| Ankersen's propaganda 14:49 - Nov 12 with 1698 views | Ifonly |
This BBC article seems a bit ridiculous to me:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/clyr6g4d0weo
For example we're told that "There is a firm belief Saints are not far away - and have not been - from a breakthrough" which is utter bollux. We're no further forward than we were at the start of the season.
But the bit that really takes the biscuit is the bit (obviously propaganda provided by the club media rep) that says:
"The experience of Rasmus Ankersen, co-founder and chief executive of Saints owners Sport Republic, means he remains patient and strategic.
His time at Brentford as co-director of football - helping to oversee the Bees' rise and Premier League promotion - has given him knowledge of how to build a sustainable model and a successful team."
This bit of propaganda was then copied across to the Echo website by Alfie House. But all the evidence says that this is utter tosh. Brentford do things completely differently to Saints. If these were Ankersen's choices at Brentford, then why has he made the completely opposite decisions at Saints?
Three key aspects of Brentford's success have been:
1) Thomas Frank's style of play, which is a world away from possession football.
2) Shutting down the academy to concentrate on recruiting players from minor leagues into their B team.
3) Heavy use of data e.g. to find optimal set piece tactics, which are a special focus, as opposed to the chaos that we see regularly.
It's just a world away from what we do. I reckon if they fed our match data into their machine it would have hysterics. 70% possession and no shots on target? Ha ha ha.
Ankersen obviously knows how to market himself if nothing else, so we keep on hearing what a genius he is. But the reality is that Brentford is the only success he's been associated with and it was probably nothing to do with him. If it was, then why is he implementing the complete opposite here?
"A sustainable model and a successful team", my arse. |  | | |  |
| Ankersen's propaganda on 14:54 - Nov 12 with 1668 views | PatfromPoole |
Brentford have improved massively since he left.
You can see why he wanted Martin as manager; both cut from the same cloth.
Smooth operators in front of the press, but little substance behind it.
They should both have been politicians. |  |
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| Ankersen's propaganda on 16:16 - Nov 12 with 1525 views | TripleNiemi |
The closest we have come to ‘not being far away’ was during the Kat / Koeman era, but sadly the leap to get us a position or two higher in the league were far outweighed by the level of monies required to invest.
Aside from the Lawrie Mac period, the Adkins / Poch / Koeman / era’s will likely never be seen again and certainly not imho with our current ‘Subject Matter Expert’ / font of all wisdom Ankersen involved. [Post edited 12 Nov 16:22]
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| Ankersen's propaganda on 20:50 - Nov 12 with 1299 views | LondonSaint76 |
Good friend of mine works at Brentford, his evaluation of Ankersen’s time at BFC is as follows:
- Had very little to do with any success Brentford achieved
- Was very good at taking the credit for ideas put forward by other people that proved to be good ideas
- Was even better at taking the credit for the achievements of others when those achievements were successful
- There were high fives all round when he moved on to Saints, quite a few celebration drinks were enjoyed in the Fullers pub that used to stand on one corner of Griffin Park
- Nobody misses him and things run much better now he has gone
- He was forever looking at himself in the mirror and adjusting his coiffured wire wool hair
My mate’s final summary of him is: Total narcissist, if he had his head any further up his backside he’d be in grave danger of impersonating the Oozlum Bird - you would have to know your Carry On films to fully understand that reference 😀 I had to ask - in Carry On Up The Jungle the Oozlum Bird sticks its head so far up its own backside it disappears!
So there you have it, from someone that had the misfortune of working at BFC whilst he was there - seems nobody has a good word to say about him, off the record at least…
His final observation was he feels genuinely sorry that we are having to put up with him. |  |
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| Ankersen's propaganda on 21:53 - Nov 12 with 1198 views | kingslandstand1 |
He clearly has a pretty good PR man to get his name in the press for whatever reason he may want ot put forward despite it all being BS |  | | |
| Ankersen's propaganda on 10:55 - Nov 13 with 993 views | Bridders2 |
| Ankersen's propaganda on 20:50 - Nov 12 by LondonSaint76 |
Good friend of mine works at Brentford, his evaluation of Ankersen’s time at BFC is as follows:
- Had very little to do with any success Brentford achieved
- Was very good at taking the credit for ideas put forward by other people that proved to be good ideas
- Was even better at taking the credit for the achievements of others when those achievements were successful
- There were high fives all round when he moved on to Saints, quite a few celebration drinks were enjoyed in the Fullers pub that used to stand on one corner of Griffin Park
- Nobody misses him and things run much better now he has gone
- He was forever looking at himself in the mirror and adjusting his coiffured wire wool hair
My mate’s final summary of him is: Total narcissist, if he had his head any further up his backside he’d be in grave danger of impersonating the Oozlum Bird - you would have to know your Carry On films to fully understand that reference 😀 I had to ask - in Carry On Up The Jungle the Oozlum Bird sticks its head so far up its own backside it disappears!
So there you have it, from someone that had the misfortune of working at BFC whilst he was there - seems nobody has a good word to say about him, off the record at least…
His final observation was he feels genuinely sorry that we are having to put up with him. |
How can we get this post over to Dragan?× | | | |
| Ankersen's propaganda on 12:15 - Nov 13 with 940 views | Ifonly |
| Ankersen's propaganda on 20:50 - Nov 12 by LondonSaint76 |
Good friend of mine works at Brentford, his evaluation of Ankersen’s time at BFC is as follows:
- Had very little to do with any success Brentford achieved
- Was very good at taking the credit for ideas put forward by other people that proved to be good ideas
- Was even better at taking the credit for the achievements of others when those achievements were successful
- There were high fives all round when he moved on to Saints, quite a few celebration drinks were enjoyed in the Fullers pub that used to stand on one corner of Griffin Park
- Nobody misses him and things run much better now he has gone
- He was forever looking at himself in the mirror and adjusting his coiffured wire wool hair
My mate’s final summary of him is: Total narcissist, if he had his head any further up his backside he’d be in grave danger of impersonating the Oozlum Bird - you would have to know your Carry On films to fully understand that reference 😀 I had to ask - in Carry On Up The Jungle the Oozlum Bird sticks its head so far up its own backside it disappears!
So there you have it, from someone that had the misfortune of working at BFC whilst he was there - seems nobody has a good word to say about him, off the record at least…
His final observation was he feels genuinely sorry that we are having to put up with him. |
Interesting and confirms what I was thinking about how he had little to do with their success. I looked it up and he was co-director of football with Phil Giles. Ankersen left (whose decision was that?) and Giles is now the sole DOF. Sounds like Giles was the man who was really making the decisions, along with Matthew Benham.
Didn't know enough about him personally to know he was a total narcissist but it certainly fits with the other bits of evidence.
Unfortunately for Saints, it seems that Dragan and Kraft didn't know enough about football to see through his bullsh*t and challenge his decisions (e.g. why on earth would copying Man City rather than Brentford be a good idea for Saints?). I hope they can get together and kick him out of SR and Saints, but I suspect it will take a few more years of failure before they feel they have no other option. | | | |
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