Randy Lerner

[pbavfckuwait]

Also a difference with Spurs is they play hard ball when selling or buying players, not to many get to run their contracts down and walk away for nothing, where as the only benefactor is the player.
Faulkner and I should imagine Fox to an extent seem to get a hard on giving out contracts to unsuitable players, instead of getting rid when in a position to do so.
I think it is called having people in positions that are competent.

[fredm]

Recruitment has been his biggest failure.

Ten years in and we are only just getting what looks like it might be a competent board, for example

Exactly. Nail on head.  If he had appointed some competent people to run the club from day 1, we would never have been in this mess.  All right O'Neill might have had a strop and walked but would he have got a better job?  I think even he would have seen the logic of it if there had been someone in position with authority and stature to spell it out to him.

[Malandro]

Poor man could have sacked the lot of them and sat on the bench in his undies and done no worse.

[Risso]

Recruitment has been his biggest failure.

Ten years in and we are only just getting what looks like it might be a competent board, for example

Exactly. Nail on head.  If he had appointed some competent people to run the club from day 1, we would never have been in this mess.  All right O'Neill might have had a strop and walked but would he have got a better job?  I think even he would have seen the logic of it if there had been someone in position with authority and stature to spell it out to him.

To be fair, he appointed some fairly big hitters to start with, but then for reasons best known to him, dumped them all sharpish and made do with his mates in Krulak and Faulkner.

[cheltenhamlion]

MON refused to have anyone do anything football related that wasn't him. Back me or sack me played as a card more frequently than a joker in Its a knockout is my guess.

[Risso]

MON refused to have anyone do anything football related that wasn't him. Back me or sack me played as a card more frequently than a joker in Its a knockout is my guess.

Agreed. And by the time Lerner wised up, it was too late and we've paid for it ever since.

[The Left Side]

Fox is stepping down!

http://www.avfc.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10265~5427048,00.html

[Toronto Villa]

Fucking hell it's all happening now!!!

[The Left Side]

Steve Hollis is Executive Chairman

[trevor fisher]

The return of the General as with Fox and others going makes it clear Lerner is not bailing out. Indeed he can't - unless he gives the club away, which is not going to happen. The Trust can rest easy. But we cannot be sold because we are now an internationally known financial as well as sporting disaster.

On March 13th an article in Forbes, the leading American business journal, reported that Lerner has lost $100,000 per day on average over 10 years, a whopping after tax loss overall of $357m which comes from having to support a club which has lost money in 9 of the 10 years he has owned it.

Fans should not campaign for LErner to go. He can't sell the club so it is a waste of time. Those interested have done due diligence, seen this is a black hole for losing money, and walked away. Depressing conclusion is we have to put up with Lerner. No one else wants a club run like this, and who comes in at CEO level is going to be crucial. At the moment we are run by DaffyDuck and his mates.

Trevor Fisher

[pauliewalnuts]

Is this really worth a new thread, Trevor?

I don't think so. Merging it.

[fbriai]

I'm not sure where to put this, but here looks as good a place as any: out of interest, does anyone know how much money we have paid out on severance packages since Lerner took charge?

[Risso]

I'm not sure where to put this, but here looks as good a place as any: out of interest, does anyone know how much money we have paid out on severance packages since Lerner took charge?

Yep

O'Neill and chums - £12m
Houllier - £6m
McLeish - £2.2m
Player contract buy outs - £6m
Lambert - £3.3m

Total - £29.5m.  Bargain.

[andyh]

I'm not sure where to put this, but here looks as good a place as any: out of interest, does anyone know how much money we have paid out on severance packages since Lerner took charge?

Yep

O'Neill and chums - £12m
Houllier - £6m
McLeish - £2.2m
Player contract buy outs - £6m
Lambert - £3.3m

Total - £29.5m.  Bargain.

Include in that

Lamberts chums.
Sherwood
Fox
Fox's chums

What about other 'exec's such as Faulkner etc?

Probably pushing £40+ ?

[Risso]

Nope, that's the total of all termination payments.  Anything you mention will be included in the totals above.  Sherwood's figures won't be reported until next year.