new owners dictating transfer policies

[tangerinedream]

It's also not uncommon for the owners and manager to work together. In fact I would reckon the following scene happens all the time in boardrooms arround the country.

Manager: Hello Mr Chairman Sir...
Chairman: What?
Manager: Can I have a new player please?
Chairman: How much?
Manager: Not a lot?
Chairman: C'mon...
Manager: 3 million?
Chairman: The door is over there, see you later.
Manager: Ok. Worth a try...

It's not as if managers are given a blank chequebook as a norm is it? I would liken the current position of manager to that of a CEO in a large company - it's up to the owner to appoint a decent CEO to run things and they must let them get on with it, otherwise there is no point in the position.

The other difference between 'the other proffesions' that weltweit refers to is that an owner of a business may well have built that company up over a number of years - virtually no football chairman is in that position - indeed most clubs have been built up on the back of community support which bring me to my next point.

One of the first rules of any business is to listen to consumers - If you asked every match going football fan on next Saturday...

Q. Who you would want to spend your clubs money,

A) an experienced professional with years of playing and coaching who has a cogent vision for the team he wants and has built up a scouting network and briefed them to find and make that vision a reality?

B) Some fella who hasn't even been to many football matches if any before?

I think the result would be pretty obvious.

Or is the game not about the fans any more?

 

[TrippyLondoner]

Or is the game not about the fans any more?

I wonder this a lot these days, and keep thinking 'no, it isn't'.

 

[JTG]

We've just persuaded the Third Division's leading scorer to sign a new three year deal. Here's what new chairman Nick Higgs had to say about it:

"If we want to progress as a club then we have to put our money where our mouth is," he said, "There is a limit to what we can do, but at the end of the day we employ managers to manage, we have employed Paul and Lennie to manage the football side of things, and we have to back them.

"We [directors] look after the business side of things and move the club in the right direction off the field, but we have got to give the management backing.

"We're looking to take the whole club forward, and if we want to challenge for promotion then securing players like Rickie is what we have to do."

And he's right

 

[tangerinedream]

We've just persuaded the Third Division's leading scorer to sign a new three year deal. Here's what new chairman Nick Higgs had to say about it:



And he's right

Karl Oyston confesses he knows nowt about football. Which is fine by me tbh.