Sponsorship withdrawal ?

[dave.woodhall]

I'm a fan of anyone who improves the club.

Has Faulkner been helpful to you personally and/or professionally?

Profesionally, yes he has. As have many other people. Perhaps you may care to explain what you mean by 'personally'.

You may also wish to tell us how the man you continue to idolise has "improved the club" since he walked out on it.

[TheSandman]

Do you really think that Faulkner has that much power? How many of these deals do you think go straight over Faulkner's head up to Randy? Especially if he is as hands on as many imagine.

We also have no idea what goes on behind closed doors at FXPro and what their policies are.

[damon loves JT]

Seems to me that a sponsor who signs a deal, then comes back and asks for a discount, is going to pull that stunt again if you once say 'yes'.

[KevinGage]

Seems to me that a sponsor who signs a deal, then comes back and asks for a discount, is going to pull that stunt again if you once say 'yes'.

That, or other current sponsors see it and think 'why are we paying x amount when we can probably renegotiate and bring it down too?'

[Chris Harte]

Balls to FX-whatever. Trading Forex like a pro sounds crude anyway.

[pauliewalnuts]

I'm a fan of anyone who improves the club.

Really?

You weren't much of a fan of Randy Lerner over the summer, were you? You were there telling us how he hasn't really invested that much, how we had to sell to buy, how the spending had stopped, but then we spent 24 million pounds on a striker. You then took a few days off, then went back to form.

[pauliewalnuts]

Balls to FX-whatever.

Too fucking right.

The only thing they have worth watching is that zombie program, and even that's gone a bit shit.

[Dave Cooper please]

Dexter is good.

[curiousorange]

Dexter is good.

I dunno, they show Family Guy and King of the Hill too.

[cdbearsfan]

I have a bit of a headache. I blame Paul Faulkner. I also blame him for the Birmingham pub bombings and the Holocaust.

[Villa'Zawg]

 

I'm a fan of anyone who improves the club.

Really?

You weren't much of a fan of Randy Lerner over the summer, were you? You were there telling us how he hasn't really invested that much, how we had to sell to buy, how the spending had stopped, but then we spent 24 million pounds on a striker. You then took a few days off, then went back to form.

Yeah, I thought it was a bad time to focus on reducing wages and stop investing in the playing squad because we'd go backwards. I also thought we were going to only spend money raised from selling players i.e. sell-to-buy.

What's your point? Isn't that exactly what has happened?

[cdbearsfan]

No it's not what happened. We made about 50p profit on Milner (by the time you take into account his loyalty fee, signing on fee, wages and bonuses) and we spent £18-£24 million on Bent. Why can't you accept you were wrong and be happy that your club is showing loads of ambition?

[PeterWithe]

I think you'll find it's YOUR club.

[junxs]

What I want to know is how come Fulham and ourselves were on the same amount, I would have thought we were 4 or 5 times as big a club as they are. Especially when you consider that negotiations would have taken place after 2 successive 6th place finishes and while we were fighting for a champions league spot!

Either we have terrible negotiators or Fulham have extremely good ones!

 think you'll find that your opinion is pathetic. We're not in control pf anything that goes wrong. Our best players, our manager, our commercial agreements with sponsors... Whatever we do is great and if it isn't great then that's someone else's fault and there was nothing we could do about it anyway.

I'd like to think that perhaps we're worth a little more than Fulham when it comes to sponsorship deals.

[Dave Cooper please]

I'd like to think that perhaps we're worth a little more than Fulham when it comes to sponsorship deals.

Maybe we are, maybe FxPro asked to renegotiate the deal for less money and we told them to do one because we can get better?

I'll wait for the details and the new shirt sponsor before slagging off the club myself.