Yusuf Giansiracusa - "Chairman"

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Worth noting tyat the poor out of context reporting doesn't really reflect what he was saying or what he meant.

Yes, he's a businessman with little interest in football but at least he didn't say soccer. Lots of corporate nonsense but that's standard now.

As has been said above, I'm glad the day to day control is now in Sheffield.
 

I always thought (maybe wrongly), that Giansiracusa was an Italian surname?

He definitely grew up in the USA, or at least spent a lot of time there (his degree, masters degree and Doctorate in Law, all come from US Universities, two from Berkley, California, which is quite prestigious).

He is basically the Prince's lawyer and right hand man.

Is he the right person to be Chairman?, no idea, but if Hecky, McCall and Lester are left to run the football side, then that is no bad thing.

I think that what is probably missing from our squad are some "middle aged" (in footballing terms) players. What I mean by that is that we seem to have a number of players aged 23 and under (inexperienced), and the rest are late 20's and older (experience but waning physical attributes). We don't seem to have many in the middle, aged 24-26, lads who still have pace and energy, and some experience. The ones that fit into that category hardly ever feature (Mousse, McBurnie, Burke).

Maybe some low cost players in that age bracket might help the transition period?
 
We couldn't devise our "strategic" plan in the summer as we were still awaiting some personnel, according to our great chairman. So who are these personnel?
 
ChezVegasBlade said:
God I'm depressed! All I can see is years back wallowing in the lower leagues.
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Would keeping Slav improve our chances of making a fist of the present situation ?
Not in my opinion ! more likely to take us down as Robson would have done! luckily we sacked him.
The same situation was brewing under Slav. Blackwell nearly got us into play offs after climbing the table, could Hecki do a similar job ?
Can't get my head round Slav who is an experienced manager going with 4 at the back when the squad was build to play a 5.
First law of football management! Play to your squads strengths he completely ignored this.
We don't have the players to play that way a 4.
Get behind Hecki he is a good man and coach.
 
robbiez666 said:
Worth noting tyat the poor out of context reporting doesn't really reflect what he was saying or what he meant.

Yes, he's a businessman with little interest in football but at least he didn't say soccer. Lots of corporate nonsense but that's standard now.

As has been said above, I'm glad the day to day control is now in Sheffield.
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I keep reading that he's a businessman.

He's not. He's a lawyer. There is a difference.
 
He is Chairman of the Board. The Board represents the Shareholders. The Board employs the Executive Management to run the club. Bettis is the Chief Executive Officer. The CEO should present their strategy to the Board who give it a thumbs up or down, and then hold the Executive Management of the club to account for their execution of the agreed strategy.

It is therefore surprising to me that Bettis appears to have gotten off quite lightly for the absolute cluster fuck we've witnessed recently.
 
Nah den said:
He is Chairman of the Board. The Board represents the Shareholders. The Board employs the Executive Management to run the club. Bettis is the Chief Executive Officer. The CEO should present their strategy to the Board who give it a thumbs up or down, and then hold the Executive Management of the club to account for their execution of the agreed strategy.

It is therefore surprising to me that Bettis appears to have gotten off quite lightly for the absolute cluster fuck we've witnessed recently.
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Agree with that.

I assume like Heckingbottom he'll do as he's told.
 
Kev Gee said:
I reckon this guy will end up being dispised more than Charles Green.

Time will tell.
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That’s the weird thing.

He’s the most ambitious Chairman we’ve ever had.
Helped us to challenge for the Champions League playing the best football in decades.
2 years ago he was the best Chairman ever.

Now he’s the devil incarnate.
Just proves there’s no appreciation or loyalty in football.

Ps: Not saying saying he deserves criticism, of course he does, sacking Slav so early proves it was a mistake.
My point all along is the qualities of a Chairman seems to be solely based on league position, nothing to do with ability or goodwill.
Coventry wanted their owners out when they were struggling, now they are challenging for promotion whats happened to the vitriol e towards their owners.
Wednesday fans hate Chancer after being relegated but if they gain promotion then he’ll be classed as a great owner.
 
Had anyone on here heard of that 'football manager' role he mentioned early on? I don't know if it's just because I'm English, but I've never heard of a 'football manager' and I instinctively don't like it.
 

I don’t like this at all. This guy doesn’t give a monkeys about Sheffield or Sheffield United. I’d rather have an owner and a chairmen and a board that have the best interests of Sheffield United at heart, not United world. Can anyone here honestly say they would like to work for his guy, he’s hardly personable, he’s not going to listen to the three new people who do want the best for Sheffield United- Hecky, McCall and Lester
 
Kev Gee said:
As things stand I really do see us on a slippery slope to nothingness. Also potentially sleepwalking into relegation either this season or next. There will be no more investment from PA as he looks to operate us on a shoe string until he finds a buyer for United World.
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That is not what they said. You may not believe them, but for the time being I would like to see how it progresses.
I think some on here forget that we are not a small football club run by a couple of people, but a multi million pound organisation that needs to be run as such, with football looked after separately by people who understand that side, whilst others get on with running everything else.
That is how I see their plan and I like it !!
I also agree with them, Hecky and many on here that the players we have are capable of getting out of this league even if they cannot cope with the one above. Whether they will now up their games to the required standard is yet to be seen.
 
