Tom Fox announced as new Villa CEO

[dave.woodhall]

Tom Fox, like Paul Faulkner before him, would be a good deputy or director of a particular department. He shouldn't be the main man.

[TopDeck113]

Exactly.  If the Lerner years have done anything it is to confirm that the Peter Principle is absolutely true, certainly as far as the Villa are concerned.

[rob_bridge]

First class people hire first class people.

Lerner is not first class, nor can he ever be as it is most unusual with inherited wealth, so we end up with 2nd or 3rd class people all the time.

Or in McLeish's case several notches below.

Faulkner should never have been CEO at that stage of his career. Never. To think we used to laugh at the noses when the Porn Brigade and Trolly Dolly in tow ran their show.

As for Fox - the day he used the term 'False Narrative' about not sacking a hopelessly out of his depth manager before a few days later doing just that a few months after extending the Fuckwit's contract to cover 4 seasons, the alarm bells rang. And the ringing is getting much louder.

I can't blame Garde in all this. He dropped as many troublemakers as possible, put some shape to the shambles until yesterday, that is, but he is on a hiding to nothing

[Vegas]

Tom Fox is a twat because Tom Fox is a twat. It's not being American that makes him a smarmy, corporate, cliché riddled goon. He just is. His role should never have enveloped anything to do with the playing side because the man knows as much about it as my missus. In fact she'd do a better job because she wouldn't be another yes man, telling the little boy Lerner what he wanted to hear.

Spot on. There are Americans who are brilliant at running things and ones who are terrible, same for British folk, French people etc.

We've got a terrible American. Let's focus on the terrible bit.

All this talk of "I've worked for an American firm and they're all ...." makes this site sound a little too BNP for my liking

[Des Little]

This is a classic case of the blind leading the blind.  no one has the first clue what they're doing.  You simply cannot play at running a football club of this size, no matter what calibre of marketing spivs you bring in. 

[aj2k77]

I agree with Dave Woodhall here. Tom Fox would make a great director of a particular department. I hereby announce Tom Fox in his new position as Director of monumental cock ups.

[PeterWithe]

That girl appears awfully young to have an 81 year old father.

[LeeB]

My bullshit-ometer is going off the scale, these sort of things usually miss out one crucial event, like she pulled a double-barrelled shotgun out and made Fox dance and whistle dixie whilst wearing nothing but leather chaps. Or something.

[Des Little]

My bullshit-ometer is going off the scale, these sort of things usually miss out one crucial event, like she pulled a double-barrelled shotgun out and made Fox dance and whistle dixie whilst wearing nothing but leather chaps. Or something.

I'm keen to hear more from you on this one Lee.  Carry on...

[TimTheVillain]

Has he done ANYTHING right ??

I hear a deal is in place to wear Under Armour kits in the Championship, a vast improvement on Macron.

Unless of course, the 'deal' was in place as long as we're in the Prem of course ...

If indeed it is true !!

Anything else ? Possibly ??

[Locko]

As far as Fox is concerned his measure of his success and therefore his bonus and remuneration has little or nothing to do with football results and everything to do with balance sheets, income, turnover and revenue.  Therefore he's probably quite right in thinking he's doing OK.

Good luck with that next season.

Targets get reset, limitations are taken into account, I bet he's still here and doing a great job for Team Lerner.

I doubt even Lerner would see us exiting the most lucrative league in the world as a success.

He's so detached I doubt he'll notice...

[Dante Lavelli]

Exactly.  If the Lerner years have done anything it is to confirm that the Peter Principle is absolutely true, certainly as far as the Villa are concerned.

Thanks for that, just googled the Peter Principle, v interesting and accurate to Villa (and most organisations).

[aj2k77]

As to whether Fox is doing a good job, he has some how managed to keep gates at a fairly high average,

Fox is nothing to do with the loyalty of the fans. 30,000 would turn up to see manure rotting on the pitch, as evident by this season.

[Confusious says]

Has he done ANYTHING right ??

I hear a deal is in place to wear Under Armour kits in the Championship, a vast improvement on Macron.


The Armour deal maybe devalued a bit once we are relegated, so not as good as first announced

Unles of course, the 'deal' was in place as long as we're in the Prem of course ...

If indeed it is true !!

Anything else ? Possibly ??

[TheMalandro]

Has he done ANYTHING right ??

I hear a deal is in place to wear Under Armour kits in the Championship, a vast improvement on Macron.

Unless of course, the 'deal' was in place as long as we're in the Prem of course ...

If indeed it is true !!

Anything else ? Possibly ??

It's not true,  he's signed us up to Andiamo.