He has the personality of a funeral director but is 1000 times better than the incompetent imbecile we were lumbered with previously.
What would everyone have him do? He's said exactly what we've all been saying for months - get a footballing philosophy, build the foundations for a self-sufficient future. It might be words but it's the ones we wanted to hear.
Leaving behind debts, a fine, relegation and possibly a transfer embargo and lots of players out of contract. For some reason that seems to be a lot of people's hope. I think I'll stick with TF and the Championship than dice with extinction or are we all banking on Mr Mittal riding in on horseback to save the day?
You do know our chairman is a front for a group of Malaysian consortium. Who said the others should go? they allowed Tony to ruin the club they should sort out their mess and in due course ours. Tony isn't 'the' money, he is at most one third of it.
So the option is to tell the consortium's front man to **** off and then expect the rest to fill the void he leaves; to get rid of the man that made the mess and then throw the responsibility for it on the other shareholders and say that they need to sort it out rather than the man they trust (rightly or wrongly) who says he actually is prepared to sort it out. Once again, I don't really see that as a percentage outcome in our favour.
You think some fairly anonymous partners that have barely mustered any visible interest in our club are realistically going to step in to save us? You're right - we definitely differ on that one.
Just because they are not Media whores does not mean they don't care, your man Fernandes did actually say the same words to that effect to be fair to myself here.
That's fair enough - they have themselves probably put tens of millions in the club and written off no small part of that in the last month or two. My personal opinion is that TF is the effervescent, sometimes misguided force that keeps them and the Mittals digging into their pockets and, rightly or wrongly, we are stuck with him and he with us. I think he does realise the extra level of fervour that comes with owning a football club (as exemplified by 40k fans at Wembley) compared to a lowly F1 team. I understand the mass frustration at the continual cycle we seem to be caught in but I do think he is getting there (I'd say Sandro and Rio are the only money drains this season -,the rest could possibly be sold for similar or more money than initially paid and the two mentioned have the stamp of an HR sales pitch all over them). A lot of our problems are the residual contracts even from his first few weeks or months (looking at SWP, Taarabt and Barton as the higher earners). There's a chance to rectify a lot of the ongoing financial problems this Summer with contracts expiring and some demand for a few better players and it's how we move from there that will define us for years to come. All the noises coming out the club are the right ones and we have a manager in situ (maybe temporary but who knows) who won't be asking for 5 million for this man or that one. This is our chance to put things right and I honestly believe that TF will do it this time. If he doesn't then I'll be carrying my burning torch to the old mill along with the rest of you but I don't think we have much alternative but to give him this chance. Sorry, produced an essay.
Fernandes is the backer. He has to listen to his advisers because he is not a football man. He doesn't know who to buy or how to set the team out or how to coach. Unbelievably poor scouting team and let down massively by Hughes and then Redknapp once we returned to the top flight with regards to players coming in. Now with the realization of the mistakes made and important lessons learnt and with unquestionable dedication, the owners will make our club great, of that I am sure !
Seems Dave McIntye thinks Tony will steep 'aside' as well, not the doomsday scenario some have predicted just a chage in helmsman. https://davidmcintyre.wordpress.com...-just-four-years-of-papering-over-the-cracks/ If the bulk of the money men stay put it's got to worth a go, TF does seem to be a slow learner in a footballing sense.
Christ on a bike I'm not a 'football man' either but i could have told you Rio was a busted flush. You credit him with far too much lack of intelligence. The guy is a well meaning albeit loaded chump
