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Club for sale etc.

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by Norman Corner, Oct 20, 2023.

  1. Bantam Man

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    With Gordon Gibb being at every home match this season we can suspect a Flamingo Land takeover. Gordon Gibb & David Baldwin Involved
     
  2. Park bantam

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    You Spelt Jackman wrong
     
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  3. Fordy117

    Fordy117 Just call me Mr Flip-Flop!
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    Well what’s taking them so long then? Get Rupp and Sparks out! Let’s move this club forward.
     
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  4. Kevin1954

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    I know how it works 30 years senior management working with CEOs

    Eg 60 staff and a budget given to me by a CEO to spend on wages and investment to suit those staff. It was my job to ensure the budget wasn’t overspent whilst ensuring production output met demand . They never got involved in day to day operations , recruitment , interviews etc etc . Let’s say I know how it works. The business is irrelevant ! Any other questions I am happy to help. So YES is your answer .
     
  5. Dubois

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    I don't want to fall out with you Kev, but don't you think coming on here day after day giving us your life story in business, and telling us all about the inner workings of whatever organisations you worked in, might just get a little bit tedious for the rest of us?
     
  6. Fordy117

    Fordy117 Just call me Mr Flip-Flop!
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    Please learn to understand football operates differently.

    You come on here acting like a cocky git but knows F all.

    Laughable to think you don’t feel the CEO or Owner is responsible or accountable for Bradford City’s failure at this moment.
     
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  7. Hulmebantam

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    Spot on Fordy.

    In management speak, we've had an ongoing problem with accountability and responsibility since Phil Parkinson left. Until we sort this, we will continue to be a mess.
     
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  8. Big bad bobby

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    That’s
    why I put him on ignore. Dull as dishwater.
     
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  9. FrenchBantam

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    Not sure just how reliable this source is:
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  10. trevor

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    Sparks needs to go he is proven rubbish at the football side and not much better commercially. Anyone can sell the club with a large back up team and a celebrity manager. Lets see how he does if we start to drop as an also run midtable team with crowds and season tickets going down. He is an expensive failure
     
  11. BradfordCityBrad

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    Just throwing this out there, not sure how well known it is but Gent was not approached by Sparks, it was the other way around. Gent messaged Sparks on LinkedIn to offer some players from Middlesbrough because he thought they’d fit into the system Hughes was playing. Sparks then said let’s speak about the vacant Head of Recruitment role (a role that agent has never had before).
     
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  12. Hulmebantam

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    If true and this isn't just a new account on Twitter, I wonder where it leaves the current recruitment process? A new owner might want to have a say in this.
     
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  13. Captain Grumpy

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    He’s rubbish commercially now is he, wow amazing what a hate campaign can achieve. Something he was always praised about ,seeing he’s achieved commercially far more than Rhodes ever did is now no good at that.
     
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  14. FrenchBantam

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    Looking a good bet BM
     
  15. Ulysses S Grant

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    Edin Rahic suggested it
     
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  16. king karl

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    Least reliable source ever.. blokes a fool
     
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  17. king karl

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    Blokes a joke in rugby league circles

    He's just read the rumours
     
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  18. Hulmebantam

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    Ah ok. Cheers
     
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  19. Rogered Tart

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    It won't be true mate. Gledhill has history for talking absolute guff. Big attention seeker.
     
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  20. CRASS

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    I have compiled a list of facts which prove this not to be the case in football, even if it was the case in your line of work. I hope you don't think I'm being a tosser, I'm not trying to be, just trying to justify some of the criticism of Sparks, that there should be some accountability.

    This is a full behind-the-scenes look at transfer deadline day at Mansfield Town with CEO David Sharpe doing the all of the business. -



    "The player's agent will be in charge of laying out their demands with a senior member of the buying club's board which could be the chief executive or the director of football." - Article on Talksport


    - This video which is essentially an Athletic article goes into depth on how involved a chairman/CEO is with transfer dealings.

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    This Interview with a fella from a transfer consultancy company, a lot of talk about dealing with agents and chairmen.
     

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