Most liked posts in thread: List of things Edin has got Wrong

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.

 

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."

 

I agree with both @Dennis and @Rogered Tart posts on this thread. It is gloomy but no point in hiding away, it is coming to the time when we all have to stop regurgitating the past and start to reconstruct our club again. This reconstruction cannot happen with Rahic at the helm, he needs to leave. Rupp either needs to sell up or roll his sleeves up and invest in this club. Either way we need somebody to run this club who actually knows and understands how to take this club forward, yes we need investment that cannot be paid immediately, but in the grand scheme of football finance we are not talking billions, but maybe a couple of million. This needs to be totally invested in the first team squad. I am all for investing our own youth, but that will require extra investment. In my mind this needs to be seperate with its own coaching team.

 

Taking over city.

 

The only mitigating factor for them, is we were on the verge of the Championship. If we got there the club would be worth £10m overnight.

However, they didn't invest in that team and the rest is history.

 

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

 

A very reasonable post and one which I agree with. The reason I asked my original question was because he is falsely getting blamed for everything. Rumours I know to be untrue have become fact. However I agree his position at the club has become untenable.

 

One thing every Chief Ece

The thing is though, and you’ll no doubt know it as well as anybody, to be successful in business you need to listen to those around you to inform your decisions. There is not a person in football who couldn’t foresee the trickle down of wage demands caused by the Premier League TV deals. Moreover there can have been barely a person alive who thought appointing Collins was a good idea. I cannot believe that McCall, Black, Abbot, Mason, Grayson, Rhodes, any of the agents he speaks to and other football chairman and CEOs have not given him advice. His major error of judgement has been not listening to that advice and thinking he knows better.

He should go to Accrington and spend time with their chairman, see how he runs his club as a community asset, lets the manager manage football affairs and is humble mixing with other fans. He should visit Blackburn, see how the Venkys turned it around, how unfashionable Burnley stay in the PL, Forest Green about how Dale Vince has built a club. He should then go to Chesterfield, Torquay, Orient, York, Stockport and see how they’re doing and how hard it is to get back in to the league when you have Salford throwing £4k a week at strikers. And may be Darlington and Rushen and Diamonds and see what can really happen to a club when the shit hits the fan.

 

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

 

At least by putting everything into the first team budget, ML & JR listened to the manager and gave him the best chance.

Parky then paid them back several times over.

 

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.

 

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.