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pass the football said:
Reed's statement was pretty emphatic to be fair.
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In that it said we didn't have to sell any players. That was a t a time when the red tops were reporting that we needed to sell. The only other emphatic thing was that no-one would have to be sold that MP didn't want sold.... current likelihood of MP being our manager beyond the end of the week, undoes that part of Reed's statement.
 
fatletiss said:
In that it said we didn't have to sell any players. That was a t a time when the red tops were reporting that we needed to sell. The only other emphatic thing was that no-one would have to be sold that MP didn't want sold.... current likelihood of MP being our manager beyond the end of the week, undoes that part of Reed's statement.
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Exactly. I do remember trying to argue precisely that at the time, but, y'know.....what do I know.
 
fatletiss said:
In that it said we didn't have to sell any players. That was a t a time when the red tops were reporting that we needed to sell. The only other emphatic thing was that no-one would have to be sold that MP didn't want sold.... current likelihood of MP being our manager beyond the end of the week, undoes that part of Reed's statement.
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he also said no players have been given permission to talk to other clubs and that will remain so. that was such a blanket statement you could take it as an emphatic message the players will never be allowed to leave. sounds more like a forseeable expectation of the moment though or a bluff.
 
fatletiss said:
In that it said we didn't have to sell any players. That was a t a time when the red tops were reporting that we needed to sell. The only other emphatic thing was that no-one would have to be sold that MP didn't want sold.... current likelihood of MP being our manager beyond the end of the week, undoes that part of Reed's statement.
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Also, I wondered at the time whether Reed's statement was, in fact, directed at the chairman as much as the media...it didn't just come at a time when the tabloids were claiming that we'd need to sell, it came at a point where we'd issued a woe-is-us accounting of our books, and Krueger was making noise about our financial state (thus leading to the media accounts). It almost looked as if Reed was refuting that.
 
Schad said:
Also, I wondered at the time whether Reed's statement was, in fact, directed at the chairman as much as the media...it didn't just come at a time when the tabloids were claiming that we'd need to sell, it came at a point where we'd issued a woe-is-us accounting of our books, and Krueger was making noise about our financial state (thus leading to the media accounts). It almost looked as if Reed was refuting that.
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I wonder if perhaps the financial story, considering the resultant speculation, was the end of the experiment of more openness from the board!

Though seriously, I still have a bad feeling about that press release.
 
Schad said:
Also, I wondered at the time whether Reed's statement was, in fact, directed at the chairman as much as the media...it didn't just come at a time when the tabloids were claiming that we'd need to sell, it came at a point where we'd issued a woe-is-us accounting of our books, and Krueger was making noise about our financial state (thus leading to the media accounts). It almost looked as if Reed was refuting that.
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Oh don't say things like that. I've seen enough speculation today to make me stress that the new board has no direction/no clue, this won't calm me down.
 
Dan said:
Oh don't say things like that. I've seen enough speculation today to make me stress that the new board has no direction/no clue, this won't calm me down.
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Honestly? I'm hoping that it's merely a case where they're well-intentioned but in over their heads, because that's something that can be rectified...they'll learn the ways of the footballing world and off we go. My fear is that there is a plan in place, and it's to recover a fair amount of the money invested quickly, in the hopes that the club will muddle about for a couple years. The Mike Ashley plan, basically.
 
Dan said:
Oh don't say things like that. I've seen enough speculation today to make me stress that the new board has no direction/no clue, this won't calm me down.
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appointing a director for one day was never an auspicious start.
 
Schad said:
Honestly? I'm hoping that it's merely a case where they're well-intentioned but in over their heads, because that's something that can be rectified...they'll learn the ways of the footballing world and off we go. My fear is that there is a plan in place, and it's to recover a fair amount of the money invested quickly, in the hopes that the club will muddle about for a couple years. The Mike Ashley plan, basically.
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I agree but I'm not ready to accept it yet. We're hearing that the board might not be willing to invest the majority of the money we'll get from outgoing players, which would pretty much prove your last bit right. Of course, they might not, but we'll see.

Sotonist said:
appointing a director for one day was never an auspicious start.
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Nope. I wasn't exactly too enthralled by them claiming that a relatively normal financial situation was a difficult hole we were in.
 
Schad said:
Honestly? I'm hoping that it's merely a case where they're well-intentioned but in over their heads, because that's something that can be rectified...they'll learn the ways of the footballing world and off we go. My fear is that there is a plan in place, and it's to recover a fair amount of the money invested quickly, in the hopes that the club will muddle about for a couple years. The Mike Ashley plan, basically.
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Absolutely why I was a lot keener on appointing Williams as a chairman than Krueger. That always did, and still does, worry me.
 
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