Cardiff issues statement to supporters, with a personal message from the club owner Vincent Tan following relegation to League One.
The Bluebirds will be playing in the third tier for the first time since 2003, their fate sealed after a 0-0 draw against West Brom at the weekend.
They struggled through a poor season under managers Erol Bulut, Omer Riza, and interim Aaron Ramsey, fan protests targeted Tan, who refutes claims of disengagement.
The Club has issued a statement to supporters, with a personal message from Tan Sri Vincent Tan.#CityAsOne
— Cardiff City FC (@CardiffCityFC) April 29, 2025
Cardiff City fans demand ‘urgent’ meeting with Vincent Tan after relegation to League One
STATEMENT:
To all Cardiff City supporters,
I wish to acknowledge the open letter that has been issued by our Supporters’ Trust. We hear your words and I share your hurt and frustration. Not all decisions when it comes to the First Team have worked as I had hoped for us.
To lose our place in the Championship is upsetting. The important thing is that we regain it at the earliest opportunity and I would like to take this chance to tell you that I am committed to getting us back. A period of review is being undertaken; a permanent manager and management team will be appointed in the coming weeks. As a point of developing strategy, our Board of Directors have begun internal discussions with executive management and staff to strategise and plan for the summer and new season.
To say I don’t care is wrong and I strongly push back on that. I watch every game and speak to the Board and manager before and after each one. My family will tell you: I kick every ball!
We have enjoyed good times together. I can tell all Cardiff City supporters that it is my intention to support correcting the situation we find ourselves in. I want us to all pull in the same direction.
I will make every effort to be in Cardiff at the next opportunity that my scheduling allows. I am sorry that we are where we are this summer. It is now time to rebuild.
Vincent
Cardiff City have been relegated to League One 🚨 pic.twitter.com/khKthFBZmz
— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) April 26, 2025
Here’s the initial reaction from Cardiff fans as the club issues statement to supporters with a personal message from Vincent Tan…
@guiltisgood: It’s a start. First priority should be a director of football to help start this rebuild. Rambo is right in that the only way we come back from this as a united club & it needs to start now. Manager situation NEEDS to be sorted by first week of June at the latest.
@ChrisJG1988: These words are nothing if they don’t turn into proper action, this has gone far enough, us supporters have been trying to tell you for months what was coming and now it’s too late, but if the proper structures are put into place, we can have a good season next season and return
@DanielDBacon: Waffle – token gesture to keep the fans quiet for a few weeks. The review should’ve been a long time ago as we’ve made the same mistakes year in and year out, relegation is no surprise to most, it’s been coming but our owner seems to be surprised by it. Massive change needed.
@ElisBevan7: “We hear you” where the fuck have you been all season, when it was clear to every fan we were in free fall destined for failure?
@rejectedtheoffa: Thank you Mr Tan! I speak on behalf of all true Cardiff fans when I say we believe in you and you will find the solutions to take us where we belong! In Tan we trust 🙏🏻👏🏻
@matthewjamesali: Stop pissing about and hire a sporting director. Never been a better time to accept you’ve been wrong and to change direction for the betterment of the club, players, staff and most importantly the supporters who bleed blue for this football club. We deserve so much better.
@IsaacWatkins311: What a fucking cop out, get a dof before a manager and fuck your scheduling Tan, show up for the club
@Sprogit3: Fuck your statement…. Time for us as fans to demonstrate like Reading and Charlton did, hold up games, get the coverage and show we ain’t accepting what’s currently going on at the club. Almost feels some fans are just accepting what’s really going on and ain’t that bothered. !!
@tomosb_: You can start by fucking off those utter charlatans Dalman and Choo who’re ultimately responsible for wasting millions of your pounds. I’m sure this relegation is because of Malky & Moody spending £7m on a highly rated prospect 12 years ago though! You forgot to mention that!
@VFTNinian: I know we all wanted to hear from them, but this isn’t particularly reassuring. Something fundamentally needs to change at this football club. We can’t have the same people planning our comeback when they have overseen our demise. Tan is the sole decision maker; that needs to change.
@NeefBlues: Quite underwhelming statements from both the club and owner. Just bog standard statements without any substance. However I hope you back up your words and sort this mess out. Tan isn’t going anywhere with this court case but an internal restructure is needed asap.
@christ1ant0b: “We are going to promise the same things as we always do but nothing will change blah blah blah, please buy season tickets”
@MichaelBal51521: Actions speak louder than words. We need a full-time DOF to plan and build a squad capable of getting us back to the Championship next season. We also need a new chairman and CEO who care about the club and know what they are doing. Until this happens, nothing will change.
@SimonJenkins30: Well Tan if you are not going maybe you need to look at who is under you. Starting with dumping Dalman and Ken Choo Choo Train and bring people in who actually have a bit of footballing knowledge. Like maybe someone who knows the ball is round. Unless you do that no improvement.
@RosetteJerseys: That’s all very well but you just know we’ll end up with yet another budget, run of the mill manager that Tan will then sack in late November once we’ve lost 4-1 away at Northampton and then replace him with the kit man or Bartley until the end of the season.
@LilGamo: Statement is a load of bollocks…. Actions speak louder than words and so far it’s just been words… get a proper manager in and start backing us properly otherwise sell up and leave
@LouisCcfc: Don’t believe this shite for a minute
You’ve had days and this is what you come up with?
“I watch every game and speak to the manager before and after each one”
That’s a relief to hear Tan. I was worried the bloke who wants our keepers to shoot more was not telling non league standard managers what to do. pic.twitter.com/ssWEcOUr2Y
— Mike (@theninianmike) April 29, 2025
1. Sorry to the fans.
2. Vincent wants to put things right.
3. We are working internally on it.
4. Repeat annually.#PR
“We hear you” – apart from when fans tell you things are going wrong and you accuse them of being ‘incendiary’. https://t.co/kIeYkWQ5kh pic.twitter.com/mngN5vFWIj— Mark Carter (@MarkLewisCarter) April 29, 2025
Protest before the Cardiff City and Oxford United game … Sack the Board and Tan Out is the message #cardiffcityfc #cardiffcity #tanout pic.twitter.com/2a8s3zlEuo
— Ian Martin (@ianmartins) April 21, 2025
Pre-match protest against Cardiff owner Vincent Tan and the board. Not as many here as in January before the win over Swansea. pic.twitter.com/6n9elHb8qP
— Dafydd Pritchard (@DafPritchard) April 21, 2025
Cardiff fans protest outside ground and call for Tan to go and board to be sacked https://t.co/BsqXbVuhnA pic.twitter.com/9LQZSHV7PJ
— Cardiff City Online (@CardiffCityLive) April 21, 2025
