So Marco Silva's departure was unexpected? Surely it was very predictable, and as such any halfway decent CEO would have a detailed Plan B prepared. Doesn't seem that way does it? And going back to last summer, the primary responsibility of a CEO was to reduce risk exposure for the business. Ehab lost control of the process and the club - his club and our club- drifted fatally, with the sad outcome that we have now. How can you see his handling of last summer as anything but shambolic? He's in charge of a business that turns over tens of millions of pounds- he needs to manage it prudently and at times ruthlessly if need be. As a result he's lost his family tens of millions.
Fatally? Enough blather. We got relegated. Most people had us relegated whatever. We have been relegated every time we have gone up so far. Room for improvement but this incessant crap about being useless is tiring. You can be unpopular, that doesn't mean you are pants.
Wrong again. Most people 'had us relegated' whatever because of Ehab Allam's mishandling of the club last summer, not because we were Hull City, per se. In the past we've managed two seasons, this time just the one. Most of us know why.
Same ****. Anyone would think we are entitled to success. Aside from the horrible stand off between club and fans we have done extremely well of late. Enviously well.
We are entitled to expect competent stewardship of our club, no one expects trophies. Any success we have had is because of the manager and players, aside from loaning the club money (at 5% interest) I'm struggling to see any meaningful imput from the owners.
In that case you are beyond arguing. Promotions. Europe. FA cup finals. It's not easy and I don't suggest it's all been brilliant. But it hasn't all been useless
And yet boro and sunland haven't appointed either. The useless **** Gibson, oh no wait he's the best owner ever
A few people are still slowly wetting themselves repeatedly. I'm not happy with our owners, but I keep my perspective and sense of context.
Wow. There was me thinking that Assem just let Steve Bruce get on with football matters, I had no idea he was actively involved in that as well...
Exactly right and that was debated at the time. Hence why the Chinese needed to be involved in the process. It was a nightmare situation as you say.
It's really simple. Success on the pitch comes from the players and management. Failure to provide adequate resources for these personnel is down to the CEO or owners.
I don't think 'theyd' have spent at all. I think any transfer fees would have come from the clubs own account. I might be wrong, it's not at all clear how football clubs are run and financed. Maybe they'd have fronted the cash from their own pocket and had it returned from a later payment to the club. Who knows?
From my point of view, there was never a better time for Hull City to establish itself in the PL. I think it was Brady who said there were 6 or maybe 8 points between 17th and 8th. We had that chance this season and blew it. Worse now, our club is going to be gang banged by those that can afford it and we have to recruit again, the bad scenario of that being that even if we are strong enough to be promoted we will still be threadbare and have insufficient quality to stay up the next time (my opinion of course, I personally think that Brighton are crap, so are Reading, Huddersfield's many of their main players are loans, Newcastle were dire, and will need to invest massively). The reason that the Stoke's and WBA's manage to survive, is that they add to a squad, not rebuild a squad. We do not have a long term vision, we make short term decisions that are based on immediate need and even those too often, too late. All of that is laid at the door of a man who as has been said, is running a £100 million business affecting livelihoods beyond the football club, who is CLUELESS.
The other problem in terms of the squad that I haven't seen directly referenced is that our good players who will go are all the young talent that we could've built the team around for 5 years. On the flip side, if some kids are coming through then Dawson and Davies will be invaluable.
It wont happen in one season though unfortunately BCC... Clucas and Harry have become players over 3 seasons effectively..
Pretty forthright and honest interview & some positives: *Money won't be an issue - no sniff of administraton looming *Recruitment to be done promptly *Academy players to be given a chance