newgroundrodney wrote:CTY74 wrote:
"What I recall Tan became involved with City as part of a consortium led by Dato Chan Tien Ghee who was attracted to the club by Peter Ridsdale in 2010. The sale of Ninian Park and the building of CCS came a few years before Tan arrived at the club.
NP was owned by Cardiff City FC but the land it was built on was on a long term lease from Cardiff City Council, again what I recall CCC donated the land under NP to the club along with the Leckwith Stadium and car park so that the club could build a new stadium on the provision the club builds/pays for a new athletic stadium near by and improve the road infrastructure around the stadium. Which was all done after NP was sold to Redrow for housing."
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So Tan comes into a Cardiff City where the CCS (2nd best ground I've ever been to by the way - love the place!) is already built. He takes over presumably with the Premier League as his goal. But with the higher level, comes higher wages etc, though admittedly higher attendances somewhat, and higher ticket prices perhaps, but there doesn't SEEM to be much more option to Tan to make money than any other middling football chaiman. In the light of that, with no stadium in place, I can't see how Newport County are going to attract anyone if that investor's first outlay is going to be £15M to build a ground......unless we get REALLY lucky!
Watching it unfold as I did & in my opinion yes Tan's goal was the Premier League & making City an established PL team so he could then promote, sell the image rights and merchandise etc of the club to the Malaysian/South East Asia market as he'd seen how big the PL was in Asia & how much the PL clubs could make in Asia
Tan is not a football man he's a business man hence his ill-fated attempt to change the colours to red which is seen to be lucky & more favourable in South East Asia, when this didn't work out he significantly reduced his investment in the club & his decisions divided the club hence the in fighting & the disastrous first season in the PL. As it stands I believe the club owes him somewhere around £160m maybe with better understanding & a united club he will be able to sell the club to the Asian market!!