"Careful what you wish for"

[Revolution]

The Prince left us in a much better position than the one he found us in when he came on the scene in 2013.

His tenure as sole owner (September 2019-December 2024) features our highest top flight finish in 30 years, one promotion, one losing playoff campaign, two (awful) PL relegations and a Cup Semi final. Our lowest position in that time is 5th in the Championship, and we have had PL TVC money or parachute money in every season, putting us a long way ahead of most of the competition at Championship level.

There have been some bad things about his ownership, but I think history will look on him favourably.

 

[FriethBlade]

Whilst I can understand frustration with the current ownership, this is some very selective memory in action.

We can talk about the great times having one brilliant season in the premier league- but the Prince was, for the last few years of his tenure, an absent owner who didn't want to be here anymore.

It was his ownership that saw players contracts running down and losing multiple players for nothing; or selling key players at comparatively cheap prices due to their contract status- to divisional rivals or with no time to replace them (Berge & Ndiaye).

We've been under transfer embargos and have even received points deductions due to his inability to run this club legitmately. As much as you can look at that first premier league season with fondness, as a club we've not really progressed on or off the field during his solo tenure compared to where we were after McCabe was ousted (i.e. the start of the 19/20 season).

Yes; we held out on selling players more so than we had done under McCabe- but the club was at real risk of financial ruin had Heckingbottom not gotten us promoted.

Selective memory? You say he sold Berge and Ndiaye with no time to replace them. We replaced them with Hamer and Souza. Contrast to selling Souza and Anel where we have replaced with Soumare and loans. I know which trade i prefer !

 

[Berkshire Blade]

The prince was having to limit the around of paint we used and turning off under soil heating and getting us into embargoes and points deductions.

I wouldn't wish for that again. He simply didn't have the money required for championship let alone premier league.

He did have Wilder and the money that his success brought in though.