Christian Purslow - Resigned

[Paul.S]

On the plus side he’s a very good spokesman both for the club and against state owned clubs. He’s seen us through FFP, especially when we came up and for the first few seasons afterwards.
The Gerrard appointment was a bad decision but that happens in football. Has he failed to grow us enough financially? From reading where we are with regards finances within the PL this could be his downfall if true. Have the owners seen the comments over the bar on the Holte End or has he resigned to take up another role somewhere else?
Whatever it is he hasn’t done the worst job in the world so good luck to him.

[avfcdale]

Thank you and goodbye, time for the club to change up the gears again

[Brazilian Villain]

It's so easy to chuck around phrases like 'out of his depth.'

Where exactly has he looked out of his depth whilst we've moved from Championship to top 7, grown to a 30k ST waiting list, designed and about to implement a stadium redevelopment, and persuaded the council to spend millions on transport links?

Is he out of his depth because he sounds smarmy and has put up prices above what most of us would like?   I assume no other successful CEO has made a bad manager appointment?

Spot on.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't think he was out of his depth at all, he's very experienced and good at what he does.

I did find him a little hard to trust, though.

Anyway, here's the best tweet on it all:


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Will we replace him with 3 CEOs that collectively have his key 3 strengths?

[Villan82]

It's so easy to chuck around phrases like 'out of his depth.'

Where exactly has he looked out of his depth whilst we've moved from Championship to top 7, grown to a 30k ST waiting list, designed and about to implement a stadium redevelopment, and persuaded the council to spend millions on transport links?

Is he out of his depth because he sounds smarmy and has put up prices above what most of us would like?   I assume no other successful CEO has made a bad manager appointment?

Spot on.

Spot on. Another in a long line of terrible takes and short Villa memories.

In five years we have gone from mid-table in the second tier to top 7 in the top tier. We have gone from having the Upper Trinity closed to a season ticket waiting list of 20,000. We have been shrewd and savvy on and off the pitch and the best feel good factor I can remember.

I have never seen Villa run better than they have been these past five years. He got an appointment wrong- how many dud appointments did the Lerner regime make? How many dud appointments did Ellis make?

Lerner talked about a new North Stand, Ellis talked about a new North stand. Under both attendances were crap because we could see with our eyes it was all a crock of shit on the pitch.

Our club is transformed and CP has played his part in it.

Thank you Christian for all you did for our beloved club.

[Risso]

It's so easy to chuck around phrases like 'out of his depth.'

Where exactly has he looked out of his depth whilst we've moved from Championship to top 7, grown to a 30k ST waiting list, designed and about to implement a stadium redevelopment, and persuaded the council to spend millions on transport links?

Is he out of his depth because he sounds smarmy and has put up prices above what most of us would like?   I assume no other successful CEO has made a bad manager appointment?

Spot on.

Exactly. From when he was appointed, we've gone from a Championship club, to 7th in the Premier League and back in Europe, with a sold out ground, huge waiting list and building work about to start on a big groud expansion. There have been far more good decisions than bad, and while obviously not all the good stuff was down to him, it all happened on his watch. Even the Gerrard period left us with Boubacar Kamara, so I think he can leave with his head held high.

All businesses change and adapt, and I think we've just outgrown him a bit.

[maidstonevillain]

It's so easy to chuck around phrases like 'out of his depth.'

Where exactly has he looked out of his depth whilst we've moved from Championship to top 7, grown to a 30k ST waiting list, designed and about to implement a stadium redevelopment, and persuaded the council to spend millions on transport links?

Is he out of his depth because he sounds smarmy and has put up prices above what most of us would like?   I assume no other successful CEO has made a bad manager appointment?

Spot on.

Spot on. Another in a long line of terrible takes and short Villa memories.

In five years we have gone from mid-table in the second tier to top 7 in the top tier. We have gone from having the Upper Trinity closed to a season ticket waiting list of 20,000. We have been shrewd and savvy on and off the pitch and the best feel good factor I can remember.

I have never seen Villa run better than they have been these past five years. He got an appointment wrong- how many dud appointments did the Lerner regime make? How many dud appointments did Ellis make?

Lerner talked about a new North Stand, Ellis talked about a new North stand. Under both attendances were crap because we could see with our eyes it was all a crock of shit on the pitch.

Our club is transformed and CP has played his part in it.

