Methven still claiming credit

[Rocky77]

Utter berk who was openly bragging about the Dell deal before it was finalised.

 

[Quinnymelad]

His shit stinks.

 

[payne]

He's seems so disinterested when the other bloke is speaking.

 

[Barry Quizshow]

Bloke looks like he's in a hostel in Thailand getting ready to pipe off a ladyboy

edit - nowt wrong with that btw, just know one when I see one

Love the edit mind, it made me think of Seinfeld

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Worse than William Storey

Agreed, at least with Billy it was all in his mind and he never had a chance of getting near our (or any other) club.

Said he was too busy to spellcheck.

The exact sort of thing that tory pink trousered kernt would come out with.

Spellchecker is for when you've typed a coherent document, email, post, etc. and want to make sure there isn't the odd error in there. A quick glance at the screen after headbutting the keyboard repeatedly to produce his contributions should have been enough to think "that doesn't look quite right" at least

 

[McMackem]

When you speak to people inside the club they point out there were so many key decisions that Donald made that were pivotal in the turnaround and he deserves credit for. That Donald made, they don’t mention Methven…

 

[Mr Redknapp]

Said he was too busy to spellcheck.

The exact sort of thing that tory pink trousered kernt would come out with.

He's rebuilt the club all by himself man.. don't be ungrateful

 

[The Fitter]

Like it or not, it's on his C.V. Same with Charlton, something went right whilst he was there. He's a PR bloke, of course he's going to big himself up.

 

[rapscallion]

He's a ponce

 

[kingmonkey]

This guy never stops big upping himself, going almost far enough to claim he's the reason we are where we are. What a guy!

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As soon as the other bloke starts talking, he looks away, bored.
He talks about culture in dressing rooms and fair enough, it would have been shite, but he is talking about the team that just got promoted, like it's the one he put together, rather than the Parkinson years, which has his time involved.

Also, a big part of our success is down to academy, him and his mates almost killed it

 

[JonnotheMackem]

Elsewhere on the SMB Sartori is given credit for pulling in KLD.
I don’t have any insight myself other than it’s more likely a billionaire like Sartori would be moving in the same circles as a trust fund billionaire kid than some washed up tin pot wannabe bluffer.

KLD said on STID that sartori had introduced him to the idea.

 

[seaham ftm]

ETon education delivers delusions of grandeur. Just look at our Prime Ministers that attended there.

 

[Lord Summerisle]

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!

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.

Hello there Charlie. I wonder if I might interest you in helping out with a nice event that I'm organising later this month to mark the return of Sunderland to the LIGHT after the darkest years, of which you were a coal-black part. Your role would be to model for a large effigy of you that I would care to build. I will provide the chickens and other fowl, and even have a method in mind to give its lower parts the FIERY LICK of salmon colour that I know you like. EDM will not feature but I believe I can convert you to appropriate folk songs to help you appreciate the SUN GOD's tastes. Such an act of expiation would, I feel, be a suitable ending to your involvement on these shores.

 

[jaraarrow]

Well I quite like him

 

[vote quimby]

Utter berk who was openly bragging about the Dell deal before it was finalised.

Aye. So did aye at work.... Newcastle City Council. Bragging that we were going to be one of the richest owned clubs in the world, for it to not happen and them to get taken over by the Camels afterwards.

....went down like a turd in a 69

 

[joop]

This guy never stops big upping himself, going almost far enough to claim he's the reason we are where we are. What a guy!

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I would love KLD and Speakman to come out and completely debunk this shit.
I took over the club, I fixed the culture, I did this, I did that, then I did the same with Charlton.

 

[GBSAFC]

ETon education delivers delusions of grandeur. Just look at our Prime Ministers that attended there.

Think he was also pictured with Liz truss on her leadership election campaign.. no EDM was used during the photo op

Has Eton produced anybody thats improved the world ... it seems they just produce wankers like boris johnson evil bertie wooster type nightmares

 

[Stella Spark]

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!

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.

Fair play to the bloke. What a mess we were when him and Donald took over.

 

[BILLY BUS PASS]

PR man in PR shocker.

A 5% stakeholder iirc. Bit part player seeking the limelight.

 

[Lonz]

The club was in an almighty state when they took over. I don't think they necessarily steadied the ship, but did was required when the club had already hit rock bottom. How they didn't manage to get a club of our size out of League 1 really doesn't look good for their CV.

 

[AmblerThorn]

Sounded more like he's saying that Luke O'Nien is the reason we are where we are.

Charlie scouted O'Neil and transformed his career. In his own head on that clip