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Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: Villa'Zawg on August 10, 2010, 08:37:31 AM
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Could someone please tell me something, Who is Paul Faulkner?
Considering he is the person running Aston Villa, shouldn't he at least have a wiki page ?
What I think I know is...
Appointed CEO in May
Has responsibility for transfer dealing
Has lost his football manager 5 days before the start of the season
Anything to add?
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Got this off villabanter (or something like that):
Faulkner has played a significant part in this culture switch, although the young Englishman won't shout about it, preferring a British modesty compared to the brash bravado of Lerner's other lieutenant General Krulak.
However, even amidst the hype and hysteria surrounding the Gareth grudge match against Liverpool this afternoon, O'Neill found time to name-check Faulkner for his help in landing his transfer targets.
Since Lerner and O'Neill arrived in that balmy summer two years ago Faulkner has always been on hand.
But the fact he now enjoys such a close relationship with the manager as well as the chairman can only bode well for Villa's Champions League ambitions.
For too long the enigmatic Irishman, a self-confessed control freak who hates to delegate, has been bogged down doing the dual role of head coach and chief executive.
Now he has a trusted ally to share the off-the-field burden, O'Neill can get on with the serious business of attempting to shape Aston Villa's most successful squad.
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Without any Googling at all, I'd say he's ex MBNA.
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His Linkedin profile:
Paul Faulkner’s Experience
Chief Executive
Aston Villa Football Club
(Privately Held; Sports industry)
May 2010 — Present (4 months)
Chief Operating Officer
Aston Villa Football Club
(Privately Held; Sports industry)
May 2008 — April 2010 (2 years )
Relationship Manager
MBNA
(Public Company; KRB; Banking industry)
1999 — 2004 (5 years )
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Paul Faulkner’s Education
University of Cambridge
MA , History
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Have met him, he had a drink in the Bartons and was accosted by Mr Woodhall.
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Have met him, he had a drink in the Bartons and was accosted by Mr Woodhall.
I've heard that happens a lot, probably cost him 30 bob as well.
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I would like to know a bit more about him.
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Could someone please tell me something, Who is Paul Faulkner?
Considering he is the person running Aston Villa, shouldn't he at least have a wiki page ?
What I think I know is...
Appointed CEO in May
Has responsibility for transfer dealing
Has lost his football manager 5 days before the start of the season
Anything to add?
I know lots of people who run companies with turnover bigger than Villa's who don't have a wiki page. My boss for example.
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He's known Randy for years...I think he may have worked for MBNA.
He's been at the club since Randy took over working in smaller roles before his promotion this summer.
And in a few of the pictures in the papers today of MON and Randy together, Faulkner is also in shot.
That's about it!
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This can't be right, surely? I just looked up Faulkner's profile on our posh Bloomberg terminal at work and it gives his date of birth as August 8th....... 1978
he's a kid
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Indeed, he's not very old at all.
Must have had some very good relationships at MBMA...
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or some very good negatives of Randy in a compromising situation
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He's Randy's UK right hand man, his number 2, the man in charge of the club who is in constant contact with the owner
A job he's done before I believe with some success.
What more is there to know.
In power struggles, the man left standing is always the top dog, the man left running off with his tail between his legs is always the loser.
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He is young, I didn't think he was 32 young but I was surprised by his age when I met him.
Can't say anything bad about the guy. He was the one who put 5 of us in 2 chauffeur driven cars when our delayed plane landed in Sofia before the Litex Lovech european away game.
Before this we had decided to sack off the game to watch it in a bar in Sofia however the car journey turned out to be the most memorable (and scariest!!) bit of the trip.
Gave us his mobile number in case we hit trouble later on and even sent a text to check we were OK when they (the team) landed back in Brum. (we were fine, dancing merrily in a Sofian night club!).
Definitely had that thing about him of getting stuff done and not taking any messing around so not surprised to hear he's in charge of the wheeling and dealing.
Nor am I surprised to hear the final straw for Paul may have been MON asking for "whatever it took" to get McGeady which is something I was told this morning.
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He's not the mild mannered janitor then...
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I bought him a drink once. Actually, I've bought him a drink twice.
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So, he's a real person?
But what kind of person doesn't have a wiki page these days?
