Brian Little Speaks

[Toronto Villa]

The club created a football board to make football related decisions. He has been brought in very specifically for that. Why would anyone then believe a rumour that Bernstein, Hollis, King and Bevington would then not consult him? If that was truly the case why would he have been at that gong show today? 

Because we've got a genuine lunatic owner who has made unbelievable decision after unbelievable decision. Why should anyone think he's suddenly become lucid. I hope he has, finally, and Brian gets the chance to influence things but I'll believe it when it happens. Fuck Lerner!!!

This isn't about past decisions that are hard to dismiss as being nuts. I'm going by every decision made since hiring Hollis. Or maybe you are saying all of those decisions including bringing in Little is lunacy?

I'm saying we could have Pep Guardiola managing the team with Zidane as football consultant but as long as Lerner is pulling the strings then we are exposed to whatever next mental decision he makes about how we should operate.
Or maybe you're saying that you suddenly trust Lerner ?( while we're asking stupid questions)

The whole point of the new board structure is that he is NOT pulling the strings. He's the owner just as Joe Lewis is at Spurs for example. But Daniel Levy is the chairman and they make decisions as a board. It is how we should have been set up from the beginning and the fact that we weren't is exactly why we are where we are.

[Irish villain]

I see, the club hands longterm contracts to Flabby, Bacuna etc. and gives Sir Brian 6 months?? Great thinking there...

They are hardly related decisions though are they?

It speaks volumes whether related or not.

It doesn't say anything at all. For a start, Brian doesn't have a contract.

You wouldn't feel more comfortable having Brian Little involved in a more permanent capacity than present?

His involvement is the only straw we have to clutch right now.

[saunders_heroes]

The club created a football board to make football related decisions. He has been brought in very specifically for that. Why would anyone then believe a rumour that Bernstein, Hollis, King and Bevington would then not consult him? If that was truly the case why would he have been at that gong show today? 

Because we've got a genuine lunatic owner who has made unbelievable decision after unbelievable decision. Why should anyone think he's suddenly become lucid. I hope he has, finally, and Brian gets the chance to influence things but I'll believe it when it happens. Fuck Lerner!!!

This isn't about past decisions that are hard to dismiss as being nuts. I'm going by every decision made since hiring Hollis. Or maybe you are saying all of those decisions including bringing in Little is lunacy?

It was lunacy to not spend in January and surrender our PL status and Hollis was our chairman then.

[dave.woodhall]

I don't know Brian Little's personal circumstances, how much time he can afford to devote to us, for how long and what his and our long-term plans are. However, at the present time he is one of several new arrivals who give me confidence for the future.

[Clampy]

Hope it isn't true but I heard a story today that he is not directly involved in the decision making process regarding the next manager.  Also that he isn't really being 'consulted'.

Do you really think that he would agree to something like that if his voice wasn't going to be heard? Mind you, it's on WM so it must be right.

[Dante Lavelli]

I think he is saying that Lerner no longer 'pulls the strings'.
So we're constrained by randy's wallet but there are new personalities running the business.

So what's Krulak doing?

To me that kinda demonstrates the point.  Randy cannot even be bothered to attend the meetings anymore so he's sending a trusted friend/colleague to keep him up-to-date on their decisions.

[Toronto Villa]

The club created a football board to make football related decisions. He has been brought in very specifically for that. Why would anyone then believe a rumour that Bernstein, Hollis, King and Bevington would then not consult him? If that was truly the case why would he have been at that gong show today? 

Because we've got a genuine lunatic owner who has made unbelievable decision after unbelievable decision. Why should anyone think he's suddenly become lucid. I hope he has, finally, and Brian gets the chance to influence things but I'll believe it when it happens. Fuck Lerner!!!

This isn't about past decisions that are hard to dismiss as being nuts. I'm going by every decision made since hiring Hollis. Or maybe you are saying all of those decisions including bringing in Little is lunacy?

It was lunacy to not spend in January and surrender our PL status and Hollis was our chairman then.

