Screwy Owners of Premier league clubs
Discussion
Why do some Owners seem to want to run everything at their club. First Venky's get Blackburn relegated. Now we have a Vincent Tan the Cardiff owner who seems to want to alienate fans even further by removing a manager who has taken the club to the Premiership and got them ticking over nicely. Even the Guy in charge of Hull seems to be a bit flaky. He attacked Fans saying that they were "City until I die" by saying that they could die sooner rather than later.
The whole game is doomed. It's inevitable.
Paranoid owners deploying s**t or bust as their business model, paying insane wages and then sacking the manager if they don't produce Champions League football in a nanosecond. It is not sustainable and what happens when Sky say they can't prop it all up any more?
No other line of business would survive but football gets a stay of execution because it is so precious to everyone.
Revolution is overdue but the fans don't care enough about the bigger picture and are instead happy to be fleeced whilst sitting back and absorbing the soap opera
Paranoid owners deploying s**t or bust as their business model, paying insane wages and then sacking the manager if they don't produce Champions League football in a nanosecond. It is not sustainable and what happens when Sky say they can't prop it all up any more?
No other line of business would survive but football gets a stay of execution because it is so precious to everyone.
Revolution is overdue but the fans don't care enough about the bigger picture and are instead happy to be fleeced whilst sitting back and absorbing the soap opera
The jiffle king said:
Makes me glad to be a Southampton fan....
Feel for Cardiff fans as this looks like a mad decision
Trigger happy chairmen pandering to their ego´s
That said we all thought it was madness when Adkins was given the boot! Okay in hindsight it hasn't been a bad decision as Pochettino has done well, but Adkins did so well with your lot and didn't deserve the boot imo.Feel for Cardiff fans as this looks like a mad decision
Trigger happy chairmen pandering to their ego´s
hornetrider said:
The jiffle king said:
Makes me glad to be a Southampton fan....
Feel for Cardiff fans as this looks like a mad decision
Trigger happy chairmen pandering to their ego´s
That said we all thought it was madness when Adkins was given the boot! Okay in hindsight it hasn't been a bad decision as Pochettino has done well, but Adkins did so well with your lot and didn't deserve the boot imo.Feel for Cardiff fans as this looks like a mad decision
Trigger happy chairmen pandering to their ego´s
Not sure what kind of crack matey at Cardiff is smoking, but my guess is it's laced with something.
telecat said:
Sod that given his ego he will be on the pitch!!
Two massive ego's then. MM's ego would have probably won that contest.Handled badly, but that is football. MM to sign off for £3m when sacked...must be gutted.
No doubt the intellectually challenged 'fans' will be after Tam's blood, totally ignoring he could pull out at anytime and the fact it's not 'their' club...it's Tams plaything, and he bailed Cardiff out.
I can imagine it on Saturday...an absolute drubbing on the cards, with the 'fans' clapping a strutting egotistical manager off the pitch in mutual faux mourning, whose on more than their total salaries combined and who would not give them the time of day if they met him munching on a sausage roll in Greggs.
He'll be forgotten within 2 weeks, fickle as the 'mob' are.
It makes you wonder about the FA's fit-and-proper-person parameters when you look at the likes of Venkys at Blackburn and now Tan. I don't suppose a sanity check is included. Seriously, it must be 
being a Cardiff fan what with the change to red strip (in a completely blue stadium 
) and now this. I'm sure a lot of people will enjoy their demise (.. as they did with Blackburn) should it happen, it's hardly fair on the support though.
being a Cardiff fan what with the change to red strip (in a completely blue stadium ) and now this. I'm sure a lot of people will enjoy their demise (.. as they did with Blackburn) should it happen, it's hardly fair on the support though. TangerinePool said:
The whole game is doomed. It's inevitable.
Paranoid owners deploying s**t or bust as their business model, paying insane wages and then sacking the manager if they don't produce Champions League football in a nanosecond. It is not sustainable and what happens when Sky say they can't prop it all up any more?
No other line of business would survive but football gets a stay of execution because it is so precious to everyone.
Revolution is overdue but the fans don't care enough about the bigger picture and are instead happy to be fleeced whilst sitting back and absorbing the soap opera
There are plenty of clubs run prudently enough to survive as businesses even if these wealthy owners all back out and the madness ends. Clubs like... oh I don't know... Blackpool? Paranoid owners deploying s**t or bust as their business model, paying insane wages and then sacking the manager if they don't produce Champions League football in a nanosecond. It is not sustainable and what happens when Sky say they can't prop it all up any more?
No other line of business would survive but football gets a stay of execution because it is so precious to everyone.
Revolution is overdue but the fans don't care enough about the bigger picture and are instead happy to be fleeced whilst sitting back and absorbing the soap opera
marsred said:
There are plenty of clubs run prudently enough to survive as businesses even if these wealthy owners all back out and the madness ends. Clubs like... oh I don't know... Blackpool?
Yeah right 
Having said that, Delia and Co at Norwich have a business plan of 'living within their means'. And has said on numerous occasions that she would only sell out to a new investor if he / she could prove they will be beneficial to the club long term. This has in the past (... especially back in the L1 days) caused a degree of friction among the support who were at that time absolutely desperate to see new investment. Venkys and Tan very much prove the old adage of 'be careful what you wish for'. I'd rather we have what we've got than a leveraged buy-out and the club being charged huge amounts of interest to support the loan, as is the case with lots of other supposedly rich
clubs. darren f said:
It makes you wonder about the FA's fit-and-proper-person parameters when you look at the likes of Venkys at Blackburn and now Tan. I don't suppose a sanity check is included. Seriously, it must be being a Cardiff fan what with the change to red strip (in a completely blue stadium ) and now this. I'm sure a lot of people will enjoy their demise (.. as they did with Blackburn) should it happen, it's hardly fair on the support though.
As a Watford fan, we know the fit-and-proper test is not worth the paper it's written on. Our previous owner was declared bankrupt in 2007, yet was able to buy the club in 2011. In 2013 (after selling the club) he was found guilty by the FA of misconduct and dishonesty over financial dealings on behalf of the club. Oh, and then his holding company for Watford was placed in liquidation by the High Court. being a Cardiff fan what with the change to red strip (in a completely blue stadium ) and now this. I'm sure a lot of people will enjoy their demise (.. as they did with Blackburn) should it happen, it's hardly fair on the support though. The FA are not fit and proper themselves, but that's for another thread!
nascarrules said:
hornetrider said:
The Cardiff situation is appalling. Really feel for the fans.
Makes me kind of happy we've got Mike Ashley when you see what that fruit loops trying to do at Cardiff. Ashley has a tendency to do the outrageous on occassion, but there is nearly always a business case behind it.
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