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Buying a football club has always about being pissing away money but to make money in football you have to take risks and have a plan for growth.

Yes, Edin might have messed a plan up but I didn't see anything while he was there that Rupp planned to take the club forward and I don't see any plan now either.

We don't have a player recruitment plan hence getting Evans and McCall doesn't even know where he recently has been playing. Counting on McCall's ipad isn't great is it?

Look, it is too late to go spending wildly now. I fully understand that in these uncertain times and the positive is Ryan forming partnerships with other businesses to improve certain things but the point remains that it seems like Rupp had no plan to start with when buying this club and without investment improvements its costing him a small fortune anyway.

 

Is he getting paid too? Let's not make out he's doing this for the kindness of his heart.

Yes, of course Rupp and Edin paid the amount that was agreed to own the club but all we heard from Rhodes and Lawn was that Rupp and Edin can take the club forward and that's why it was sold to them. That hasn't been the case has it?
Rupp and Edin have done nothing Rhodes and Lawn couldn't.

 

The mistake wasn't selling the mistake was making out to fans liked they cared who brought the business.

 

Probaly because it rivals Raqqa and Sana’a as the worlds largest shithole.

 

Further to this - I agree. Any ideas what that something is???

 

3 question marks!!!

Come on Sergio, give us all you've got.

 

Maybe because Rhodes gets involved and holds us back.

 

He is employed to run the ship, I have an opinion that differs to his but he knows more about the running of a business than I do.

 

That's called ambition. We don't want it, thank you very much.

 

Yes, he is but he is safe and scared of risks. The ship is sinking currently hence the extra money we require from the owner.

You could argue his way of running the ship gets us nowhere. Either way his time is done here and we need fresh vision now.

 

The local paper doesn't help because it sells on negativity. The council doesn't help because it will do anything for funding.

You only need to look at how Liverpool turned itself around.

Manchester, Leeds, Bristol have some right holes but Bradford doesn't help itself.

 

I used to work for a company who had a site near Bedlington. Newbiggin, North Blyth, Cambois, desperate places.

 

Yes these wonderful places you mention are all 15 mins drive from my house.

The beach at Cambois is lovely and Sandy bay caravan park is just up the road, yet the local population are absolute headbangers. Not the sort of place to leave your car too long

 

Yes there were issues behind the scenes but frankly a lot of football clubs are pretty dysfunctional organisations. Judged at a high level from the owner's perspective things were going to plan - play-off final in May, 2017 and challenging near the top of the table until around January, 2018.

 

In footballing terms, perhaps. The lack of oversight on financial governance, is more damning. For an owner, with significant personal wealth tied up in being the majority shareholder, to not have a grasp of how we were spending cash like a chunky kid in a sweet shop is negligent.

 

As regards SMcC having a bad relationship with his CEO I recall it wasn't too rosy with ML either. I agree the governance was poor but on the face of it, Rahic's protestations would have been credible in that the team was actually doing quite well if league position was anything to go by. Conmen are pretty good at crafting a narrative.

As regards BC being his biggest investment or economic commitment I doubt that that was/is the case. The fact that SR was not familiar with football allowed ER all the more flexibility to tell his lies, because as we all know 'he knew football'. Part of ER's version of events was that the English way was inferior and that SMcC was being obstructive to ER's vision etc. It doesn't take much imagination to work out what would have been said to SR. Another point to bear in mind is that German businessmen think long-term and having made his commitment, SR was unlikely to change course at short notice and hence stood by ER.

 

I don't disagree about the governance but it's understandable how it happened: (i) not his biggest exposure / investment; (ii) didn't know the industry; (iii) out of the country; (iv) things appeared to be going well; (v) other concerns / distractions; and (vi) ER feeding his spin. As I have said, SR had seen ER feted as the Messiah in Germany and he didn't take seriously the comments on social media about ER. If anything the latter detracted from efforts to persuade SR that ER was the problem and whilst I appreciate that you don't want to hear it, he told me that he only took notice of what was being published on WOAP. The efforts to put a banner in the sky also came close to making him walk away altogether.

 

See if Fordy will lend you his Merc.

 

Bye the way Alf sends his regards.