Thank you Christian for all you did for our beloved club.

Seconded.

[Bully2345]

It's so easy to chuck around phrases like 'out of his depth.'

Where exactly has he looked out of his depth whilst we've moved from Championship to top 7, grown to a 30k ST waiting list, designed and about to implement a stadium redevelopment, and persuaded the council to spend millions on transport links?

Is he out of his depth because he sounds smarmy and has put up prices above what most of us would like?   I assume no other successful CEO has made a bad manager appointment?

Fantastically put. There will always be more that a CEO could have done but but the big things that needed to be done when he arrived have been delivered. I'd take that over having a slick catering operation, mainly because I don't use the kiosks anyway

[Gareth]

When we got back up he said it would be 3 years to be competitive, we’ve got there so seems a logical time to replace.

Does this mean we won’t sign any English players this summer?

[PaulWinch again]

It's so easy to chuck around phrases like 'out of his depth.'

Where exactly has he looked out of his depth whilst we've moved from Championship to top 7, grown to a 30k ST waiting list, designed and about to implement a stadium redevelopment, and persuaded the council to spend millions on transport links?

Is he out of his depth because he sounds smarmy and has put up prices above what most of us would like?   I assume no other successful CEO has made a bad manager appointment?

Spot on.

Exactly. From when he was appointed, we've gone from a Championship club, to 7th in the Premier League and back in Europe, with a sold out ground, huge waiting list and building work about to start on a big groud expansion. There have been far more good decisions than bad, and while obviously not all the good stuff was down to him, it all happened on his watch. Even the Gerrard period left us with Boubacar Kamara, so I think he can leave with his head held high.

All businesses change and adapt, and I think we've just outgrown him a bit.

Yup completely agree. Everyone, in any role, makes the odd bad call. But if you look at where we are now versus where we were it’s impossible to argue that he’s achieved plenty.

[chrisw1]

Although I have praised him generally I do still wonder why we still get the catering so spectacularly wrong.  I suspect it's not something he directly oversees and of course, there will be contracts in place but even so it annoys me.

As for world beating commercial deals, it must be difficult to secure those when you haven't finished in the top half of the PL for over 10 years and you don't have any owner funded businesses chucking in unrealistic deals to cheat FFP.

So yeah, I agree there's a few things I would have preferred him to do better.  But it seems a bit churlish to focus just on these given the bigger picture.

[ChicagoLion]

It's so easy to chuck around phrases like 'out of his depth.'

Where exactly has he looked out of his depth whilst we've moved from Championship to top 7, grown to a 30k ST waiting list, designed and about to implement a stadium redevelopment, and persuaded the council to spend millions on transport links?

Is he out of his depth because he sounds smarmy and has put up prices above what most of us would like?   I assume no other successful CEO has made a bad manager appointment?

Spot on.

Exactly. From when he was appointed, we've gone from a Championship club, to 7th in the Premier League and back in Europe, with a sold out ground, huge waiting list and building work about to start on a big groud expansion. There have been far more good decisions than bad, and while obviously not all the good stuff was down to him, it all happened on his watch. Even the Gerrard period left us with Boubacar Kamara, so I think he can leave with his head held high.

All businesses change and adapt, and I think we've just outgrown him a bit.

Yup completely agree. Everyone, in any role, makes the odd bad call. But if you look at where we are now versus where we were it’s impossible to argue that he’s achieved plenty.

The Greasy handling and use of the money, the Gerard appointment, Not fixing the catering or the transport and in the absence of great commercial deals fleecing the season ticket holders at every opportunity is not the odd bad call.
Its a litany of fuck ups.
Thankfully we have owners that we have.

[Billy Walker]

I thinks he's been fantastic and achieved pretty much everything he set out to do - his lobbying skills and general "presence" will be very hard to replace. Let's get this next appointment right, Villa.

[OzVilla]

That very harsh CL. Best CEO this club has had in the modern era by a mile.

Made some mistakes but made more very good, solid decisions too. I’m sorry he’s leaving tbh.

[john2710]

When he came in 5 years ago, we'd have been more than happy to be in the position we are in now. Purslow has made a significant contribution to that change. For that I'm grateful.
He showed a level of professionalism & competence in running the club that we've not seen in a long time.

I hope that his replacement achieves the next step over the next 5 years.