Stephen Bettis live on Football Heaven tonight (6-7pm)

[JayGreen17]

We’re fooked aren’t we, owned by people with no cash or strategy…

SB just basically confirmed it. Nothing there to give us an ounce of a glimpse of what we’re aiming to achieve and how we do it….. throw it at the wall and see if it sticks plans never work…

This season is at best a wasted opportunity at worst our 10 year anniversary back to league 1. Well it was nice while it lasted. Back to football obscurity.

Totally depressing.

 

[raul]

I thought he was pretty honest. He was more nervous than he's ever been because he's well aware it's a turd that can't be polished. He's probably also aware that going forward the board structure means it's likely to continue on that trajectory. Overall he should've looked after himself and not taken the interview.

He's looking after himself, fear not. A difficult hour once a year whilst racking up six figures plus pension. Nice work Steve.

 

[Farnboroughblade]

Wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if in the very near future these owners put the club back up for sale in the hope they get somewhere near what they paid out for it. I’d be quite happy if that should happen and just hope for once there will be someone employed at the club who can identify a bloody good purchaser. Who that person would be I haven’t a sodding clue.

 

[Houston_Blade]

So some of the existing ones are going back

Thank fuck for that, hopefully Bindon and Barry.

Shame we can’t pretend Cannon is also a loan and palm him off on an unsuspecting club as well.

 

[Harry's Game]

They're working on it right now. Well not right now because it 11pm, but it was a building site when I went past the other day.

Bettis also said they are laying a pitch for the women’s team to train on.. that’s the only currently planned work on the site.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Said no plans for a Baldock memorial either. Was confused he said its close to the year mark. Sure that was last week..

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

No it hasn't,oh yes it has

 

[Fjortoft's Aeroplane]

So nobody asked why we spent so little on transfers after selling Souza & Anel for big bucks?

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

So nobody asked why we spent so little on transfers after selling Souza & Anel for big bucks?

I reckon we spent about the same as we received in fees? Which isn't bad at Championship level.

 

[Fjortoft's Aeroplane]

I reckon we spent about the same as we received in fees? Which isn't bad at Championship level.

how much do you think we received?

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

how much do you think we received?

Not really sure on what we received and spent but it's got to be close?

We basically replaced Anel with Tanganga (8m)

 

[Fjortoft's Aeroplane]

Not really sure on what we received and spent but it's got to be close?

We basically replaced Anel with Tanganga (8m)

We got around £12m for Souza. and a further £2m for Kieffer Moore.

So even if Anel and Tanganga cancel each other out, there's no way we forked out anywhere near £14m on the other dross.

 

[Lower Drop Blade]

We got around £12m for Souza. and a further £2m for Kieffer Moore.

So even if Anel and Tanganga cancel each other out, there's no way we forked out anywhere near £14m on the other dross.

Probably did which adds to the utterly depressing opinion of the people running our club.

 

[Millhousesblade1889]

Said no plans for a Baldock memorial either. Was confused he said its close to the year mark. Sure that was last week..

I thought that was a bit of an unfair question. I completely understand why it was raised, but it’s a sensitive subject

 

[Keen Blade]

In summary...

Confirmed that it was catastrophic naivete to sack Wilder and that everyone bar the football staff didn't/don't have a clue what they're doing both this and last season. There's a lot on here that won't like that being confirmed but confirmed it now is . Knowing that for sure they need to get football experts to represent themselves asap.

Handing my beloved club to CoH was like giving a matchstick model to a gorilla.
They'd no idea what to do with it so they smashed it up.
How arrogant , to buy a business in a foreign country , of which you have utterly no knowledge or experience and then proceed to make devastating decisions , off the cuff.

Bettis admitting the manner of Selles appointment says it all.

Clowns , the lot of them.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

the dore site was it specified what bit as here was a piece of land that been sat on for years and never succeeded in planning permission for houses wonder if its that

No

Wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if in the very near future these owners put the club back up for sale in the hope they get somewhere near what they paid out for it. I’d be quite happy if that should happen and just hope for once there will be someone employed at the club who can identify a bloody good purchaser. Who that person would be I haven’t a sodding clue.

I'd be amazed if we were sold for anywhere near the 100 million they paid. Come may and no promotion our value will be at best half that.

 

[Keen Blade]

People moan that no one from the club speaks out

Then someone does an interview and just about every comment on here finds a negative view on what’s said

Wonder why they don’t speak up often?!

We needed a public admission of their incompetence ...
And , to some extent , we got it.

Of course the comments on here are negative.
These charlies have taken our club and fucked it in a few months.

The interview was an exercise in revealing the level of their incompetence and failure.

It was always obvious from the dénouement since May.
But least we now have it on record.

A £multimillion business replacing an imperfect but 'known quantity' in Chris Wilder ,
with someone who someone recommended ,
Without any proper process or interviewing of other candidates ,
Excluding the CEO from the decision ?

Fucking FARCE.

 

[Keen Blade]

Probably did which adds to the utterly depressing opinion of the people running our club.

£10m for Matos

 

[Lord Eddard Muir]

How it started:



How it's going:

 

[Keen Blade]

The much trumpeted transfer revolution didn't add up to a packet of chips

I think SB was in the position of either lie, avoid the interview, or make yourself look like a twat. To his credit I don't think he lied.

