Goodbye Paul Faulkner.

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I think this is bad news in terms of signings.

Roy can handle any sensitive negotiations.

I guess he can give them the Vito Corleone offer...

[villasjf]

Strange timing but everything about our club is strange at the moment. Not sure its good or bad news. Better the devil you know.

[pauliewalnuts]

I am pretty flabbergasted.

Yesterday, Randy says he's going to pay more attention and there's no buyer. Today the CEO quits.

[cdbearsfan]

Maybe they had a fall out? Thinking about it I can't believe a deal is imminent or why would Randy have bothered to make a statement yesterday?

[RussellC]

Good luck to him. Thought he got undeserved stick on here. Why people think a Chief Executive is likely to be in charge of things like appointing managers and deciding how much transfer money we have to spend I don't know.

Of course Randy would have the final say on everything, but what do you think he was employed for if not to deal with things like recruitment of managerial staff and overseeing of spending? At the very least, he was in a position where he should be advising the Chairman (a fellow 'non-football man') and steering him away form making bad appointments. which he didn't.

He got us the biggest shirt sponsorship deal in our history, the biggest kit manufacturer deal in our history and generally modernised the presentation of the club... so you can now read all about Villa on our official Chinese website if you want to, for instance.

I don't regard this as being particularly impressive. Football finances are growing hugely year-on-year, so our sponsorship and kit deals should be too. Anything less would be bad practice, IMHO. It's much more relevant to judge deals like this against our competitors, rather than our own previous ones. I don't know for sure, but I would imagine that we're well behind the likes of Tottenham, Newcastle and Everton - clubs that we should be competing against on-and-off the pitch.

[pauliewalnuts]

Maybe they had a fall out? Thinking about it I can't believe a deal is imminent or why would Randy have bothered to make a statement yesterday?

That's what I don't get.

If Randy hadn't said anything yesterday, we'd now all be thinking a deal was imminent. He did, though, he said a deal wasn't done.

I suppose the only sensible thing would be that he knew this was coming - as he must have done, Faulkner won't just have quit this morning - and wanted to reassure people in advance.

[bertlambshank]

Let's hope we find a CEO with football experience.PF has found the right place to work at the FA.

[levico]

I maybe wrong but I'm beginning to think that the word omnishambles is becoming appropriate to what's happening within the club.

Is Faulkner a rat deserting a sinking ship?

[silhillvilla]

Just glad he's gone either way. He was part and parcel of some mental decisions down B6 so I'm shedding no tears .

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Somebdoy had said a while ago that they'd heard Faulkner was planning on stepping down.

[RussellC]

I maybe wrong but I'm beginning to think that the word omnishambles is becoming appropriate to what's happening within the club.

Omnishambles. Is that French for cluster-fuck...?

[chrisw1]

Let's hope we find a CEO with football experience.PF has found the right place to work at the FA.

Who of any merit would join us right now with a sale in the pipeline?  This is unbelievable timing.

[RussellC]

Let's hope we find a CEO with football experience.PF has found the right place to work at the FA.

Who of any merit would join us right now with a sale in the pipeline?  This is unbelievable timing.

I'm just glad we had the foresight to get all of our transfer-dealings done so early in the summer...

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We're not hiring a new CEO, Robin Russel has stepped up to cover.

[bertlambshank]

We're not hiring a new CEO, Robin Russel has stepped up to cover.

Yes to cover,until we are sold I would of thought.