| Dragan Solak has been legged over… 16:21 - Dec 30 with 949 views | davidargyll |
I have been reading a lot on here about the incompetence of SR.
But are we not really talking about billionaire Dragan Solak being well and truly legged over by Ankersen - and Henrik Kraft as well?
Because all the decisions that have been made over the last couple of years have to be laid at the door of the Director of Football surely, be they about managers, or purchases and sales of players?
And if I was Mr Solak, I would be thinking that he has got himself tied up with a couple of guys who have cost him tens, if not hundreds, of millions of pounds.
Of course he knows full well that he isn’t the first billionaire who has been told a load of porkies by a couple of smooth-talking chancers and is now suffering the consequences.
But isn’t now the time for him to show us, the fans, exactly how much HE cares about the club and either
1. Fire that pair of incompetents? Or
2. Sell the club? Or
3. Conceivably both? |  | | |  |
| Dragan Solak has been legged over… on 16:43 - Dec 30 with 884 views | Southamptonfan |
Both! Solak is the man at the top. He presumably wants a portfolio of clubs (to make money). That's not Ankerson or anyone else. Solak wants this and has asked for this to happen, to make money for himself. The others will also get a chunk of the money, so they are all in with it. Ankerson should have been fired after the last relegation, again Solak could do this but hasn't. So Ankerson is still here, I assume pulling the strings and making decisions, but all in a very quiet and sneaky way (to make the fans think he is off the scene).
When you compare Bloom at Brighton (who doesn't want a portfolio of clubs to make money). He just wants Brighton to achieve. Same at Brentford, Bournemouth and so on. No such set ups there. All of the puppets under Solak have all f@cked up, but Solak is the man at the top. Two relegations in three years? 200 million spent, all on rubbish? He needs to go, and take his SR with him, otherwise this club is f@cked. [Post edited 30 Dec 2024 16:47]
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| Dragan Solak has been legged over… on 16:57 - Dec 30 with 830 views | Ifonly |
None of us know what's been said by who exactly, but it seems pretty clear to me that the blame lies with Ankersen. The 3 SR executives were supposed to bring different things:
Kraft - commercial management of sports and media companies
Ankersen - football expertise
Solak - serious money
Of these, it is clear that the failures have been down to poor football decisions, which was supposed to be Ankersen's bag. He is the one at fault. I think what you can blame Solak and Kraft for is putting their trust in Ankersen and not having a way out when it's become obvious that he doesn't know what he's doing. If they don't either push Ankersen out, or bring in some real expertise to overrule him, then Solak and Kraft become equally to blame. Depending on the personalities involved, it may be that Juric is the one who will overrule Ankersen on football decisions and that will be the solution. | | | |
| Dragan Solak has been legged over… on 17:11 - Dec 30 with 776 views | kentsouthampton |
Buck stops at the top, end of. |  | | |
| Dragan Solak has been legged over… on 17:23 - Dec 30 with 743 views | davidargyll |
I might just add that, no matter what Dragan Sloak may think as the biggest shareholder in SR, he still has only one vote on the SFC Board. In other words Kraft, Ankersen and Phil Parsons can, and from my understanding, have outvoted him.
So yes the buck does in theory stop with him but, for example, firing other Board members is not quite so straight forward as it may seem. | | | |
| Dragan Solak has been legged over… on 19:04 - Dec 30 with 599 views | Ifonly |
| Dragan Solak has been legged over… on 17:23 - Dec 30 by davidargyll |
I might just add that, no matter what Dragan Sloak may think as the biggest shareholder in SR, he still has only one vote on the SFC Board. In other words Kraft, Ankersen and Phil Parsons can, and from my understanding, have outvoted him.
So yes the buck does in theory stop with him but, for example, firing other Board members is not quite so straight forward as it may seem. |
Yes, firing board members might be difficult and firing someone like Ankersen who is a founding owner of SR might be even more difficult (e.g. if there are constitutional agreements). But he doesn't have to be fired outright. For example, if Solak worked with Kraft to persuade Ankersen to concentrate on the other clubs in the group and step back from SFC, that might work. He's already the president of Goztepe.
So far Ankersen hasn't managed to f*ck up Goztepe, but there was talk of a cunning plan to get all the clubs in the group to play the same style (RM's tippy tappy) so it was probably only a matter of time. But none of us care about the other clubs in the group, so the more time he spends with them, the better. | | | |
| Dragan Solak has been legged over… on 19:59 - Dec 30 with 545 views | mushinexile |
Yes, Davidargyll. I think you may be right, which is why it hasn't happened. But this Saints fan thinks that it should. [Post edited 30 Dec 2024 20:01]
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