Sporting Director.

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Kermit said:
Aye as a title technically yes, but his role was to develop the football side as well.

"I have been running the Club as Markus' representative since 8 July and a good start has been made in recruiting well regarded senior staff and our new First Team Manager, who have begun putting together the strategies for on and off field success. But it is only a start. We have been reviewing, and will continue to review, every aspect of the Club. We will be applying policies to our football team, commercial operations, financial structures, community work and fan communications which ensure that we run as a first-in-class football club and business."
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That#s a perfect definition of a football CEO; a Sporting Director only gets involved in the first of those. To use Cortese in that role would be wasting a huge amount of his talent. You appoint him as CEO and a SD to report to him.
 


The Rat said:
So? The hpe is the new lad will just totally ignore the 3 idiots

But if a bloke that rich is happy to let them have 41% of the company, then they will be clearly involved

Remember if he is succesful, and wants to buy them out, it would cost a lot more in the future than it would now

You can buy the whole club for £35m

Its the same as the Americans man, Donald said all along he wanted to bring in people, and remain having a say

None of this has been hidden, its the plan all along

Nothing to do with Satori turning on them or anything
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With, or without Sartori he'll have enough votes to control the club, if he's interested that's all that matters.
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
That#s a perfect definition of a football CEO; a Sporting Director only gets involved in the first of those. To use Cortese in that role would be wasting a huge amount of his talent. You appoint him as CEO and a SD to report to him.
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It varies from club to club. For example at Liverpool you have the CEO Billy Hogan and then Klopp directly under him. There is no SD in that structure.
 
---Nemo--- said:
With, or without Sartori he'll have enough votes to control the club, if he's interested that's all that matters.
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Yeah in theory, but as I said its no different to the Yanks, who Donald claim wanted him to run it

Not sure how you can have no concerns mate, its clearly not a straightforward takeover.
 
Kermit said:
It varies from club to club. For example at Liverpool you have the CEO Billy Hogan and then Klopp directly under him. There is no SD in that structure.
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That's fine. You can do it either way. But the point is your SD doesn't get involved in non-football matters, and, with is commercial background, that's actually where Cortese's greatest strengths are.
 
Kermit said:
It varies from club to club. For example at Liverpool you have the CEO Billy Hogan and then Klopp directly under him. There is no SD in that structure.
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Michael Edwards is the SD at Liverpool. Not sure where he fits on the organisational structure but he is very involved.
 
Actually, on closer inspection hes a bad example funnily enough, looking at his strengths and what hes achieved at Liverpool. @Grumpy Old Man

Whichever way you look at it, the fella is someone a serious owner should be looking at getting involved. Ages ago i looked into him in detail and posted it on here. I might see if i can rake through and find it tomorrow and repost.
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
That's fine. You can do it either way. But the point is your SD doesn't get involved in non-football matters, and, with is commercial background, that's actually where Cortese's greatest strengths are.
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Think we can agree that whoever wields the greatest power that both commercial and football sides are in need of some genius intervention!
 
Moneyball said:
Michael Edwards is the SD at Liverpool. Not sure where he fits on the organisational structure but he is very involved.
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Nah looks like i was totally wrong on the Liverpool example like

Manchester United probably better as they were getting criticised for not having one before.
 
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The Rat said:
Yeah in theory, but as I said its no different to the Yanks, who Donald claim wanted him to run it

Not sure how you can have no concerns mate, its clearly not a straightforward takeover.
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Why would I have concerns, Donald and his former ally are hanging in there to make as much for themselves as they can, that's what chancers do. If the lad wants us he has the wherewithal to take control, if he doesn't he'll back off. IIRC Internal "deals" can be struck regarding investment and its impact on future value/sales of shares etc. What I'm saying is your claim that the dodgy duo will still be involved in any meaningful sense is in my view incorrect. Have a read up on the shenanigans at Arsenal.
 
---Nemo--- said:
Why would I have concerns, Donald and his former ally are hanging in there to make as much for themselves as they can, that's what chancers do. If the lad wants us he has the wherewithal to take control, if he doesn't he'll back off. IIRC Internal "deals" can be struck regarding investment and its impact on future value/sales of shares etc. What I'm saying is your claim that the dodgy duo will still be involved in any meaningful sense is in my view incorrect. Have a read up on the shenanigans at Arsenal.
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Why would you not have concerns? are you serious? for the endless reasons I said above.

This nearly happened with Mark Campbell, and the Americans, its exactly the same.
 
The Rat said:
Why would you not have concerns? are you serious? for the endless reasons I said above.

This nearly happened with Mark Campbell, and the Americans, its exactly the same.
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Because I can't influence what happens. I long ago recognised that the most stress inducing events of life occur when people become overly involved in events they're unable to control. it's not as if I'm about to begin supporting Liverpool is it, I'd stick with the lads if we were in the conference. :)

No deal is ever exactly the same. You were wrong, should the deal go ahead the chancers will be emasculated, they'll have no involvement whatsoever in what happens at the club, like the Russian at Arsenal they can carp from the margins about poor performance and lack of investment hoping to gain fans support but as there no more shares to mop up the only choice open to them is when to sell up.
 
---Nemo--- said:
Because I can't influence what happens. I long ago recognised that the most stress inducing events of life occur when people become overly involved in events they're unable to control. it's not as if I'm about to begin supporting Liverpool is it, I'd stick with the lads if we were in the conference. :)

No deal is ever exactly the same. You were wrong, should the deal go ahead the chancers will be emasculated, they'll have no involvement whatsoever in what happens at the club, like the Russian at Arsenal they can carp from the margins about poor performance and lack of investment hoping to gain fans support but as there no more shares to mop up the only choice open to them is when to sell up.
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You keep calling them chancers, fair enough, thats exactly what Satori is, who for some reason you seem to trust implicitly
 
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