I refuse to believe it.
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you could always create one for him
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I am either wildly right or wildly wrong on this, but I have a very, very strong suspicion that Paul Faulkner is the only son of former Norwich boss John Faulkner.
I (think I) know this for reasons that I cannot disclose on this website.
Not that that takes us much further, you understand.
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He's a Norwich City supporter, apparently.
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I am either wildly right or wildly wrong on this, but I have a very, very strong suspicion that Paul Faulkner is the only son of former Norwich boss John Faulkner.
I (think I) know this for reasons that I cannot disclose on this website.
well if its his son, its hardly a secret
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He's a Norwich City supporter, apparently.
That would chime in perfectly. Also, John Faulkner spent time in the States as a player, which could link into Randy.
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I am either wildly right or wildly wrong on this, but I have a very, very strong suspicion that Paul Faulkner is the only son of former Norwich boss John Faulkner.
I (think I) know this for reasons that I cannot disclose on this website.
well if its his son, its hardly a secret
Funny you should say that, but I challenge you to find any web-evidence backing that up.
So it's a kind of secret...
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I am either wildly right or wildly wrong on this, but I have a very, very strong suspicion that Paul Faulkner is the only son of former Norwich boss John Faulkner.
I (think I) know this for reasons that I cannot disclose on this website.
well if its his son, its hardly a secret
Funny you should say that, but I challenge you to find any web-evidence backing that up.
So it's a kind of secret...
thers probably no 'web evidence' of my two sons, but i do have them
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He's a Norwich City supporter, apparently.
He's also a miracle worker getting beer out of Woodhall.
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He's a Norwich City supporter, apparently.
He's also a miracle worker getting beer out of Woodhall.
Twice.
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I am either wildly right or wildly wrong on this, but I have a very, very strong suspicion that Paul Faulkner is the only son of former Norwich boss John Faulkner.
I (think I) know this for reasons that I cannot disclose on this website.
well if its his son, its hardly a secret
Funny you should say that, but I challenge you to find any web-evidence backing that up.
So it's a kind of secret...
thers probably no 'web evidence' of my two sons, but i do have them
Not sure that that is really comparable, somehow.
Anyways, it's a bit odd (but probably irrelevant) that his alleged family link with a former Prem League manager and coach has never been raised – for example, in the Grauniad/Times interviews around the FA Cup semi...
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Nor am I surprised to hear the final straw for Paul may have been MON asking for "whatever it took" to get McGeady which is something I was told this morning.
So this mysterious young Mr Faulkner was making decisions about who the manager could buy? Or was McGeady out of our price range?
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Nor am I surprised to hear the final straw for Paul may have been MON asking for "whatever it took" to get McGeady which is something I was told this morning.
So this mysterious young Mr Faulkner was making decisions about who the manager could buy? Or was McGeady out of our price range?
So what should he have said? "As much as you want, sure". What if they asked for 15m? 20m?
He's really not that mysterious, despite your attempts to paint him out as some kind of shadowy figure in the background.
He's our CEO.
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Nor am I surprised to hear the final straw for Paul may have been MON asking for "whatever it took" to get McGeady which is something I was told this morning.
So this mysterious young Mr Faulkner was making decisions about who the manager could buy? Or was McGeady out of our price range?
He's really not that mysterious, despite your attempts to paint him out as some kind of shadowy figure in the background.
He's our CEO.
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Nor am I surprised to hear the final straw for Paul may have been MON asking for "whatever it took" to get McGeady which is something I was told this morning.
So this mysterious young Mr Faulkner was making decisions about who the manager could buy? Or was McGeady out of our price range?
So what should he have said? "As much as you want, sure". What if they asked for 15m? 20m?
He's really not that mysterious, despite your attempts to paint him out as some kind of shadowy figure in the background.
He's our CEO.
Well, to be fair Paulie, one can say that he is young, apparently not terribly experienced, and has a tremendous amount of responsibility.
You can also say that not much is known about his track record other than a close association with RL.
Yes, he's our CEO but that does not demonstrate anything in particular.
On the other hand, reports suggest that he's the kind of guy who "gets things done" - not least getting two beers out of DW, which must be a decent sign as to his transfer negotiating ability.
