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Well if Rahic has made all the mistakes Lawn made, he's certainly done it a lot quicker and in a more condensed fashion.

Also, Lawn's job was to ARREST a decline, he didn't actually start one. Rahic was arrested season-upon-season progression and not even gradually - the more things have become Edin-ified, the faster we've plummeted.

 

So he should, selling the club to two cranks.

 

Mark Lawn should be delighted. If it wasn't for Parkinson it would have been him taking the stick Rahic is. He had a lucky escape.

 

£4m of the purchase was via a loan from ER Sportsgroup Gmbh.

This is the holding company, registered in Germany which owns the UK Bradford City registered football club.

https://www.northdata.de/ER+Sportsgroup+GmbH,+Landshut/HRB+10112
https://www.northdata.de/%5B2016-03-04%5D?id=1336005013&type=publication

This is paid back monthly to the tune of £27k
Edin gets £11k/m salary
Silke £2k/m

With NI/Pension, the combined package means £0.5million is been taken off the club funds by Rahic/Rupp each year.

That's why half the team are on conference wages.

Man Utd could generate profits to repay their loan.

Ours is being paid from working capital - meaning the playing budget is one of the worst in League 1.

 

Parkinson being unable to work with Rahic doesn't change the fact that Lawn pre-PP was making plenty of the same mistakes that Rahic has and if he'd continued to do so would have been the one taking stick.

 

Rahic went with those three because nobody else wanted the job under the conditions Edin offered. There really is no more to it than that.

 

Don't know how anyone can compare Lawn to Edin other than maybe because he was outspoken from time to time but did Lawn ever say he knew football and interfere with the playing side of things NO. Did he go along spouting it's basically his way or no way and if you dont tow the line your gone like Mccall and other staff behind the scenes were NO. Yes he made a mistake appointing Jacko whose management career was already done back then but at least he rectified that got parky in and let him do the job to move forward can anyone see hopkin having that sort of freedom to do the same because I honestly can't.

 

I really wish you - and others - didn't take every single rumour and believe it without the slightest scrap of evidence. It makes us as fans look like we're out to get the owners and detracts from the factual issues.

 

That's not quite true.

Lawn had the opportunity to be chairman with Parkinson as manager.

It worked quite well.

Rahic also had this opportunity.

The difference there is palpable, isn't it?

Wait, there isn't one.

 

The Jackson/Christie era was a shocker, but Lawn at least ended that pretty sharpish and got shut of everyone connected to that, bringing in Parkinson and a full team and letting Parky completely gut the work that had gone before. All those crap kids were dismissed within a year, weren't they?

Unfortunately, Rahic isn't savvy enough to do the same.

That's ultimately the difference.

I'm sure Rahic thinks the only reason we're failing is because he appointed the wrong coach.

 

So sorry I have offended you. I have been wondering for some time why we seem to be always buying on the cheap. We have had playoffs, Wembley, sales of players Wyke and who replaced Hanson, one payed for the other so no outlay, then there has been payments from Wisdom and Nahki sell on clauses. I realise that there is no concrete evidence that this is happening, but in my view it most certainly is believable. So if you can manage to get off your high horse, and allow me to believe what I like, if you choose to rubbish it that is entirely up to you.

 

Blame Julian for that not mark

 

What we really should be asking is why they borrowed against the club to finance their takeover ? With edin having already earned his stake back threw wages and rupp getting his back threw interest on loans . We got glaziered

 

WHat difference would it have made.. Abbott and Edin doing the signings...

 

Sure it is.

You inferred Parkinson alone bailed out Lawn, and prevented him from taking stick from City fans.

But there's no reason that couldn't have also happened for Edin, except that obviously Edin is Edin and there's no way Parkinson would ever work for a guy like that.

 

I don't remember him being this unpopular, or even getting close.

I remember him getting some grumbles, but that's about it.

Edin Rahic seems to be pretty much universally hated, largely due to the fact he seems to be pretty much universally hated by every former member of staff/playing squad that's left the club and spread gossip.

 

We probably just had lower expectations (see consistently missing league two play offs and being 16th in league two laughably being viewed as "not bad") and he got a bit of leeway because he was a local boy done good and a genuine fan which is probably understandable.

In terms of decisions though there isn't much Rahic has done which wasn't replicated under Lawn before Parkinson. Falling attendances, regressive results, accusations of interference, bizarre appointments, falling out with managers, etc, etc.

If Rahic starts talking about moving to Odsal and threatening to put the club into administration then I might actually start to think they're the same person!