Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:53 pm
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Paul Keevil wrote:Just pure speculation on my part but I suspect it is totally about "Pride" and "respect" and in order to understand it in greater depth you need to first understand the culture surrounding Malaysian Businessman. I had some knowledge of this when I was one of the clubs photographers a few years back.
Business culture in Malaysia tends to be hierachial and respect for Seniority and Rank is important. We first saw this in the days of Malky when the "Much Younger" Malky questioned his older colleague. In Malaysia this is a "no-no" and probably explains why there have been so many difficulties. For me personally, if I was ever to speak to VT pitch side, I was told only speak to him after he speaks to me and, when doing so refer to him as Tan-Sri.
So lets think back to when Sam & Tan did work together. Tan was worth £1.2 billion and Sam had a mere £40 million.
Malaysian culture is such that VT would have looked down on Sam especially as, in Malaysia, decisions come from top down.
So things have changed over the years. VT is apparently down to his last £400m whereas Sam has allegedly invested well and is worth more than VT nowadays.
VT wont like this. Culturally he always looked down to Sam whereas he would now be expected to look down to Sam.
I suspect something like this could be the reason.
Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:58 pm
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Sun Apr 28, 2024 7:20 pm
Paul Keevil wrote:Just pure speculation on my part but I suspect it is totally about "Pride" and "respect" and in order to understand it in greater depth you need to first understand the culture surrounding Malaysian Businessman. I had some knowledge of this when I was one of the clubs photographers a few years back.
Business culture in Malaysia tends to be hierachial and respect for Seniority and Rank is important. We first saw this in the days of Malky when the "Much Younger" Malky questioned his older colleague. In Malaysia this is a "no-no" and probably explains why there have been so many difficulties. For me personally, if I was ever to speak to VT pitch side, I was told only speak to him after he speaks to me and, when doing so refer to him as Tan-Sri.
So lets think back to when Sam & Tan did work together. Tan was worth £1.2 billion and Sam had a mere £40 million.
Malaysian culture is such that VT would have looked down on Sam especially as, in Malaysia, decisions come from top down.
So things have changed over the years. VT is apparently down to his last £400m whereas Sam has allegedly invested well and is worth more than VT nowadays.
VT wont like this. Culturally he always looked down to Sam whereas he would now be expected to look down to Sam.
I suspect something like this could be the reason.
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