He's just had a a bit of a horrorstory run in with someone with more than 40 years' experience in football.
So it is legitimate to question his credentials. What if the situation the club currently finds itself in is borne out of an inexperienced operator with too much responsibility? That would hardly be incongruous with the information we have to hand.
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I have had the pleasure of Paul's company a few times over a few beers. He is a really down to earth kinda guy, very honest and approachable. He went out of his was a few times to help me and with him as the CEO we wont go far wrong.
He worked for RAL holdings before joining AVFC and has always been alongside Randy, but this is his most profile post.
He is from Norwich although i'm not sure if his father played.
He even sponsored me for the marathon a few years ago.
A Gentleman.
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Nor am I surprised to hear the final straw for Paul may have been MON asking for "whatever it took" to get McGeady which is something I was told this morning.
So this mysterious young Mr Faulkner was making decisions about who the manager could buy? Or was McGeady out of our price range?
So what should he have said? "As much as you want, sure". What if they asked for 15m? 20m?
They've already accepted a bid from Moscow so the price is set, it's nonsense to suggest those figures.
I'd expect the manager to be able to choose how he spends his budget within the club's transfer policy and I'd expect Paul Faulkner to help him get the job done. Isn't that how it is supposed to work?
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I'd expect the manager to be able to choose how he spends his budget within the club's transfer policy and I'd expect Paul Faulkner to help him get the job done. Isn't that how it is supposed to work?
Yes, but there has to be an inbuilt safety switch whereby any manager coming in and asking for £10m to spend on Aidan McGeady is given a boot up the arse and told to shut the door on the way out.
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so this is his dad?
http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/p1926/People/Faculty/Visiting-Fellows/JohnnbspFaulknernbsp
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I'd expect the manager to be able to choose how he spends his budget within the club's transfer policy and I'd expect Paul Faulkner to help him get the job done. Isn't that how it is supposed to work?
Yes, but there has to be an inbuilt safety switch whereby any manager coming in and asking for £10m to spend on Aidan McGeady is given a boot up the arse and told to shut the door on the way out.
I'd trust gregnash before I'd trust Paul Faulkner or Randy Lerner to pick a player and I think greg's a basket case. I really, really hope that there isn't any suggestion of outside interference on choice of players.
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Nor am I surprised to hear the final straw for Paul may have been MON asking for "whatever it took" to get McGeady which is something I was told this morning.
So this mysterious young Mr Faulkner was making decisions about who the manager could buy? Or was McGeady out of our price range?
So what should he have said? "As much as you want, sure". What if they asked for 15m? 20m?
They've already accepted a bid from Moscow so the price is set, it's nonsense to suggest those figures.
I'd expect the manager to be able to choose how he spends his budget within the club's transfer policy and I'd expect Paul Faulkner to help him get the job done. Isn't that how it is supposed to work?
No, the fact they've accepted a bid from Moscow isn't the point.
The point is that there has to be some limit to the funds available, to say "as much as it takes" seems to me to a bit confrontational and naive, if that's what has happened. Like you said, "budget" - there is one, maybe he's decided he can't work with it.
Whatever has happened, we don't know yet, I suspect it will come out in the wash, but the one thing we do know is that he's fucked off a few days before the start of the season.
I'm inclined to give the board the benefit of the doubt for the moment. I'm just surprised that you've decided to turn on them quite so thoroughy of late, and now seem to be looking for a nefarious bogeyman to point the finger at.
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I'd expect the manager to be able to choose how he spends his budget within the club's transfer policy and I'd expect Paul Faulkner to help him get the job done. Isn't that how it is supposed to work?
Yes, but there has to be an inbuilt safety switch whereby any manager coming in and asking for £10m to spend on Aidan McGeady is given a boot up the arse and told to shut the door on the way out.
I'd trust gregnash before I'd trust Paul Faulkner or Randy Lerner to pick a player and I think greg's a basket case. I really, really hope that there isn't any suggestion of outside interference on choice of players.
I doubt they actually went down the routw of picking players, but you can't blame them for not wanting to sign McGeady if it's true we wanted him.
Given O'Neill's transfer record, I'd take greg's views over him as well!
