The day Vincent Tan was given a lesson in things money cannot buy.

Posted on December 22, 2013 by The other Bob Wilson

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5 Responses to The day Vincent Tan was given a lesson in things money cannot buy.

  1. Damo says:
    December 22, 2013 at 2:16 pm

    You reap (harvest) what you sow (seeds) as opposed to sew (socks, stitches).

  2. The other Bob Wilson says:
    December 22, 2013 at 4:06 pm

    Hello Colin and a Merry Christmas to you. As I said to Dai, I’m sorry nut I’m not really able to give your message the attention it deserves at the moment, but a couple of things spring to mind.
    1. I think it’s easy to forget that our circumstances have changed greatly since April in that we have funds substantially larger than what has been spent in the transfer market coming into the club now and so we shouldn’t be as reliant on Tan’s money as we were – that said, I’m not expecting us to make a profit this year, but I think it’s hard for supporters to get out of the financial mind set which was the norm for much of the decade before our promotion.
    2. I agree with you about lancing the boil. Much as I’d like Malky to stay, I believe that, if as some rumours suggest (edit – I see it’s being claimed on messageboards now that Mehmet Dalman has announced Malky is staying for the foreseeable future), Tan has had a change of mind then I believe we are just postponing the inevitable and the chance to strengthen the squad might well be gone by the time the next row blows up

  3. The other Bob Wilson says:
    December 22, 2013 at 4:07 pm

    Of course you do, don’t know what I was thinking of.

    Thanks Damo, I’ll change it now.

  4. Dai Woosnam says:
    December 22, 2013 at 11:40 pm

    A very interesting piece from Colin.
    But if I may be allowed to inject a touch of levity into yesterday’s proceedings…?
    Wasn’t it Phil Brown when manager of Hull who threatened to fine his players if he saw them going up to superstars in the opposing side and asking for their shirt at full time?
    Quite right too.
    And I trust that Malky operates a similar thoroughly sane poiicy.
    If he does, then Luis Suarez is in trouble yet again, because I saw him leave the pitch with a Cardiff City shirt over his shoulder.
    Suarez can expect a fine from Brendan for pestering his hero Ben Turner to give him his shirt. (Well it WAS blue, so that makes it a collectors’ item!)

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