Mixed views on this (as per usual some may add). Whilst I'm not overly dissapointed with Cleggs depature who had an abject failure of being able to have a connection with the fans, he seemed pretty aloof to criticism, I'm slightly concerned about where this now leaves us!
When I first saw the news I though great, in excitement of who we might get in, someone with a bit of a football knowledge and perhaps more importantly IMO someone outside of the ME inner circle as it were. But now I see 2 Board members will take up the mantle, again I thought great we'll have 2 members with ITFC in their blood but they're actually just from the ME inner circle. So I fail to see how this will make a great deal of difference really.
I geuss it makes sense in a way part of me always thought Clegg was just a puppet doing what ME asked, so what was the point especially as ME appears to have got more involved in recent seasons, now you've just cut out the middleman. For me I have understood the need for ME to be private and I actually think it's a pretty admirable thing to want to have but now surely is the time he needs to become a figure head. On the plus side of it Clegg did not seem very personable whereas everythin I have heard and seen ME appears to be that, with previous employees including the managers and some of the players saying this to be the case