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Radio Wales comments

Sat Apr 05, 2014 7:13 pm

On way home Radio Wales stated that Tan and Salman were deep in conversation with fans at the ground. Anybody throw ANY light on this ?

Re: Radio Wales comments

Sat Apr 05, 2014 7:16 pm

Siadwell wrote:On way home Radio Wales stated that Tan and Salman were deep in conversation with fans at the ground. Anybody throw ANY light on this ?


Tan apologised for changing from blue to red and stated thanks for the business. He said - I will be selling our best players in the summer to get my money back, charging Cardiff 10 per cent interest on my money and going back to Malaysia :shock:

Re: Radio Wales comments

Sat Apr 05, 2014 7:17 pm

I thought they said Tan was in a conversation with someone, but they didn't know who

Re: Radio Wales comments

Sat Apr 05, 2014 7:45 pm

[quote="Xcasual"]I thought they said Tan was in a conversation with someone, but they didn't know who,
thats correct dalman tan and someone phillips didnt recognise, it was inside stadium where tan stands normally :old:

Re: Radio Wales comments

Sun Apr 06, 2014 9:40 am

I was one of the fans speaking to Tan and Dalman. Also there was a fan who had explained to me that she had tried to speak to Tan on countless occasions to try and put across the importance of having the fans on side.

By this time, my father had already walked over th the directors box and was chatting to Dalman about the defeat and where do we go from here. The conversation came onto the performance, the team, the manager and the fact that Ole was the man Dalman wanted, which he acknowledged.
Tan then came out into the box and my dad gestured for him to come and have a chat, which he did.

The female fan then took the opportunity to speak to Vincent and I could hear her saying that he has gone about things the wrong way and he needs to have the fans on side etc..

About the defeat, Vincent said he was shocked because he said "Palace are not a very good side, we have five more games and who knows, maybe a miracle will happen".

While this is going on, dad is still chatting to Dalman.

Dalman then tried to usher Tan away, you could see the awkward smile, probably from the lady asking Tan awkward questions, which obviously nobody is allowed to do, can't upset Mr Tan I suppose.

Anyway I decided to make my leave at this point, having heard enough and seeing that Tan wasn't really interested in what the lady had to say.

I went and stood by Rob Phillips, in the radio wales commentary box, just before his phone in show was about to start.

My dad came over to me after talking to Dalman and Tan for a further few minutes and said "They are thinking about pulling out", which the radio commentators heard and their eyebrows raised and mouths dropped.

After Dalman had said that to My dad, he then said to Tan, "Are you leaving Vincent"?. To which Vincent replied "I cannot really, I have put 140 million into the club".

We then chatted to the commentators for a while, just to the left of the directors box and watched on several occasions as Tan, Dalman and a host of other people having conversations and talking on phones. They were standing by the red seats in the directors box. They were all looking a bit shifty.

One of the commentators said, "There's something going on there, look at the body language"!.

At this point we decided to leave.

Read into that what you will, just passing on the events that took place.

I still feel sick as a pig after that crap display yesterday and I know I am not alone. :cry:

Re: Radio Wales comments

Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:01 am

I will take your account as go spell because there is nothing to doubt.

The one outstanding statement is Tan saying he can't go anywhere as he has put in £140 million
Well he was going nowhere when he had put in £40 million before the rebrand. Red or dead it never was but us fans fell for it.

Re: Radio Wales comments

Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:10 am

100% spot on Baked.

I have never spoken to the man before but I really did get the impression that he would rather not speak to anyone directly and as I said, Dalman seemed very quick to usher him away, like some sort of Deity, who is not supposed to commune with the common folk.

He may be worth a fortune but sadly deluded and detached form reality.

The man could have made himself "immortal" here if he had only gone about things better.

Re: Radio Wales comments

Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:13 am

Bluebandit wrote:100% spot on Baked.

I have never spoken to the man before but I really did get the impression that he would rather not speak to anyone directly and as I said, Dalman seemed very quick to usher him away, like some sort of Deity, who is not supposed to commune with the common folk.

He may be worth a fortune but sadly deluded and detached form reality.

The man could have made himself "immortal" here if he had only gone about things better.

ive pm u :thumbup:

Re: Radio Wales comments

Sun Apr 06, 2014 10:16 am

I forgot to say that the female fan said,

"He won't even shake my hand",

to which I replied

"Why not"?.

She said

"Because I wear my blue scarf",

Now the woman is not a crack pot but an ex police woman in fact, so I would say level headed.

I thought my god, how sad this whole situation is.