New chairman and Lerner ramblings

[Clark W Griswold]

I never know why people are so keen to appoint people that have been out of the game for ages. I like Taylor but his last spell was poor and he's only going to have become more out of touch since.

You are completely summising and have nothing to back that up.

 Taken from Wikipedia; "Taylor served as chairman of Watford F.C. from 2009 until 2012 with whom he still holds position of honorary life-president"
Doesnt sound to me like someone completely out of touch with the game. And looking at Watford now, I know which club I think is in a better state.

Why should being out of the game for a while, be an obstacle anyway.
If you understand the fully fundamentals of any discipline, business or sport, you can bring that knowledge, experience and understanding into a current role.
Taylor, Atkinson, and others, know what makes a football club 'tick'.
They have experienced great success in their careers.

Someone like that would be of great benefit to the club, I'm sure.

No, I think he has a point. In fact I think being out of the game for a period is equivalent to having a lobotomy.

[villadelph]

My only concern is that he doesn't have any experience of running a football club, rather than be concerned about him not being a football man. Still, let's see how it goes.

I agree. I really don't see anything changing, just another suit in front of Lerner to absorb the criticism.

[cdbearsfan]

Anyway, has this new bloke got any money?

[Percy McCarthy]

Love this bit from our new chairman..
"As we have witnessed in the Premier League this year with other clubs - money no longer buys success."

Quite a statement from a Man City fan.

[andyh]

Love this bit from our new chairman..
"As we have witnessed in the Premier League this year with other clubs - money no longer buys success."

Quite a statement from a Man City fan.

Very good point.

[dave shelley]

Welcome Steve.

[cdbearsfan]

Love this bit from our new chairman..
"As we have witnessed in the Premier League this year with other clubs - money no longer buys success."

Quite a statement from a Man City fan.

He he. It is a pretty worrying statement. He seems to be attempting to dampen expectations before he's even got started.

"Money no longer buys success" will be the new mantra to explain lack of investment. I thought we'd be able to spend as much as giants like Stoke now we've spent half a decade trimming the wage bill but apparently not.

[Clark W Griswold]

Love this bit from our new chairman..
"As we have witnessed in the Premier League this year with other clubs - money no longer buys success."

Quite a statement from a Man City fan.

Who, despite being a pale comparison to 2 years ago will probably still win it. It is fair to say though that a reasonable level of success can be achieved on a much lower budget.

[rob_bridge]

"As we have witnessed in the Premier League this year with other clubs - money no longer buys success. Randy has consistently provided financial backing no less so than last year."

That strikes me as a fairly dangerous and worrying conclusion to have arrived at already!

Randy has provided consistent financial backing, but only in the same sense that Agbonlahor is a consistent Premier League goalscorer.

I think it is realistic - we are going to see a drop of 40% in our income in the next 6 months.

We need to spend the money we have smarter, much much smarter. Not throw more good money after bad, which some people prefer.

[rob_bridge]

Money may not guarentee sucess but buying better quality players and a decent coach to manage them will ensure that you won't be fighting relegation for 5 FUCKING YEARS

That ship has sailed - bad decision after bad decision after bad decision.

We have to start rebuilding.

Smarter recruitment. We ain't gonna spend £10m on a player for a while

[Jimbo]

Lerner might have taken this opportunity to say "sorry about fucking your club up." Let's see what Steven 'until a few weeks ago, chairing a football club was not on my list of possible opportunities' Hollis can bring to the madhouse.

[Clampy]

Money may not guarentee sucess but buying better quality players and a decent coach to manage them will ensure that you won't be fighting relegation for 5 FUCKING YEARS

That ship has sailed - bad decision after bad decision after bad decision.

We have to start rebuilding.

Smarter recruitment. We ain't gonna spend £10m on a player for a while

We did last August.

[Dave]

Love this bit from our new chairman..
"As we have witnessed in the Premier League this year with other clubs - money no longer buys success."

Quite a statement from a Man City fan.

He he. It is a pretty worrying statement. He seems to be attempting to dampen expectations before he's even got started.

"Money no longer buys success" will be the new mantra to explain lack of investment. I thought we'd be able to spend as much as giants like Stoke now we've spent half a decade trimming the wage bill but apparently not.

Are Stoke not the sort of thing he's referring to?

Shaqiri, Affelay, Bojan and Arnautovic combined cost less than we spent on Gestede and Gueye.

[Bottom Right 89]

Local Businessman with experience of sorting out shit storms what is there not to like? 

[Clark W Griswold]

Lerner might have taken this opportunity to say "sorry about fucking your club up." Let's see what Steven 'until a few weeks ago, chairing a football club was not on my list of possible opportunities' Hollis can bring to the madhouse.

Yeah, I thought that sounded a bit 'Christian Gross' but let's give him a chance. At least we have a high level business presence here now, something we haven't had with Dipshit living in the states for god knows how long.