Takeover Rumours

It was James Scowcroft.

 

It was @Fordy117 that said this.

It’s amazing how many Bradford City fans can see this. If the owner from the top has no direction or ambition for the club then you will just attract players that want a payday.

 

Wilsden it was Jamie Scrowroft I think.. ex Ipswich and he said huge club huge problems and kept saying f use looks disineterted then the palyesr pick that vibe up too...... He also saod W

 

I think its less about ownership, than it is about leadership. You can succeed purely on the basis of a decent manager having a decent budget and applying decent coaching methods, but what's really needed is a structure within a club that see's it being able to run well on (ironically) a sustainable basis. We hear that word all the time - but we haven't been operating sustainably at all. All we've done is reduce the operating costs that Rahic saddled us with to match the income we generate. We're in a cycle of decline and every new manager means we start again from scratch because of how the club is set up. There's nothing sustainable about that.

Look at the very top end of the food chain. Pep and Klopp succeed as brilliantly as they do - not just because they're excellent managers with good budgets (huge budgets in City's case), they succeed because there's a clear ethos and vision from the top of the club down and other people in key roles are aligned to that vision, and highly capable of delivering it. Then contrast that with Man United - despite appointing some of the world's most proven and successful coaches, and providing sizeable playing budgets, they've being going backwards and backwards. Why? Because they're completely disjointed, lacking in a proper football strategy and the structure to enable a successful coach just isn't there. The scale at this level is different, of course, but its reductive to just expect a formula of Hughes + decent budget = promotion to apply. It may happen, of course, but Sparks/Rupp are responsible for the other tools and resources he'll need to be successful. Part of why we are where we are is precisely because we've underestimated the other key elements beyond manager and budget, in building successful sides.

 

he also said Warnock would have killed them at half time.. sorry at work trying not to be seen by my nosey colleagues hence my spelling is poor....

 

I believe it was James Scowcroft who was co-commentating.

 

Drinking in the afternoon. Tut tut.

 

He also said the pkayers looked low in confidence and that could be confidence in themselves, confidence in their team mates, or confidence in the direction of the club

 

Or it could have been that Hughes made 7 changes which disrupted the side and included a lot of fringe players who won’t be here next season. Most players don’t give a toss about direction of the club, just how much their contract is worth and will their agent get them fixed up for next season.

 

As a club it is blatantly obvious that we are trying to stay within the salary cap for league 2 clubs. 55% of turn over on your playing budget. Obviously the more you earn, the bigger that budget is. Our reported wage bill of £2.7 million, is ample for this division. Its just been very badly spent the past few seasons. Did we not get relegated from league one with a £4 million wage bill that season of Edin madness.
it's a shame clubs don't get points deducted the following season for breaking the rules, say 5 points for every £100,000
they overspend. It would make clubs like Salford think twice about having one of the largest budgets on some of the smallest crowds. Although they would try and register the players as non dom, or something like that to try and get round it.

 

I have no confidence in the owner.

 

They didn’t own the ground previously but we’re buying it as part of the new ground deal. Was complex from memory so if it has all fallen through they will be back paying rent

 

He isn't picking or coaching the players.

 

As far as I’m aware you are right. Once again it’s football club wanting a new ground hoping someone else will pay for it. Aka the taxpayer. That I find impossible to agree with .

 

Neither was Rupp under Grayson, Adams, Bowyer, McCall. All very competent managers at this level but all failed ultimately.

 

He's hiring and directing the man who's responsible for selecting the people who are picking and coaching the players, then failing at it, then doing it again, failing at it again. Then doing it again and failing at it again.

Thats how accountability works.

 

We still don’t have enough football people at the club for my liking.

for us to be sat on 52 points right now is plain embarrassing. 21 POINTS OFF THE PLAYOFFS.

Sparky is in his dead rubber period. The season was over and the club was beyond repair. When will we start seeing some off the field appointments to get us moving in the right direction?

Been away so not totally in the loop but all I’ve seen is Davide Longo getting a promotion? Are we not appointing a recruitment man or is it all on Hughsey’s shoulders?