“ CONFIRMED CARDIFF CITY UNDER TRANSFER EMBERGO “

I want Tan to leave but equally I am not going to get worked up by this. Its a simple admin breach not a points deduction for financial irregularity. Wait till the end of the window and see what happens rather than frothing at the mouth now. Tan needs this promotion for his own pocket remember. The squad as it is can also win promotion so was never expecting the club to throw money around in January. A couple if quality loans and Rubin comibg back should see us through.

Admin breach you say but how many times can they not get it right.

Orient today.

Sack the board,sack the board, sack the board.

f*cking muppets running our club, this type of thing should be a hygiene factor for any professional run business. It wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve actually been audited and signed, they’re just sitting on the things as an excuse for not investing in January.

Or perhaps they genuinely haven’t been completed yet. Auditors grappling with going concern , nothing would surprise me with our owners …

Probably a Tan master stroke to stop other clubs poaching our players

Probably a Tan master stroke to stop other clubs poaching our players

Players can still be sold nothing to do with outgoings.

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f*cking muppets running our club, this type of thing should be a hygiene factor for any professional run business. It wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve actually been audited and signed, they’re just sitting on the things as an excuse for not investing in January.

Or perhaps they genuinely haven’t been completed yet. Auditors grappling with going concern , nothing would surprise me with our owners …

If Wez’ post re the accounts already being submitted to Companies House (3 months ahead) are correct, then it would be exceptionally odd that they weren’t submitted to the EFL on time

A lot of rumours doing the rounds right now, including one that the embargo has already been lifted. However, the EFL website says it is still in place

We’ve been here before (late submission) and I’m minded to think it was an ‘issue with interpreting changes from FFP to PSR’, although someone might enlighten me on that?

I sincerely hope that the club will be able to make an early and official statement on the situation, and give supporters a proper timescale for it being sorted, rather than dripping of it via a regrettably unreliable media source

Companies House shows Choo and Dalman managed to file the accounts for HR OWEN last month.
Maybe they value that business more than the club?

H.R.OWEN PLC filing history - Find and update company information - GOV.UK https://share.google/47fLvL4sbUgp6HZ8I

f*cking muppets running our club, this type of thing should be a hygiene factor for any professional run business. It wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve actually been audited and signed, they’re just sitting on the things as an excuse for not investing in January.

Or perhaps they genuinely haven’t been completed yet. Auditors grappling with going concern , nothing would surprise me with our owners …

If Wez’ post re the accounts already being submitted to Companies House (3 months ahead) are correct, then it would be exceptionally odd that they weren’t submitted to the EFL on time

A lot of rumours doing the rounds right now, including one that the embargo has already been lifted. However, the EFL website says it is still in place

We’ve been here before (late submission) and I’m minded to think it was an ‘issue with interpreting changes from FFP to PSR’, although someone might enlighten me on that?

I sincerely hope that the club will be able to make an early and official statement on the situation, and give supporters a proper timescale for it being sorted, rather than dripping of it via a regrettably unreliable media source

Yes we've been down this road before, and more than once.

If it is an "issue with interpreting changes from FFP to PSR" it must be fair to ask how every other club in the league can manage to interpret those changes but the clowns at Cardiff City don't have the ability to do so.

Even Glen Williams' "explanation" (he's clearly being used as a mouthpiece by the club) gives no detail and is typical of the club's "keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit" approach that the club follows as far as the fanbase and the Trust are concerned.

I genuinely question how on earth Tan has managed to be such a success in his business career. The man is f*cking clueless not just in footballing matters but in normal, standard business practices, like filing accounts on time. If you ran your small business the way this knobhead runs a multi million pound enterprise you'd be bankrupt in weeks!

How can a supposedly successful businessman keep making the same mistakes time and again and fail to learn a single lesson as a result?

Either he truly is a prize chump or he needs to get rid of those he's surrounded himself with who are just showing how incompetent they are at every turn.

