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.... Or just that we recruited with a back 4 in mind and wingbacks without wingbacks didn't work.

That may or may not be a good argument for a back four, but if Acun/Tan is the one making it then it clearly would constitute some involvement in picking the team.

I don't want to be mistaken for someone who is critical of Acun. I love the guy, but objectively I do find it hard to believe, based on available evidence that he hasn't at all tried to influence team selection.
 
I don’t see him taking a step back from the football side. Which will limit the level we are able to reach. Brought in a bunch of players who don’t want to be here and maxed out our spending means. Giving little to no room for recovery in January. Just got to hope the quality can pull through.
NT ... Acun has the biggest global media company which is netting him much more than HCAFC. ... Acun is hands on because its his dream, but I suspect that throughout his business career, he has made mistakes likely some howlers and learnt from them. Thats why he is where he is. No one in business gets it right all the time...!!!
 
Equally though, dismissing them as all the same is a hugely inaccurate generalisation.

he didn't buy the club becasue he wanted to make hull city fans feel better
let's just be realistic

let's hope it's a win win for both him and the fans
 
I saw that game - Was it the Zenith Data Systems Cup? Didn't Andy Payton play that night?
My parents were one of the first to get one - the News of The World (Booooooooo!!!!) held a competition and they won a full ALBA set up where you had to turn a dial on the front to tune the channels in (which made for some good nights "accidentally" stumbling across the likes of Tutti Frutti and other programmes with excessive boobage)
Think Paul Waite scored for us? Didn't it also go to extra time? Watched it in the Golf Centre on National Avenue, the place was packed, remember Trogg and his missus being present. It was a big deal at the time seeing City live on the telly and I also think it was another 20 years before we actually won a game on the telly. Jon Parkin v Wednesday or Leeds? at home was a rarity, sure someone, no doubt, will remind how rare (or special) that was.
 
That may or may not be a good argument for a back four, but if Acun/Tan is the one making it then it clearly would constitute some involvement in picking the team.

I don't want to be mistaken for someone who is critical of Acun. I love the guy, but objectively I do find it hard to believe, based on available evidence that he hasn't at all tried to influence team selection.

It just looks to me like we're being run under a continental style 'head coach' system as we were under Ehab as opposed to a traditional English 'manager' style system which is becoming a minority for most clubs even in England now.

It's a fallacy that old skool chairman didn't ever influence selection and recruitment though. Especially when things weren't going well. They've always held the power to remove a coach or gaffer that they disagree with and they've always been ultimately responsible for the output on the pitch.
 
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Someone saying Allam made his money through disasters but Acun did through hard work. Much as
I am not an Allam fan it is a good job that his generators were available and were of more use to people in tricky situations than a TV show. You may as well sneer at Smith and Nephew for making its money from ill people.
That’s all well and good, however I don’t think Smith & Nephew have ever gone bust, leaving their creditors in the brown stuff, on the other hand…
 
NT ... Acun has the biggest global media company which is netting him much more than HCAFC. ... Acun is hands on because its his dream, but I suspect that throughout his business career, he has made mistakes likely some howlers and learnt from them. Thats why he is where he is. No one in business gets it right all the time...!!!
Football is a unique business. You don’t need to spend loads to be successful. He’s gone for that approach and we are paying the price for it
 
No owner ever did. He almost certainly wants to build an asset by adding value though - which would be a win winnif he's successful, so why not wish him success?

im not unwishing him success, i'm just saying don't put him on some pedastal
he should be under scrutiny and rightly, he's the current custodian of the football club
 
im not unwishing him success, i'm just saying don't put him on some pedastal
he should be under scrutiny and rightly, he's the current custodian of the football club

He is under scrutiny. Has been most of his life.

There is a difference however between basing said scrutiny on supposition as opposed to fact.
 
He is under scrutiny. Has been most of his life.

There is a difference however between basing said scrutiny on supposition as opposed to fact.

i've not said anything about him so called picking the team or of the like
although.. if tufan starts tonight.. there should be fury!