McCabe interview in The Times (says he'll sue Sheffield United)

[Bladesthorpe]

And KMc knows loads?

Loads more than the young man and his wife who we have as figureheads now.

 

[Champagneblade]

So, we could have had £50 million to be paid in 14 days, but Kev negotiated it down to £21 million over 4 years. Does he want to buy some magic beans? Hope the Prince takes notice of this when he buys the ground.

Am I the only one who finds this spin hard to believe?

We want at least 20m, but certainly not more than 30m?!

What a load of codswallop.

They probably arrived at 25m compensation amicably because there was a possibility that whilst they could have argued for 50m, they could have ended up with 15m all the same. Given the predicament we probably thought taking 25m was judicious.

The way it is put as if we turned down getting 50m in 14 days is quite frankly absurd.

And besides, as a PL club, there is always someone willing to bail you out. Bury aside, they normally always get saved, even the big ones. Look at Chelsea. Were it not for Abramovich they were going to the wall.

 

[Yewsman]

I wanted KM to win the litigation but as others have said having read the judgment I am now not so sure. I do feel sorry for him though. He is clearly a life long supporter, true Blade and for those of us who are we can all imagine that with the club in its present position to be effectively excommunicated must be heartbreaking for him. He has bankrolled the club for years and I am sure has put in over £100 million. Where would we be without that?

Having said that he has made some very poor decisions over the years, particularly managerial appointments, and his decision the bring in PA on the terms he did. I really hope that we do not end up in protracted litigation for years. It will not benefit anyone and certainly not the club. It would be great If KM and PA could come to an agreement and KM could be given an honourable position at tha club and tickets for life. Sadly it’s never going to happen.

 

[Davalon]

I'm sure in 5 years time KM will be telling people he put nearly £200 million into the club

 

[Auld Reekie Blade]

Loads more than the young man and his wife who we have as figureheads now.

That he may, but his application of that knowledge, over his tenure, was, at best questionable. That’s not to say I am not grateful for what he did for the club. I’m just not prepared to see history rewritten.

Lets give the new regime a chance, they may surprise you.

 

[Lawrence]

I'm not reading all that

22 years of his life funding Sheffield United and you can’t be bothered to read all that! Just about sums it up!

 

[Lawrence]

So, we could have had £50 million to be paid in 14 days, but Kev negotiated it down to £21 million over 4 years. Does he want to buy some magic beans? Hope the Prince takes notice of this when he buys the ground.

The Prince can’t afford to buy the assets! The question should be who he will bring in to pay the 50 million to McCabe? Then you will need to start worrying!

 

[Snake]

His true colours are really showing through now. Just fuck off McCabe.

 

[Carlton Blade]

22 years of his life funding Sheffield United and you can’t be bothered to read all that! Just about sums it up!

Soz

 

[Stretch]

22 years of his life funding Sheffield United and you can’t be bothered to read all that! Just about sums it up!

Like me, he is probably still recovering from reading the sequel to War & Peace that was the full court judgement.

"Life long supporter" or not, there was more than enough in there to make anyone question McCabe and his cohort's suitability to run a burger van, never mind OUR football club!

 

[Worksop II]

KM could be given an honourable position at tha club

He's got one ... Crazy Old Man

 

[bladeinspaceandtime]

More "woe is me" bollocks from "Biggest Blade" Kev. Moans about the amount of money he put into the club, but no one forced him to get involved in the first place. Makes no mention of the fucked up decisions he made (Boozehound Robson and Alehouse Mickey to name but two), but whinges plenty about the agreement he signed up to with a bloke he brought into the club being upheld in court. It does make me wonder how he managed to make money in the first place.

 

[Speedracer]

Every time he opens his mouth the hole just gets bigger & bigger, he really is making himself look stupid.

 

[Tom Bott]

Neatly leaves out all the dodgy decisions he made not least appointing Bloody Robson, when absolutely no one else thought it was a good idea.

Whereas we had all heard of Chris Wilder, Northampton Town and Oxford United, and thought he was the right man.

 

[Kev Gee]

The Prince can’t afford to buy the assets! The question should be who he will bring in to pay the 50 million to McCabe? Then you will need to start worrying!

Are you the princes accountant? You must be if you 100% know he can't afford the 50 million. What evidence do you have to confirm this?

And who do we need to be worried about? Someone who maybe isn't British and might wear funny clothes?

I would rather the club bought its OWN assets back that were taken away when we fell into league 1. At least we wouldn't then be owing someone else 50 million.