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f*cking muppets running our club, this type of thing should be a hygiene factor for any professional run business. It wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve actually been audited and signed, they’re just sitting on the things as an excuse for not investing in January.

Or perhaps they genuinely haven’t been completed yet. Auditors grappling with going concern , nothing would surprise me with our owners …

If Wez’ post re the accounts already being submitted to Companies House (3 months ahead) are correct, then it would be exceptionally odd that they weren’t submitted to the EFL on time

A lot of rumours doing the rounds right now, including one that the embargo has already been lifted. However, the EFL website says it is still in place

We’ve been here before (late submission) and I’m minded to think it was an ‘issue with interpreting changes from FFP to PSR’, although someone might enlighten me on that?

I sincerely hope that the club will be able to make an early and official statement on the situation, and give supporters a proper timescale for it being sorted, rather than dripping of it via a regrettably unreliable media source

Yes we've been down this road before, and more than once.

If it is an "issue with interpreting changes from FFP to PSR" it must be fair to ask how every other club in the league can manage to interpret those changes but the clowns at Cardiff City don't have the ability to do so.

Even Glen Williams' "explanation" (clearly being used as a mouthpiece by the club) gives no detail and is typical of the club's "keep them in the dark and feed them bullshit" approach that the club follows as far as the fanbase and the Trust are concerned.

I genuinely question how on earth Tan has managed to be such a success in his business career. The man is f*cking clueless not just in footballing matters but in normal, standard business practices, like filing accounts on time. If you ran your small business the way this knobhead runs a multi million pound enterprise you'd be bankrupt in weeks!

How can a supposedly successful businessman keep making the same mistakes time and again and fail to learn a single thing?

Either he truly is a prize chump or he needs to get rid of those he's surrounded himself with who are just showing how incompetent they are at every turn.

Yep! Can’t disagree with you on that!

Club statement a few minutes ago:

“Cardiff City FC are aware of reports this morning and wishes to clarify the situation.

The Club has no financial concerns. All necessary paperwork will be submitted in the coming days, this issue will be resolved and any embargo will be removed.

We wish to stress that this will not impact our January recruitment strategy.”

See: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=247860&p=2555023#p2555023

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f*cking muppets running our club, this type of thing should be a hygiene factor for any professional run business. It wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve actually been audited and signed, they’re just sitting on the things as an excuse for not investing in January.

Or perhaps they genuinely haven’t been completed yet. Auditors grappling with going concern , nothing would surprise me with our owners …

If Wez’ post re the accounts already being submitted to Companies House (3 months ahead) are correct, then it would be exceptionally odd that they weren’t submitted to the EFL on time

A lot of rumours doing the rounds right now, including one that the embargo has already been lifted. However, the EFL website says it is still in place

We’ve been here before (late submission) and I’m minded to think it was an ‘issue with interpreting changes from FFP to PSR’, although someone might enlighten me on that?

I sincerely hope that the club will be able to make an early and official statement on the situation, and give supporters a proper timescale for it being sorted, rather than dripping of it via a regrettably unreliable media source

If the accounts were submitted to Companies House 3 months ago they'd be showing on Companies House. They aren't.

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f*cking muppets running our club, this type of thing should be a hygiene factor for any professional run business. It wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve actually been audited and signed, they’re just sitting on the things as an excuse for not investing in January.

Or perhaps they genuinely haven’t been completed yet. Auditors grappling with going concern , nothing would surprise me with our owners …

If Wez’ post re the accounts already being submitted to Companies House (3 months ahead) are correct, then it would be exceptionally odd that they weren’t submitted to the EFL on time

A lot of rumours doing the rounds right now, including one that the embargo has already been lifted. However, the EFL website says it is still in place

We’ve been here before (late submission) and I’m minded to think it was an ‘issue with interpreting changes from FFP to PSR’, although someone might enlighten me on that?

I sincerely hope that the club will be able to make an early and official statement on the situation, and give supporters a proper timescale for it being sorted, rather than dripping of it via a regrettably unreliable media source

If the accounts were submitted to Companies House 3 months ago they'd be showing on Companies House. They aren't.