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Nor am I surprised to hear the final straw for Paul may have been MON asking for "whatever it took" to get McGeady which is something I was told this morning.
So this mysterious young Mr Faulkner was making decisions about who the manager could buy? Or was McGeady out of our price range?
So what should he have said? "As much as you want, sure". What if they asked for 15m? 20m?
They've already accepted a bid from Moscow so the price is set, it's nonsense to suggest those figures.
I'd expect the manager to be able to choose how he spends his budget within the club's transfer policy and I'd expect Paul Faulkner to help him get the job done. Isn't that how it is supposed to work?
No, the fact they've accepted a bid from Moscow isn't the point.
The point is that there has to be some limit to the funds available, to say "as much as it takes" seems to me to a bit confrontational and naive, if that's what has happened. Like you said, "budget" - there is one, maybe he's decided he can't work with it.
Whatever has happened, we don't know yet, I suspect it will come out in the wash, but the one thing we do know is that he's fucked off a few days before the start of the season.
I'm inclined to give the board the benefit of the doubt for the moment. I'm just surprised that you've decided to turn on them quite so thoroughy of late, and now seem to be looking for a nefarious bogeyman to point the finger at.
I haven't turned on them at all. I have questions the same as everyone else, albeit probably not the same ones as you.
If, if Paul Faulkner is making decisions about playing matters as suggested in the post I responded to, I think my questions are worth asking.
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is he causing the problem for Martin O'Neill to jump ship.
We do need someone in the club responsible for buying and selling and transfer and wages budget. Managers need to focus on picking team, coaching and setting football policies.
I don't know enough about him to say if he a good or bad employee of the club.
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I haven't turned on them at all. I have questions the same as everyone else, albeit probably not the same ones as you.
You've spent most of the last few weeks berating the board for their lowered expectations, sell to buy policy and lack of understanding about what is needed to break the top four.
I'm surprised, that's all, as I thought you were of the same opinion as me and most on this board for the last few years, and that they'd built up a bit of credit in the trust bank.
Also, it seems a bit harsh to equate "no, you can't have that much money" to the far more emotive (and different) "making decisions on playing matters", and if you're going to do that, then every single chairman in the league (bar one) will surely be guilty of it.
I also thought your opening post on this thread was somewhat loaded. Just who is this Paul Faulkener? Seemed to have the air of a suspicious enquiry to me, but apols if I'm wrong.
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I also thought your opening post on this thread was somewhat loaded. Just who is this Paul Faulkener? Seemed to have the air of a suspicious enquiry to me, but apols if I'm wrong.
Again Paulie, all things considered, it is a fair question.
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I haven't turned on them at all. I have questions the same as everyone else, albeit probably not the same ones as you.
You've spent most of the last few weeks berating the board for their lowered expectations, sell to buy policy and lack of understanding about what is needed to break the top four.
I'm surprised, that's all, as I thought you were of the same opinion as me and most on this board for the last few years, and that they'd built up a bit of credit in the trust bank.
Also, it seems a bit harsh to equate "no, you can't have that much money" to the far more emotive (and different) "making decisions on playing matters", and if you're going to do that, then every single chairman in the league (bar one) will surely be guilty of it.
I also thought your opening post on this thread was somewhat loaded. Just who is this Paul Faulkener? Seemed to have the air of a suspicious enquiry to me, but apols if I'm wrong.
I hadn't paid Faulkner any real attention until this came up yesterday. When I discovered that whatever went down was between him and O'Neill I wanted to know more about him. I couldn't find anything much on the net so decided to ask in here.
They have built up credit but something appears to have changed at the club and I haven't heard what it is or what those changes mean.
When Randy spoke at the end of the season he suggested we have a general sell to buy policy now but there is money there to invest in the team. I've got no problem with that He also said Milner wouldn't be sold and there was no mention of wages being a problem.
The General then popped up a couple of weeks ago to say that we have to get a grip of wages and we have to sell some players.
It wasn't me that changed, it was the messages from the club.
Nothing has changed in my level of support for the club but I'd like to understand what has changed in the boardroom and I'd like to understand what those changes mean for the future.
So if we've got to reduce wages, how much do we have to reduce them by? If Faulkner is deciding the manager can't spend some of the Milner money on McGeady, what is the transfer policy now? I'm hoping we can get answers to those type of questions.
