It’s lunacy. No one leaves a cushy job at the best funded club in the world to take a less well paid job at a no-funded club.
Lets me honest the club has looked like its been run far better just by rodwell and jones. So if there are serious appointments made up top and people with money at least getting their foot in the door it has to be seen as a positive for the club. I always thought it might be too good to be true getting totally rid of donald as i think he wants, both for his ego and his bank balance, to be involved if/when we get promoted.
If they have low level percentages then you can at least rest assured your money isn’t going to them direct
To get someone who understands football and what it takes to reorganise a club off the field to improve it on the field would be absolutely tremendous. Marwood or not it would remove my biggest criticism of the current owners - people who don't know what they're doing in all areas of the organisation having too much power and not taking responsibility.
Said before the devil is now in the detail or share percentage. Do we have new owners (> 50%) Is SD still in charge or is there a split that gives no one shareholder overall control
I’m going to be entirely irresponsible and make a prediction. To be clear I have zero ITK Sartori - 54% Furhman - 20% Donald - 20% Methven - 6%
It not about money for me necessarily, it's about building a good club with good leadership and good staff all with a vision. Sunderland don't need a billionaire in L1, they need to just employ people who know what they are doing. Our current 'strike force' is the perfect example of complete failure by current regime. A complete joke that a club of our size in L1 with biggest budget (i.e. absolutely everything loaded in its favour) is starting with Charlie Wyke and we can't find a striker that can combine a bit of pace and mobility and actually score goals. Anyway, when we get to the Championship we will then need serious money from day 1 admittedly, to completely bomb the current squad and build a new one over one summer. The alternative is instant relegation such is the unbelievable gulf between the two leagues now. But again, once we've get over that first season its not necessarily all about money. Well ran clubs have flourished in the championship while high spending but badly ran are on the brink of bankruptcy. After that first season (or two) we have a decision, I personally don't think at that point we will have a club/academy robust enough to find 11 bargains like Sheffield Utd. Yet if we fall straight back into the trap of 'Sunderland are well known high wage payers' then it's going to be very very expensive in championship following that route to premier league. It'll be a £30m loss a season again. So this club desperately needs a leadership that can solve the above problems, one we can buy into and trust to give us at very least steady progress back to the premier league one day.
That worries me. The players we currently have know they are not good enough. They will play well and be up there but will they try for promotion? I accept that sounds ridiculous but they are plying their trade in the Wembley of League 1. Getting promotion means the vast majority will be leaving for lesser clubs with worse facilities.
why would a billionaire Furhman put up with pissants as part of a consortium ? i know i wouldn't if i was him
How far better? Loads of positions left vacant, transfer window hasn’t exactly been a roaring success. Just because his surname isn’t Donald or Methven doesn’t make it a success. Don’t get me wrong, he seems ok, but I think he’s still hamstrung by their involvement and directives.
