost the club in the region of £11m last summer.

Ole hopes and expects to announce his 5th summer signing by the end of this week and is targeting the centre back and midfield positions as his priority.

The club shop suffered badly over the course of last season and I was told this week that takings were down by £1.5m compared to the season previous when we won the Championship. For what should have been a record breaking season of merchandise sales, City fans decided against buying official gear in their thousands, this was despite any clothing or kit that was blue sold out but such was the limited stock of blue items it didn't help the club shop sales in making greater sales than the previous season.

The board are hoping that we will average 21,000 crowds next season and have budgeted the next campaign on that size crowd.

Going back some 16 months to the Brighton home game that became infamously known as 'scarf-gate', it was Vincent Tan's decision to hand the scarves out as he was impressed by the way Liverpool fans hold their scarves aloft on The Kop, Tan loved the visual so much so that he believed City fans would do similar at the CCS.

It was announced this week that Dick Bate left his position as Academy manager and I understand that Bate left his role two months ago, Bate and Craig Bellamy had a falling out last season and as a result Bate left the club.

Kevin Cooper has left his position as U21/Development coach and I am told that Bellamy was offered the position but he turned down the opportunity to take the role.

Secretary Nick Alford is leaving the club, Alford oversaw the players contracts and would be present when contracts were completed and signed off to complete a transfer, it seems this a fall out from the Malky/Moody situation that engulfed our season in the Premier League.

900 season tickets had been sold for the new upper tier in the Ninian Stand, with some cancelling their season tickets and others requesting to move back to seats in other parts of the ground, I am told that just approximately 500 season tickets are currently situated in the new tier.

The completion date for the new tier is July 15th and they are just a few days behind schedule with a revised date of July 18th currently in place.

New Tier viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142709

Season tickets will go back on sale next month.

The five players that are receiving the most enquiries and a couple have received bids are David Marshall, Steven Caulker, Gary Medel, Jordon Mutch and Fraizer Campbell, Ole and his staff will be pleased if they can keep two of the five as it is expected no matter what the club do three of these will most probably leave namely Caulker, Medel and Campbell.

Marshall has told the club he is happy at the club, his family are settled in the area and he is not pushing for a move.

Ole will do everything he can to try and keep Mutch at the club and sees him as an integral part of his plans.

To end on a good note and positive news, our club have no plans to make cuts of contracted match day staff including the stewards and support staff despite the expected drop in attendances.

I am considering laying on coach travel to Hereford and Yeovil if there is enough interest. Contact me by pm or text if you wish to go by coach to any or both games so I can gauge interest.

Was it Tans idea or was it a bad egg that was at the club

even the same bad egg that gives carl his info maybe???

Some say I make it all up and it's bullshit

I thought it was Burton or Feeney that told me such things

No it must be Sam

Never mind this is the site that keeps on giving

Well... You've just played your hand because you've shown you know who I'm talking about.

Natman has this bad egg gone recently?

Did they activate a release clause? If not, then we should hold out until the after the world cup.

They can activate a release clause but if the club don't agree with the potential purchasing clubs valuation then they don't have to sell.
On another issue is there anybody out there now who can genuinely defend the dealings of moody and Malky last summer as it seems the only genuine value signing was caulker.

http://www.cardiffcityforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142712

Cardiff City have received a bid of approximately £4m for midfielder Gary Medel, it is from a Turkish club which I believe is Besiktas. If City accept this offer then it will be a huge loss financially on a player who cost the club in the region of £11m last summer.

Ole hopes and expects to announce his 5th summer signing by the end of this week and is targeting the centre back and midfield positions as his priority.

The club shop suffered badly over the course of last season and I was told this week that takings were down by £1.5m compared to the season previous when we won the Championship. For what should have been a record breaking season of merchandise sales, City fans decided against buying official gear in their thousands, this was despite any clothing or kit that was blue sold out but such was the limited stock of blue items it didn't help the club shop sales in making greater sales than the previous season.

The board are hoping that we will average 21,000 crowds next season and have budgeted the next campaign on that size crowd.

Going back some 16 months to the Brighton home game that became infamously known as 'scarf-gate', it was Vincent Tan's decision to hand the scarves out as he was impressed by the way Liverpool fans hold their scarves aloft on The Kop, Tan loved the visual so much so that he believed City fans would do similar at the CCS.

It was announced this week that Dick Bate left his position as Academy manager and I understand that Bate left his role two months ago, Bate and Craig Bellamy had a falling out last season and as a result Bate left the club.

Kevin Cooper has left his position as U21/Development coach and I am told that Bellamy was offered the position but he turned down the opportunity to take the role.