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So if we've got to reduce wages, how much do we have to reduce them by? If Faulkner is deciding the manager can't spend some of the Milner money on McGeady, what is the transfer policy now? I'm hoping we can get answers to those type of questions.
As if you're ever going to get detailed answers to questions like that.
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P.S. I'm hoping is was all a bluff to get rid of O'Neill and Pelligrini gets appointed tomorrow and given £75m to spend.
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P.S. I'm hoping is was all a bluff to get rid of O'Neill and Pelligrini gets appointed tomorrow and given £75m to spend.
Ha ha, very good.
Don't worry, I'll be burning the same effigies as the rest of them if it turns out to be Bob Bradley with 750k in his pocket.
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It's been nearly three diabolical years and I still know far too little about this 34 year old man acting as our Chief Executive. What's the plan Faulkner?
I don't know who you are, Randy's MIA, Lambert's made of steel, Concrete Ron isn't concrete after all, we can't catch a break. What's the approach when the plan is behind schedule?
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i think this bloke is getting off extremly lightly. he is running the club, is the eyes and ears for randy, gives it the big,un at press conferences and always tells us how great a season we are going to have when he wants to sell season tickets. where is he? he should be taking some flack of the shoulders of paul lambert.
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Had a few beers. My answer, before i go to bed is.........A complete tosser of the top order of tossers. A bloody unqualified credit card salesman who is out of his depth, Olympic style out of his depth. Has not a fucking clue about us and who we are, never will. Get bloody rid of him and get somebody in who knows the game of football, ffs. UTV, always UTV.
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I think people are scapegoating him. He doesn't make any major decision without running it by Lerner.
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I think people are scapegoating him. He doesn't make any major decision without running it by Lerner.
Bing Bong Earth Calling!
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I don't know who he is, but every time I hear his name I am reminded of the Peter Principle.
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He's our Chief Executive. I think.
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Think he's a bean counter personally. Certainly not the normal type of CE you see at a club, more the type you get when the recievers appoint an administrator. Bottom line is the finances, and it reflects in the woeful PR and their managerial choices. I've said before this reliance on youth thing is his idea and i've not changed my mind.
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I preferred Richard Fitzgerald.
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Think he's a bean counter personally. Certainly not the normal type of CE you see at a club, more the type you get when the recievers appoint an administrator. Bottom line is the finances, and it reflects in the woeful PR and their managerial choices. I've said before this reliance on youth thing is his idea and i've not changed my mind.
First time I have seen a bean counter take press conferences.
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He appears, to me at least, to be about as useful as a pair of sunglasses to a bloke with one ear.
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Think he's a bean counter personally. Certainly not the normal type of CE you see at a club, more the type you get when the recievers appoint an administrator. Bottom line is the finances, and it reflects in the woeful PR and their managerial choices. I've said before this reliance on youth thing is his idea and i've not changed my mind.
The only education we know of is he read history at university. I don't think he was an accountant at MBNA.
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He got onto the FA council last Summer.
Ultimately, whatever his background, he's clearly incompetent at his current role of developing a football club. He's been Chief Executive and hand his hands firmly on the tiller since May 2010, during which we've gone from a team finishing 6th on 64 points to a team on a stark slide.
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Just a Lickspittle, pure and simple.
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Think he's a bean counter personally. Certainly not the normal type of CE you see at a club, more the type you get when the recievers appoint an administrator. Bottom line is the finances, and it reflects in the woeful PR and their managerial choices. I've said before this reliance on youth thing is his idea and i've not changed my mind.
First time I have seen a bean counter take press conferences.
I saw the Chief Exec. of Heinz do one once.
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The trouble is there is pretty much nobody else involved on the board as well. He is wet behind the ears kid who is woefully out of his depth running us.
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Faulkner may be a capable businessman, but the Board is woefully short of football experience. Good leaders appoint people to cover weaknesses, this is something that lerner has not done.
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Think he's a bean counter personally. Certainly not the normal type of CE you see at a club, more the type you get when the recievers appoint an administrator. Bottom line is the finances, and it reflects in the woeful PR and their managerial choices. I've said before this reliance on youth thing is his idea and i've not changed my mind.
