'Chelsea striker Patrick Bamford is a £3m target

'Chelsea striker Patrick Bamford is a £3m target for Wigan Athletic

Would be a great buy for us and just the sort of player we need.

Such a shame that as a club with a billionaire owner we can't compete with teams who have just come up from League 1 - or maybe the club just doesn't want to compete.

Surely now with Fabio gone and his wages too we could be looking at a player such as Bamford without breaching FFP rules. Unless of course the club is not serious about promotion at all (which they deny) and are interested in absolutely nothing other than cost cutting and survival in the Championship.

Could easily be the difference between a glourious season or mid table mediocrity. Cmon Tan cough up mate!

We have no money, so forget it. We can't compete with clubs like Wigan when it comes to spending power

Investment in red nothing in blue true to his word

He was excellent at Boro but flopped in his next 2 loan spells. Also supposed to have an attitude problem (although that might be just messageboard bollux). Either way it is a big fee and he will want big wages.

Would be a great buy for us and just the sort of player we need.

Such a shame that as a club with a billionaire owner we can't compete with teams who have just come up from League 1 - or maybe the club just doesn't want to compete.

Surely now with Fabio gone and his wages too we could be looking at a player such as Bamford without breaching FFP rules. Unless of course the club is not serious about promotion at all (which they deny) and are interested in absolutely nothing other than cost cutting and survival in the Championship.

Spot on,although I'd say it's a fukin disgrace rather than a shame,with increased TV money plus parachute payments plus the asset stripping and we still can't show as much ambition as teams just coming up,they're having us on

Would be a great buy for us and just the sort of player we need.

Such a shame that as a club with a billionaire owner we can't compete with teams who have just come up from League 1 - or maybe the club just doesn't want to compete.

Surely now with Fabio gone and his wages too we could be looking at a player such as Bamford without breaching FFP rules. Unless of course the club is not serious about promotion at all (which they deny) and are interested in absolutely nothing other than cost cutting and survival in the Championship.

Spot on,although I'd say it's a fukin disgrace rather than a shame,with increased TV money plus parachute payments plus the asset stripping and we still can't show as much ambition as teams just coming up,they're having us on

The teams coming up aren't loaded down with the costs that Cardiff have built up since the Malky era. Mistakes of the past are not yet sorted (but getting there). We were hit with a FFP embargo in January - but that doesn't seem to register with some!

Cardiff City don't have this sort of money to spend. The owner may be wealthy, the club are certainly not. Tan has gambled and lost a lot of money already, he is not going to make the same mistake again. The posters on here who think Tan is going to spend money to get us back to the PL are living in a dreamworld. I spent last season saying that the only ambition is to retain Championship status over the next few years while costs continue to be cut, and absolutely nothing has changed. Not long back Tan was getting non stop abuse on this forum (a lot of it deserved) and now the same people expect him to throw more of his money into the club. Not sure why he would want to do that.

Cardiff City don't have this sort of money to spend. The owner may be wealthy, the club are certainly not. Tan has gambled and lost a lot of money already, he is not going to make the same mistake again. The posters on here who think Tan is going to spend money to get us back to the PL are living in a dreamworld. I spent last season saying that the only ambition is to retain Championship status over the next few years while costs continue to be cut, and absolutely nothing has changed. Not long back Tan was getting non stop abuse on this forum (a lot of it deserved) and now the same people expect him to throw more of his money into the club. Not sure why he would want to do that.

I agree with everything you say.

The thing that gets on my tits is the fact that the club continue to peddle the same old crap about how serious they are about promotion when everything they do would appear to suggest the opposite.

And then we hear how amazed they are that season ticket sales are so poor

I would have far more respect for them if they were just honest about what they really intend for both short term and long term with the club. I don't expect Tan to throw more of his money into the club but if the club keep insisting they are genuinely serious about promotion I'd like to know how they believe it's going to be acheived under the current system.

Cardiff City don't have this sort of money to spend. The owner may be wealthy, the club are certainly not. Tan has gambled and lost a lot of money already, he is not going to make the same mistake again. The posters on here who think Tan is going to spend money to get us back to the PL are living in a dreamworld. I spent last season saying that the only ambition is to retain Championship status over the next few years while costs continue to be cut, and absolutely nothing has changed. Not long back Tan was getting non stop abuse on this forum (a lot of it deserved) and now the same people expect him to throw more of his money into the club. Not sure why he would want to do that.

I agree with everything you say.

The thing that gets on my tits is the fact that the club continue to peddle the same old crap about how serious they are about promotion when everything they do would appear to suggest the opposite.

And then we hear how amazed they are that season ticket sales are so poor

I would have far more respect for them if they were just honest about what they really intend for both short term and long term with the club. I don't expect Tan to throw more of his money into the club but if the club keep insisting they are genuinely serious about promotion I'd like to know how they believe it's going to be acheived under the current system.

Exactly at least we would know where we stand

Cardiff City don't have this sort of money to spend. The owner may be wealthy, the club are certainly not. Tan has gambled and lost a lot of money already, he is not going to make the same mistake again. The posters on here who think Tan is going to spend money to get us back to the PL are living in a dreamworld. I spent last season saying that the only ambition is to retain Championship status over the next few years while costs continue to be cut, and absolutely nothing has changed. Not long back Tan was getting non stop abuse on this forum (a lot of it deserved) and now the same people expect him to throw more of his money into the club. Not sure why he would want to do that.

I agree with everything you say.

The thing that gets on my tits is the fact that the club continue to peddle the same old crap about how serious they are about promotion when everything they do would appear to suggest the opposite.

And then we hear how amazed they are that season ticket sales are so poor

I would have far more respect for them if they were just honest about what they really intend for both short term and long term with the club. I don't expect Tan to throw more of his money into the club but if the club keep insisting they are genuinely serious about promotion I'd like to know how they believe it's going to be acheived under the current system.

Exactly at least we would know where we stand

Hopefully, in the not too distant future the club will be on a sound financial footing and in a position to start making progress. Things are much better than they have been in the past, and as far as I know wages and club bills are being paid on time. Many years ago, I was part of a small team in business banking who had to decide which cheques drawn on the club were paid, and which ones were "bounced". Back in those days, many of the club's suppliers would'nt take a cheque and insisted on cash on delivery. That tells you how bad things have been in the past compared to the Cardiff City we now know. Supporters may be worried about lack of ambition, but things could be much worse. They need to get their finances under control before we can expect to see any major progress.