Praise for the Board this season

[Harry's Game]

They have done as much as any we have had at United for a long time, Supprted the manager in the transfer market with Milions plus spending, given him all he asked for in recruitment, not sold our best player from under him in January as happend to Blackwell, Adams and Wilson.

Only the Ched Evans farce was a black mark against them this season.

Any failure to win promotion this season cannot be laid at their door.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

Only the Ched Evans farce was a black mark against them this season.

I think they handled that as well as they could (in the circumstances.. I'm not going to dredge it all up again because it's been done a thousand times).

Phipps has been a welcome addition. (K) McCabe leaving has been equally welcome (sorry Kev, I do believe you had the club's best interests at heart, I just think you lacked the balls to see the project through. You folded when you should have raised and you ended up leaving the club in a far worse state than you found it, which is really saying something!).

 

[AnonymousBlade1995]

McCabe leaving and the Prince coming in was better news than promotion if we want to get back to the prem and push on after we need a reliable backer.

Not saying McCabe was a bad chairman he put a lot of money into us but as flawed said he folded when he should have raised.

 

[YES Blade]

Did the Ched saga really have a negative effect on our season? The results between his release from prison and the Jim Phipps statement, in all competitions was Won 6, Drew 1 and Lost 2.

If anything you could argue that all the negative publicity brought the players, management and fans together. A bit of us against the world type of thing.

 

[Maidenhead]

McCabe leaving and the Prince coming in was better news than promotion if we want to get back to the prem and push on after we need a reliable backer.

Not saying McCabe was a bad chairman he put a lot of money into us but as flawed said he folded when he should have raised.

Very easy to gamble with someone elses money isn't it?

 

[sheffielder]

McCabe leaving and the Prince coming in was better news than promotion if we want to get back to the prem and push on after we need a reliable backer.

Not saying McCabe was a bad chairman he put a lot of money into us but as flawed said he folded when he should have raised.

McCabe has not left, and don't believe for one minute he doesn't have a say in what goes on. He still owns half the club.

 

[Deleted member 1486]

Very easy to gamble with someone elses money isn't it?

There's a chapter in the football book Soccernomics called "The Worst Business in the World: Why Soccer Clubs (Don't) and Shouldn't Make Money". It should be required reading for anyone thinking of entering football (if they are expecting to do anything in football apart from pissing their own money up the wall). They highlight the football business paradox (using Alan Sugar/Spurs as an example) "when business people try to run a football club as a business, then not only does the football suffer, but so does the business". See also (profitable) Newcastle this season.

If McCabe entered football expecting to cash out at the end and also be plastered in winners medals and revered by fans and journalists alike he needs to have a word with himself!

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

McCabe has not left, and don't believe for one minute he doesn't have a say in what goes on. He still owns half the club.

McCabe and his sons have a big say what happens at the Lane . Difference is , he now rules with his head not his heart . It will be McCabe who will have the final say on the position of Clough , which will be IMO carry on.

UTB

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

There's a chapter in the football book Soccernomics called "The Worst Business in the World: Why Soccer Clubs (Don't) and Shouldn't Make Money". It should be required reading for anyone thinking of entering football (if they are expecting to do anything in football apart from pissing their own money up the wall). They highlight the football business paradox (using Alan Sugar/Spurs as an example) "when business people try to run a football club as a business, then not only does the football suffer, but so does the business". See also (profitable) Newcastle this season.

If McCabe entered football expecting to cash in , at the end and also be plastered in winners medals and revered by fans and journalists alike he needs to have a word with himself!

McCabe entered football because he is a blade / working class bloke made good , not for the money . He became chairman to help finance the club after certain past chairman used SUFC as a cash cow.

McCabe is not getting any younger and could have walked away for a much easier life . Like all walks of life , we will not appreciate how good he has actually been , in bank rolling SUFC , until he is gone.

Good luck to him and of course SUFC .

UTB

 

[Deleted member 1486]

we will not appreciate how good he has actually been , in bank rolling SUFC , until he is gone

Are we talking about different people? I mean the one who left us in Division 3 and sold our entire squad (including more than one Premier League player for far below market value). Who do you mean?

 

[Lord Bos of Eckington.]

Are we talking about different people? I mean the one who left us in Division 3 and sold our entire squad (including more than one Premier League player for far below market value). Who do you mean?

McCabe had to balance the books . The banks were pulling the plug on all things SUFC . Unfortunately Santander is not a Co-op bank who wrote off millions for our S6 neighbours . The economics of the time ,dictated the actions of the club. SUFC had to restructure the debt plan with governance and due diligence or we would have gone not into administration , but the way of Rangers , and start with a New- Co .

Not ideal i know , but bringing the Prince on board does seem to have steadied the boat , and brought confidence to the funders. Desperate times sometimes mean desperate measures , when one man alone bank rolls a club and does not have the big money to bank roll it for ever , with cross company loans , from his own business.

I wonder were Chelski would be if the Russian pulled out.

UTB

 

[Deleted member 1486]

McCabe had to balance the books . The banks were pulling the plug on all things SUFC . Unfortunately Santander is not a Co-op bank who wrote off millions for our S6 neighbours . The economics of the time ,dictated the actions of the club. SUFC had to restructure the debt plan with governance and due diligence or we would have gone not into administration , but the way of Rangers , and start with a New- Co .

Not ideal i know , but bringing the Prince on board does seem to have steadied the boat , and brought confidence to the funders. Desperate times sometimes mean desperate measures , when one man alone bank rolls a club and does not have the big money to bank roll it for ever , with cross company loans , from his own business.

I wonder were Chelski would be if the Russian pulled out.

UTB

I would argue that he made his own bed. Everything is in place for this club to succeed (even more so then with the youth that were about break through!), it just needs a chairman with similar ambition (and yes, I do concede; deep pockets! As I said above, surely it is a given that you will have to dig deep once you enter the murky world of financing football?).

 

[itsinyerblood]

McCabe had to balance the books . The banks were pulling the plug on all things SUFC . Unfortunately Santander is not a Co-op bank who wrote off millions for our S6 neighbours . The economics of the time ,dictated the actions of the club. SUFC had to restructure the debt plan with governance and due diligence or we would have gone not into administration , but the way of Rangers , and start with a New- Co .

Not ideal i know , but bringing the Prince on board does seem to have steadied the boat , and brought confidence to the funders. Desperate times sometimes mean desperate measures , when one man alone bank rolls a club and does not have the big money to bank roll it for ever , with cross company loans , from his own business.

I wonder were Chelski would be if the Russian pulled out.

UTB

Received wisdom is that Roman A has put aside several hundred million in case the day arrives that he decides to quit Chelsea. This will ensure that Chelsea, in the short to mid term, are able to operate as they've become used to. It also assumes a new owner isn't already in place who can subsidise the club's activities.