The only education we know of is he read history at university. I don't think he was an accountant at MBNA.
Can we find him a joj as a histroy teacher
looking at his dad's profile I think he using artisitc licence Luton were never in the Prenier League nor the Top League in the mid 1990s
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Can we find him a joj as a inglish teacher
looking at his dad's profile I think he using artisitc licence Luton were never in the Prenier League nor the Top League in the mid 1990s
Fixed. ;)
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Paul Fuckner.
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He's been an unmitigated disaster of a Chief Exec. If you look at what has happened in his time in the role, he couldn't have done much worse. When we go down it'll just be part of his continuing failure.
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How much has he been paid since he started here?
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I don't blame him. He doesn't make the big decisions, Randy does.
Faulkner has done a good job increasing commercial revenue and the daily running of the club back office. That afterall is his remit.
He can now add to that 'Lerner's scapegoat'.
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I don't blame him. He doesn't make the big decisions, Randy does.
Faulkner has done a good job increasing commercial revenue and the daily running of the club back office. That afterall is his remit.
He can now add to that 'Lerner's scapegoat'.
Has he increased commercial revenue though? I'd suggest any increases in club revenue in the last 3 season's would be down to TV revenue pure and simple. The man has been an unmitigated disaster in my view.
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I don't blame him. He doesn't make the big decisions, Randy does.
Faulkner has done a good job increasing commercial revenue and the daily running of the club back office. That afterall is his remit.
He can now add to that 'Lerner's scapegoat'.
Has he increased commercial revenue though? I'd suggest any increases in club revenue in the last 3 season's would be down to TV revenue pure and simple. The man has been an unmitigated disaster in my view.
He has. You're wrong on the first point so that would make you also wrong on your second point.
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It's not that hard a job though is it.
Add up Dosh given from Sky, Randy and us lot. Appoint a coach then tell him how much money he has. Then spruce up the executive areas once a decade to add in a little more cash and for the rest of the time rub shoulders with other footy celebrities. Oh and every 2 seasons try and find an unknown company who wants to advertise on our shirts.
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If he is so good commercially, you'd think he'd make it very clear to Lerner that missing out on the Premier League next year will be a financial disaster.
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I don't blame him. He doesn't make the big decisions, Randy does.
Faulkner has done a good job increasing commercial revenue and the daily running of the club back office. That afterall is his remit.
He can now add to that 'Lerner's scapegoat'.
Has he increased commercial revenue though? I'd suggest any increases in club revenue in the last 3 season's would be down to TV revenue pure and simple. The man has been an unmitigated disaster in my view.
He has. You're wrong on the first point so that would make you also wrong on your second point.
Have you any stats or data to back that assertion up? I'm sure I recall looking through the y/e accounts for the last 3 year's and they showed that whilst revenue increased that was predominantly down to TV revenue? Where's Risso when you need him?
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If he is so good commercially, you'd think he'd make it very clear to Lerner that missing out on the Premier League next year will be a financial disaster.
Paul, do you really think he hasn't?
And there lies the problem.
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Well I don't know, but the clubs actions would indicate a complete lack of awareness of that fact.
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Paul Faulkner = A rubbish Smithers
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Majority of Player recruitment under PF has been disaster ,why he is still in charge of this is crazy.
Randy could of saved Millions and made millions with a good scouting a player recruitment strategy
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I don't blame him. He doesn't make the big decisions, Randy does.
Faulkner has done a good job increasing commercial revenue and the daily running of the club back office. That afterall is his remit.
He can now add to that 'Lerner's scapegoat'.
Has he increased commercial revenue though? I'd suggest any increases in club revenue in the last 3 season's would be down to TV revenue pure and simple. The man has been an unmitigated disaster in my view.
He has. You're wrong on the first point so that would make you also wrong on your second point.
Have you any stats or data to back that assertion up? I'm sure I recall looking through the y/e accounts for the last 3 year's and they showed that whilst revenue increased that was predominantly down to TV revenue?
The last accounts show a 22% increase in 2011 compared to the previous 12 months, not bad for such tough economic times and without a paying sponsor.
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2011 FXPro were sponsors.
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2011 FXPro were sponsors.
2011 the 2010 accounts were made public.
