The club will continue to suffer under these two.
Neither should be in the positions they hold.
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Most liked posts in thread: RYAN SPARKS INTERVIEW: City chief executive on owner Stefan Rupp and criticism
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Ulysses S Grant Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant
The interview is the perfect example of "Job Preservation". Tell them nothing, keep it vague, ignore the issues and protect those above you.
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So, definitively, there has been interest from potential buyers. 3 under Sparks tenure alone, so that's an average of one a year. So any suggestion as to 'well, who'd want to buy us?' is clearly guff. There's interest. And the response to the question on asking price is pretty telling. It doesn't take much to connect the dots and conclude that asking price is the material issue as to why interest hasn't progressed.
Just f**k off Rupp, and Sparks, and let someone who'se interested and capable have a fair crack at taking this club forward. Not only is it what the fans deserve, it'll stave off the likely demise of the club under your stewardship.Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand...Bantam75, RCarol, bantamdave41 and 10 others like this. -
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bantamlad92 Squad PlayerP.L. 21/22 Entrant P.L. 20/21 Entrant
My club feels soulless under this stewardship.
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Ulysses S Grant Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant
If I were Rupp, I would sell at whatever price I could get, cut my losses and only come back to the UK on "other business", a businessman who in four years doesn't realise he isn't cut out to own a football club is no businessman.
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Offcomedun Important PlayerQatar 2022 Entrant P.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant Supporter Euro2020 Winner Euro 2020 P.L. 20/21 3rd Place
When it all went t!ts up, he promised to put right the damage that his charlatan sidekick caused. And, TBF, he put some money in to repay Rahic’s overspend and keep us going through Covid. But since then he’s been as hands off as possible. He’s replaced Rahic with a good commercial manager, but one who has no football experience. His only strategy seems to be to cross his fingers and hope we hit lucky with another Parky to get us out of the khazi on a shoestring, so that he can get his money back. Meanwhile, the club is drifting ever downward and dying from the inside.
How long does he need in order to see that this just isn’t working? We’re going through managers like a dose of salts but remain in inexorable decline? Surely at some point he has to cut and run and sell to a genuinely interested buyer for whatever he can get? And that needs to happen before we drift into non league. He owes us that much for the damage his tenure has done to our club.bantamdave41, AngryGaz, vladimir and 2 others like this. -
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Johnny Yen Squad PlayerP.L.22/23 Entrant P.L.23/24 Entrant
What's the point of an interview if Sparks won't share his thoughts.
The following extract tells us nothing other than to speculate that Sparks may believe the asking price for the club is set too high!
It may rock the boat with the owner if RS spoke how he truly felt, however the boat needs rocking, tell us that opinion!
“It’s not really for me to comment on what I think the club’s worth, though I see various different alleged figures banded around.
“I have an opinion on it and there are many factors as to why I would have that opinion. I am sure other people would think differently, but these are matters for the owner, and not the chief executive." -
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People replying and commenting on Rupp's brain or business mind are hilarious. Just because we don't like the guy for what is happening at the club, it doesn't mean he isn't a very successful business man with clear intelligence. There's a reason he owns a football club and none of us do!
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