I'm not going to argue any of that is wrong.
But this is the first football club they've owned and it was their first EVERYTHING as a result. If you have a few pints with the owners at xmas, do you think they'll pretend they didn't make mistakes?
I guess I don't understand the unforgiving nature of your post, as well as the assumptions that they aren't interested.
Regardless, only time can heal these things and there's not much else to be said.
Some good points there and I think generally, I have not been that unforgiving with the owners in the past, so it has struck me as well as to why this has turned so quickly. I was certainly forgiving of the Prince for mistakes and McCabe for that matter. But I didn’t get the red flags as quickly with them and I think because they were more personally invested to start with, at least and their intent seemed more genuine. I think with the Prince he was far more genuine than McCabe.
I am sure that were we to have beers with them, they’d certainly say that they could’ve tweaked things and done things better, whether they’d admit mistakes directly is certainly an interesting one. But I am also not sure whether the failings and hesitancy have been genuine mistakes or a complete lack of competence. Lets stick with mistakes though, for now.
The point about this being their first football club is huge though and I think that might be what wrangles me the most. Yes, it’s certainly their first football club and experience with a football club, but the leaders of the consortium and Directors of the football club aren’t new to business and have vast amounts of expertise between them. Why then has Sheffield United become their journey into the unknown, the test area to make ‘mistakes’. As experienced businessmen that studied the club and its culture before arriving, they should’ve done better.
And the next part is where it becomes very hard to make positive assumptions. The Plan. What was their plan when they took over. I go back to it time and again that we don’t hear from them besides generic statements and scarf waving on the pitch as they made their way from the directors box. I know they talked extensively after one game last season with Sponsors and key stakeholders in the club, there was positivity from many who were there then, but we don’t see or hear from them, beyond that unless they are in reactivity mode. You can correct me if I am wrong here.
Now, what is the plan, beyond, as I said, wanting patience and to get the club into the Premier League on a sustainable level, we’ve heard no plan about what the future looks like for the Club, the team, the ground, the hotel, the Academy, the womens team, Shirecliffe, HSBC, Crookes…So, unforgiving as it may be, we don’t know what they are thinking.
All we have to go off are their actions. And since Selles came in, many of us on here have said that bringing Selles in was a gamble. A bold move. One that needed immediate actions to support Selles, his plans, his culture setting. We can assume that they haven’t had second thoughts on Selles and his culture setting, his ability to work with young players, his ability in recruiting, because the last weeks recruitment has been full on in terms of bringing the wingers in and the defenders. I know of at least one player that wasn’t his choice.
I don’t see evidence of them correcting the assumptions that they’re not interested. The evidence points, in my view to a real lack of care a lack of a plan or the necessary steps to achieve the plan by their reactivity to situations when they are not going well. I really hope that they turn things around not just on the pitch, we know these things are very changeable, but the whole club needs to be driven forward by them.
