By all accounts Malky MacKay is a good guy. He is certainly a good motivator and tactician, and an excellent communicator, unburdened by the airs and graces normally associated by managers in the self-appointed Greatest Show on Earth. None of this saved him from the sack, though, accused of running riot with the cheque book in the summer.
Cardiff City certainly ran riot, spending in the region of £50m to help prepare for top flight football. If, as owner Vincent Tan alleges, the spend was unauthorised, Cardiff have a management control problem, not a problem with the manager, who is within his rights to spend whatever money made available to him.
‘Bluebirds’ fans are united on Malky’s side, they are equally united against owner Tan, who appears wholly unsuitable to control a football club. Changing their strips from blue to red, as red is the colour most associated with Wales, tells you all you need to know about Tan and where he will ultimately take the club, but the extravagance of the summer has already set Cardiff off on the road to rapid decline.
Every club should anticipating making mistakes in the transfer market, it is part of the territory, but they need to be able to afford those mistakes. Cardiff’s summer signings allowed for no mistakes. The totem was Andreas Cornelius, recruited from from Copenhagen for an outrageous £10m. The player received a five year contract worth more than the transfer fee. He’s only 20. Cornelius also earns more than seven times his salary at Copenhagen, no one will be able to afford to take him from Cardiff, his 18 career goals, all in Denmark, suggest he’s simply not worth anything like money he’s on.
If you’re Cardiff City, here’s the problem when you try to recruit for top flight football: after 50 years in the wilderness, you’re favourites for the drop. Players with other top flight options will take them, you’ll have to pay over the odds to convince players to sign on. You’re also shopping in a market you have absolutely no experience of – making mistakes more likely.
Spending £10m on a striker was possibly a sensible idea for Cardiff (I can imagine how popular it was, any sane voices would have been whistling against the wind) but what striker, genuinely worth £10m, would go there without being ‘bribed’ with copious amounts of cash? I’m aware of the parallels with Celtic, which £10m striker would come to Scotland?
They could have received 50 knock-backs before doing a deal in Copenhagen. This pattern was replicated across the rest of their summer spend. They should have invested their Premier League windfall on long-term development, irrespective of the short-term consequences.
For the sake of the club’s fans I hope they survive but inadequate controls at board level, with an owner seemingly intent on self-destruction, a rapid decline through the leagues seems inevitable, sooner or later.
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Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
01:57 on
29 December, 2013
Tri R
I’ll make sure I’m available if you fancy a pint?!
CT
If you’re calling them auld then beejeezus……..:-)
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Ha, I’ll let you away with that one, not because it’s the festive season.
It’s for yer ma.
Yes, this will be the first year, in many, you turn up without a black eye-:))))
SpiritofFreedomCSC
Teuchter ar la,,
Tiochfaidh Ar La.
God Bless..
larssonse7en,
EG,
“Every club should anticipating making mistakes in the transfer market, it is part of the territory, but they need to be able to afford those mistakes.”
FFS,
How hard is it?
Full stop. Capital letter. One sentence = one subject / one doing word…if you’re going for more, use a joiney-up word.
That – or Jabba can sneer at you.
Someone have a word with him
Jeepers…….I’ve told him often enough.
And before you call me pedantic….ah’m no writing this blog. Ah’m one o’ the ejeits reading it. An if ah caught Jabba wi’ them basics ah’d be laughin’.
Sheesht.
Alastar
Typing quick during the festive season, whilst many family duties abound???
Only an idiot cannot read between the lines and try to be pedant about it – that’s my take on things
And why the F… would ANYONE care about jabba sniggering??? Probably causes an earthquake somewhere else in the world… I pray for those people
Next you will be telling me the scottish churnalist of the year…. him of ‘billionaire’ fame is passing critique… ha ha ha
HAIL HAIL
Note to self….STEP away from the comp….. switch off…. do not read back and do not engage
Big difference this time is…. I AM in control and fighting a good cause. You are WAY off the mark Ally boy!
larssonse7en ,
I’m just in after a wee reunion and had a wee look in here.
I’m afraid you’re defending Paul’s consistent inability to recognise how to construct a basic sentence.
Every second or so leader contains this fault.
I’ve tried to point out gently the error of his ways…and tonight I felt he just deserved a good slap for no listening.
