' CARDIFF CITY MINI-UPDATE - TUESDAY MAY 12th 2015 '

' MINI-UPDATE - TUESDAY MAY 12th 2015 '


Vincent Tan will fly into Europe next week where he will meet Russell Slade here and also visit KV Kortrijk, his new Belgian club.

The initial plan was that the meetings with Slade would only take place in Malaysia but Vincent Tan wants to come to the UK to hold the first get together to set out the plans ahead of next season.

The meeting with Slade is to discuss a list of players who are intended targets and how the club wish to move forward next season.

Russell Slade has been assured that he has a 'substantial' amount that he will use on acquiring his two main targets. Slade has identified the two players he wants and has been informed that he will have the backing financially to try and seal the deals.

As well as the two players that Slade wishes to spend the majority of his summer transfer budget on, he will add more players to the squad but knows he will be fishing in the 'very cheap or free transfers' market and the spending on these additional players will be limited to small amounts in terms of transfer fees but mainly targeting players with just a signing on fee required.

The budget is something that the club is still trying to reduce by selling players in the close season and cutting the wage bill further. Vincent Tan would like to see at least 10 players off the current wage bill and expects Russell Slade to move them on.

Two Chesterfield players have been linked recently with Cardiff City, the Spirietes are cutting costs themselves and are looking to move players on and it seems that Russell Slade is ready to exploit their situation of reducing their wage bill after failing to gain promotion this season, with Sam Morsy and Sam Clucas on City's radar.

A third Chesterfield player who is attracting interest from City is Tendayi Darikwa, he is rated at £500k and not so long ago was very much in the thoughts of several Premier League clubs, Chesterfield are ready to cash in on Darikwa but if City want him they will have to fend off interest from Leeds Utd also.

In total last season Cardiff City had 14 'Police Free' games, further indication to the good behaviour of City fans and more savings for the club on expenses.

Since the win away to Nottingham Forest on the last game of the campaign, season ticket sales have steadily improved, I was told this afternoon that the club is nearing the 5,000 figure for sales to date.

Are Chesterfield our feeder club f**k me !!

The only way this club will move forward is for Tan to sack Slade now why waste more Money on players and then to sack him two months into the season.
Are results have only got better since Trollope arrived the guy is clueless.

Interesting to know if the Chesterfield lads are the money targets or the cheap to free targets.

When we know that we will get an idea of the budget.

I expect the two money signings are the chesterfield lads and It will be interesting in seeing who goes.

The only way this club will move forward is for Tan to sack Slade now why waste more Money on players and then to sack him two months into the season.
Are results have only got better since Trollope arrived the guy is clueless.

Results improved because Manga came back, performances didn't get much better just we were more stable...

Good news about cut backs, wages we pay are mad.

Silly giving slade funds though.

So we could end up with 4 Chesterfield players by September... when we're trying to get promoted to the Premier League and they can't even get promoted from League One... awesome

I think we need to face facts - Slade isn't going anywhere just yet, so it's probably best we divert our energy away from moaning about him, accept it for what it is, and get behind the team.

Doyle hasn't turned out to be such a bad buy so far, and he's only going to get better as he gets older,so who's to say 2 or 3 more can't do the same thing.

Can't wait for August

Carl do you know if slades 2 main choices are the chesterfield lads

Hardly! one has 1 year left on his contract and the others contract is up in the summer. The substantial amount to spend on two players would not be the Chesterfield lads fees maybe but not very much. we could all be surprised by the two that the big money is going to be spent on as it is going to use up all nearly all our budget

Hardly! one has 1 year left on his contract and the others contract is up in the summer. The substantial amount to spend on two players would not be the Chesterfield lads fees maybe but not very much. we could all be surprised by the two that the big money is going to be spent on as it is going to use up all nearly all our budget

I hope you are right

Me too!

Wrong about Clucas, he has 2 1/2 years left on his contract

I see our feeder club has just parted with their manager Paul Cook with Dean Saunders favourite to take his place.

Who would want to come to Cardiff to play under Slade? It doesn't matter what money we have to spend he will only attract div two players.

The Everton lad we had on loan is deffo one of the two big fee signings.

The Chesterfield players are not the main signings.

And I was told today, Slade has cooled down his interest on one of them already.

I enjoy straight to the point updates Carl, Cheers

The Everton lad we had on loan is deffo one of the two big fee signings.

wasn't he consistently injured anyway