Randy Lerner

[Locko]

I'd love to know how he spends his days. I bet it's all crystals, reiki massages and colonic irrigation.

Wanking mainly,I suspect...

[LTA]

I'd love to know how he spends his days. I bet it's all crystals, reiki massages and colonic irrigation.

Burying his head in the sand probably.  Seems to be the way he conducts his business - Ignore it and hopefully it will go away.

[Rico]

Can someone please clarify what the role of the new chairman will be? I thought Tom Fox was running the show now. I'm confused! Will the new chairman be an employee of the club or will he/she be putting in some of their own cash. I just don't really see how this appointment benefits us.

[Villa in Denmark]

From the front page of The Institute of Directors document - The role of the chairman - Factsheet

The essential tasks of a chairman are as follows:
• providing leadership to the board
• taking responsibility for the board’s composition and development
• ensuring proper information for the board
• planning and conducting board meetings effectively
• getting all directors involved in the board’s work
• ensuring the board focuses on its key tasks
• engaging the board in assessing and improving its performance
• overseeing the induction and development of directors
• supporting the chief executive/MD

Full document here if anyone's interested.

So he/she will be an employee of either the club or RAL - Lerner's company that owns the club, depending on how it's set up and will most likely not be investing any capital into the club.

I'd go so far as to suggest that it's the 2 highlighted bits that we've lacked the most whilst Lerner has been the de-facto chairman.

Hopefully it's a sensible, but ultimately take no shit kind of character with experience working within high profile sports, preferably a club environment and ideally football.

[Legion]

I'll do it.

[brian green]

There is not a single funny line in that long post. Villa In Denmark, You're fired!

[Rico]

From the front page of The Institute of Directors document - The role of the chairman - Factsheet

The essential tasks of a chairman are as follows:
• providing leadership to the board
• taking responsibility for the board’s composition and development
• ensuring proper information for the board
• planning and conducting board meetings effectively
• getting all directors involved in the board’s work
• ensuring the board focuses on its key tasks
• engaging the board in assessing and improving its performance
• overseeing the induction and development of directors
• supporting the chief executive/MD

Full document here if anyone's interested.

So he/she will be an employee of either the club or RAL - Lerner's company that owns the club, depending on how it's set up and will most likely not be investing any capital into the club.

I'd go so far as to suggest that it's the 2 highlighted bits that we've lacked the most whilst Lerner has been the de-facto chairman.

Hopefully it's a sensible, but ultimately take no shit kind of character with experience working within high profile sports, preferably a club environment and ideally football.

Ok, fair enough, but as CEO I would have thought Tom Fox would already be doing this. Am I just being thick?

[Villa in Denmark]

From the front page of The Institute of Directors document - The role of the chairman - Factsheet

The essential tasks of a chairman are as follows:
• providing leadership to the board
• taking responsibility for the board’s composition and development
• ensuring proper information for the board
• planning and conducting board meetings effectively
• getting all directors involved in the board’s work
• ensuring the board focuses on its key tasks
• engaging the board in assessing and improving its performance
• overseeing the induction and development of directors
• supporting the chief executive/MD

Full document here if anyone's interested.

So he/she will be an employee of either the club or RAL - Lerner's company that owns the club, depending on how it's set up and will most likely not be investing any capital into the club.

I'd go so far as to suggest that it's the 2 highlighted bits that we've lacked the most whilst Lerner has been the de-facto chairman.

Hopefully it's a sensible, but ultimately take no shit kind of character with experience working within high profile sports, preferably a club environment and ideally football.

Ok, fair enough, but as CEO I would have thought Tom Fox would already be doing this. Am I just being thick?

No, just confusing the roles of CEO and Chairman.

The CEO has ultimate responsibility for the day to day running of the club.  The chairman is essentially there to provide oversight over the CEO and other board members and ensure that
a) they've got the tools to do their jobs
b) they're not tools and can actually do their jobs.

The chairman is in a normal company the shareholder's representative on the board, in this case just Randy.

Regardless of your (generally, not specifically you Rico) opinions on the qualities or otherwise of the individuals now in place, this kind of structure should have been in place much sooner and probably from day 1.  Of course then you'd have had MON flouncing out before you could Didier Agathe.

[Jon Crofts]

So long as priority number 1 in January is a proven goal scorer, a left back and a goalkeeper he can hire Charlie Sheen as Chairman for all I care the buffoon.

[Des Little]

Let's get our Karren in. That would top it all off.

[Chris Harte]

So long as priority number 1 in January is a proven goal scorer, a left back and a goalkeeper he can hire Charlie Sheen as Chairman for all I care the buffoon.

That's a lot of priority number 1s, but then this is the mess that we are in. I'm tempted to say a decent centre half could be added to that list.

[bobdylan]

So long as priority number 1 in January is a proven goal scorer, a left back and a goalkeeper he can hire Charlie Sheen as Chairman for all I care the buffoon.

That's a lot of priority number 1s, but then this is the mess that we are in. I'm tempted to say a decent centre half could be added to that list.

And a holding midfielder please.

[pauliewalnuts]

From the front page of The Institute of Directors document - The role of the chairman - Factsheet

The essential tasks of a chairman are as follows:
• providing leadership to the board
• taking responsibility for the board’s composition and development
• ensuring proper information for the board
• planning and conducting board meetings effectively
• getting all directors involved in the board’s work
• ensuring the board focuses on its key tasks
• engaging the board in assessing and improving its performance
• overseeing the induction and development of directors
• supporting the chief executive/MD

Full document here if anyone's interested.

So he/she will be an employee of either the club or RAL - Lerner's company that owns the club, depending on how it's set up and will most likely not be investing any capital into the club.

I'd go so far as to suggest that it's the 2 highlighted bits that we've lacked the most whilst Lerner has been the de-facto chairman.

Hopefully it's a sensible, but ultimately take no shit kind of character with experience working within high profile sports, preferably a club environment and ideally football.

Ok, fair enough, but as CEO I would have thought Tom Fox would already be doing this. Am I just being thick?

No, just confusing the roles of CEO and Chairman.

The CEO has ultimate responsibility for the day to day running of the club.  The chairman is essentially there to provide oversight over the CEO and other board members and ensure that
a) they've got the tools to do their jobs
b) they're not tools and can actually do their jobs.

The chairman is in a normal company the shareholder's representative on the board, in this case just Randy.

Regardless of your (generally, not specifically you Rico) opinions on the qualities or otherwise of the individuals now in place, this kind of structure should have been in place much sooner and probably from day 1.  Of course then you'd have had MON flouncing out before you could Didier Agathe.

In reality, the chairman and the CEO in a privately held company can do whatever they want to define their role as.

[kippaxvilla2]

Exactly what is the point of hiring a Chairman under this ownership structure exactly?

[pauliewalnuts]

Exactly what is the point of hiring a Chairman under this ownership structure exactly?

Needs to maintain a firm grip on the wheel and steer the ship firmly into that massive fucking iceberg.