What was Vincent Tans Plan? SAYS:

Wow Glen Williams is really speaking up, but way way to late:



Vincent Tan:

In 2023

"I hear talk that we have no plan. Do you honestly think I would have put in so much of my money if I had no plan? Do you think we are idiots?"

Those are the words of Vincent Tan, Cardiff City's owner, to WalesOnline a little over two years ago. It's a statement I keep harking back to, but apply that statement to everything that has happened to this club over the last five years or so and it's simply baffling.

“So I doubt there ever was a plan.” Says Glen Williams



“ THIS IS CARDIFF CITY’S 125TH ANNIVERSARY “




Eight managers since the start of 2021.

By Glen Williams


Monday 28th April 2025



Six of the last seven managers have been interim or short-term managers. How many of those eight have been poached or gone on to bigger and better things? A grand total of zero, by my count. Three of the last four seasons have been relegation battles. In five of the last six seasons, including this one, Cardiff have finished in a lower league position than the previous year. Oh, and nine members of the current playing squad can walk away from this mess in two months' time:


Eight Managers since the start of 2021.

Six of the last seven managers have been interim or short-term managers. How many of those eight have been poached or gone on to bigger and better things? A grand total of zero, by my count. Three of the last four seasons have been relegation battles. In five of the last six seasons, including this one, Cardiff have finished in a lower league position than the previous year. Oh, and nine members of the current playing squad can walk away from this mess in two months' time.

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Who is leading all this? Who is overseeing and implementing the direction of the club, from a footballing standpoint? What is their criteria and markers for success?


By Glen Williams


Who is telling supporters what the next one, three, five years looks like? Just saying "we want to get back to the Premier League" will not suffice. Now, after relegation to League One, that statement simply sounds absurd and fans will not have it.

Times are hard. Fans are loyal and passionate, but not all of them will continue to blindly fork out for season tickets, year on year, if the light at the end of the tunnel continues to become vanishingly dim.


Dozens and dozens of players and managers have come and gone during this period of what can only be described as managed decline, but those at the top remain in situ. Add the Cardiff catastrophe to the disaster in Belgium, too, where Vincent Tan's other club, KV Kortrijk, finished 15th out of 16 teams and are in the relegation play-offs again. Footballing success is simply not on the agenda for Cardiff's owner and Lord knows what it will take for him to make drastic, radical changes at the top.

Cardiff have won just 56 of their last 183 Championship games. Drink up that staggeringly stark statistic. It's appalling, bordering on shameful, for a club with this potential, with this physical infrastructure, fan base (both actual and latent), catchment area and expenditure. It would be an impressive figure it wasn't so agonisingly depressing for the supporters.

This season Cardiff have the worst record of wins out of 72 EFL Clubs.

In the last few years Cardiff have had some of their worst ever runs of losing games in 125 years.

How painfully sobering for a club which consistently tells its fans it plans to be back in the Premier League at the earliest possible opportunity. Shocking, really.

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Interesting because Williams and all those who went before him have never stood up to Tan before.

Maybe I'm a cynic but it shouldn't have taken relegation for the media to be talking like this. They should have been asking the tough questions for years.

Because the bad decisions that the board have made, weren't just being made this season - they've always been making the same bad decisions. It's just that this season it all led to the inevitable.

Interesting because Williams and all those who went before him have never stood up to Tan before.

Maybe I'm a cynic but it shouldn't have taken relegation for the media to be talking like this. They should have been asking the tough questions for years.

Because the bad decisions that the board have made, weren't just being made this season - they've always been making the same bad decisions. It's just that this season it all led to the inevitable.

Correct what you Say Ned:

Williams and others have Sat back and refused to say a word.

Interesting because Williams and all those who went before him have never stood up to Tan before.

Maybe I'm a cynic but it shouldn't have taken relegation for the media to be talking like this. They should have been asking the tough questions for years.

Because the bad decisions that the board have made, weren't just being made this season - they've always been making the same bad decisions. It's just that this season it all led to the inevitable.

Totally agree, this statement (or simular) should have come out after Riza was given the full time job, it also could have come out at christmas (half way of season) and certainly after the 7-0 shambles at Leeds.

Interesting because Williams and all those who went before him have never stood up to Tan before.

Maybe I'm a cynic but it shouldn't have taken relegation for the media to be talking like this. They should have been asking the tough questions for years.

Because the bad decisions that the board have made, weren't just being made this season - they've always been making the same bad decisions. It's just that this season it all led to the inevitable.

Absolutely spot on, Paul Abbondonato came round earlier in the season but as you’ve said to little to late from the media.

Wonder if any of them have written a piece for the Malaysian Mail…

Interesting because Williams and all those who went before him have never stood up to Tan before.

Maybe I'm a cynic but it shouldn't have taken relegation for the media to be talking like this. They should have been asking the tough questions for years.

Because the bad decisions that the board have made, weren't just being made this season - they've always been making the same bad decisions. It's just that this season it all led to the inevitable.

Absolutely spot on, Paul Abbondonato came round earlier in the season but as you’ve said to little to late from the media.

Wonder if any of them have written a piece for the Malaysian Mail…

He did; but what I didn’t realise was that he left the WOL stable, so now have the freedom to do so

That leaves the question, was it him or his employers siding with the club’s senior management?