| And the Award for worse Chairmain in the EPL is........ 22:48 - Mar 21 with 3218 views | carlh5266 |
The nominees.....
Tony Fernandes QPR
Rather than trying to be popular by buying the fans a couple of pints and dropping ticket prices Mr Fernandes needed to show leadership, strong leadership as custodian of a great club established 133 years ago.
He arrived at QPR preaching that Football needs to run itself more like a business and within its means. After a few weeks he was throwing his money around like a kid in a sweetshop, problem was the sweets were out of date and left a rotten taste. Relegation followed, then after a mediocre season in the Championship QPR scraped back into the PL. Don't get me wrong its tough punching your weight in the PL unless your one of the big boys and again things were proving difficult.While some clubs held there nerve (Newcastle - Pardew), others acted (West Brom - Pulis)
Fernandes master plan was to stick Mr Redknapp, trouble is Redknapp was not silly and after QPR did nothing in the transfer window he bolted as fast as those knees would take him.
During this time Fernandes came up with a master plan. He decided to appoint a QPR legend (who after playing for about 5 clubs claimed to be a Spurs fan) with ZERO EXPERIENCE as director of football. Then armed with his new director of football the decision was made to focus on bringing players through from the youth squad, wow what visionaries! Problem is the QPR youth teams are currently playing in the 3rd tier.
OK, director of football in place, now lets get a new manager with ZERO EXPERIENCE for a relegation dog fight in one of the toughest leagues in the world.
Now what Mr Fernandes is good at is business apparently, so QPRs shirt sponsor is now Air Asia, are QPR maximising their income? did Tony drive a hard bargain on the clubs behalf when he negotiated with himself? ask yourself who gets the best deal out of that? I bet I can guess. To be fair its not unique, Peter Coates (BET365) at Stoke has done similar, however I get the impression Mr Coates is more of a Philanthropist.
When Fernandes submitted his accounts for 2013/14 to the football league he was getting his excuses in early. So now the business guru has just chucked about £60m in the bin as loan write offs to avoid a big FFP fine.
Then there is the Caterham deal, the buyers effectively pulled out accusing Mr Fernades of not transferring the shares, why I ask has Fernandes not gone after them in court if all was above board?
Recently he seems to have lost a bit of interest, his last tweet about his beloved R`s was nearly 2 weeks ago, (a life time for a prolific tweeter) when he posted a picture of himself by a road sign for Loftus Street with the line "Come on your Rangers"
The PR machine rolls on at full speed planning pie in the sky stadia (that keeps getting smaller). #keeprswestlondon or whatever it was seemed like some sort of blackmail It read to me as ... #unlessyougetbehindthisprcampaignimightmoveyourcluboutofwestlondon
What is amazing is that the fans sing his name like some sort of god, what other chairman get his name sung at matches?????
Still QPR could be in a worse mess, it could be Caterham.
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| And the Award for worse Chairmain in the EPL is........ on 22:57 - Mar 21 with 3195 views | PunteR |
Have a Snickers. | |
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| And the Award for worse Chairmain in the EPL is........ on 23:11 - Mar 21 with 3173 views | danehoop |
Ok. First post ever. Well done.
Now go take a beer, sit down and breathe. Feel better? | |
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| And the Award for worse Chairmain in the EPL is........ on 23:24 - Mar 21 with 3137 views | ganjR |
Who were the other nominees and who voted? | | | |
| And the Award for worse Chairmain in the EPL is........ on 00:06 - Mar 22 with 3062 views | UPPERLOFTNZ |
What's your favourite cheese? | |
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| And the Award for worse Chairmain in the EPL is........ on 03:57 - Mar 22 with 2955 views | blacky200 |
Yeah let's go back to the days of the Thompson family asset stripping the club. How about Chris Wright putting us into admin after totally mismanaging the club which led to the famous 10 million pound ABC loan that we were never going to be able to pay back. Yes TF has made mistakes but at least he's put his own mo eu into the club and is still here. | | | |
| And the Award for worse Chairmain in the EPL is........ on 06:57 - Mar 22 with 2912 views | Toast_R |
Gave up after EPL. | | | |
| And the Award for worse Chairmain in the EPL is........ on 07:23 - Mar 22 with 2889 views | WokingR |
Think you're on the wrong forum
Yes, he's got things wrong, he admits it but he has just written off £60 million of debt the club owed to him.
What exactly have you done for the club lately ? | | | |
| And the Award for worse Chairmain in the EPL is........ on 08:23 - Mar 22 with 2829 views | Recoilboss |
“Mum?…… MUM??!!!…. where’s my flipping cheese sandwich? I’ve asked you 3 times now! And don’t forget to cut off the crusts, you know I HATE them.
Oh, wotever…” | | | |
| And the Award for worse Chairmain in the EPL is........ on 08:54 - Mar 22 with 2772 views | MoonshineSteve |
EPL. | |
| I am still Steve but no longer in Dagenham. |
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