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It's easy to let Rupp off the hook, and we're all grateful he has funded the club out of the financial hole Rahic put us in - but there's no question his presence at Bradford City is holding the club back.

From Gary Bowyer not being given the funds to even appoint a number two, to a lack of a professional structure within the club (particularly after Rahic ripped the heart out of it), Rupp has failed to address the gaping holes off the field which are even more glaring that those on the field.

For as much as we need a leader in the midfield and a competent striker alongside Novak, not having a football-oriented CEO and not having an adequate scouting system (whether they answer to a DoF or not) looks to be damaging us even more.

How much reliance have we had on signing young, inexpensive players combined with those Stuart and the club know personally?

If Stefan Rupp is going to invest anywhere this season, it needs to be OFF THE FIELD, or we will continue to look like we're out of ideas as a club. It's easy to blame Stuart, and he certainly doesn't help himself with his naive assessment of our squad and our chances, but getting this off-the-pitch structure in place is pivotal.

We cannot keep spinning the managerial wheel and hoping for a Parkinson - and nor should we! Parkinson famously made off with all the scouting files, which is criminal. Was he in charge of absolutely everything? Certainly seems that way - which would explain why, starting again under Rupp and Rahic when PP left, we've had failed time and time again.

Consistency, continuity, and having a plan will set us up for the future; lacking these will only set up failure unless we strike it lucky with a manager who controls the whole damn show.

 

Rupp leaves the football side to the CEO which is Rhodes at the moment. All he can do is fund the losses which he is doing. If you think silly aeroplane stunts will help the club go ahead, but I hope you have an alternative to fund the huge losses with no crowds all this season.

 

To be fair to Rupp, he brought Rhodes in, a supposedly trusted name, who brought in Bowyer, a guy who had got Blackpool out of L2, and the manager got well backed with Rupps money.

it was a failed attempt to go straight back up.

Rupp has put decent money in but can you really blame him for thinking enough is enough and not throwing good money after bad. Particularly if he wants out now.

He is entitled to ask what he wants for the club, just like Rhodes and Lawn did, I guess they both did alright out of it?

Unfortunately I don’t see a knight in shining armour coming in for the club in the current climate, we are a huge challenge and the sleeping giant tag is ebbing away.

 

Of course they would, I think there would still be interested parties at £2million

 

I hate what they have done to our club. We were flying before Wembley before we played Millwall and its been a mass spiral downward since then. Rupp and Rahic or Wrack and Ruin whatever fits. It depresses me to even think about it.

 

May be an online petition for him to go might put pressure on Rupp to sell

 

Same as the last few months I have called for him to leave. Wish no ill on the man, all the best in the future but as the owner as Bradford City, we have regressed, we are a fractured outfit with no obvious plan or structure.

He was as responsible as ER in those days as well. Just because ER was involved in the day to day running of the club does not take away from his culpability in that period. He was quick enough to be on the pitch at the end of the game at Fleetwood with ER and at Wembley.

 

Unfortunately Stefan has little interest in football, but he should have an interest in his investment certainly in these dark times.

 

I think Mr Rhodes has done well to steady the ship, but hope him and his wife Lana find a nice place to retire sooner rather than later

 

The three people, with real influence on this club , Rupp, Rhodes and Mcall are slowly squeezing any life we have left away.
With no fans in the ground and the complete rubbish product being served up on the pitch, how many season tickets do they think they wii sell next season, if by some miracle we dont get relegated, because on these performances it could easily happen.
conference football could bring the end to our football club.
What would Rupp's investment be worth then , Zero .

 

Unfortunately, the reality is that the players we have at our disposal are simply not good enough.

The person(s) responsible for our transfer dealings this year must be held accountable, and ultimately replaced with someone more competent.

Is Rupp really the one responsible?

 

As you say Rupp is funding the club, Rahic was a different situation everyone bar Rupp was a were of the goings on at Valley Parade hence the need to make Rupp aware with the fly bye, for all the stick Rhodes gets he will be working within the financial constraints Rupp has set him.
You do have to wonder why there is money still left in the transfer budget many questioned the squad at the time and all that was added was a young kid from Wolves, I honestly believed we could get a win today and seeing how poor both teams were with the seasoned pro's in the right positions I don't think that was beyond us.
Yes hindsight is a wonderful thing but Staunton, Sutton, Samuels and Cousin-Dawson playing with players who were lacking in confidence was a bridge too far.

 

Rupps role is to put pressure on Rhodes to achieve, Likewise Rhodes job is to put pressure on the manager to achieve, Rupp needs to do his job first or the rest is useless, He must take more interest

 

I'm not so sure, just with basic maths it will show a modest return going forward. If you estimate the club running costs as 2.5 mil a season (somebody may know the actual costs but I don't). The club receives 850k in payments for being in league 2 and averaging it to 10k fans at £149 he is not far off break even. By the time you add any sponsorship money, cup success etc he will be making a profit.

 

ultimately we were promised progress and 3/4 years on we're not even back where we started when they took over. disgrace

 

How can Rupp apply pressure on Rhodes? If Rhodes walked he would not have a clue how to go about replacing him, let alone who with.

 

He has, the first line of his recent interview in the T&A read:

'Julian Rhodes has identified a suitable successor to take over as City’s chief executive this season.'

But Rupp's supposedly asked him to 'hang on' (also in the same article.)

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/sport/18798956.bradford-city-chief-executive-proud-run-club/

Rhodes also had a go at supposedly negative fans for expecting cash to spent to improve the club's fortunes. When, from what I've read at least, virtually no one has asked for that. Wanting the club to create an internal football infrastructure that's as professional as other clubs of our size is far from unreasonable in my opinion.

I don't believe that fans have unrealistic ambitions or expect millions of pounds to be expended. Just a system that would allow the club to scout and acquire players through a system that isn't solely reliant on the manager's contact book and iPad would be an improvement. Ideally, a new CEO would have some current football knowledge/ideas. Because at the moment there's zero continuity, the club starts anew with every new manager. Obviously there needs to be some dialogue between the manager and CEO. But I'm sure that's pretty standard at better run clubs than City.

 

I was but a nipper back then!

 

The salary cap will probably mean City makes a small profit each year taking the pressure of Rupp to sell and increasing the sale value of the club