Fox is Gone

[Pete3206]

I hate corny animal puns. For fox sake stop it!

[Axl Rose]

Good riddance.
Unfortunately it's too little, far too late.

This.

[passport1]

A number have already said it but I will reiterate the culprit still owns the club and is still capable of making equally idiotic appointments.

The words deckchairs and Titanic spring to mind.

[tomd2103]

Apologies if covered elsewhere, but I heard on the radio that Hollis is now Executive Chairman.  What exactly does that mean?

[eamonn]

A number have already said it but I will reiterate the culprit still owns the club and is still capable of making equally idiotic appointments.

The words deckchairs and Titanic spring to mind.

Except now he's employed smarter people to make smart appointments. Bernstein and Hollis should see that we now have more competent people in the right roles.

[mr underhill]

We'd have been better off with Basil Brush

[brian green]

Boom Boom!

[AV82EC]

Apologies if covered elsewhere, but I heard on the radio that Hollis is now Executive Chairman.  What exactly does that mean?

In effect he's taken on Foxs CEO role. I think he was a non-exec Chairman before.

[rob_bridge]

At the end of the day no matter how much we have to pay him to leave it will be money well spent.

Until we see the accounts this time next year.

I just couldn't get over his salary tbh, we overpromoted him and then offered him one of the best CEO salaries in the league, bonkers.

That is Aston Villa for you, certainly find novel ways to waste money!

We paid Alex McLeish money to work for us.
We paid Alex McLeish a lot of money to work for us.
We paid Alex McLeish former employer's a lot of money in order we could employ him.

It really is no surprise we have wasted other money

[villasjf]

Well I for one feel sorry for him.


Not really, good riddance to him. Seems pretty obvious he was massively out of his depth as a CEO. Hopefully the goon squad stewards won't act like wankers again now he's not dishing out the orders.

If its true the General is back the stewards will probably be replaced by the marines.

[TheTimVilla]

At the end of the day no matter how much we have to pay him to leave it will be money well spent.

Until we see the accounts this time next year.

I just couldn't get over his salary tbh, we overpromoted him and then offered him one of the best CEO salaries in the league, bonkers.

That is Aston Villa for you, certainly find novel ways to waste money!

We paid Alex McLeish money to work for us.
We paid Alex McLeish a lot of money to work for us.
We paid Alex McLeish former employer's a lot of money in order we could employ him.

It really is no surprise we have wasted other money

We also paid Alex McLeish a lot of money to stop working for us.

[Des Little]

Well I'm saddened.  I wanted to see this Under Armour kit that he waxed lyrical about.  Maybe that could have saved him?

[ROBBO]

Apart from being a snitch what other use does the once was a general have, he still knows FA about football.

[paul_e]

Apart from being a snitch what other use does the once was a general have, he still knows FA about football.

Firstly this thread is about fox leaving and there's another one about the general so it seems strange to have put this in here.

Moving on, we don't really know what he brings as an executive board member (or what his responsibilities will even be) seeing as he's never been one before and he is a general, american military ranks are titles that you keep after you retire.  He knows FA about football but Bernstein knows lots and Little is an advisor who knows lots so maybe this will help us get the balance right, eventually.

[passport1]

A number have already said it but I will reiterate the culprit still owns the club and is still capable of making equally idiotic appointments.

The words deckchairs and Titanic spring to mind.

Except now he's employed smarter people to make smart appointments. Bernstein and Hollis should see that we now have more competent people in the right roles.

Well a bit like the manager has not signed a single player they have yet to make a single appointment. I'll wait to see how smart they are.