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Open Letter to Ryan Sparks

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by JonButterfield, Jan 27, 2024.

  1. trevor

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    Sparks had never run anything. He was a junior PR man at best and it shows. He was and is totally unqualifief for the job and only got it due to his frienddhip with captain calamity Rhodes. Nothing will change untill he goes
     
  2. Fordy117

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    People need to really understand this. If you want this club to improve then Sparks needs to go. It’s that simple.
     
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  3. Steve1970

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    Give us a clue as to what you put in your question to sparks for tonight’s shindig?
     
  4. Jordan

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    Was this hinted at during the fans thingy last week?

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  5. ahar964

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    Wow. That's a pretty incendiary rumour.
     
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  6. Petrov

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    Would not surprise me in the slightest. He knows full well if a new owner came in he'd be demoted or out the door pretty quickly.
     
  7. Bronco

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    That's a pretty inflammatory comment from Gabriel Sutton, I'd hope he has proof to what he said as it could get him in a lot of trouble, a shocking thing to say without any evidence.
     
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    He’s since deleted the tweet Dave.
     
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  9. Petrov

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    It is and he has since deleted it. However, I don't think anyone would be shocked if it was true, and that in itself is worrying.
     
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  10. Bronco

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    A very wise move, bang out of order, for all those who may not like Ryan you'd hope they wouldn't go to these sort of extremes to get him out.
     
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    Is it Levi Suttons dad :grinning:
     
  12. Jordan

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    Deleted now, but the words are never truly deleted on the internet these days. No idea who his City course is, but a few seasons back he did a podcast at City, think it was when Hughes first came and one of the old City Vent lads was helping him with the pod and took him out for a drink and a curry after the game.

    One of the other City vent guys who hosted last weeks event did also say that Sparks was fearing the Wagmi offer due to him losing his role. Again no idea, and might be a case of many 2s adding up to make 9, but could be an amalgamation of a few "who really knows" rumours creating one thing.

    Odd thing to put out for a guy who has a lot of connections around the EFL. Does no good I suppose, without proof.
     
  13. Bronco

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    I very much doubt it put his name into face book and it looks like he's a teenageer, although I'm not great with other social media people are not hard to find.
     
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    "Evening Ryan and welcome to Radio Leeds. First question. Have you deliberately withheld information from Stefan Rupp regarding interest from potential buyers?"

    That should get things off to a good start. Only joking by the way. It is after all a deleted tweet based on a rumour, but I expect the above is quite tame compared to some of the questions that might have been sent to Raynor.
     
  15. ahar964

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    It was very much tongue in cheek Broncs
     
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    I'd think the Wagmi guys would have gone straight to Rupp, if not surely Ryan would have had to pass on Wagmi's interest in the club so why would it be any different if there is another interested party ?.
     
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    Yes I know hence my reply, @Jordan@Jordan says above "Odd thing to put out for a guy who has a lot of connections around the EFL" a quick look on facebook and lo and behold there he is.
     
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    Hi Ryan
     
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  19. Park bantam

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    What did he say been out all day
     
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    It's definitely plausible. It's well documented that Sparks threatened to resign if Rupp sold to Wagmi, albeit I'm not sure why he thinks anyone would give two shits if he did.

    If and when we're lucky enough to get taken over, he'll be the first one out of the door and won't get another executive level job in football.
     
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