New Owners Thread

[Willo of Whiteley]

Who’d have ever thought it!

But after five miserable years k would take Mr Blobby as owner.

Bring Katarina Liebherr back, restore some pride.

Fans are done.

Speak with your wallets now. No more.

Sell up Dragan, sell up Sports Republic.

Anyone know of any smart businessman that would like to transform a basket case of an organisation?

[Willo of Whiteley]

Is Rishi available?

[ally_uk]

Two 9-0s

12 points in the Premiership

Now this spying incident

I've seen enough lads, Sports Republic are destroying our club. 

In all my supporting history, I have never witnessed such a sucession of poor decision making, player acquisition / staff recruitment. 

How the hell can you continue to get things so wrong ? It's beyond embarrassing. 

The fans, we are the ones who have to suffer, look at our recent plight and records. Our younger fans will be on the receiving end of abuse for years to come now. That is the legacy of Sports Republic. 

Dragan do the right thing either pull the plug completely and sell up. Or get some proper business and footballing people in and raise the standards! 

We are clowns in the eyes of other clubs and fans......  aswell as cheats....

Put some lolly on the table aim higher and bring in someone lime Rohl or Thomas Frank to rebuild us longterm. 

Enough of the shortcuts, trying to be clever, the cheating....

Get back to basics and do the fundamentals right! 

 

 

 

 

[Willo of Whiteley]

 

I posted the below on April 10th in the SR new leaf thread:

“I’m sure this’ll be merged in the ST thread soon, but let’s not gloss over this - Sport Republic have been a disaster.

The headlines a simple:
- 14th when they took over and a sustainable and desirable Premier League team.
- Two relegations within three of their four full seasons.
- The second worst Premier League finish in history, and the worst for us.

But they’ve invested money!
Let’s analyse that.

- They spent recklessly in their first full season, Romeo Lavia was the only success.
- They changed how they scout players from effectively scouts to a digital database that analyses them. This crop of intelligence scouted us gems such as Sekou Mara and Armel Bella-Kotchap.
- The wastefulness of their spending has seen a squad change more times, almost as much as Watford change managers.

Ah, the managers, there’s been some success there.
Bollocks…

Ralph Hassenhutl - excellent with Martin Semmens and his coaching team and not much money, good getting the best out of players. Probably not given any real say in transfers in SR first summer. Sacked, fail.
Nathan Jones - clown from a Welsh mining village who married a nice girl, made more enemies in as short a space of time as a dictator would. Sacked, the first of the glorious “Black Box Data Driven Appointments”. Sacked, fail.
Ruben Selles - damage limitation, appointed after a fluke win and subsequently led us downwards at the same time as Unai Emery was appointed by Villa. Sacked, fail.
Russell Martin - good appointment, promotion, but boring football at times, stubbornness cost him, naivety in the transfer window, and  should’ve done a lot better with the squad at his disposal. Sacked, but a pass.
Ivan Juric - heavy metal football? Heavy metal bullshit. Who’d have thought bringing in a defensive manager when you’re bottom of the league would keep you up? SR did. Sacked. Fail.
Will Still - Football Manager enthusiast, first big gig but stubbornness, lack of direction and leadership cost him massively. Big, big mistake from SR that will now potentially cost us promotion in what is a very weak Championship. Sacked, fail.
Now Tonda Eckhart - we all had low expectations, but let’s not beat around the bush, he was brought in for the U21’s, not the first team, and fair play to him for working wonders with the resources he’s got.

But surely SR have done well in other avenues?
Ah, ffs…

Goztepe, promotion holding their own and seemingly the only team benefitting from the glorious “multi-club model”. Albeit in the Turkish league they’ve done ok.

Valenciennes, “baby are you down” as the song goes, because that’s the way they’re heading too, and have been since the takeover. Chopping and changing of managers.

The ONLY positives I’ll give SR is the commercial side, so Level One, The Dell Bar, the matchday atmosphere outside the ground, all excellent. But that’s it.

Let’s not gloss over all this, SR get little backing from me until we’re at least back where we started when they took over.”

 

Now to add:
Spying - and seemingly we’re shit at that too.
Another fantastic notch to add to their list of accomplishments during their time here.

String boycotts need to happen.

Demands of refunds.

Dont buy any more merchandise, season tickets etc.

Another humiliation. It’s like watching a live example of how not to run a business.

Regardless of whether the higher ups knew or not, this is on their watch.

[Saint_clark]

Le Tissier led consortium putting a bid together as we speak.

[Ted Bates Statue]

Anyone but Lowe or Wilde.

 

 

 

SISU must be up for a new challenge now they've moved on from Cov...?

[Mattio]

Bill Gates, just to see MLT explode.

[Saint_Jonny]

You can complain all you want but there is absolutely fuck all you can do about who owns your football club. All the moaning and crying in the world will have zero impact other than diminishing the amount of money the club have to spend on players and running the club.

If it makes you feel better, sure, cry and moan about them, but it won't make a jot of difference. 

[Midfield_General]

Venky's

[CSA96]

Can Katharina buy the club back, even just on an interim basis of a year or so to restore some normality and decency to the way the club is run? She was never perpetually embarrassing the fanbase like we have done under SR's lead

[skintsaint]

Who was that ex-Arsenal board member spotted in the stands near the end of the season? Maybe he can head a new ownership group.

[SNSUN]

 

Re-open the thread!!!

Edited 10 hours ago by SNSUN
...and before anyone gets in first, yes I know he died...

[sockeye]

1 hour ago, Ted Bates Statue said:

Anyone but Lowe or Wilde.

 

 

 

SISU must be up for a new challenge now they've moved on from Cov...?

Oh we’ve got super Dejphon Chansiri

[LaptopSaint]

There’s a big yacht sailing up the Solent as I speak 

[Willo of Whiteley]

7 minutes ago, LaptopSaint said:

There’s a big yacht sailing up the Solent as I speak 

Stand up and the Hythe Ferry won’t look so big

[LaptopSaint]

10 minutes ago, Willo of Whiteley said:

Stand up and the Hythe Ferry won’t look so big

Don’t worry I have binoculars. Some kid in town was selling a box load on the cheap 

[Paulwantsapint81]

Really need Kat to save us 

 

[Patrick Bateman]

6 minutes ago, Paulwantsapint81 said:

Really need Kat to save us 

 

Where's Ralph Krueger these days? 

[die Mannyschaft]

Yes please. Any owner will do. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

19 minutes ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Yes please. Any owner will do. 

[Toadhall Saint]

30 minutes ago, die Mannyschaft said:

Yes please. Any owner will do. 

Venkeys 

[trousers]

Yep, let's get the band together again....