There’s no doubting Amit Bhatia is a (long suffering) fan of the club and I’m sure it pains him to be Chairman during a period of disaster we have been through. As you, RTID, I wish him and his family well. He has been one of those custodians of the club that has endeared himself to the fans - no mean accomplishment. A wind of change is blowing through the club as fast as Storm Ciarán is this week. The Hoos empirical rise continues. He’s not all bad in my eyes and does seem to have a firm hand on the purse strings, which we definitely need. Feels there is more to come before the month is out. We all wanted change, so here it comes.
Not clear who decided to appoint Ainsworth (obviously not Ferdinand) but it would have been Hoos that agreed to a 3.5 year contract.
That won't really have mattered as there is no way he will have got 3.5 years money. A year at most imo.
It's all happening at Loftus Road. So many questions to ask, so few answers. The fact remains, the current owners spent a fortune on us and got nowhere. In fact, under their stewardship, we have gone way backwards. You can blame Manager's (Redknapp and Hughes immediately spring to mind) but.........the board have to take ultimate responsibility for the position we find ourselves in. It is clear that we are an extremely poorly run football club. Compare where we were 10 years ago to where we are now and compare (for example) a well run local rival, Brentford. We have gone backwards, they have gone forwards and established themselves as a well run Premier League team. I know the current owners are doing their best to keep the wolves from the door but to me, the current situation is their fault 100% and they have run us extremely poorly. Can that be rectified by selling the club? Who would buy us in the current situation as we stare at League one? As I said, more questions then answers right now.
I’ve often thought Mittal was involved just to get the new stadium contract but that seems increasingly unlikely
Good point Strolls. Though I’m sure there would have been a Board approval on it at some point. Not defending him by any means though. He’s part of approving it.
Strange timing to say the least. I know the Mittal's had a back slapping coexistence with Warnock so perhaps a decision by our Malaysian majority stakeholders to go a different route has hastened Amit's decision. For sure things have been little short of disastrous under his tenure so other than the risk to ongoing investment I can't see it as a bad thing. And all these commercial deals around naming rights coming to fruition at the same time (and which have Hoos' style written all over them) indicate that things were not being done by Amit as others would have liked. So a coup rather than a resignation IMO.
One possibility, re new owners, is that the club is more attractive at a bargain basement price to folk who think they can do better. I think that's what happened at Charlton with great fanfare but they've not done all that well. On the other hand there is Wrexham!
Strange times ................ more concerning times to be honest. Can only hope we survive relatively unscathed.............. and in the Championship.
Clive's take over at LFW, which I like, because it's optimistic... "he's not going to do both roles. He's being moved upstairs, there'll be a new CEO. This duel thing is just a temporary thing. I think they've realised after Amit's golf exploits and the disaster on the pitch that it's time to move on stuff that was in the pipeline anyway. We've been saying for weeks there was no change after last season's disaster. We've been saying we desperately need some fresh ideas at leadership level. Saying we've got absentee owners. Saying that Hoos has got his eye off the ball. Well, thankfully, belatedly, here comes some change. Forward thinking progressive manager, new DOF, new CEO, Amit can go and play golf to his heart's content while at the same time whacking a chunk of change in that counts on FFP, Hoos can go to a more hands off role and spend more time with the family, get the CEO appointment right... It's good news for once. It's change. Which was desperately needed."
Just seen an interview with Hoos which contradicts this entirely. No mention of it being temporary, although given that Hoos is a snake oil salesman, who knows what the truth is?
