If the timing is so bad, when would have been a good time to leave? Remember that he appears to have given around three months' notice, so it didn't need to be handled as a panic. When should he have gone? End of a season, you're looking for a new chairman during the long transfer window. Start of a season, chaos at the kick-off. August to December, leaving the club rudderless and should have left in the summer. February to May, jumping ship at the most crucial part of the season. There's no right time. Vin
Edited out my response: I think we're better off ignoring rather that giving him the oxygen of responses.
That's a valid point CBK and when it was mentioned yesterday, I wondered if Ms Liebherr didn't like that sort of thing. Whether he got himself a boat or not doesn't affect my view of whether he did a lot more good for the club than bad and whether we would have got where we are today without him.
Well if you say so, but everyone in football thinks Cortese is a complete twat and people like Les Reed did the actual real work and Cortese sweetened national media to make it wrongly his sole work.
I don't buy this working his notice bit...a new CEO would have been ready to take over. Also KL said that she wanted him to stay. I do agree that he probably wouldn't get another job at a PL club...rightly or wrongly he grates with footballing people in this country.
Exactly!!! It only matters if you're absolutely determined to find something, anything, to focus on to support your prejudices.
May have used Markus's money, but his interest in us took us from near bankruptcy to 9th in the PL in a few years...good enough for me to be extremely grateful to him.
Nicola didn't get on very well with redstripe's mate Nick Illingsworth, so it's no wonder he's so driven to slag him off.
I agree on him working notice. Unless Katharina is incompetent, which is a possibility I'd rather not consider!
In three weeks time. Where do you get the idea that he's given three months notice? Looks to me like he's been issuing threats to leave, but that's not the same as serving your notice.
If she thought it would all be worked out at the brink she may not have dealt effectively with it. It's a pretty common human failing to focus on the outcome you're expecting rather than planning for failure. Vin
In which case people (not you, I agree) would be on here complaining that he'd left in the most crucial period of the season... Notice: "What is not in doubt is that Cortese actually tendered his resignation last October and was actually serving out his notice period. " from the Telegraph "Cortese’s departure comes at the end of his stipulated notice period " Express Vin
2 promotions (back to back), 1 Johnstone's Paint Trophy, and top half of the Premier League all within 5 years, looks a good job to me. Surely the aim of a football club is to achieve success on the field, which we clearly have done during his time here. Are you actually a Saints fan? Because you never comment about the team, only an anti-Cortese rant every now and then.
