Who is Paul Faulkner?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

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.

[Zakk Fatt]

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.

[Zakk Fatt]

He is a nice guy but in terms of 140 years of Villa history he will go down as a real c*nt.

[adam#1]

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.

[Mazrim]

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.

[NeilH]

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.

[Phil from the upper holte]

HE IS A ******

[NeilH]

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?

[saunders_heroes]

He is a nice guy but in terms of 140 years of Villa history he will go down as a real c*nt.

Ha!

[PaulWinch again]

He's a man who is not remotely qualified for the position he holds and it shows.

[dave.woodhall]

HE IS A c***

Less of that please.

[Mazrim]

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.

[Jarpie]

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.

[Malandro]

He's not the mild mannered janitor then...

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