Cardiff City claims it does not know supposed creditor

Peter Risdale wants to refute claims that Welch Cardiff City owes GBP 30 million in debts.

Part of the trouble is that Langston Corporation has started legal proceedings against the club. The company claims it is Cardiff City's chief financial backer, and has accused the club of fiscal mismanagement.

Langston claimed owes GBP 30 million in debt, and has spent the past three months ignoring the company's request to pay.

Risdale said Langston is not known by the club, and must be associated with former chairman Sam Hammam.

"We are astonished at the press release sent out today appearing to come from someone representing the Langston Corporation," read a statement from Risdale. "The new board of Cardiff City Football Club and Cardiff City Council have for some time been trying to identify who Langston is and have continually come up against a brick wall. Far from refusing to talk to them, we don't know who they are.

"Mr Hammam, our previous chairman, had been acting as the intermediary with Langston and we have been in constant dialogue with him. Indeed he has always refused to divulge the identity of Langston and therefore we could have never had any direct dialogue with them.

"We feel that this should now be properly dealt with through the legal process."

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