Blades in America Podcast

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Immediate reaction is it has taken far too long for this communication to surface.

Some key points;

1. Deal with United World was pushed hard by PA at the 11th hour with Bettis flying over to meet Rosen in Rome. Page suggests in his pleadings there were difficulties with the deal late in the day implied Hotel was an issue.
2. Very intereresting comment that disolving COH and moving to 1919 was influenced in part by Pages separate legal action.
3. SCR is impacting signficantly on club finances. Wage bill in region of £30 million trying to cut along with corporate costs by 12%. One reason why player outgoings are funding this.
4.Rosen told the squad is good enough to be play off contenders.
5. Couldnt meet Hamers contract and wage demands.
6. At no point were SUFC insolvent. Compliant with EFL regulations and do not envisage sporting sanctions. Not like the fool across the city who lost £200 million. :D.
7. Rosen did not realise the scale of CW's involvement in all aspects of the Club when he dismissed him. One reason for bringing him back.
8. Improvements in data analysis and sports science making use of the best technologies now being put in place.
9. The dispute with UW is a transactional deal between two separate parties. Suggested attempts were made to resolve debt issue with PA but couldnt reach agreement. Whether this involved an offer of equity we can only speculate.
10. The Academy is vital to bring through new talent and assist future revenue. Aim to provide improved contracts for young players who overperform( shame this couldnt have been in place for Brooks). Dore is still a priority when finances improve.
11. New investment is being brought in but didnt say when.

Rosen has finally spoken. If you cut out the americanisms some new information has been put out into the public domain.

A number of questions remain unanswered not least how EFL investigations and the Page legal action are progressing. Having said that I take some comfort the interview has induced palpitations amongst the bleating brigade of El Accounto Hall and Biggs. They continue to spew out ill informed assertions regarding potential points deductions and the present state of affairs with the EFL/IFR.
 



Well no, it's manufactured set-up with answers. There is no push back or asking the awkward questions, much prefer a real interview.
It was like one of those ‘compromised’ interviews Steven Bartlett does, pre made questions made for both parties and plenty of push backs where they say ‘we can talk about that later’ just address things but never answer things and not word about non payment of £35 million as well as key player sales.

It was like one of those QVC infomercials.
 
Listened to first 20 mins and found the whole thing strange. Refers to us as Sheffield a lot which is odd. Got to the bit where he explains relegation and promotion and took a break.
 
I would rather they faced up to more journalists than a friendly host but it's not just Sheffield United in football who are hiding from fans and tough questions they would like answered.

Meanwhile the manager has to deal with them multiple times a week!
 
I mean it was pretty obvious that after 2 years with parachute payments chasing the quick return to the PL that we would have to drastically cut costs.

Hopefully after nearly wiping the slate clean and getting the wage bill under a bit more control we can plan to grow a bit like QPR have been the past 2/3 years.
 
why so fucking negative its a step in the right direction..ffs moan moan grow a pair for once
Normally I might agree, but having watched it through and assuming that us fans are assumed to be (part of) the audience I actually feel less confidence in the owners than before.
Having heard him speak it appears he knows less about football, less about Sheff Utd and has less idea about how to take us forwards than your average season ticket holder.
 
“ Just be willing to answer the difficult questions”


Like Staton did during the “Fuck the creditors” saga. Total hypocrite.

Yeah Rob and Alan also were first on the case regarding those fake companies, 10 year season tickets and the rumours of staff bullying at Wednesday. :rolleyes:
 



Couldn’t give a shit further evidence that they don’t value the fans.

Can put this together for their friends but can’t be bothered to put anything together for us the fans
 
Surprised to see so much positive response on here. The interview just confirmed everything I thought: he knows nothing, but thought he could make a quick buck. Messed it up, and is now desperately hoping to make a slow buck. But still knows nothing and doesn’t have any plan for how that happens - other than hoping Wilder can perform a miracle and outperform our budget to get us promoted.

He’s just as likely to be wrong about his amazing loophole to avoid paying the Prince as he was to trust Bord.
 
It was like one of those ‘compromised’ interviews Steven Bartlett does, pre made questions made for both parties and plenty of push backs where they say ‘we can talk about that later’ just address things but never answer things and not word about non payment of £35 million as well as key player sales.

It was like one of those QVC infomercials.
He can't talk about the 35 million it's a corporate lawsuit in America, I thought he addressed player sales ok, we couldn't match Gus's demands,
and player/agents will go where the money is (sic) I thought it was a reasonable interview and long overdue!
 
I'm honestly not asking anyone to agree, mate.

I just think it's about time someone paid a very high price for their arrogant and flagrant fraudulence, dishonesty and cheating. Sheffield United Football Club is rotten from the head downwards (imo) and that isn't going to change for some time unfortunately. I can think of no better example than this pair of snidey, corrupt shysters to pay a heavy personal price. Maybe future scumbags of their ilk will think twice about doing what they have done in the future if they are made an example of.

I've loved United for most of my life and I never thought that I wouldn't renew and I'd stop going to games but football in general is just about dead to me now thanks to all the cheating, rule bending, dishonesty and the self-serving manipulating of all that made the game great that has gone on for the last few years.

Enjoy.

utb
Those are three serious accusations to make with very limited evidence. Be careful.
 
It was like one of those ‘compromised’ interviews Steven Bartlett does, pre made questions made for both parties and plenty of push backs where they say ‘we can talk about that later’ just address things but never answer things and not word about non payment of £35 million as well as key player sales.

It was like one of those QVC infomercials.
There was a word about £35m and player sales. The latter to shore up the finances so as not to fall foul of the 85% rule and not “trousered” as some on here would have us believe.
I am well aware that the interview was structured and edited, but some of the information is capable of being checked.
 
That is Andy Giddings' hacked account. The person who hacked it is seemingly copying and pasting tweets to it again today.

Andy's new account is @GidsComm

And he's done this piece reflecting on the podcast, for those interested: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0p81psy

Thank you.
Any answers to some earlier outstanding questions or were they too difficult?
 



Sounds like they did make every attempt to negotiate something new regarding terms with PA.
Well, we found out from the EFL very recently that so long as they attempted to negotiate, we should be fine and get no punishment whatsoever!

Thats how it worked out for our porcine neighbours who fucked off their creditors and actually didn't pay their clubs debts so they could get Barry Bannan back
 

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