Goodbye Paul Faulkner.

[Mister E]

I see this as a positive. The guy was clueless and out of his depth. Don't let the door hit you on the arse on the way out.

?
Really? - can we honestly know what he did behind the scenes?

[pauliewalnuts]

This is bizarre; 2 more Facebook updates from Delph in the last hour. Firstly;

"The news has been revealed, fresh start?"

Followed by,

"Villa fans, I can't sign a contract if I haven't been offered one, hopefully now this means I can put pen to paper."

He's obviously insinuating that it was Faulkner not offering him a new contract....!! utterly, utterly bizarre.

Delphs old school, he would'nt use Facebook...he's more a Faceparty user.

The bloke is all over Friendster, too.

[Mister E]

What I believe todays news means is that new ownership is a lot more imenent that many believe.
They will have their own CEO already identified and Faulkner went when faced with the inevitable.

Delphs comjents indicate the same thing. No deals can be sanctioned by the old regime , Faulkner going brings things a step nearer.

I suspect it us a haggle over price at the moment that is holding things up.

Takeover deals worth billions regularly take place in the broader financial world the sale of a football club worth a few hundred million is relatively small beer and is by those standards will be concluded a lot quicker than many fear.

This is how I read it.

[Richard E]

So when does Cortese arrive then?

[Clampy]

Which facebook page is it suppose to be? The only official looking one has got a black and white photo of him in training and there's no posts on there from him, just people saying thank you being added.

[Ads]

Maybe his son has something to do with it?

I know nothing on either subject, but being a CEO of a club our size must be pretty time consuming and stressful. Add to that you have a disabled child who requires a lot of care and attention, perhaps he is just re-focussing on something far more important and wants a job that will give him more time to do the things that need to be done? 

[The Laughing Policeman]

Jeez, whats with all the defending of this bloke? he has overseen one of the worst periods in our recent history. If it wasnt his doing then more fool him, he was the CEO of a multi million pound company and if this hasnt been his doing then he is as much to blame as anyone. I have no faith in him, goodbye and thanks Paul, shut the door on your way out.

So, if none of what has happened in the last few years wasn't his doing it's still his fault?
I doubt your logic Mr.Spock.

[supertom]

Jeez, whats with all the defending of this bloke? he has overseen one of the worst periods in our recent history. If it wasnt his doing then more fool him, he was the CEO of a multi million pound company and if this hasnt been his doing then he is as much to blame as anyone. I have no faith in him, goodbye and thanks Paul, shut the door on your way out.

He was part of a bad set up, but it all stems from Randy. He sets the agenda, he runs the ship. Faulkner is nowt more than a hired hand. I'm not sure how much blame can really be attributed to him for what happens on the pitch. That boils down the mess Randy made, and the mess Lambert's been making on the pitch. I see Faulkner as a glorified carrier pigeon and certainly not master of the Aston Villa downfall.

I just think in the end what we desperately need now is fresh ownership with someone a bit more savvy toward running a football club, who can hire the appropriate people, and have some sort of footballing nous on the board.

No one here's going to be particularly sad seeing Faulkner go. At the same time I'm not sure his leaving warrants dancing in the street.

[pauliewalnuts]

Faulkner won't have just randomly quit, this must have been on the cards for a while.

I notice that his abseiling off the roof of the Holte happened on Sunday. Maybe part of the reason he didn't want the news to leak till after then in case it deflected from the good cause?

[supertom]

Maybe his son has something to do with it?

I know nothing on either subject, but being a CEO of a club our size must be pretty time consuming and stressful. Add to that you have a disabled child who requires a lot of care and attention, perhaps he is just re-focussing on something far more important and wants a job that will give him more time to do the things that need to be done? 

I'm sure there are easier jobs he can do in his line of work without having to deal with the constant politics of a football club, particularly one stuck in a transitional limbo at the moment.

[supertom]

Faulkner won't have just randomly quit, this must have been on the cards for a while.

I notice that his abseiling off the roof of the Holte happened on Sunday. Maybe part of the reason he didn't want the news to leak till after then in case it deflected from the good cause?

That's a good point. Did that still happen on sunday? I didn't notice anything about it on the official site, and unless I've missed it no one has reported on it on these boards. Hopefully it went well.

[pauliewalnuts]

Strange coming a day after Keane starts work.

I reckon they all went for an after-work pint somewhere, during which, Faulkner made the fundamental error of disrespecting Keane's pint, or maybe got the crisp order all wrong at the bar.

Faulkner got all flustered about it, Keane wheeled out this look:



Faulkner decided he couldn't work with someone he was terrified of.

[Toronto Villa]

Strange coming a day after Keane starts work.

I reckon they all went for an after-work pint somewhere, during which, Faulkner made the fundamental error of disrespecting Keane's pint, or maybe got the crisp order all wrong at the bar.

Faulkner got all flustered about it, Keane wheeled out this look:



Faulkner decided he couldn't work with someone he was terrified of.

I think you've overcomplicated things. I hear he got pork scratchings and not Salt and Vinegar Hula Hoops. And everyone knows Keane only eats scratchings on a Thursday and before 7pm.

He got the look and now he's gone.

[Tuscans]

This is bizarre; 2 more Facebook updates from Delph in the last hour. Firstly;

"The news has been revealed, fresh start?"

Followed by,

"Villa fans, I can't sign a contract if I haven't been offered one, hopefully now this means I can put pen to paper."

He's obviously insinuating that it was Faulkner not offering him a new contract....!! utterly, utterly bizarre.

Delphs old school, he would'nt use Facebook...he's more a Faceparty user.

The bloke is all over Friendster, too.

You're way ahead of me, I didn't even have the net then.

[The Villa Werewolf]

This is bizarre; 2 more Facebook updates from Delph in the last hour. Firstly;

"The news has been revealed, fresh start?"

Followed by,

"Villa fans, I can't sign a contract if I haven't been offered one, hopefully now this means I can put pen to paper."

He's obviously insinuating that it was Faulkner not offering him a new contract....!! utterly, utterly bizarre.

That's assuming the Delph page is real.

Which I strongly doubt.

I'm fairly sure it's him. He's constantly putting videos of himself up. If it's not him, it's someone with access to that kind of stuff.

They're simply lifted from this personal trainer's Instagram account:
http://instagram.com/jamie_velocity

Dear oh dear.

What?!