And it’s “Alasdair” by the way! (Spelling of this name is SO important.)
I am having a wee laugh / joke here.
(Don’t beleive in “smiley faces”; seeing them more as an excuse for an inability to convey one’s message in prose.)
Also – I’ve never learnt when one should us a colon or a semi-colon.
Well
Alisdair….
I gave you a whole 6 minutes to respond…. And the most ironic part of your posting is that you didn’t once mention my spelling of your name…. I done that deliberately on more than one occasion.
Why didn’t you take me to task for that?
Best you keep sneering with jabba and the churnalist of the year.
MON THE HOOPS
Ha Ha – cross posts
I’m defending Paul – Or anyone:; for that matter who does not spoke the qeens england
And Btw – I know the importance of one’s name Alasdair……. I have a very good, learned friend who shares the name asnd gets frustrated at mispronunciation …. I tell him…. .. it’s par for the course with a name like that! :-) colon, hyphen, closed comma = Smile…… ;-) semi colon, hyphen, closed comma = wink
;-)
HAIL HAIL
Well,well,well.
Now I took a wee breather there to have a cup of tea.
Then Alasdair comes on to give Paul a lecture in grammar.
At 1.57 check your spelling..consstruction
A blame they Tim Skools Alasdair..whoever da feck you may be..
larssonse7en,
The Jabba refence was to categorise basic journalism.
I wasn’t sneering.
I was pointing out to our host a very common grammatical error that I wishTF he would stop making – for me to enjoy his commentary better.
You were no getting it…..but maybe you do now?
Don’t want to offend you.
Oighe bha,
Al
Tricoloured Ribbon,
Grammar / typing mistakes…………..you really need a lesson?
Alasdair,,
Wow,wow,wow, at 02.29, BELEIVE. You can take that one to the proverbial bank.
Al
Like I said earlier… who gives a feck? This forum is not a crash course in the qwikings engurlund!!!
I wish I could speak Irish Gaelic… I believe that is my brains native tongue – yet it has been ‘taught’ out of me
Read between the lines with typo’s – especially in this day and age with texts, social media etc
Well I am of the opinion that Paul67 and Phil have done wonders in confirming outwith Scotland the rampant cheating and corruption within Scottish football and the preponderance of succulent lambness for hunnery in Scotland that ended in the ultimate corporate demise of Glasgow rangers PLC. However, as I say to my son continuously its always about FINISHING.
One has to FINISH as any striker will tell you and hunnery is not FINISHED in Scotland. So as all you good Tims sit back on your laurels having a few guffaws about Murray mints implosion and Zombies, hunnery is not FINISHED in Scotland. In fact, the Glasgow rangers football club could be on the rebound thanks to the many corrupt institutions in Scotland. I throw in Glasgow Celtic in this mix. Lets see what happens. What irks me here is Paul67 and Phil’s silence on Celtic’s silence on this debacle. We’ll find out soon enough.
Guilty or not guilty that is the question.
Al (may I call you that now?)
What does ‘Oighe bha’ mean in your context???
Nollaig shona dhuit
Spelling mistakes / grammar / punctuation….
I realise I’ve got the wrong class here…..I was commenting on the teacher’s ability.
Sorry Paul, I reaslise this is not real time…..but if you want these “MSM churmalists” to take you seriously, ……………..you’d better hire a proof reader to help disguise your inability to grasp basic written English.
That, or resign yourself to being the forever internet bampot.
Alasdair,
Naw,you came on here earlier to try and belittle people in this season of goodwill and tried to be a big man in front of the excellent people on this blog.A lesson? The only lesson you need is to be told to be a humble person.Now,if you don’t want that then away and give us all peace.On reflection,I wish you a Happy New Year,it’s not in my nature to be like that.
….and reading back
Kojo was a bam who thought he was a brammer
But he knew his wit was crass
Kojo left his home in a syphilitic coma
Tae gamble w/some whores in Vegas
Get black, you’re black
Get back to where you once belonged
Get black, Get black!
Get back to where you once performed
Get back Kojo , and take your schizos with you
back to where you once belonged
that would be Airdrie???
larssonse7en.
Oighe bha….
Is Scottish Gaelic for “good night”.
I may have spelt it wrongly – my memory from 30 odd years ago.
Been saying it every night or so since then!
