David Bernstein Speaks.

[passport1]

I think its good that when you pass retirement age you can take up a hobby. For the great and the the good it usually takes the form of directorships. Three or four meetings a year, a good lunch and appx  £ 60k for your trouble.
 
They've got to earn a crust.

[Mister E]

Don't know whether this has already been posted, but Bernstein is interestingly stating the bleedin' obvious in this article from the Grauniad

David Bernstein warns relegation will make Aston Villa difficult to sell 

David Bernstein has warned that Aston Villa will now be even harder to sell as they stand on the brink of relegation.
The Villa owner, Randy Lerner, has failed to find a buyer for the club after putting it on the market more than two years ago.
Bernstein, the former chairman of the Football Association, was appointed to Villa’s board this month during a shake-up.
    Tom Fox, the club’s chief executive, and the sporting director, Hendrik Almstadt, both left last week during chairman Steve Hollis’s review of the club. The former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King is also a new director while Bernstein will head up a four-man football board to oversee the playing side of the club. Villa, bottom of the table and 12 points from safety, face relegation from the Premier League and Bernstein knows it will be a struggle to find new owners. He said: “I’m just stating the obvious, that when a club is in decline and relegation starts to be threatened it seems fairly obvious that the attraction of the Premier League – which is frankly what most owners are looking for – becomes less certain. Then there are bound to be issues about selling it.
“That seems fairly obvious but I haven’t been involved at all in the process and I don’t know who he has spoken to or not. The club must be more difficult to sell now for any decent sum than it was a year ago. I believe he [Lerner] is obviously devastated the club is where it is but he should be given great credit for a lot of terrific work he’s done over the years.”
Speculation also continues to surround Rémi Garde’s future after Villa’s sixth successive loss following their 1-0 defeat at Swansea City on Saturday. Bernstein has held extensive talks with Garde and conceded that he was in a difficult position but was impressed with his professionalism.
He said: “I had two and a half hours with him at my home last Wednesday. He came down and I had a very good meeting with him. He is a very civilised, dedicated, professional and passionate person. I have only met him once and I’ve got a lot of respect for him already but he’s got a very tough job on.”

I applaud the addition of the experience and intellect that our reconstituted board represents. I am also angry that this did not happen 12 months' ago (or c.8 years' ago!).

[Mister E]

I think its good that when you pass retirement age you can take up a hobby. For the great and the the good it usually takes the form of directorships. Three or four meetings a year, a good lunch and appx  £ 60k for your trouble.
 
They've got to earn a crust.

With the right people, it represents far better value than players on £60k a week (I refer the right honourable gentleman to NZog, as an example) ...
It all depends who is brought onto the board.

[Tony Erdington]

I think its good that when you pass retirement age you can take up a hobby. For the great and the the good it usually takes the form of directorships. Three or four meetings a year, a good lunch and appx  £ 60k for your trouble.
 
They've got to earn a crust.

With the right people, it represents far better value than players on £60k a week (I refer the right honourable gentleman to NZog, as an example) ...
It all depends who is brought onto the board.

is that c*** still on the books??

[Mister E]

I think its good that when you pass retirement age you can take up a hobby. For the great and the the good it usually takes the form of directorships. Three or four meetings a year, a good lunch and appx  £ 60k for your trouble.
 
They've got to earn a crust.

With the right people, it represents far better value than players on £60k a week (I refer the right honourable gentleman to NZog, as an example) ...
It all depends who is brought onto the board.

is that c*** still on the books??

He is, and there are other examples ...

[Witton Warrior]

I think its good that when you pass retirement age you can take up a hobby. For the great and the the good it usually takes the form of directorships. Three or four meetings a year, a good lunch and appx  £ 60k for your trouble.
 
They've got to earn a crust.

With the right people, it represents far better value than players on £60k a week (I refer the right honourable gentleman to NZog, as an example) ...
It all depends who is brought onto the board.

is that c*** still on the books??

He is, and there are other examples ...

Apparently he was very good at Wigan once...

[paul_e]

I think its good that when you pass retirement age you can take up a hobby. For the great and the the good it usually takes the form of directorships. Three or four meetings a year, a good lunch and appx  £ 60k for your trouble.
 
They've got to earn a crust.

With the right people, it represents far better value than players on £60k a week (I refer the right honourable gentleman to NZog, as an example) ...
It all depends who is brought onto the board.

is that c*** still on the books??

He is, and there are other examples ...

Apparently he was very good at Wigan once...

for about 8 games

[mr underhill]

at least he will be gone soon -  hugely richer financially but impoverished as a footballer

[eddiemunster]

The trouble is, we will still have (apart from Richardson) everyone else in the First team squad, who all have at least 12 months left on their contracts.
Unfortunately, if we get rid of Garde, we'll end up with the next manager giving contracts to most, if not all of the feckers that will have got us relegated. As has been said by several posters on other threads.

[badluckeric(gates)]

at least he will be gone soon -  hugely richer financially but impoverished as a footballer

I just hope if it's Nigel Pearson he gets 5 minutes with Zog before he goes. I'd pay to see that.

[mr underhill]

yep he'd need a fucking truckload of miracle grow to regrow the useless potplanted turd

[kippaxvilla2]

He made mention of some more imminent decisions in his interview on Monday, wonder what they are and when they will happen or whether they have had a change of heart on Remi.