Paul Duffen - âThrough my time at Hull, I likened the role of the club to acting pretty much as a pipe between the TV companies and the playersâ bank accounts â effectively funnelling the money straight there, without receiving any of the benefits.â And you were very good at the role Paul..................clueless ****. http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/spor...ave-hull-city-supporters-extra-joy-1-4727534?
duffman has a very valid point but trying to make out that he wasn't part of the problem is disingenuous to the the max.
You need a benefactor? Norwich, Swansea, Wigan, Bolton and WBA haven't and have all done quite well without nearly brankrupted themselves. The idea is to build steady and then if you go back down you can come back stronger. Even if you look at likes of Everton and Newcastle more recently I know they spent a far bit, but they got good players by great scouting. Duffen just got played by agents and clubs. Look at the way Sunderland screwed Duffen with Turner. Look at the way they treated Sam Ricketts.
That bar steward makes my skin crawl.. Bartlett gets away with murder but Duffen's refusal to apportion any blame to himself over those ludicrous wages AND more importantly receiving just £2.8 million for Michael Turner is either very delusional or very clueless.. I suspect a bit of both.
TBF the way he looked for Spain against Portugal he'd of been rubbish. If can't look good in that team, then you'll never look good in any team.
Maybe he has just had a memory lapse and went to Alistair Campbell to get help him find out what had happened
The comments he makes about Negredo are complete bollocks, not only did we not have £12m, but Seville took up the same deal we agreed and at the end of the two years Real didn't exercise the buy-back option, so we'd never have got our money back.
Without Duffen, we'd have still not made it to the Premier League. Well, that's Adam Pearson's opinion anyway. I didn't like Dufen because of how he tried to socially engineer the crowd, and was in a minority for saying so at the time, but had he not brought us success, the opportunity wouldn't have been there to play with.
Duffen was a two bit, penny and dime grifter who played from the start with a loaded stack. The biggest rogues shout the loudest, and it's conspicuous that Duffen still has plenty to say about Hull City and the events which brought about comedy, humiliation and ultimately shame, upon the club. We were Premier League class in those categories - if no other - while he weaved his duplicity in this city and at this club. He's a roper and a chump, and anyone who gives him a platform is in my book no better a man than Duffen himself. The guy is never going to shut up, nor make a dignified retreat if he has it his way - so close him down and unplug his cord. Untruths of the past are a worthless currency, and if he hasn't learned that by now, my guess is he never will.
Yes. The only reason he didnt end up in prison was because City threatened him with court action and he agreed to pay back some cash.
I don't think that City threatening him with civil proceedings would have any bearing on whether the police would charge him with a criminal offence. You do not go to prison if you lose in the civil courts
