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Methven still claiming credit


I played in a game at the SOL against him, Stewart Donald was on our team (highlights on YouTube)

Donald offered all our team £300 if any of us injured him if a physio had to come on, and that’s his pal 😂
 
Is Stewart Donald still involved with SAFC?

I saw photos of him at Wembley last week for our match
 
JPS said:
Is Stewart Donald still involved with SAFC?

I saw photos of him at Wembley last week for our match
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No. But there's nothing to stop him going to out matches. Just the same as Bob Murray, Niall Quinn and Ellis Short have been to matches since their involvement ended.
 
Like it or lump it, the clear out that he and Donald oversaw was the start of the refresh

It was a very early stage, but an important one nonetheless. We don't get KLD without a radical overhaul of the clubs finances

Remember they bought the club at a time when no one else wanted too

But by god did they make some terrible decisions :oops:
 
Methvan is full of it. We used Executives in Sport Group to headhunt a Sporting Director, ultimatley landing on Speakman. We then retained ESiG to fill several other positions, including Head of Recruitment (Harvey). I would think this would have all been instigated by KLD given that 3 weeks after Speakman's appointment the official announcement was made about KLD coming in.

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JPS said:
Is Stewart Donald still involved with SAFC?

I saw photos of him at Wembley last week for our match
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Think Donald managed to swing some well deserved corporate tickets and travel for George Forster from the SAFCSA.
DJ Doubt said:
Remember they bought the club at a time when no one else wanted too
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Only after going back on the deal they deal with they had the group from Madrid (MADRox) so they could get more from the trough to their snout.
 
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Glad we got rid before getting back to the premier league so he and the fat fucker clinging on to the last few strands of his hair don’t profit from us being back in the big time.
 
Mods please don’t merge this.
So, noticed on
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he is attempting to take credit for SAFCs promotion to the premier league.

In case you can’t access it, this is what he had to say…
Where to start, a week on from the tumultuous play-offs weekend of the EFL? Probably the most professionally satisfying weekend of my career. Not because I was there lifting trophies - I was not, being here in Jamaica watching on the TV - but because promises had been kept; plans had come good.When I met with Ellis Short in April 2018 prior to taking the club over a few weeks later, it is hard to overstate just how broken Sunderland AFC was. £180 million in debt (much of it to aggressive money-lenders at exorbitant interest rates), and losing £27 million per annum on an operational basis, the club had just finished bottom of the Championship, four points behind Burton Albion. The average crowd that season at the SoL had been a paltry (by SAFC standards) 27,000. We inherited players on multi-season multi-million £ contracts who were quite open about not wanting to play for the club (indeed, several failed to report for pre-season training)Now is not the time to recount the whole rollercoaster ride (losing twice in the play-offs and making a notorious failed signing!) but certain recollections merit re-visiting, as seminal moments in the re-birth.Sat alongside Stewart Donald at a Wearside desk, with our red pens systematically chopping out the waste that had brought the club low; Luke O'Nien driving up from L2 Wycombe Wanderers, with his worldly possessions packed in the back of his battered old VW; interviewing (Sporting Director) Kristjaan Speakman on Zoom during the pandemic and seeing his IQ as something rarely encountered in football; being told not to let (head of recruitment) Stuart Harvey get into his car without signing him up, after his interview; travelling to the Italian Lakes in late 2020 to persuade Kyril Dreyfus that he was the guy that could take the club to the next level. From the co-owners to the Sporting Director, the head of recruitment and the club captain, Stewart and I brought them all to the club, believing that they could continue and complete what we had started. Seven years from disaster and possible extinction back to the Promised Land is not bad going, though it is a year or two more than I originally predicted!
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Charlton was a different kettle of fish. Much of the club was healthy (not least its Academy and Community Trust), and its fanbase resilient.However, the business operation and the First Team environment were muddled. The culture (unlike SAFC's) was not toxic but weak. Learning from Sunderland, where we were slow to get the executive team right, strong appointments were made early. In amidst all the deserved praise for others this week, a word for Andy Scott, who left the club in January, but who signed Kayne Ramsay, Thierry Small, Conor Coventry, Greg Docherty, Macualey Gillesphey and Matt Godden for a combined £450,000. Nathan Jones was always Andy's first choice manager, but we eventually got him in Jan '24... and the rest is history. A hugely gratifying 2 year turnaround for a club I'll always love.
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What a pathetic bloke - as someone rightly mentioned on his post, we would have been a club that no longer exists under his watch today along with his b*m buddy , so how he dares claim KLDs, RLBs work as down to him is having some nerve. For gods sake, Lee Johnson noticed not a single clock at the AoL had working batteries, how can he dare? Beyond me him; insulting to eveyone currently at the club. Speakman wasn’t even down to him and Donald.. “we noticed his higher IQ” oh please.

Took the piss and dug at all us anal. Can we get him trespassed from the whole of Sunderland please???? Lost for words

rant over sorry for being radge
 
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