Absolutely, they were not submitted.

We are talking about My Mate Wez, who still loves Tan

f*cking muppets running our club, this type of thing should be a hygiene factor for any professional run business. It wouldn’t surprise me if they’ve actually been audited and signed, they’re just sitting on the things as an excuse for not investing in January.

Or perhaps they genuinely haven’t been completed yet. Auditors grappling with going concern , nothing would surprise me with our owners …

If Wez’ post re the accounts already being submitted to Companies House (3 months ahead) are correct, then it would be exceptionally odd that they weren’t submitted to the EFL on time

A lot of rumours doing the rounds right now, including one that the embargo has already been lifted. However, the EFL website says it is still in place

We’ve been here before (late submission) and I’m minded to think it was an ‘issue with interpreting changes from FFP to PSR’, although someone might enlighten me on that?

I sincerely hope that the club will be able to make an early and official statement on the situation, and give supporters a proper timescale for it being sorted, rather than dripping of it via a regrettably unreliable media source

If the accounts were submitted to Companies House 3 months ago they'd be showing on Companies House. They aren't.

Absolutely, they were not submitted.

We are talking about My Mate Wez, who still loves Tan

It certainly would have been odd, if they had been (sent to Companies House)!

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Tan got lucky with Warnock, and got lucky again with BBM, but eventually he will undo the good work from BBM. I agree, Tan and his board need to leave ASAP.

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Club's fault the auditor is seriously ill?

Is the embargo lifted yet ? Was there a date when we are free to loan or sign anyone.

Is the embargo lifted yet ? Was there a date when we are free to loan or sign anyone.

Bradford loaning striker already getting in early.

Club's fault the auditor is seriously ill?

No but the club's fault that they didn't arrange a replacement to ensure their statutory obligations are met. Unless of course they are happy for BBM not to have the opportunity to use the transfer window.

Club's fault the auditor is seriously ill?

No but the club's fault that they didn't arrange a replacement to ensure their statutory obligations are met. Unless of course they are happy for BBM not to have the opportunity to use the transfer window.

Their are others who could do this, I know exactly how it works.

It’s all pure Bullshit from the Clowns once again.

Club's fault the auditor is seriously ill?

No but the club's fault that they didn't arrange a replacement to ensure their statutory obligations are met. Unless of course they are happy for BBM not to have the opportunity to use the transfer window.

Their are others who could do this, I know exactly how it works.

It’s all pure Bullshit from the Clowns once again.

Completely agree - if the plumber doesn't turn up to repair your boiler in the winter, you get someone else pronto.

Prize Muppetry, especially as this appears to be a repeat offence.

Club's fault the auditor is seriously ill?

No but the club's fault that they didn't arrange a replacement to ensure their statutory obligations are met. Unless of course they are happy for BBM not to have the opportunity to use the transfer window.

Their are others who could do this, I know exactly how it works.

It’s all pure Bullshit from the Clowns once again.

Completely agree - if the plumber doesn't turn up to repair your boiler in the winter, you get someone else pronto.

Prize Muppetry, especially as this appears to be a repeat offence.

100%

And yet their are a few still backing them and listening to their pure shit.

Club's fault the auditor is seriously ill?

No but the club's fault that they didn't arrange a replacement to ensure their statutory obligations are met. Unless of course they are happy for BBM not to have the opportunity to use the transfer window.

Their are others who could do this, I know exactly how it works.

It’s all pure Bullshit from the Clowns once again.

Completely agree - if the plumber doesn't turn up to repair your boiler in the winter, you get someone else pronto.

Prize Muppetry, especially as this appears to be a repeat offence.

It is once too often, but it is not like a plumber not turning up. You KNOW the plumber didn't turn up.

When you retain a company to undertake a role for you. You do not KNOW there is an issue unless you are told.

I think the issue is that the club need to retain the services of better professionals, whether they are accountant, insurers or legal.

