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Premiership Chairmen

Discussion in 'The Premier League' started by Sammy's Silky Skills, Jul 23, 2017.

  1. Sammy's Silky Skills

    Sammy's Silky Skills Well-Known Member

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    There are some right oddballs around from Ashley who has board meetings in a boozer after 8 pints to the porn barons at West Ham.

    Who grates on you? The pair I dislike the most are at West Ham. They come across as a bit slimey. They also think the Hammers are the biggest draw in London.

    Their behaviour over the stadium has been poor too.
     
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  2. Q

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    I have a love of Ellis Short. He has worked wonders.
    I'm very wary of Levy though. There is something not right there.
     
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  3. The RDBD

    The RDBD Well-Known Member

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    Are you the chairman of a PL club ?? :)


    "There is something not right there."

    Ah, you have sensed he is the Night King from Game of Thrones.
     
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  4. Levy is, by far and away, the best chairman in World football. He has worked, and continues to work, wonders for our club.

    He has had us batting above our average for well over a decade, now; and we are going from strength to strength, and with a state-of-the-art stadium being built, and one of the best Academies in Europe.

    Neutrals can ball their eyes out as much as they like, but most would sell a bollock to have him at their tin-pot club.
     
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  5. Tobes

    Tobes Warden
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    Best Chairman in World football? <laugh>

    Trophies delivered = zero
     
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  6. Blueman

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    Delusion at it's worst mate. <laugh>
     
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  7. Beardsley's Shimmy

    Beardsley's Shimmy Well-Known Member

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    But he negotiated hard to get Sissoko in FFS! <laugh>
     
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  8. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    So basically this is a thread to complain about the white elephant stadium being used rather than sitting and rotting. did you start a thread to complain about West Ham being robbed of £35m and it given to the FA and Sheffield United for a minor transgression of a rule that at least 6 other EPL clubs broke that season, including Sheffield United? Did you start a thread to complain about Spurs being handed 10's of millions of taxpayers money by Boris just after they received £100m for Bale?
     
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  9. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
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    Our Chairman has taken us from the financial brink to the EPL title and the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

    The club is now debt free and has repurchased its' stadium and is looking at expanding by another 10,000 seats ....

    In terms of what any Chairman has brought to any individual British club, particularly in terms of 'achievement', I think we have a good shout to having got the best ...:cool:
     
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  10. Big Ern

    Big Ern Lord, Master, Guru & Emperor

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    Compared to Abramovic and Al Mubarak?
     
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  11. FosseFilberto

    FosseFilberto Pizzeria Superiore and some ...
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    ... would they have overseen Leicester City to such heights with a squad that would cost around £26 million? ...they wouldn't have been remotely interested in a 'provincial' club, methinks <ok>
     
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  12. The Ginger Marks

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    What did you expect from a delusional Bell end?
     
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  13. AKCJ

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    Note that they've done this in less than a decade.

    I won't bother saying they're the best or whatever but I doubt that any other set of owners could have come in with the same ambition, drive and passion and taken us from the lower reaches of the Championship to the title of the Premier League in such a short space of time with our transfer record being just £9m.

    In the time they've been at the club they've recaptured to imagination of Leicester the city and the increase in attendances show that. They've rebuilt the academy (we're already seeing signs of the work with Chilwell, Moore, Barnes and Muskwe). They've also turned us into a global brand. I can't wear a Leicester shirt outside of the City itself without someone coming up to me and saying how our story has inspired them or that they now support us or that they were willing us to the title.

    We've gone from a mid table Championship club that was going nowhere to where we are today in under 7 years.

    Frankly, they've been incredible.
     
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  14. Tobes

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    The season you won the league wasn't down to the owners though.

    I'm not saying they've not done a good job as owners, but you're still a midtable PL side in reality.
     
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  15. Libby

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    Our owners have done a brilliant job in a short space of time too. Would get much more credit were it not for Leicesters miracle.
     
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  16. AKCJ

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    Why wasn't it? All players and staff were brought into the club during their tenure barring Andy King, Mike Stowell (GK coach), Jon Sanders (Players Liason Officer), Dave Rennie (Head Physiotherapist) and Ian Patchett (Club Doctor).

    Full credit goes to the owners.
     
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  17. HaslemereKev

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    Can't stand the owners at West Ham... Enjoy going onto the Spurs board on the thread dedicated to them 2, to see what the clowns have been up to!

    As for best - more than happy with our own. Have invested heavily off the pitch as well as on without threatening the future of the club, and seem to generally get the values of the club (naming stands after GT & SEJ)

    Beyond us, I think Saints have a very good set up.

    Not sure why Bournemouth haven't sorted a new stadium yet, especially considering they have a rich owner...
     
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  18. Tobes

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    Because your squad was bang average at best, they'd hired a manager who was a laughing stock after his stint in Greece, and you were many peoples tip to go down.

    All your moons aligned that season, but to say it was somehow a masterstroke by the owners is delusional.
     
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  19. AKCJ

    AKCJ Well-Known Member
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    How could it be "average at best" if it was the squad that won the most points over 38 games?
     
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  20. Tobes

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    On paper it was bang average, no-one expected anything from you that season, and that squad found it's level again last season.

    The point being that the owners didn't fund a side that was expected to challenge, they therefore can't be given the lions share of the praise for what happened.
     
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