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We are a bottom half 4th division rudderless, skint unambitious unit.. but get it in your head that there is no queue of millionaires outside the door and until and unless some fool wants to blow his family inheritances away then this is where we will stay and belong...

 

Gonna disagree here with the first part of your statement. A clubs direction is governed firstly by the owner/s of the club who then employs a CEO to oversee his vision. They then do their due diligence and source the manager they see as being the best option to implement those ideas. There is no long term vision with this club, hence the lazy appointment of McCall as manager. That's not to say he might not succeed but the appointment wasn't done with a view to a long term strategy. I do agree with the sentiment of your post though and is a reason to question the long term future of the club.



(disclaimer* I do realise there is a virus going round at the moment that leaves long term strategies up in the air, it is just an reply to a relevant question to City's long term future).

 

If anybody still believes Stefan Rupp has any sort of strategy to progress the club with the clubs best interest at heart rather than his own investment then you are rather naively mistaken.

 

I wonder if this topic has been covered on the forum yet....

 

The two kind of go hand in hand though. The more successful we are on the pitch, the more attractive we become to potential investors/new owners. It is absolutely in his interest to have a strategy to progress the club.

 

I’m not sure they do, a league 2 club with solid foundations, breaking even, a strong off the field operation generating healthy income, a sound strategy for identifying and developing playing talent and perhaps the potential for growth would, I imagine, be more attractive than an absolute basket case of a club. I’m not sure City are a basket case but promotion to league one tomorrow wouldn’t solve many of the problems the club has.

 

I absolutely love the way football fans have this cavalier attitude to other peoples money.

If someone was to say to you you will get some or all of your money back when you sell your X/Y or Z but in the meantime I want you to keep putting more in, with no guarantee of any of it coming back....what would your response be?

And he is not going to sell now is he? Who would buy a football club at this point? He can sit tight, run a tight ship, tighten up the belt, ensure we are financially stable (or as stable as we can be right now) and wait for all this to blow over and then he might get out without too much damage or we might hit a lucky streak and he makes some money. Which he is perfectly entitled to do.

 

I think the WOAP article was very much about the Boardroom and Ownership hence the lack of mention of the Management team. Yes some will say it was perhaps a bit over-kind to Rupp and Rhodes but to be fair the last couple of sentences sum up what we all want and feel.

The club has to win matches on a regular basis. Make some convincing signings. Fight in the upper sections of League Two. Start to progress. There isn’t the appetite for more treading water. There isn’t the patience to continue being unsuccessful.

It’s a time for actions, not just words. For hope to be visible to our eyes. There’s no reason why better things can’t be within the club’s grasp. But, sadly, that’s felt the case for the last three years.

 

Covering his losses isn't a return on his investment is it?

 

I don't understand though, he's not had any ROI and isn't likely to get any ROI if he sold the club now which was what the post you quoted was questioning.

 

I assumed he meant that also, as there's no question Rupp has a negative ROI in real terms.

His investment has to have lost money.

 

We’ve gone backwards and been relegated under his stewardship unless you didn’t realise.

That does not represent a progressive strategy, I regret to inform you.

Clearly the strategy was to sign loads of unknown talent for cheap, Ie Bruenker et al, and make a profit, increasing his ROI without really giving a damn whether the club is going anywhere.

 

You think he's had a return on his investment?

 

You've completely misunderstood my post. I'm not suggesting he has had or currently has, a strategy to progress the club, I'm saying it would absolutely be in his best interest to have one. And the sooner the better imo.

 

Without COVID I bet he wasn’t far away?

 

Yes.

 

But how?

 

How much did we get from Mcburnie? What has been our actual overspend that he’s financed since he joined?

 

Well considering the general overspend throughout Lawn's time was quite considerable and cup finals/player sales did little more than balance the books/increase budgets I'd personally be surprised if Rahic's overspend wasn't a considerable chunk of that McBurnie money. We overspent 2 million was it? There's a reference to it somewhere being completely out of control and some silly amount.

However it's a totally different question to ask what he's funded: I imagine we're somewhere near even long before Covid, but there's zero question that the clubs finances will have fluctuated massively.