Club's fault the auditor is seriously ill?

No but the club's fault that they didn't arrange a replacement to ensure their statutory obligations are met. Unless of course they are happy for BBM not to have the opportunity to use the transfer window.

Their are others who could do this, I know exactly how it works.

It’s all pure Bullshit from the Clowns once again.

Completely agree - if the plumber doesn't turn up to repair your boiler in the winter, you get someone else pronto.

Prize Muppetry, especially as this appears to be a repeat offence.

It is once too often, but it is not like a plumber not turning up. You KNOW the plumber didn't turn up.

When you retain a company to undertake a role for you. You do not KNOW there is an issue unless you are told.

I think the issue is that the club need to retain the services of better professionals, whether they are accountant, insurers or legal.

Sorry but that isn't how this sort of thing works - having had the responsibility of managing limited companies, I'd say any competent Finance Director would be talking to the auditors frequently to check the submission complies with the regulation period. It is crass incompetence if this task fails to be actioned, even through staff absence, as other staff should be allocated etc.

And knowing the EFL rules and the subsequent sanction of a transfer embargo should fuel extra vigilance in this department.

Club's fault the auditor is seriously ill?

No but the club's fault that they didn't arrange a replacement to ensure their statutory obligations are met. Unless of course they are happy for BBM not to have the opportunity to use the transfer window.

Their are others who could do this, I know exactly how it works.

It’s all pure Bullshit from the Clowns once again.

Completely agree - if the plumber doesn't turn up to repair your boiler in the winter, you get someone else pronto.

Prize Muppetry, especially as this appears to be a repeat offence.

It is once too often, but it is not like a plumber not turning up. You KNOW the plumber didn't turn up.

When you retain a company to undertake a role for you. You do not KNOW there is an issue unless you are told.

I think the issue is that the club need to retain the services of better professionals, whether they are accountant, insurers or legal.

Sorry but that isn't how this sort of thing works - having had the responsibility of managing limited companies, I'd say any competent Finance Director would be talking to the auditors frequently to check the submission complies with the regulation period. It is crass incompetence if this task fails to be actioned, even through staff absence, as other staff should be allocated etc.

And knowing the EFL rules and the subsequent sanction of a transfer embargo should fuel extra vigilance in this department.

Spot on. If there are likely to be repercussions from a deadline not being met, it makes zero sense for our Finance Director not to be putting the utmost pressure on the auditors to meet the deadline, regardless of any staffing issues they might have.

Club's fault the auditor is seriously ill?

No but the club's fault that they didn't arrange a replacement to ensure their statutory obligations are met. Unless of course they are happy for BBM not to have the opportunity to use the transfer window.

Their are others who could do this, I know exactly how it works.

It’s all pure Bullshit from the Clowns once again.

Completely agree - if the plumber doesn't turn up to repair your boiler in the winter, you get someone else pronto.

Prize Muppetry, especially as this appears to be a repeat offence.

It is once too often, but it is not like a plumber not turning up. You KNOW the plumber didn't turn up.

When you retain a company to undertake a role for you. You do not KNOW there is an issue unless you are told.

I think the issue is that the club need to retain the services of better professionals, whether they are accountant, insurers or legal.

Sorry but that isn't how this sort of thing works - having had the responsibility of managing limited companies, I'd say any competent Finance Director would be talking to the auditors frequently to check the submission complies with the regulation period. It is crass incompetence if this task fails to be actioned, even through staff absence, as other staff should be allocated etc.

And knowing the EFL rules and the subsequent sanction of a transfer embargo should fuel extra vigilance in this department.

Spot on. If there are likely to be repercussions from a deadline not being met, it makes zero sense for our Finance Director not to be putting the utmost pressure on the auditors to meet the deadline, regardless of any staffing issues they might have.

Until you get to the crunch point where you either:
- Stick with the auditor you've got in the hope it's completed on time
- Switch to an alternative provider, where it definitely won't be completed on time.