It was a gamble that I didn't agree with, but they might now look at what Newcastle did and see that it confirmed for them that it wouldn't have guaranteed survival. We were 11 points back and we could have tied ourselves to some contracts that being in the Championship would be rather undesirable. I'm not disagreeing with you though I'm saying that I can also see to a point why they did what they did under the circumstances. I'll always maintain that I believe had we still been 5 points back as we were when Garde arrived we'd have committed to new players as opposed to not doing so.

[brian green]

Bernstein, King, Hollis and Bevington are no fools.  If Brian Little puts forward a point of view they will listen.  Randy Lerner on the other hand of course is a fool but he will not be present.

[Dante Lavelli]

I suspect the new regime have to deliver within certain parameters, i.e. I'll fund £Xm per year, the rest must be self generating.

Hollis would have been in the job only a few weeks in January and maybe decided that he'd prefer to take stock first and not restrict his 'war-chest' for future seasons.

At least I hope that was the case!

[Toronto Villa]

I get the impression Hollis quickly realized how utterly fucked everything was and didn't want to make commitments to spending that might compound the state we were in.

[KevinGage]

The club created a football board to make football related decisions. He has been brought in very specifically for that. Why would anyone then believe a rumour that Bernstein, Hollis, King and Bevington would then not consult him? If that was truly the case why would he have been at that gong show today? 

Because we've got a genuine lunatic owner who has made unbelievable decision after unbelievable decision. Why should anyone think he's suddenly become lucid. I hope he has, finally, and Brian gets the chance to influence things but I'll believe it when it happens. Fuck Lerner!!!

This isn't about past decisions that are hard to dismiss as being nuts. I'm going by every decision made since hiring Hollis. Or maybe you are saying all of those decisions including bringing in Little is lunacy?

It was lunacy to not spend in January and surrender our PL status and Hollis was our chairman then.

It was a gamble that I didn't agree with, but they might now look at what Newcastle did and see that it confirmed for them that it wouldn't have guaranteed survival. We were 11 points back and we could have tied ourselves to some contracts that being in the Championship would be rather undesirable. I'm not disagreeing with you though I'm saying that I can also see to a point why they did what they did under the circumstances. I'll always maintain that I believe had we still been 5 points back as we were when Garde arrived we'd have committed to new players as opposed to not doing so.

Aye, but rather than going the Poocastle loony way and throwing everything at the thing, we could have tried for an Afobe, Dwight Gayle or similar. 

That is, a player who might have helped our unlikely effort to stay up -but who would have definitely been a big asset in the next league down anyway.

To do no business at all was pitiful.

[Toronto Villa]

Oh I don't disagree Kev. We should have done something. We'll never know for example if Garde wanted those players or if he did, did they even want to come. 11 points in the hole would hardly have been an attractive proposition for any player.

[LTA]

This whole "Football Board" thing is all smoke and mirrors to my mind and done by Lerner in the hope the critics will go away.  Too many people involved in making critical decisions.  Is any manager with pedigree going to agree to work where he has to go through a committee and then the chairman?

We need a chairman or CEO who has an in-depth knowledge of the game, and a proper football manager.  The others are totally unnecessary and not needed.

[Toronto Villa]

Yes LTA because the people he employed are all mugs with no tenure or standing in life, business or in football. Lerner has hoodwinked the lot of them. Fuck me.

[SheffieldVillain]

This whole "Football Board" thing is all smoke and mirrors to my mind and done by Lerner in the hope the critics will go away.  Too many people involved in making critical decisions.  Is any manager with pedigree going to agree to work where he has to go through a committee and then the chairman?

We need a chairman or CEO who has an in-depth knowledge of the game, and a proper football manager.  The others are totally unnecessary and not needed.

Which other clubs do you know who have a Chairman/CEO and a football manager, and no other executives or board members?

Incidentally, David Bernstein has exactly that pedigree having run both Manchester City and the national F.A, and yet the other day you were slagging him off.