Cardiff City Chairman Mehmet Dalman Issues Statement:

The Hierarchy are trying to do as much as they can to try and Stop The March.

No doubt their puppet Glen Williams will sensationalise it, he refuses to put the March in the Paper.




“ WE MARCH SATURDAY 18th JANUARY 11am-11:30am FROM THE ADMIRAL NAPIER IN CANTON TO THE MAIN RECEPTION AT CCS”



“I won’t be reading it as it will only be the usual Bullshit, Bullshit and False Promises & Lies”








Cardiff City FC Chairman Mehmet Dalman issues the following update to all supporters:

I'd like to begin this correspondence by wishing you all a Happy New Year.





“There's no ignoring the fact that the second half of 2024 presented difficulties. We have the opportunity of putting a lot right and moving forward, but to do so we must try to resolve some of the fixable issues that are disuniting us.

The Board and I recognise that greater voice to the widest possible group of supporters is a necessary part of this and you have our commitment to more regular communication with you. I'm sure that members of our recognised supporters' bodies and those who sit on the Club's Fan Advisory Board will be able to attest to the regularity with which we offer consultation and discussion, but to the broader supporter base who we've not had personal time with, formally or informally, this is a chance to clarify some of the questions we've heard you ask.

As our Chief Executive Officer, Ken Choo, stated very clearly to Cardiff City Supporters' Trust on New Year’s Day, our owner, Vincent Tan, remains wholeheartedly committed to Cardiff City Football Club. He is determined to get us back to the Premier League. Our day-to-day dialogue with the owner is extremely healthy and united for the same common cause: the betterment of Cardiff City.

STRATEGIES

The overall longer-term strategic objective for the Club is for it to be a viable concern: that is, financially sound. The Championship is challenging as it doesn’t have a big pool of money, unlike the Premier League.

The Board's responsibility is to manage the gap between income and cost, calling up on the shareholder to meet the demands of the difference. Putting it plainly: Vincent Tan must bridge that gap. Over the last year or two we have reduced that gap by improving revenues whilst continuing to invest in the squad. In an ideal world, we’d like not to be a burden to the owner. Vincent Tan has more to lose financially than anyone and is still bank-rolling the Club monthly. The aim of this strategy is to attain financial independence because this would then give the Board more decision-making independence. We want to continue building towards this.

Another financial priority of the Board of Directors is to ensure that the Club is debt free. The Club has no debt to any financial institution, be it banks, hedge funds or any other mezzanine financiers. The Club does not want to be burdened with interest charges that have cost other clubs dearly.

To hear criticism of the Club breaking its promise of being debt free is again misleading and quite unfair. The majority of the 'debt' is only to the owner and he can choose, after advice from the CFO, to write that off.

As we move forward, the objective is to create a football management environment that can ensure stability, continuity and build a team that can compete. We believed that Erol Bulut would be the answer after a promising first season in charge, but the extremely poor start to this campaign necessitated the need for us to change and thus, strategy is affected. We are in a relegation battle, let's be clear about that; the focus is now on winning that battle. The priority becomes about a shorter-term strategy and that clearly is retaining our Championship status. The January window is an opportunity for us to fix some of the problems we have on the pitch, plus there are other things we may be able to do, discussions of which are ongoing.

One issue that is regularly put to me is whether we have the need for a Director of Football. I've always been open in dialogue in saying that greater football expertise on the Board and in management, would be valuable, but that's not to say imperative. Over the last few years our recruitment team has grown and provides good support to the management and the Manager in shaping the team. Operations management is extremely stable and efficient. The question of Director of Football will continue to be discussed amongst the Board and with the owner.





INVESTMENT

In respect of the January transfer window and potential ins and outs, I can assure supporters that Vincent is looking to be as supportive as possible within our structure. We'll see some loan deals, as the January window often lends itself to these with it being a seller's market, but I expect some permanent transfers to give us options and more quality, too. We'll see some younger players leave on loan and others, permanently.

Early in September, the Club announced that initial ground works had begun on a new First Team Training Ground near Hensol Villas in the Vale of Glamorgan. Works have progressed on this autonomous state-of-the-art facility, with the structural stage of development due to begin this summer. A further update will be available to supporters via Club channels at that time.

There has also been significant investment in the Club's Academy, exemplified by the opening of the Academy Training Centre in Llanrumney in September 2023. Within the Academy, our staff's hard work continues as they look to ensure that our young players are prepared for the rigours of life in senior football. We have benefitted from several of our young players stepping up into the First Team environment over the past few years, with 25% of our current squad being Academy graduates. We expect to see the Academy's loan strategy pay dividends this coming month, as we look to provide tailor-made loan experiences for our young prospects. Our staff in Llanrumney and the Vale work together to benefit our players and bolster the First Team environment, looking at one, three and five years as measures for squad building, with alignment in recruitment.

