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David Bruce leaving SAFC


I reckon this Tom Burwell fella is going to be our CEO, seems very well connected to be fair judging by the article linked earlier and clearly knows KLD and Sartori well given he's involved in couple of other businesses with them.
 
Sassanach said:
I feel like this is perhaps behind a lot of it.

When you read the statement from KLD it is obviously very positive about David's work but is basically saying we want to grow as an EPL club. I imagine the restructure and CEO is part of that and the profile of person they have in mind for it is likely someone with experience maximising revenues on a vastly different scale from this time last season. The average Championship club is bringing in about 10% of what a mid table EPL club makes.

Whether that person next season is Tom Burwell or not is a different matter but you can see his profile fits better even in the short term. There will be sponsorship and advertisement opportunities to maximise and all kinds of global exposure they are looking to increase given the commercial tie-ins that KLD will be wanting to capitalise on (literally). Someone like Tom Burwell has obviously got experience there as you can see from that article linked above.

The cold, hard reality is that the the EPL is now massively defined by revenues. Leave aside on-the-pitch stuff like player trading and competing in the Champions League, the top clubs are in a whole other bracket to the mid-table clubs.
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Daniel Levy
 
TradingPlaces said:
I reckon this Tom Burwell fella is going to be our CEO, seems very well connected to be fair judging by the article linked earlier and clearly knows KLD and Sartori well given he's involved in couple of other businesses with them.
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Would they not just appoint him now instead of interim?
 
mikem said:
Being replaced with a CEO rather than a CBO. Restructuring the organisation, I guess. Anyone speak business-speak?
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Translation: chief executive officer is coming in and doing the job of the chief business officer

The different title would suggest the chief business officers role is being made redundant
 
Mowgli said:
Early days yet. Speakman was replaced in advance with Ghisolfi. Similar with Harvey.

The other roles can probably attract higher calibre candidates in the summer as more people move jobs
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Who replaced Harvey, genuinely missed that one
dancingradio said:
Youve no idea whats went on
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He will do, he knows people and is ITK and sound as a pound, stop being a plum.
 
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