Nicola Cortese

[the colonel]

I'd have Cortese back without question to put a bomb under he shite we have now. It wasn't his money but what he did have was ambition and vision. Something surely we lack today. 

[RedArmy]

If the choice was Cortese or Rasmus, i know who I’d be picking. 

[Turkish]

8 minutes ago, RedArmy said:

If the choice was Cortese or Rasmus, i know who I’d be picking. 

We do appear to have found someone who is a bigger bellend than Cortese, which is incredible 

[Noodles34]

I was wondering the other day where would we be now if Markus had not sadly passed. Would he have carried on financing Cortese? Would he have got bored? Would he have sold to a skint chinaman? 
I think we’d be Bournemouth. 

[LGTL]

6 minutes ago, Noodles34 said:

I was wondering the other day where would we be now if Markus had not sadly passed. Would he have carried on financing Cortese? Would he have got bored? Would he have sold to a skint chinaman? 
I think we’d be Bournemouth. 

I think we’d have been very successful until PSR came along. But then they could have foreseen that and have already built a 100,000 seater superdome at St Mary’s.

It was just the luck of a Saints fan though to have had the club find a billionaire who seemed to genuinely love us and who was happy to spend his money on us, only for him to sadly die very prematurely. 

[Lord Duckhunter]

14 hours ago, the colonel said:

It wasn't his money but what he did have was ambition and vision.

I’ve got ambition & vision, I could make this club a success, no fucking problem. I’d be like Peter Risdale or Cortese, I’ll take us to heights unimaginable . I’ve got a great business plan, and bucket loads of self belief. I’m actually only missing one piece of the jigsaw, finding a mug to finance it…

[Wurzel]

6 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

I’ve got ambition & vision, I could make this club a success, no fucking problem. I’d be like Peter Risdale or Cortese, I’ll take us to heights unimaginable . I’ve got a great business plan, and bucket loads of self belief. I’m actually only missing one piece of the jigsaw, finding a mug to finance it…

Copied directly from Ankerson's cv that he handed to Solak

[sadoldgit]

8 hours ago, Noodles34 said:

I was wondering the other day where would we be now if Markus had not sadly passed. Would he have carried on financing Cortese? Would he have got bored? Would he have sold to a skint chinaman? 
I think we’d be Bournemouth. 

Good question. Cortese was clearly high on the narcissist scale and his behaviour could well have soured their relationship after a while. Marcus didn’t spend a fortune on us but what money was spent was spent well at the time. Would he have been prepared to spend the kind of money to secure a long term successful run in the EPL? I may have got this wrong but I think that he said that it wouldn’t necessarily be a long term project for him?

We will never know of course. What we do know though is that, if Cortese is a football genius, he seems to have escaped the attention of any football club seeking a genius CEO.

[Matthew Le God]

9 hours ago, Noodles34 said:

I was wondering the other day where would we be now if Markus had not sadly passed. Would he have carried on financing Cortese? Would he have got bored? Would he have sold to a skint chinaman? 
I think we’d be Bournemouth. 

We were in the bottom half of League One when he died. A lot of money was invested after his death.