Finally, I think it extremely important that we acknowledge the Club and its Foundation’s investment in Cardiff’s local communities and grassroots. For the year ending in 2023, Cardiff City Community Foundation has demonstrated £17.9 million of social impact value, rising from £11 million the previous year.”



Mehmet

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I stopped reading at "disunited us" because it was only going to get more ridiculous the longer it went on going by the source. I'll read the rest of it once I've had a lie down & got over the use of the ridiculous "disunited us" as I'm sure it didn't say who it is that has really united us the fan base.

same crap they say every year. Only posted this because they are under scrutiny and needed to show the fans that they are still somehow here (in London or America but certainly not Cardiff!)

Says will get permanent players in as well as loans? Said before they lack insight as to what is required to keep us in championship.... no good saying things if dont do them?
Whilst didn't promise anything for this window we all know no decent sighnings we will probably end up relegated and boards plans for stability will mean nothing ....

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This will be the key part for me,"The priority becomes about a shorter-term strategy and that clearly is retaining our Championship status. The January window is an opportunity for us to fix some of the problems we have on the pitch"

We shall wait and see! but I will take a guess that it will be end of window whats left in Lidl!

Funny how we haven't had them make statements for a long time but as soon as fans get ready to protest, they start putting out statements.

Most fans won't fall for it thankfully.

At end of the day the boards and particularly tans strategy of cutting costs going cheap on players and coach will only lead to relegation eventually! Lots clubs suffered same fate trying to do it on cheap....... premier league is out of tans reach unless he totally as a brain transplant and reverses is policy... yes we have to be care regarding ffp but other clubs have managed and a club as big as city should do so aswell....

Actions not words, players in and debt written off .

Funny how we haven't had them make statements for a long time but as soon as fans get ready to protest, they start putting out statements.

Most fans won't fall for it thankfully.

Worcester

I just spent £40 on a banner so they can have it in there faces on the 18th and they got time after that before the window closes to trot out what they have signed.

Actions not words, players in and debt written off .

Wez players in is a must and he knows it.... as for the majority of debt that is tans and if sells that will be included in sale (hence wants £150m) or whatever he wants ..... but he's being clever yes no debt to outside institutions like he said... but what of money owed to him and Borley ect
Unless buyers pay them off we will still be in debt if only a fraction of what it could be ...

"I've always been open in dialogue in saying that greater football expertise on the Board and in management, would be valuable, but that's not to say imperative. Over the last few years our recruitment team has grown and provides good support to the management and the Manager in shaping the team. Operations management is extremely stable and efficient."


If only we had a metric to measure that........ oh yeah let's use the same metric as everybody else, league position !!!!!

We are 23/24, relegation candidates. So Operations management is it

a)- You are starving us of funds and going "cheap" as is often the accusation (on here especially)
b)- You have spent but we are 23/24 so are appalling at football operations management

If i were in our football operations group I'd be saying its "a" otherwise we are super shit at our jobs.

Read what cow field had to say and he's full of shit as usual..see cow field choo and tan at the next home game as usual.
It's insulting to everyone's intelligence.
They've made it public what striker they are in for aswell which is odd

All bullshit, Tan needs to sell the club and get the clowns out, they have no interest in the club only what they can take out.
Long term future is at stake, they are losing fans rapidly with no investment and no care for the club.
Get decent players in now, look at the youngsters we've got and build the infrastructure.
We can't do it with this lot.

Read what cow field had to say and he's full of shit as usual..see cow field choo and tan at the next home game as usual.
It's insulting to everyone's intelligence.
They've made it public what striker they are in for aswell which is odd

Is it odd though as they can now trot out the old "we tried but were rejected" line.

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Actions not words, players in and debt written off .

Wez players in is a must and he knows it.... as for the majority of debt that is tans and if sells that will be included in sale (hence wants £150m) or whatever he wants ..... but he's being clever yes no debt to outside institutions like he said... but what of money owed to him and Borley ect
Unless buyers pay them off we will still be in debt if only a fraction of what it could be ...

I don’t see that as being any different to someone selling a house. They’d be gutted if they’d bought it, renovated it. Put it on the market to be told it’s worth less than its cost them to date. Call it debt, equity, investment or whatever, it’s just money spent and you’d like to think you’ll get it all back. Sadly it doesn’t always work that way. Still gutting to lose money though.

Financial independence. I'd love to know how many teams in the championship have this. Besides the 3 teams that came down from the prem, I doubt there are many, if any. Based on that, I think their whole business model is flawed.

Without parachute payments, the only way to become financially independent is to take risks on paying out for players in the hope you sell them for 10m profit...but we don't take those risks. We are that tight fisted, we don't even pay out for a proven manager.

