List of things Edin has got Wrong

Hiring Stuart McCall.

The end.

This was meant for the other thread ffs.

 

The decision to spend six weeks signing players without a manager and then appoint the youth team coach as the manager is without a doubt the most stupid decision ever taken by a Bradford City owner in the history of the club. It makes Richmond's summer of madness look like some kind of divine masterstroke engineered by a genius. I'm pretty sure that you could select a random supporter out of the stands and that they wouldn't have made such a catastrophic error. Edin is still trying to underplay it by insisting that it seemed like the right decision at the time, but we should never let him forget this one. This is a level of incompetency that you would struggle to fabricate.

To quote Shakespeare "If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."

 

Bruenker

 

Rabiega

 

Scratch them 2 I'll just put it In a nut shell.....everything apart from Wyke signing O Donnell signing and the pitch so far but the shit weather hasn't started yet.

 

Taking over city.

 

Shittelmaier
Raeder
Barr
Brünker
Grodowski

 

Paid a few for Poleon, Reeves & Bruencker.

 

1. Pursuing a lucky dip approach to recruitment in the hope we might unearth a player worth serious money.

2. Treatment of SM. He nearly made their aspirations come true, and they hung him out to dry.

3. Getting involved in the football side of things, beyond setting budgets.

4. This summer's debacle. Just wtf?!

5. Not valuing people. His treatment of SM and James Mason as prime examples, and the inferences of others as to his lack of respect. He sees footballers as commodities, to make him money. Ostensibly, this may be correct but it should not inform all dealings with people.

 

Laying off backroom staff, or staff being compelled to leave because they couldn’t work with him, eg Wendy James, James Mason, John Duckworth, David Dowse, Sam Collins, and doubtless many others.

 

Being born

 

Breathing.

 

Not just saying to Phil Parkinson "You carry on doing what you're doing. Here's another £100k a year for your salary and £2m for the budget"

If he even mentioned being a sounding board got ideas to PP he shouldn't just have been instantly sacked he should probably have been sectioned.

 

Being arrogant,clueless,ignorant,self taught, in his "I am the greatest" world, and utterly lacking humility and understanding.That should do for now.

 

As in the other thread, much quicker to list what he's got right:
1. Appoint McCall
2. Sign Charlie Wyke
3. Possibly fix the pitch

Everything else has been a disaster and Rupp needs to stand up or sell up.

 

Actually not sure if any if the above positives were even down to him so a bit unfair of me giving him any credit at all.

 

Should have kept his mouth shut when he first joined and given PP what ever he wanted and there would have been no need for all this rubbish that happened with McCall et al. We’d be in the championship now and probably surviving just about each season.

As for the rest, we get rid of people at a football club, which to me is fine, football clubs are different workplaces to anywhere else in the world. My problem is we never replace anyone with equal or Better quality. Be that backroom team, club staff, players, managers. We should constantly be looking for something better but we just go for club member after club member leaving with no real replacement. It’s a shambles

 

Unfortunately a massive error which may well cost us our place in league 1 this year.

 

This is exactly why I asked the question. Do you know why Duckworth left for example ?