Christian Purslow - Resigned

[Damo70]

Fantastic interview with Christian Purslow here:

https://underagaslitlamp.com/2019/07/17/christian-purslow-there-are-two-or-three-more-to-add/

Two things stood out for me in the interview. A humorous dig at Small Heath that made me smile and a comparison to what happened to Rangers that sent a chill down my spine.

[ktvillan]

Martin O'Neill was a failure at Villa, and history has shown him to be every bit as talented a con man as the worst of our managers over the past few years - I can't believe there are still Villa fans who would describe his tenure as a success. Baffling.

Agree.

His tenure firmly laid the foundations of the disastrous spiral that followed - mainly by wasting a large chunk of Lerner's fortune leading to Lerner backing way off.  How that makes him right in any circumstances is beyond me.

[Ad@m]

Fantastic interview with Christian Purslow here:

https://underagaslitlamp.com/2019/07/17/christian-purslow-there-are-two-or-three-more-to-add/

Two things stood out for me in the interview. A humorous dig at Small Heath that made me smile and a comparison to what happened to Rangers that sent a chill down my spine.

That final paragraph is fantastic! 

'Be ready guys...'

[dave shelley]

Err, ^^^^^^^^^ I posted that yesterday.   

[old man villa fan]

MON definitely was the right man at that time. True, he didn’t get a higher finish than O’Leary but he did manage to maintain the 6th place finish for 3 consecutive seasons, which I can’t recall us doing in my lifetime ( and I ain’t young).

If he’d left at the end of the 2009-10 season most of these occasional debates would not be appearing on here. The problem was that his style was never going to feature the players with stardust in their boots who win big games with the moments of brilliance to haul a team into the top 4.

4th, 8th, 8th, 7th, 1st was a far better achievement considering where we came from and the redevelopment of the team. Three 6th place finishes considering the financial backing was below par. He couldn't push on. The anticipation of what he could offer when he was appointed was never delivered.

[not3bad]

Err, ^^^^^^^^^ I posted that yesterday.   

Missed that with all the MON talk!

[Monty]

One last MON point - I also think that Lerner's exposure to him was a big problem. Randy never worked out that charisma and Old Fashioned Football Values weren't actually a positive, and I'm sure that O'Neill was an important part of convincing him to stay behind the times.

[Toronto Villa]

It’s like Lerner fell in love with old fashioned football romanticism just when the romance was about to die. I can just imagine him being regaled by stories of Brian Clough long into the night. Not a dry eye in the house.

In its place came the harsh realities and consequences of the business of football and he didn’t himself have the required acumen or surround himself with those who did to survive the change in environment. He walked out wearing a summer dress just as the storm clouds rolled in and didn’t get changed.

[pauliewalnuts]

Lerner was basically a clueless fool.

He threw loads of money at it without thinking it might make sense to spend some of it appointing people who knew how to run such a business. Man City's owners have an endless supply of money yet even they made a point of getting Barcelona's off-pitch management team in.

Randy got his dad's best mate and some 12 year old who ran a call centre for him.

All the failures, all the money wasted, the retreat, the years of decline, all of it is rooted in that witless, naive stupidity.

[aldridgeboy]

He comes over really really well. I’m glad we have him.

[Risso]

Lerner was basically a clueless fool.

He threw loads of money at it without thinking it might make sense to spend some of it appointing people who knew how to run such a business. Man City's owners have an endless supply of money yet even they made a point of getting Barcelona's off-pitch management team in.

Randy got his dad's best mate and some 12 year old who ran a call centre for him.

All the failures, all the money wasted, the retreat, the years of decline, all of it is rooted in that witless, naive stupidity.

Yup.  As I recall, he started off on the right foot, and got some fairly high profile names in, like that Cain(?) bloke from Nike.  Then I assume they weren't chronic yes men, so he called for Faulkner and Krulak instead.

[chrisw1]

He comes over really really well. I’m glad we have him.

He does.  He handled that interview brilliantly.

[Ger Regan]

Lerner was basically a clueless fool.

He threw loads of money at it without thinking it might make sense to spend some of it appointing people who knew how to run such a business. Man City's owners have an endless supply of money yet even they made a point of getting Barcelona's off-pitch management team in.

Randy got his dad's best mate and some 12 year old who ran a call centre for him.

All the failures, all the money wasted, the retreat, the years of decline, all of it is rooted in that witless, naive stupidity.

Yup.  As I recall, he started off on the right foot, and got some fairly high profile names in, like that Cain(?) bloke from Nike.  Then I assume they weren't chronic yes men, so he called for Faulkner and Krulak instead.

Cunah (?) And Fitzgerald. But mon could handle not directly reporting to Lerner and both were gone fairly quickly. The biggest tragedy was O'Neill convincing Lerner he was the only football man he needed to listen to

[eamonn]

Err, ^^^^^^^^^ I posted that yesterday.   

Missed that with all the MON talk!

Exactly, can a mod move all this MON shit somewhere else, like 2010? The fecker is gone and we always say the same thing about him. Let him live out his days in Leicestershire watching True Crime and crying over Marlon Harewood and Cyrus Christie.

[Damo70]

Err, ^^^^^^^^^ I posted that yesterday.   

Missed that with all the MON talk!

Exactly, can a mod move all this MON shit somewhere else, like 2010? The fecker is gone and we always say the same thing about him. Let him live out his days in Leicestershire watching True Crime and crying over Marlon Harewood and Cyrus Christie.

I think he is based in Buckinghamshire.