 

[pommpey]

What's the matter with people on here? 'McCabe's put £100m into the club'. Are you all fucking daft or what? We ended up 1th in the third division. Does anyone not see the 'so, you put £100m into the club and it ended up 11th in division one' as a signal marker of abject failure? I mean, are the supporters of the club meant to shoulder the responsibility for that as some sort of guilt burden? Piss off. We fucked up the PL campaign (despite people blaming Warnock for everything which happened that season) and were meant to rest in the Championship until we'd licked our wounds, rebuilt and kicked on. Like I say, there's only been two consistent factors between us being dumped out of the PL and us being promoted. The fans and Kevin McCabe. Now unless you all want to take one on the chin for appointing the likes of Mickey Adams and David Wier, if you want to blame yourself for Hammond and being beaten by Shrewsbury on the Desso then fill your boots. McCabe would like you to, mind. Not his fault. He's stuck squillions into the club, he did. So much indeed, that we ended up relegated again and struggling likefuck to avoid being a 'Sheffield United - where are they now?' topic whilst the pigs effortlessly overhauled any advantage we thought we'd have. Meanwhile we are hiring Selahattin Baki, laying new pitches, partnering Fenerbahce and Chinese clubs and flogging our key players on the first ask, to pay the wages of the likes of Conor Sammon, Ryan Flynn and Jay McEverley

Please stop kidding yourselves Kevin McCabe was anything but bad news for the club. Sure, he's a loving dad, good businessman in his own world and a massive Blade but that's it. He's spunked his millions on nowt but failure and we should neve, ever forget that.

He's gone. Thank fuck.

pommpey

 

[Whiston Blade]

He’s like a bad smell that you can’t get rid of.

 

[Yewsman]

What's the matter with people on here? 'McCabe's put £100m into the club'. Are you all fucking daft or what? We ended up 1th in the third division. Does anyone not see the 'so, you put £100m into the club and it ended up 11th in division one' as a signal marker of abject failure? I mean, are the supporters of the club meant to shoulder the responsibility for that as some sort of guilt burden? Piss off. We fucked up the PL campaign (despite people blaming Warnock for everything which happened that season) and were meant to rest in the Championship until we'd licked our wounds, rebuilt and kicked on. Like I say, there's only been two consistent factors between us being dumped out of the PL and us being promoted. The fans and Kevin McCabe. Now unless you all want to take one on the chin for appointing the likes of Mickey Adams and David Wier, if you want to blame yourself for Hammond and being beaten by Shrewsbury on the Desso then fill your boots. McCabe would like you to, mind. Not his fault. He's stuck squillions into the club, he did. So much indeed, that we ended up relegated again and struggling likefuck to avoid being a 'Sheffield United - where are they now?' topic whilst the pigs effortlessly overhauled any advantage we thought we'd have. Meanwhile we are hiring Selahattin Baki, laying new pitches, partnering Fenerbahce and Chinese clubs and flogging our key players on the first ask, to pay the wages of the likes of Conor Sammon, Ryan Flynn and Jay McEverley

Please stop kidding yourselves Kevin McCabe was anything but bad news for the club. Sure, he's a loving dad, good businessman in his own world and a massive Blade but that's it. He's spunked his millions on nowt but failure and we should neve, ever forget that.

He's gone. Thank fuck.

pommpey

But without his financial backing there would be no club.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Are you the princes accountant? You must be if you 100% know he can't afford the 50 million. What evidence do you have to confirm this?

And who do we need to be worried about? Someone who maybe isn't British and might wear funny clothes?

I would rather the club bought its OWN assets back that were taken away when we fell into league 1. At least we wouldn't then be owing someone else 50 million.

We’d still be owing someone, unless the debts were written off. Which they weren’t.

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

But without his financial backing there would be no club.

Are you Scott or Simon?

 

[pommpey]

But without his financial backing there would be no club.

Really? So you're saying McCabe is the only knight in shining armour in town? Also, out of that £100m junket, How much could you categorically level is attributable to his mis-stewardship and incompetence? I mean, all of this was becoming ever the evident during the court case. It culminated in him having to effectively surrender the club to HRH given he'd made such an horses dick of the 'partnership' and expecting someone like HRH to effectively do as he was told when it came to the buy-out. No shock McCabe got that wrong as well.

I will never accept McCabe is a crook, was in it for his own betterment or was in any way fucking the club for some or other gain. I don't believe he is that kind of person and any allusion is in my humble opinion wrong and without evidence. I do think he was naive (with regard the football club and the business from parent business to those on the pitch) and pig headed. I'd wager he was single minded in the back room an seemingly didn't take advice very well. I'd also suggest there's some pretty fucking stinking stories which our sacked managers could tell, if they could.

pommpey

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

Really? So you're saying McCabe is the only knight in shining armour in town? Also, out of that £100m junket, How much could you categorically level is attributable to his mis-stewardship and incompetence? I mean, all of this was becoming ever the evident during the court case. It culminated in him having to effectively surrender the club to HRH given he'd made such an horses dick of the 'partnership' and expecting someone like HRH to effectively do as he was told when it came to the buy-out. No shock McCabe got that wrong as well.

