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Dalman: Tan won’t dump Cardiff
- Updated: September 8, 2016
Cardiff City chairman Mehmet Dalman has labelled claims Vincent Tan will sell the club “nonsense”, but says David Marshall had to be sold despite a desire to keep hold of the goalkeeper.
Malaysian businessman Tan has previously said he would be open to buying another football club in the UK, but wrote off £68m of the club’s debt in February in a bid to get the club debt-free within five years.
Dalman defended Tan after claims he has lost interest in the club and is absent from too many of the Sky Bet Championship side’s fixtures, insisting the Cardiff owner needs to look after his businesses in the Far East in order to help recoup money invested in the club.
“He needs to make money from those businesses to put into Cardiff City FC, which he continues to do,” Dalman told Wales Online.
“I find it disappointing people are questioning him like this and I also think it’s unfair. If it wasn’t for him, where on earth would this club be today? Yet despite the criticism, he has no wish to just dump it and move on.”
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