I don't see why. He was here, did a great job on the pitch with SKP. And brought in Drummaville. Job done. That was many yesterday's ago. For gods sake move on.
No from me. I have heard the real reasons he left and to be honest we're better off without him. Great player, he did well to bring Drumaville in he is not here now for a reason and I can't see him coming back while Short is still the owner unless a lot has changed.
Well I think everyone in here would agree our clubs pr is **** so why not have him in a fans relations capacity I don't see the harm. Also 1973 was many yesterdays ago let's move on from that too then, because history and legacy means nowt at a club like ours with such a successful present.....
well spill the beans then. As far as I' m concerned he's a club legend. No I don't think him being CEO now is a great move but an argument saying "i know something about him you don't" is no argument at all and some other poster calling him a tosspot is pathetic. there's reasoned argument on this thread but just slagging off someone who's done a huge amount for Sunderland I don't get.
There's no doubting our PR at the minute Giacc! You're absolutely spot on with that. It needs rebuilding. But not this season. That ship has sailed. The club needs to focus on the next 9 games. A CEO will have no influence on these games. It's all between Sam and the squad. I doubt Niall would come here just in some PR capacity, but fair do's, if he would, I'd welcome that massively. But what we were talking about is a new CEO. And Quinny's not the man. Not in today's game. A footballing businessman isn't enough to tick all the boxes. We may very well go down this season. This decision isn't a decision to be taken likely. It needs time and thought, not an emotional knee-jerk reaction.
There's knee jerk and there's handing all our rivals a head start on us in preparation. The new CEO has two separate budgets to prepare for next season. Every relegation battle requires double the preparation for the following season. One if we stay up and one if we go down. They need to be ready to execute the second our status is confirmed or we're playing catch up. It needs to be a swift but assured appointment imo.
But I don't think you're giving him the major credit he deserves. He brought the club when we were in quite a mess. Managed to seek investment from drumville, using the money to get us promoted. His choice of managers were also very good. Roy keane made an instant impact and took us straight up, and then went on to give us some stability in the premier league. Steve Bruce built the best side we've had since the Reid era. MON had a great initial impact, but fell apart, nevertheless a good appointment at the time. We signed, bent, malbranqe, gyan, sess in quinns time. Some big contracts were handed out to the wrong players, but he was doing that to try and get what he thought would be better players to the club. He managed to seek major investment from Short, and selling a football club is not easy (look at villa). Quinn took on a massive gamble when getting involved with safc, he brought a club in a mess playing championship football, and left it with a billionaire owner playing premiership football. That to me deserves enormous amounts of credit and respect. His other business ventures may have failed, but he will be learning all the time and I think he will get it right one day, because he is a successful man with a winning mentality. I think you should be giving him the amazing credit he deserves rather than writing him off.
Writing off isn't the term I'd use. He did what he did a decade ago Rocket. And he has our ever grateful thanks for what he did. But that was hen. The games moved on so much since then. This isn't the time for sentimentality.
Don't give a **** what you think I should be doing. Don't tell me who i should and shouldn't give credit to. That's for me to decide, not you! Give credit to whoever you want, I don't give a **** but don't be telling me who I should be grateful to. Knob He left us in a financial mess, we were in one when he came. Between him Bruce and Keane we signed an insane amount of players and at the end of it we were in debt with one of the worst squads in the league. A legacy is how a man leaves it, not how he finds it. As I've said quite clearly I love the bloke but just don't think he's right for the role and said why. If you don't like it you can **** off, but telling me how I should feel about aspects of our club was never going to down well with me was it? I'm happy to discuss the good Quinn did(where I'll all give him the credit i think he deserves just because I haven't in this thread doesn't mean I haven't in the past or continue to in the future) but not with a dickhead who's own sentiments aren't enough he has to tell other people what there's should be. You're one otter I wish would **** off back to your river bank.
To be fair, you just highlighted a load of fluff about Quinn, you're a ****ing huge club and it's naive to think nobody would have resurrected your club. You might have gone into League One, maybe you'd have been bought by the Leibherr's instead of Southampton. What definitely happened under Quinn's tenure, is that he ran you deep in the red consistently, to the point where you struggle to keep your collective beak above water, every season, because FFP have got you by the balls. He's done a lot of good, and a lot of irresponsible things. To me, if I was a SAFC fan I'd probably want a proven success story. Nobody else has gone for Quinn since he got sacked/made redundant, that should tell you enough.
Leeds utd, Nottingham forest, Sheffield utd all have slipped into the lower leagues and never came back up whilst encountering major financial difficulties. All 3 are big clubs. How can I be naive to think that somebody would come along and buy us? We were unbelievably fortunate to get Quinn, and have been the the premier league for the last 7-8 seasons because of the funding that he got put in place, by drumville and Short.
I wasn't speaking down to you like a child, just putting forward some points for you to consider. The way you reacted was very strange, I'm only talking about nail Quinn for god sake.
6 six seasons as chairman we signed 95 players. He pandered to Keane and Bruces every request repeatedly throwing money about with little thought for our long term security and left us right in the **** declaring he'd done a good job. Yes, for one season Bruce had the makings of a good team(should ****ing hope so given the financial support) but it didn't last long as there were more players to sign and contracts to throw about. Wickham 9m, Ferdinand 8m, Gardner 5m, ****ing George McCartney ****ing 6m!!!!1 I don't want the club to be that stupid ever again.