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2011 FXPro were sponsors.
2011 the 2010 accounts were made public.
If your on about 2010 correct.i don't get accounts at all.
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I don't blame him. He doesn't make the big decisions, Randy does.
Faulkner has done a good job increasing commercial revenue and the daily running of the club back office. That afterall is his remit.
He can now add to that 'Lerner's scapegoat'.
Has he increased commercial revenue though? I'd suggest any increases in club revenue in the last 3 season's would be down to TV revenue pure and simple. The man has been an unmitigated disaster in my view.
He has. You're wrong on the first point so that would make you also wrong on your second point.
Have you any stats or data to back that assertion up? I'm sure I recall looking through the y/e accounts for the last 3 year's and they showed that whilst revenue increased that was predominantly down to TV revenue?
he last accounts show a 22% increase in 2011 compared to theprevious 12 months, not bad for such tough economic times and without a paying ote]
So we're relying on data that's 2 years out of date on how he's performing now. If the next set of data shows commercial income to have increased against a backdrop of McLeish AMD Lambert then hats off to the fella but I'm fully expecting to see turnover flatlining or possibly dropping. The fabled £100 million barrier to meet his stated objective of top 20 in Delloites list seems a distant if not unrealistic dream at the moment.
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The trouble is there is pretty much nobody else involved on the board as well. He is wet behind the ears kid who is woefully out of his depth running us.
I think this sums it up about right and is also a large reason why we lurch from one fuck up to the next.
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I don't blame him. He doesn't make the big decisions, Randy does.
Faulkner has done a good job increasing commercial revenue and the daily running of the club back office. That afterall is his remit.
He can now add to that 'Lerner's scapegoat'.
Has he increased commercial revenue though? I'd suggest any increases in club revenue in the last 3 season's would be down to TV revenue pure and simple. The man has been an unmitigated disaster in my view.
He has. You're wrong on the first point so that would make you also wrong on your second point.
Have you any stats or data to back that assertion up? I'm sure I recall looking through the y/e accounts for the last 3 year's and they showed that whilst revenue increased that was predominantly down to TV revenue?
he last accounts show a 22% increase in 2011 compared to theprevious 12 months, not bad for such tough economic times and without a paying ote]
So we're relying on data that's 2 years out of date on how he's performing now. If the next set of data shows commercial income to have increased against a backdrop of McLeish AMD Lambert then hats off to the fella but I'm fully expecting to see turnover flatlining or possibly dropping. The fabled £100 million barrier to meet his stated objective of top 20 in Delloites list seems a distant if not unrealistic dream at the moment.
2010/2011 accounts show an increase of commercial revenue of 16% year on year.
The real interesting stuff should be the 2011/12 accounts which are out at the end of next month.
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If the day ends with only one signing, I'm expecting Paul Faulkner to resign. Not because of what he's done but what he's failed to do, that being to convince Randy Lerner that we needed additional funds to stay up. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming Faulkner, he has no control over the finances, it's a very awkward position for any CEO to find themselves, it's not as if he can go out there and find new investors into the club or arrange financing through the banks. The man's hands have been tied behind his back and if has any self pride he'd resign and walk away from what is turning out to be a bloody circus.
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The man is a disgrace and should have been sacked for his ineptitude years ago.
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Ads, do you think any other CEO would have done things differently? A the end of the day, whoever is in there is powerless.
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If the day ends with only one signing, I'm expecting Paul Faulkner to resign. Not because of what he's done but what he's failed to do, that being to convince Randy Lerner that we needed additional funds to stay up. Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming Faulkner, he has no control over the finances, it's a very awkward position for any CEO to find themselves, it's not as if he can go out there and find new investors into the club or arrange financing through the banks. The man's hands have been tied behind his back and if has any self pride he'd resign and walk away from what is turning out to be a bloody circus.
Agree, but the "buck" or dollars stops with someone who can't be arsed to cross the Atlantic more than about 3 times a year if wer'e lucky to be graced with his presence. The guy's interest started to wane in August 2010, and it's got to point where he just doesn't seem that bothered anymore. The novelty has well and truly worn off.
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The last accounts show a 22% increase in 2011 compared to the previous 12 months, not bad for such tough economic times and without a paying sponsor.