Secretary Nick Alford is leaving the club, Alford oversaw the players contracts and would be present when contracts were completed and signed off to complete a transfer, it seems this a fall out from the Malky/Moody situation that engulfed our season in the Premier League.

900 season tickets had been sold for the new upper tier in the Ninian Stand, with some cancelling their season tickets and others requesting to move back to seats in other parts of the ground, I am told that just approximately 500 season tickets are currently situated in the new tier.

The completion date for the new tier is July 15th and they are just a few days behind schedule with a revised date of July 18th currently in place.

New Tier viewtopic.php?f=2&t=142709

Season tickets will go back on sale next month.

The five players that are receiving the most enquiries and a couple have received bids are David Marshall, Steven Caulker, Gary Medel, Jordon Mutch and Fraizer Campbell, Ole and his staff will be pleased if they can keep two of the five as it is expected no matter what the club do three of these will most probably leave namely Caulker, Medel and Campbell.

Marshall has told the club he is happy at the club, his family are settled in the area and he is not pushing for a move.

Ole will do everything he can to try and keep Mutch at the club and sees him as an integral part of his plans.

To end on a good note and positive news, our club have no plans to make cuts of contracted match day staff including the stewards and support staff despite the expected drop in attendances.

I am considering laying on coach travel to Hereford and Yeovil if there is enough interest. Contact me by pm or text if you wish to go by coach to any or both games so I can gauge interest.

Was it Tans idea or was it a bad egg that was at the club

even the same bad egg that gives carl his info maybe???

Some say I make it all up and it's bullshit

I thought it was Burton or Feeney that told me such things

No it must be Sam

Never mind this is the site that keeps on giving

Well... You've just played your hand because you've shown you know who I'm talking about.

Nathaniel, it shows many keep guessing but don't have the foggiest where my info comes from, people I named above are just a few names that have been 'suspects' or 'moles' and there will be many more names in the future but don't you worry yourself about where and how but sit back and chill like the rest and enjoy the read

Did they activate a release clause? If not, then we should hold out until the after the world cup.

They can activate a release clause but if the club don't agree with the potential purchasing clubs valuation then they don't have to sell.
On another issue is there anybody out there now who can genuinely defend the dealings of moody and Malky last summer as it seems the only genuine value signing was caulker.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Natman has this bad egg gone recently?

Yes c'mon Natman, answer the man has this 'mole' left the club recently and if you believe they have then name them !!

Did they activate a release clause? If not, then we should hold out until the after the world cup.

They can activate a release clause but if the club don't agree with the potential purchasing clubs valuation then they don't have to sell.
On another issue is there anybody out there now who can genuinely defend the dealings of moody and Malky last summer as it seems the only genuine value signing was caulker.

looking at Campbell's £800k release call, £6m overspend on Medel, and £8m wasted on Cornelius, even the biggest Malky fans could find it hard to defend Malky

Medel is overrated. He's one dimensional and whilst great at sweeping up his passing stats are so high as he mainly takes the safe option. He offers next to nothing going forward. He's worth around £6m at most and there are as Roathie correctly stated numerous players like him out there for a similar price or cheaper.

Given our crap season and his shocking form towards the end of the season £4m seems about right. Also the fact he's Chilean would make him cost less as he doesn't class as home grown.

There are numerous better options out there than him and we got mugged off for him big time.

Was Medel the player that was rumoured to have been available for far less than what Moody and Malky actually ended up paying?

Did they activate a release clause? If not, then we should hold out until the after the world cup.

They can activate a release clause but if the club don't agree with the potential purchasing clubs valuation then they don't have to sell.
On another issue is there anybody out there now who can genuinely defend the dealings of moody and Malky last summer as it seems the only genuine value signing was caulker.

Steve, if we sell Medel for £4m then it will not look at all good for Malky and Moody.

Natman has this bad egg gone recently?

It was announced this week that Dick Bate left his position as Academy manager and I understand that Bate left his role two months ago, Bate and Craig Bellamy had a falling out last season and as a result Bate left the club.

Kevin Cooper has left his position as U21/Development coach and I am told that Bellamy was offered the position but he turned down the opportunity to take the role.

Good old Bellamy . . . . the bloke really is a BELLEND !!!

thanks carlos keep up the good work always enjoy your updates!!

Natman has this bad egg gone recently?

Yes, two of them have. And many others could be on their way too

Natman has this bad egg gone recently?

Yes c'mon Natman, answer the man has this 'mole' left the club recently and if you believe they have then name them !!

Like to keep you guessing Carl. I know a few and have my thoughts on who others are

It used to be Burton,

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