MM
I know you and your brothers – although… and here is the oxymoron…. I cant remember who you are or how I know you …. ha ha How fecked up is that?
Still I know you are a good Tim and much as I try to decipher your musings…. I must admit most pass me by or fly over the head. Your Bro has the best name on this sainted blog. I agree with your sentiments yet believe some things in the background are not to be aired yet….. and that goes against the whole ethos of what I believe in…. ..
Make sense of that! HAIL HAIL
Maggie,
Happy New Year when it comes.
Alasdair old buddy
you should be more concerned about the content than the grammar
let me paraphrase for ye in grammtaically incorrectumundo a la kojo
so preferenciality of the CQN gerontion alzheimer lovers
CARDIFF 2 -2 SUNDERLAND
see me see you cardiif are no so clever
me a paramoundo in retrospecto know everything monday morning quarterbacking
so malcky mackay hud tae go
Come oan copenhagen 10 mill smackeroos for sumbuddy like Tony Watt
jeezo
So ya see theyre ruined and we urny
when will ye ever learn
still laughin
Maggie
and the youngsters
Alasdair MacLean
02:59 on
29 December, 2013
Spelling mistakes / grammar / punctuation….
I realise I’ve got the wrong class here…..I was commenting on the teacher’s ability.
Sorry Paul, I reaslise this is not real time…..but if you want these “MSM churmalists” to take you seriously, ……………..you’d better hire a proof reader to help disguise your inability to grasp basic written English.
That, or resign yourself to being the forever internet bampot.
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WTF is up wae Internet Bampots -:)))
BTW, How are Ross County doing?
Argh Argh Argh!
Well Alasdair
I only use phrases I know…
Wel terusten is lower Netherlands for sleep well
Also – a not well known fact is that lower Netherlands, Landgraaf, Leenhof, Limburg are staunch Catholic… so much so that every wee area has a carved out section of the corner of their houses displaying statues of Our Lady, The Sacred Heart etc…. and ALL villages have a MAN size statue of the Crucifix to worship at…… I lived there in 2005/6 – I should have recognised my calling then…. I do now and can categorically state I will be back to my faith in the new year…. much to the delight of my Xavarian cousin Patrick and WG xx
Tote volgende de here
CaltonTongues#TeamOscar
03:10 on 29 December, 2013
they’re still 14 points ahead of Hertz! :)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x14hz4y_remember-the-22-irish-hunger-strikers_news.
Now these were the men
Margaret McGill
03:13 on
29 December, 2013
CaltonTongues#TeamOscar
03:10 on 29 December, 2013
they’re still 14 points ahead of Hertz! :)
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Aye, but there’s play off afoot!
Farewell and God Bless.TAL
Wot Maggie says at 2.58
larssonse7en
03:04 on 29 December, 2013
I was the one that bought you all the drinks! :)
Tricoloured Ribbon, larssonse7en, CaltonTongues#TeamOscar,
Sorry,
Came in her a wee bit short of patience – amd caught Paul67 – again – with this soooooo basic error in his leader.
This WOULD NOT be found in any article in the Sun / DR.
You’re missing the points lads.
WE ARE the internet bampots,
Paul67 ISN’T.
He is the blog writer – who wants to be taken seriously.
Cheers,
PS – Hope you daftie bampots dont’t think I’m (Ah’m) KOJO ….fae AIRDRIE? yE KEN#?
CaltonTongues#TeamOscar
03:16 on 29 December, 2013
Bugger!
Forgot about that!
thanks
CaltonTongues#TeamOscar,
You will have noticed of course I avoided all reference or acknowledgement of your Ross County comment……………..
Margaret McGill
03:19 on
29 December, 2013
CaltonTongues#TeamOscar
03:16 on 29 December, 2013
Bugger!
Forgot about that!
thanks
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Nae worries but….
Next season (presuming they survive) if/when they downsize and struggle to make the top four (via Dallas)….
Expect them to be drawn against the Mothers – heard it here first!
Alasdair MacLean
03:22 on
29 December, 2013
CaltonTongues#TeamOscar,
You will have noticed of course I avoided all reference or acknowledgement of your Ross County comment……………..
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Duly noted -:)))
CaltonTongues#TeamOscar
Hi Calton so how’s your crutches?
Ready for a square go yet?