I think you want to check your maths on that one. £16.7m compared to £14.4m the year before on commercial, a £2.3m or 16% increase on the year before. Not bad of course, but wouldn't even cover Stephen Ireland's wages for a year, and was also offset by a bigger fall in matchday income, such that overall income only rose by £1.1m.
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Majority of Player recruitment under PF has been disaster ,why he is still in charge of this is crazy.
Randy could of saved Millions and made millions with a good scouting a player recruitment strategy
Could have
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The last accounts show a 22% increase in 2011 compared to the previous 12 months, not bad for such tough economic times and without a paying sponsor.
I think you want to check your maths on that one. £16.7m compared to £14.4m the year before on commercial, a £2.3m or 16% increase on the year before. Not bad of course, but wouldn't even cover Stephen Ireland's wages for a year, and was also offset by a bigger fall in matchday income, such that overall income only rose by £1.1m.
Can't remember where I picked that up from, I think it was the Deloitte Rich List. It may have been the previous year.
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Who is Paul Faulkner?
He is a bit like the Lepidus of the 2nd Triumvirate and equally as pointless.
While Lerner and Lambert are clearly abysmal and enjoy the lion's share of the blame for the current awfulness, do not underestimate Faulkner's penchant for clueless fuckwittery of biblical proportions.
Since joining the club he has worked tirelessly to maintain a solid downwards tajectory, with terminal velocity of our decline being reached in December 2012. Good job Paul.
His objective will be complete around early April when this majestic club are shamefully dumped out of the only part of the English game that counts. Ouch.
His highlights include; appointing a man out of the game for years, then paying him £5 million 9 months later, signing Ireland and the astounding appointment of McLiesh.
So while he may be a useless runt, he certainly has playes his role in this tradgedy with applomb.
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He is not a football man, he is not a Villa Supporter, he is in charge of all our financial decisions including players. He is the death of Aston Villa FC. Thank God a guy like this has nothing to do with Aston Villa Football club.
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He is a nice guy but in terms of 140 years of Villa history he will go down as a real c*nt.
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Paul Faulkner CEO: A funereal lockup. Rather like Villa at the end of this season. Now we know, he's an agent from the grim reaper.
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He's probably a decent commercial manager but totally out of his depth running a Premier League club.
He's more aloof than Lord Lucan married with Frank Spencer's decision making.
Another inspired appointment by Mr Lerner.
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He's probably a decent commercial manager but totally out of his depth running a Premier League club.
He's more aloof than Lord Lucan married with Frank Spencer's decision making.
Another inspired appointment by Mr Lerner.
I think this is the point. As I understand it, he has increased our commercial revenue and the club marketing is greatly improved. However the crux is that we are not a standard business where standard business practises can be applied. He has clearly tried to shoehorn standard business practise into the club and it has failed. Like many failing business leaders in the current climate, seeing the failure, he has decided to keep his head firmly down and hope that it will blow over.
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HE IS A ******
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HE IS A c***
He's a businessman in a failing business, doing what he does best, namely hiding and covering his arse.
Ask yourself how many times have you seen this out in the real world, especially since 2008?
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He is a nice guy but in terms of 140 years of Villa history he will go down as a real c*nt.
Ha!
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He's a man who is not remotely qualified for the position he holds and it shows.
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HE IS A c***
Less of that please.
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If he was part of any business I've had a connection with he would have been sacked as CEO a long time ago.
Please give him a job he is suitable for and get Steve Stride back.
The damage may be done now but lets not compound the error.
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He might have done decent job in the commercial side of Villa but Lerner utterly fucked up by not hiring someone who actually knows football and how to run football club to work with Faulkner.
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He's not the mild mannered janitor then...
More Ian Huntley
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The important question from page 1 is does he have a wikipedia page yet?
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The important question from page 1 is does he have a wikipedia page yet?
No but he's on LinkedIn if you'd like to befriend him
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He might have done decent job in the commercial side of Villa but Lerner utterly fucked up by not hiring someone who actually knows football and how to run football club to work with Faulkner.
How does our increase in income compare with say Everton, Newcastle, Sunderland, Liverpool and Spurs in his period as CEO?
Any ideas? Anyone.