General Football 2013

[Chazza]

Seems humble, intelligent and unbiased. And he's a Manc isn't he?

Reece - worth a watch for sure. Certainly beats that Guidetti 'thing' that Shaggy just posted in the Man City thread. Don't watch that.

As Shaggy said he is a nice chap.

Actually engages in some reasonable debate and chat on twitter.

[Fivex]

[Reece]

That's all well and good, but Ant & Dec.

[Shaggy]

[ame]https://twitter.com/bbcsport_david/status/413760738009042944[/ame]

[Shaggy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25457024

Cardiff City: Malky Mackay told to quit or be sacked by Vincent Tan

By David Ornstein
BBC Sport

Cardiff City manager Malky Mackay has been told by owner Vincent Tan to resign or he will be sacked.

In a letter emailed to Mackay on Monday, it is understood Tan listed in depth his grievances with the Scot.

Tan criticised 41-year-old Mackay at length in a range of areas, such as signings, transfer budgets, results on the pitch and style of play.

The Malaysian businessman also questioned the former Watford manager's record as a boss.

Tan's controversies at Cardiff

• Changed the shirt colours from blue to red and added a red dragon to the club's crest
  
• Removed head of recruitment Iain Moody, and hired 23-year-old Alisher Apsalyamov, who was at work experience at the club and is a friend of his son
• Tried to influence the tactics of the first team during matches, reports BBC Radio 5 live's Pat Murphy

Mackay has previously said he will not resign.

A Cardiff spokesman told BBC Sport: "The club is not party to any letter sent from one person to another."

The correspondence came on the same day the Malaysian businessman issued a statement through Cardiff chief executive Simon Lim criticising Mackay.

Tan said he was "extremely upset" after Mackay revealed he was hoping to recruit three new players in the January transfer window.

The ex-Scotland international, who was named Cardiff boss in June 2011, led the Welsh club to promotion from the Championship seven months ago, but his future became uncertain when head of recruitment, Iain Moody, was removed from his position in October.

Tan's concerns surrounds a perceived overspend of the transfer budget agreed between Mackay, Lim and Moody.

Cardiff broke their transfer record three times over the summer, signing striker Andreas Cornelius for £7.5m, defender Steven Caulker for £8m and then midfielder Gary Medel for £11m.

The owner claims the total budget was £35m and that £50m was spent including add-ons.

Mackay and Moody have denied those claims, insisting the £35m was solely for transfer fees and that Lim and Tan had no complaints about that rising with add-ons.

[Leyton388]

What a knob head that Tan sounds like? Hope they get relegated.

[dom9]

Mental.

[RichC]

****ing hell, Malky is loved by the Cardiff fans and is doing a decent job in their first season in the top flight since the early 60's.

They've had a few poor owners in recent years Tan, Hamman and Ridsdale was there as well.

From our point of view helps them having internal issues just before we play them but I don't like to see this sort of **** going on in football.

[Chazza]

Brings a tear to your eye doesn't it snoozy?

[RichC]

Not really.

After having the cunts we had as owners I can sympathise with other clubs who're run by complete tools (bar the Mancs)

[Chazza]

Amen brother.

[Roboklopp]

Aye

[Pablo]

This will either galvanise them or they'll be in total disarray. If it's the latter this could be a real thumping!

[Chazza]

The 9.30am Cardiff press conference will be interesting.

[Pablo]

I'm hoping they sack him and put the 19 year old work experience kid in charge of tomorrow's game