Gloucester Saint

Clear the debts by way of apology, get the club on the market by Friday at an attractive price and fuck off quickly. Those are the only acceptable actions from Dragan Solak. It’ll be many years if at all as to whether I engage again but at least it would finally show good faith to the city of my birth.

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I don’t think his reaction would though, nor mine. The smoking gun for me last night which made me turn my back after 43 years was Parsons’ stupidity and the lack of any oversight on what Tonda was up to. Spying on Oxford United as a parachute payment team and them in the bottom three sums up the staggering ineptitude. If any of that had happened in my workplace, as a senior manager I’d be having a call with the CEO and HR Dept to confirm my contract was being terminated. The EFL are a shitshow too, and I don’t think football as a sport is for me any longer. There’s longer-term issues here which have put a lot of distance already between me and the club and this is a final straw - SR, Reed’s arrogance, Higgins, MLT going loopy, Gao being allowed to own it despite failing FAPP, two 9-0s. Further back, a far right political leader today chaired the club in the 90s and 00s and took a picture outside of the stadium. The only thing I have in common with SFC is 1) I was born there and 2) the fans. The only way out for SR is clear the debts in full and get the club on the market debt-free at an attractive price to sell quickly. That’s the only apology they can make to Southampton as a city. They’ve damaged the city’s institutions for many years.

I’m very much on that path I’m afraid. I may watch a few Cheltenham Town games next season if I can bothered as there’s a feel good factor with Steve Cotterill, the local Lawrie, in charge and a new owner. Mike Garlick is also a decent man. Won’t be SFC or the same feeling but I don’t know what that it any longer. This is final straw territory for me - it overlays the Bob Higgins scandal, SR and a succession of dreadful managers/football, Les Reed’s arrogance, and how friends and family who have worked at SFC were treated. I see them like a golf club or a political party that’s gone off the rails long-term - as you say, let’s see what a new ownership can do and in a few years time I may look at them afresh with the current taint faded somewhat and SFC feeling less grubby than it does over the next couple of seasons. But the door is shut for a while.

Don’t give a shit until SR are gone.

He’s not bad per se, but fucking rank incompetent for the supposed leadership role he was supposed to occupy. At those levels, the job is always to protect the organisation first and foremost. I used past tense because he’s a goner.

Cortese rightly got a lot of shit for his behaviour and the Staplewood overspend. But he’d have handled this a fuck sight better. As would 99% of this message board from our different professions and trades.

Embarrassing. Doesn’t reflect well on James Dyson that this moron was on his payroll for some time.

Their judgement gets worse and worse.

What a fucking idiot. He needs to be gone by Friday. I can’t be associated with these morons, take Solak, Ankerson, Tonda and all of the rest with you. I don’t care what happens to SFC over the next few season now but at least stop besmirching the city of my birth you shitheads.

FA about to investigate Indy are reporting. Hardly surprising with what’s emerged tonight.

I’ve held seven figure contracts and you always refer back to the T&Cs you negotiated at the time of acceptance. This is really, really basic stuff.

The EFL are almost as bad as SFC. Very poor processes and policies. When meshed with VAR and Infantino, it really is a piss poor sport these days.

This is the root of it. These type of things happen within football clubs but it’s how they’ve handled it on a professional level on different levels. Very naive and keystone cops. It should be the cue for SR to realise football isn’t for them and sell up in quick order.

There’s something we agree on but things are sensitive with the fans so I’d focus on SR. The sheer scale and depth of their operational, legal and regulatory bloopers emerging is staggering. And I’ve been a J Cloth coming into organisations to sort them out after they shat the bed. Parsons, Tonda, possibly Spors, HR and legal not getting Taylor on an NDA - the environment was totally out of control. I’ve seen some serious stuff in the outside world but the ineptitude at the club is astonishing even so.

Leave it alone, he’s/she’s a troll. Always deflecting blame onto the fanbase when the club/board/owners comes under scrutiny so this was never going to be any different.

If he’d been under NDA on a package as he should have been it never transpires. Industrial ineptitude. Most of us would be fired for it.

If Parsons hadn’t run off the mouth, it’s probably less of a firestorm. The lad who went back to Boro should be under an NDA. SFC HR and Legal fucked up there seemingly. The alleged pictures of jokes and being in army gear in December paint a grim picture of the culture. Seemingly bullying allegations too in the mix.

That’s what NDAs are for.

Quite, it inflamed it much further and spread the firestorm wider into more parts of the media.

Naive as an Austrian tourist in Soho. it wasn’t a great situation but he made it 10 times worse, Who above him thought that was a good strategy? Ratner-like.

On the cheap like everything else. I’m not an expert in the football industry but I’d have done a miles better job defending the club’s interests if they were a client. And tell Phil Parsons to concentrate on the buffet, preferably avoid the boardroom there at all.

That’s not how it is when there’s been a serious fuck up at an organisation because I’ve had to clean them up. Stay away from aggrieved/aggregated parties until facts are fully established and if it’s going to a tribunal/panel keep your fucking powder dry until that convenes. At least might have limited the damage even though it was very unlikely to be his fault in the first place. Tonda and Spors will down the road but to have fuelled the flames further in the media was stupid in the extreme. This is a guy who has probably dealt with James Dyson’s IP at some stage.

And probably fuelled the media firestorm even further. Parsons should be out of the door along with Tonda. SR - do the decent thing and sell asap even if you lose your shirt. You’ve sullied a city of 300k people reputationally. Bad results are one thing but this is beyond the pale. Go, go now.

Wonder if that’s what @LeG was posting about?