Cardiff City delight at takeover news as Vincent Tan era "almost over" | OneFootball

Multiple groups are reportedly interested in taking over the Bluebirds.

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Three different parties are now said to be interested in buying Cardiff City from Vincent Tan.

Gareth Bale and his American backers aren't the only ones looking to right the Bluebirds ship, according to Wales Online, as two other groups are also reported to be talking about a takeover.

One of them is a South African-based consortium, as per the Welsh outlet, and there are rumours that Sutton United co-owner Gary Sotto, a South African who now lives in California, could be involved in it after he followed both the club and its new head coach Brian Barry-Murphy on social media.

Building Cardiff City takeover interest is no bad thing

Any form of takeover would be welcomed by the City supporters, according to Football League World's Cardiff fan pundit, Matt Hall, but this latest link to a new group is particularly encouraging to him.

"I think if you spoke to every single Cardiff fan, they would be positive, optimistic and pretty relieved, if anything that, if it felt like the Vincent Tan era is almost over," said Hall.

"It's a cloud over the club now. I think you can't really talk about Cardiff without talking about Vincent Tan, and it's pretty tiring. Even with these new owners, I think even if they were just to be okay, like, obviously everyone dreams of having these tycoons take over you and absolutely spend millions and millions, and you rise to the top, and you see Birmingham and stuff like that.

"But I think we would just take a steady, okay owner that just does the bare minimum of [sorting out a] director of football, football structures, changing the seats back to blue, the badge back to normal and just acting like a normal football club really.

"It's been years and years of just complete chaos, and I think we would take that [steady owners].

"Although, obviously, the bloke who is facing it up is not, on the surface, the most exciting person in the world, not the richest, but there's pretty good backing behind him compared to what he had at Sutton. So that's a good sign. A lot of money is behind them, and that's what we need.

"It's a club with a lot of potential. There's a lot of people who were driven away because of Vincent Tan and everything that was going on. It has got high potential, and it's about time that someone bought into it.

"You look at all of the sides that went down to League One that are similar or bigger sides to us, the ones that have bounced back have changed ownership. And at the end of the day, I just don't think there was ever going to be a world where we bounced back from League One to the Championship again with no ownership change and I'm glad it's coming.

"[With] Brian Barry Murphy, this could be a new era for us now, and it's something to be excited about."

Cardiff need takeover action sooner than later

It's been more than a month since Barry-Murphy was brought over from Leicester to the Welsh capital. It's his first time working as a head coach since the Irishman's days with Rochdale, when they were in League One.

Between then and now, he's also worked as Manchester City's under-21s coach, and, therefore, will bring a certain style of play to Cardiff. Unless some changes are made to the makeup of his team fairly soon, his tactics and philosophy won't be easy to implement.

Things maybe aren't quite at this point yet, but there is a growing sense that only a takeover can be the catalyst for real forwards movement in the transfer market, hence the supporters' growing desperation to see someone else other than Tan in charge.