I think he bravely admitted the owners are twats.
If they apply their combined intelligence when they listen to that interview , the owners might just realise he has publicly denounced them as arrogant fools.

 

[Bookers Mullet]

True. But will they?

The club has needed a DoF or the like for many a year

We've lacked a good footballing man on the board since the days of Dooley

 

[The Crab]

We’re fooked aren’t we, owned by people with no cash or strategy…

SB just basically confirmed it. Nothing there to give us an ounce of a glimpse of what we’re aiming to achieve and how we do it….. throw it at the wall and see if it sticks plans never work…

This season is at best a wasted opportunity at worst our 10 year anniversary back to league 1. Well it was nice while it lasted. Back to football obscurity.

Totally depressing.

 

[The Crab]

Dear COH,

Since you took over, it has been (please excuse my language, I am angry and love my club) a fucking shitshow.

You sacked one manager, then sacked the other one and brought the first one back.

You have disrespected the fan base with your complete lack of engagement with the fan base, the lifeblood of any club.

You have engaged a glorified pub game player to sign players. This is professional football, it’s more than fucking data and playing the odds.

This might just be an investment to you, but it’s our lifeblood. We have been through ups and downs yet come back for more. We have made and lost friends through our love of this football club.

I know I am wasting my time writing this, yet I feel compelled to do so.

We are currently below our city neighbours in the table, a club that can’t pay its players and staff on time, and are expecting kids to do a man’s job, not because they are “ready” but because there is no alternative.

You are clearly wealthy and successful in your chosen fields, yet it’s starting to look like you know fuck all about football and fuck all about our club.

The thing that grieves me most is that even if you did sell, it would be to another fucking consortium, another group of anonymous people that care about nothing but the bottom line.

We are Sheffield United, and we will be after you’re gone, and after I am just a distant memory.

Keep all the above in mind.

This isn’t fucking good enough

 

[Gimli]

That's a signal that the owners are still looking to invest. They could have put a pause on the whole lot on the back of not getting promoted (PA would have put a stop to it had he still been owner)

I thought Bettis overall did okay, he pretty much confirmed what most of us suspected especially with regards to McBurnie not coming back etc. These owners are new to the game and they are starting to learn, a shame we had to have chaos of Selles for them to get it but here we are.

Despite what others have issue with, the thing I did have quite an issue with is lack of memorial for George. I get what Bettis is saying in terms of how do you measure him against other players of the past who pass away but George is one of the PL top tenners and a double promotion winner with us. I do think George deserves something to honour him at the club.

Agree, also to Bettis’ point about ‘how do you measure against others who’ve passed away?’ I think there’s a huge difference between a former player dying at the age of 75/80/85+ and one tragically dying at the age of 30 having been a fan favourite and only just having left the club.

 

[KMC-1889]

We got around £12m for Souza. and a further £2m for Kieffer Moore.

So even if Anel and Tanganga cancel each other out, there's no way we forked out anywhere near £14m on the other dross.

i think you might be surprised/concerned. I bet there isn’t much change out of that £14m.

 

[Kenworthy’s Tash]

You are missing out a key aspect with what he said

Until the inquest is done it wouldn't be right to do anything imo

With respect Berkshire, he didn’t mention the inquest at all, and why should that matter anyway, it was a tragic event that the club should pay respects to anyway, regardless of any inquest results? Club showing to be heartless here, I’d be very disappointed if I were Maddy’s family.

 

[Berkshire Blade]

With respect Berkshire, he didn’t mention the inquest at all, and why should that matter anyway, it was a tragic event that the club should pay respects to anyway, regardless of any inquest results? Club showing to be heartless here, I’d be very disappointed if I were Maddy’s family.

He did. He mentioned it specifically.

Imagine doing a tribute and the club is seen to be at fault? It would come across as trying to pay tribute to something to sweep a issue under the carpet.

 

[UddersBlade]

Slept on the revelations from that interview & although it’s now confirmed that we are being run by clowns……there is nothing we can do about it. We all have to try & forget about it & give Wilder & the players our full backing to stay up this season. Given the shitshow around our owners - it’s now clear that it’s unlikely we’d be able to get any other half decent manager right now. Am I convinced Wilder is the right manager ……..no - but right now - he’s got as good a chance as anyone to get us out of this mess.

 

[Kenilworth]

Since the takeover Bettis is also a director and on the board isn't he? So he is saying that in his role as CEO he had no input into the decision on the manager, and also in his role as director and board member? Unbelievable really. Maybe he was just concentrating on getting the carpark resurfaced

No he didn’t. He said it was a collective decision, which means a majority vote, and once a decision has been reach they (the whole board) are 100% behind it. A board cannot function any other way or you get a half arsed deployment or a mutiny.

What is clear is that COH, as a group, were arrogant and naive, as I expected, and made some absolutely suicidal decisions based on limited context. What he did state was that COH has learned the lesson quickly and made a reverse to address the shot show they know they have created.

SB was instrumental in CW coming back because he knew CW was the only person to have a chance of sorting the calamity out and he could see clearly how it was falling apart with Selles assuming a role of just a coach and leaving the rest to COH.

As CEO he has one voice in a group of voices and investors. He may state his view and vote but if the majority go an opposite way he still has a duty to enact that decision to the best of his ability.

 

[Sean Thornton]

£10m for Matos

Better known as “undisclosed fee” but why not post nonsense when you’re on a roll.