What are the requirements to take on the role of a football chairman? The first quality is that you must be a successful businessman. Secondly you must surround yourself with other relevant successful businessmen who can fill in the administrative roles which any football club needs, such as Financial Control and Marketing..etc⦠Then there are important decisions to be made, for example; 1. Appointing a Manager and the team who take care of the playing staff. Physio and Youth Development..etc⦠2. Keep abreast of all the Major Developments the Club may require. 3. Treat the Supporters as the most important component of the Football Club with respect. Keep them on-side, with clear and detailed information. Show them that you have an unrivalled enthusiasm for the Club. 4. Having made your playing staff appointments, leave those personnel to get on with their job and not to interfere with their professionalism. 5. If the Clubâs results are not acceptable; bite the bullet and sort out how best to put things right. 6. If things do go badly, have a very thick skin because you will get the blame for every failure of those you have appointed. So how does that fit for Rovers? LL left because PT wanted to go it alone. PTâs team were going backwards. An absolute shambles before Buckle arrived. An absolute shambles when Buckle arrived! But at least NH had had the balls to take on what appeared to be a young upandcomer; gave him carte blanche to clear out and replace the playing staff. Unfortunately Buckle was all bad talk and no trousers. So then NH takes the opposite side of the spectrum and appoints an experienced quantity in MM and it still backfires!! Lets hope for his sake he has a bit more luck with JW. Iâm sure we all do. So how about City Their shambles is pretty much as bad. A manager who has brought in his own and gets results as equally poor as the previous incumbent. A manager who is probably in danger of receiving the Chairmanâs supporting statement. (the one that counts next time) And yet they have an enormously successful businessman as a rich sugar daddy who has invested massive sums in the club which have had no apparent effect on the performance of the team. So it seems if you are a rich investor chairman or a chairman who can cuddle up to the planners and get a new stadium through the planning stages, it ainât of any use if you canât run a piss-up in a brewery, sorry football club.
the chairman needs to be rich and somehow find the right guy to manage the team and trust that guy to spend the money wisely and get the results needed. leave the manager alone to do his job that he was employed to do but they also must have a good relationship. this im afraid is rare as i think the average manager is in the job for less than 2 years across the whole football league.