Just take this statement with a pinch of salt I suppose. It's nothing that we havent already heard season after season.

Actions not words, players in and debt written off .

Wez players in is a must and he knows it.... as for the majority of debt that is tans and if sells that will be included in sale (hence wants £150m) or whatever he wants ..... but he's being clever yes no debt to outside institutions like he said... but what of money owed to him and Borley ect
Unless buyers pay them off we will still be in debt if only a fraction of what it could be ...

I don’t see that as being any different to someone selling a house. They’d be gutted if they’d bought it, renovated it. Put it on the market to be told it’s worth less than its cost them to date. Call it debt, equity, investment or whatever, it’s just money spent and you’d like to think you’ll get it all back. Sadly it doesn’t always work that way. Still gutting to lose money though.

At end day club is worth what someone is willing to pay debt and all! If Tan wants to get his money back its upto him but as you point out may not get what he's paid into club and needs to take hit to sell club? Club can't be worth more than £150m with tans debt that leaves a big shortfall if dalman and other debts are considered... a conundrum that appears behond tans thinking

We all know where we are going to be with this "BARGAIN BASEMENT".

When is Tan going to make a statement?

Isn't it about time we heard from the organ grinder instead of the monkey?

Read what cow field had to say and he's full of shit as usual..see cow field choo and tan at the next home game as usual.
It's insulting to everyone's intelligence.
They've made it public what striker they are in for aswell which is odd

Is it odd though as they can now trot out the old "we tried but were rejected" line.

They could do that but by now we've all grown to realise they can't be trusted.
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.Try telling this lot this

As expected, the usual empty platitudes and never anything from Choo, the CEO who is tasked with taking us to the PL.

So we are massively in debt to an owner who won't appoint football expertise to turn things around and can't run a football club because of his own lack a knowledge. He's the owner and the debt is down to him and him only.

We have a recruitment team who consistently get it wrong and we have appointed a manager with zero experience to be trusted and expected to get us out of a relegation fight. And so the spiral downwards continues. Can't they see that we are where we are for a reason? It's like the emperor's new clothes.

But operationally, everything's fine, the foundation is doing OK and we've got a new training ground.

I'm not even disappointed with this statement as it was entirely predictable. Rome is burning and they are on the fiddle

Usual nonsense spouted out by Dalman, we’ve heard it all before

Nothing ever changes..we have an absent owner, a tax exile chairman and a part time CEO

Managers are hired and fired without any long term plan, players bought on a whim and a constant refusal to hire someone who can actually run a football club

I like thousands of others are fed up with the constant lies and broken promises and have voted with our feet and no longer attend games

I will always support City but it’s just boring and a chore at the moment and it’s down to 3 people Tan, Dalman and Choo all 3 of them completely clueless!!

Dalman is such a slimy liar. I dislike him more than Tan and Choo. I’ve come to the point where if the board say nothing, then I’m irritated, and when they do say something I’m still irritated. I wish Tan and his playboys would just sell up and concentrate on destroying their other football club.

BLAH, BLAH, BLAH SAME OLD GUFF BACK OUR CLUB OR SELL TO SOMEONE WHO CAN TAKE US FORWARD DOES HE REALISE THE SITUATION WE ARE IN

"We have the opportunity of putting a lot right and moving forward, but to do so we must try to resolve some of the fixable issues that are disuniting us." - AND THE MAN TO DO IT IS A ROOKIE WITH A RECORD OF 7 GAMES MANAGERIAL EXPERIENCE ONLY 1 OF THOSE WAS A WIN

"you have our commitment to more regular communication with you." - YOU SAID THAT BEFORE AND ITS ONLY HAPPENING NOW BECAUSE OF THE PROTEST

"Over the last year or two we have reduced that gap by improving revenues whilst continuing to invest in the squad. In an ideal world, we’d like not to be a burden to the owner. Vincent Tan has more to lose financially than anyone and is still bank-rolling the Club monthly. " - HE STILL WOULDNT BE PLOUGHING MONEY INTO THE CLUB TO KEEP US AFLOAT IF HE HADNT BEEN MIS-SPENDING THE MONEY HE INVESTED IN THE PAST

"I've always been open in dialogue in saying that greater football expertise on the Board and in management, would be valuable, but that's not to say imperative." DO YOU HONESTLY THINK WE WOULD BE IN THIS MESS IF IT WAS A FOOTBALL MAN MAKING THE BIG DECISIONS AND NOT TAN?

Over 20 teams have overtaken us since 2012 when he took over, many of whom have been sustainable and healthy in the EPL and the top half of the championship, yet were far from healthy in 2012.

. THIS IS OUR ANNIVERSARY YEAR and we are protesting, in turmoil and losing even more fans.

Dalman and Choo are Tans YES men end of

BUT TAN is the problem

Lets march

TAN OUT!