I will never accept McCabe is a crook, was in it for his own betterment or was in any way fucking the club for some or other gain. I don't believe he is that kind of person and any allusion is in my humble opinion wrong and without evidence. I do think he was naive (with regard the football club and the business from parent business to those on the pitch) and pig headed. I'd wager he was single minded in the back room an seemingly didn't take advice very well. I'd also suggest there's some pretty fucking stinking stories which our sacked managers could tell, if they could.

pommpey

You're becoming my favourite poster

 

[zablade]

He is an absolute 100 Carat arsehole.

 

[pommpey]

You're becoming my favourite poster

Mate, I have spent about ten years on here and other boards suggesting this to anyone who would listen, only to be shouted down by McCabe's own fanclub who reckon golden beams of warm sunshine pour from his balloon knot. They also try to allude that attending each game would have crystalised that negative viewpoint into one of more enlightenment or that simply seeing 'how much money he has put in' spells out his true worth (whilst players like Jamie Murphy fuck off to Brighton for 'undisclosed' leaving us robbed of the previous season's top goalscorer and painfully thin in the talent department ... just after he'd signed a fucking contract. Apparently his sale didn't pay for the pitch, it paid for the remaining players wages - people like Sammon and Woolford)

Believe me, I tried. I even (brace yourselves) attended games when I could. But watching us scrape a draw against Crawley (for example) didn't tell me we were preparing ourselves or Europe in a few years or that any 'Game Changing Investments' were inbound. Managers suddenly fucking off for no real reason but a possible welching on team strengthening requirements and promises told me all I needed to know. And if Adkins couldn't do fuck all with what Wilder could do ... with some added input with investments HE wanted, then post Gillingham away in the 2016-17 season we lose only three league games and stomp the division flat. Fuck all to do with McCabe save for him knowing he'd landed a doozie with CWAK and needed to give him what he wanted to hang onto him. The rest, up to eighth in the Premier League, is history ... hardly any of which belongs to McCabe.

pommpey

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

Mate, I have spent about ten years on here and other boards suggesting this to anyone who would listen, only to be shouted down by McCabe's own fanclub who reckon golden beams of warm sunshine pour from his balloon knot. They also try to allude that attending each game would have crystalised that negative viewpoint into one of more enlightenment or that simply seeing 'how much money he has put in' spells out his true worth (whilst players like Jamie Murphy fuck off to Brighton for 'undisclosed' leaving us robbed of the previous season's top goalscorer and painfully thin in the talent department ... just after he'd signed a fucking contract. Apparently his sale didn't pay for the pitch, it paid for the remaining players wages - people like Sammon and Woolford)

Believe me, I tried. I even (brace yourselves) attended games when I could. But watching us scrape a draw against Crawley (for example) didn't tell me we were preparing ourselves or Europe in a few years or that any 'Game Changing Investments' were inbound. Managers suddenly fucking off for no real reason but a possible welching on team strengthening requirements and promises told me all I needed to know. And if Adkins couldn't do fuck all with what Wilder could do ... with some added input with investments HE wanted, then post Gillingham away in the 2016-17 season we lose only three league games and stomp the division flat. Fuck all to do with McCabe save for him knowing he'd landed a doozie with CWAK and needed to give him what he wanted to hang onto him. The rest, up to eighth in the Premier League, is history ... hardly any of which belongs to McCabe.

pommpey

I've listened. I've been saying similar for years. The Beattie transfer was my camels back moment. Some will say our points per game ratio went up after he went, but we didn't go up. With Beattie, we would have increased our chances at Wembley that year. And for what? £2.2m? We would have still been able to sell him in the summer for not much less.

Blackman was sold for £1.325m. McCabe said, and I quote, "we made a million on that one". Great stuff. Well done. We sold our top scorer for a million bastard pound. And for what? More failure. His value wouldn't have dropped. That's what it was always about - money. Not the great of the club.

So I listened to you, whether directly or otherwise. Man's a bell end.

 

[Akinbiyi]

Loads more than the young man and his wife who we have as figureheads now.

Does he?

 

[Akinbiyi]

golden beams of warm sunshine pour from his balloon knot.

Incredible

 

[Bladesthorpe]

Does he?

Seeing as he's been watching them as supporter and chairman for over 50 years and those 2 have seen us a dozen times between them I think he just might.

 

[Akinbiyi]

Seeing as he's been watching them as supporter and chairman for over 50 years and those 2 have seen us a dozen times between them I think he just might.

So, with that in mind, what decisions has he made with that wealth of experience which have been positive for this club?

 

[Worksop II]

So, with that in mind, what decisions has he made with that wealth of experience which have been positive for this club?

Bidding £5m for Princey's shares aint gone too bad ..................

not for him like, but still a +ve