JPSharpy93 said:
I don’t like this at all. This guy doesn’t give a monkeys about Sheffield or Sheffield United. I’d rather have an owner and a chairmen and a board that have the best interests of Sheffield United at heart, not United world. Can anyone here honestly say they would like to work for his guy, he’s hardly personable, he’s not going to listen to the three new people who do want the best for Sheffield United- Hecky, McCall and Lester
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Why wouldn’t he listen ?
The club being successful is what he and the Prince want, so leaving that success to people who know what they are doing, rather than interfering is the best way forward.
 
Revolution said:
I keep reading that he's a businessman.

He's not. He's a lawyer. There is a difference.
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I disagree. Any successful lawyer needs to be a businessman also, even though he or she leaves the running of the practice to non-lawyers !!
 
Snowflake said:
Why wouldn’t he listen ?
The club being successful is what he and the Prince want, so leaving that success to people who know what they are doing, rather than interfering is the best way forward.
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Success at board level is different to success as fans. I want to watch decent players play for the shirt. These guys want profit…he won’t be there cheering on the players on a Saturday afternoon. Why would an American who doesn’t know anything about Sheffield or football want to be part of our club if it’s not to make money
 
JPSharpy93 said:
Success at board level is different to success as fans. I want to watch decent players play for the shirt. These guys want profit…he won’t be there cheering on the players on a Saturday afternoon. Why would an American who doesn’t know anything about Sheffield or football want to be part of our club if it’s not to make money
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The two are not mutually exclusive. If we have decent players achieving their maximum then the club will be successful and if run properly will be profitable. We the fans would be satisfied and maybe even excited !
 
Snowflake said:
I disagree. Any successful lawyer needs to be a businessman also, even though he or she leaves the running of the practice to non-lawyers !!
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There is a world of difference between running a business and advising people who runs businesses.

I wouldn’t let a litigator within 100 miles of a CEO role without training, for example.
 
I am hoping that this is a genuine attempt to separate the football side of the club, from the business side of commercial success.
On the positive side, the chairman is on camera saying that any failure is his responsibility.
On the negative side, the two groups will be looking for the lions share of whatever funding might be available.

The big downside is that there doesn’t seem to be much funding available for anything.
 
Revolution said:
There is a world of difference between running a business and advising people who runs businesses.

I wouldn’t let a litigator within 100 miles of a CEO role without training, for example.
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Never let a lawyer run his own practice ! That doesn’t stop the lawyer being a business man.
 
Willglynning said:
Had anyone on here heard of that 'football manager' role he mentioned early on? I don't know if it's just because I'm English, but I've never heard of a 'football manager' and I instinctively don't like it.
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What's Van Winkle's job now ?
Wasn't he the Board member responsible for the football side ?
Didn't Wilder report to Bettis as CEO ?
Didn't Slav ?
Are they now saying that Hecky will NOT report to Bettis ?
To whom does Hecky report if not the CEO ?
Van Winkle or direct to Yusuf or to that United World Abdullah ? Or straight to the Prince ?
None of this made clear.
Who holds the purse strings on transfer fees & wages if the Prince (after being extremely happy to engage with fans + popping his daughter & son-in-law into Sheffield) is now going to completely disappear from sight ?
This all stinks something rotten + I'm damned sure there's not a penny in
the pot for squad reshaping , even if it's just paying up the contracts of the duffers who Hecky clearly wants to ship out.
Total amateur shambles for the club to be in financial dire straits in the very season following relegation.
That Bettis weasel says he plans for every scenario as CEO even including L1 - well mate , your planning for the fairly likely relegation from the PL , even as a yoyo club HAS BEEN FECKIN USELESS , given that we are now in a terrible "squad-jam".
 
Yogi said:
The issue is this is clearly the second iteration of the plan. The initial iteration involved appointing an expensive manager and you would assume appropriately backing him 4 months later we have a new plan. I’m not necessarily against that as plan a wasn’t working but there’s no guarantee we see year 2 of this plan. Ultimately it’ll be shown in time and it’s all done bar the shouting now hecky has my full support and I hope he and his team do well.

I’d believe a lot more in the commit the board has to the plan once they break ground on the long promised but so far undelivered infrastructure improvements.
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Listen mate those improvements didn't happen when we were rolling in PL money so they sure as shit ain't gonna happen now , no matter what that cockney weasel CEO bleats on about
 

Blade56 said:
Well I’m going to stick my neck out here and give our “chairman” some credit.

We have been fed a diatribe of lies and half truths for years by owners and club officials. The owner Prince massive C**T couldn’t be arsed to show his face by Zoom. However, this guy was refreshing coming out and saying he doesnt care about Sheffield or the club and that they are all feckin off and letting the cheapest option manager to turn the lights of when it’s all over.

We always wanted the owner / chairman to be honest with the fans, well, this is what the medicine tastes like.
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The problem with this is that I just can't see why you go around Europe acquiring hapless football clubs and leading them to failure ... is everything OK your Highness ?
 
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