Edin in the News

Obviously a peice with disgraceful racist undertones, well according to1 or 2 on here anyway.

 

It’s football in general that’s lost it’s soul and identity - not just Bradford City.

 

Good summing up about what it would do for English football and something Rahic should read and realise that he can't change English Football. One man standing against the tide is onlt going to result in the one man being hurt. Let's face it he's just a Bosnian German not a Jewish prophet with miracle powers to part the sea.

The only headline I want to read now is "Bradford City Replace Head Coach With A Proper Football Manager".

Rahic can calm the storm, but only by accepting that football decides how it will be run not one sole voice of a Chairman with mad cap ideas. He might change it over a very very long period if he sticks around, but in football only Evolution will work over Revolution.

 

Hmmm. An article from what people on the left call the “Daily Heil” and you actually make a joke about the racist connotations? I’m a “righty” myself, but that article is poorly written and misleading. All to stoke tension.

As they say, if you cant see the problem, you’re part of it.

 

Isn't It just a rehash of a few quotes from a much better written and more informative piece in The Times?

 

Confirming that your a pompous 1 trick pony .You seem to delight in fetching racism onto nearly every discussion, the owners nationalities dont come into it , they haven't a clue how football in this country work's, collins is english he is clueless as well . Our club is being destroyed by this experiment why cant people see that .

 

Regardless of your view of the tone of the article or the paper it comes from, a feeder club model is not something I would want our club to be involved with.

You need to strip out any bias you may have and examine the facts.

 

How?

 

absolutely. so xenophobic this article. its a disgrace. obviously bitter and has an agenda against the club, I'd say.

 

How?

 

Yep, it seems so. But I’d say with a slightly different take on it. It’s very scaremongering and “that’s the end for Bradford etc”, as opposed to the original article which seemed more balanced.

 

I don’t delight in fetching racism into every conversation. It’s the first time I’ve mentioned it in the last couple of days, as there does seem an undertone for some people. The race card is played too often, which I don’t like, but I think there’s something in it at the moment.

I do get that most people don’t like Rahic because of the way he’s running the club, but some people don’t like him because of that and also because he happens to be foreign. I honestly think some people wouldn’t act like they do if he wasn’t foreign. Case in point is the guy who shouted up to him at the last match.

 

Getting to the subject of the article “feeder clubs” I have always despised the thought however football has now changed rapidly there is no longer a ladder to the top unless you can pay for it. Lots of clubs have no chance of progression. So if an arrangement probably an informal one for clubs like ours can provide us with good players why not.

 

That's convenient isn't it.

you always despised the idea of feeder clubs but now Edin's mentioned it you're all for it.

 

Not at all clubs are filling their squads now with loans from different clubs anyway why not an arrangement with one.

 

I vehemently disagree with the notion of feeder clubs (and whilst we're at it, "B teams") in the Football League and I would be aghast if I ever thought that City were at risk of becoming one. However, although the wording of the original Edin quote in The Times was a bit ambiguous, it appeared to me that he was advocating feeder clubs in general, especially as he went on to talk in terms of transparency and implementing regulations to keep things above board rather than it all happening behind closed doors. In fact, it's not hard to see how a club operating on his business model of picking up younger players and improving them to sell on would benefit if 4 or 5 lower league clubs became feeder clubs and reduced the competition when it came to signing youngsters to develop.

 

Not a surprising approach from the DM, cherry picking a part of an existing article and rehashing to suit.

I'm no lover of everything Rahic appears to be doing, but in terms of the Times article he was bemoaning the current EPL loans approach of insisting players get played, loan fees etc etc - which I think is a reasonable criticism.

Rahic seemed to be proposing 'feeder' clubs so that primarily more formal arrangements can be set up on loans, in theory removing the elements he was being critical of. He may have a further agenda, thin end of the wedge or whatever but hat's how it came across.

Doesn't mean the arrival of B teams as that will never happen IMO, yet that seems to be the conclusion being drawn with the article and I'm not sure why - the two are completely different.