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Methven still claiming credit


They lied from minute one. The takeover press conference said they paid £40m for the club when it was actually about £37m and they hadn’t paid that much of it up front. Pair of wankers.
 
red mackem said:
Hi posh wanked, someone well connected to the top of the club described you to me as a bell end, who could barely detect the difference between his arse and his elbow.

But they also reckon Stewart Donald was actually what the club needed and heart was in the right place (not my opinion at all, I fking hate the pair of you.)

But be safe in the knowledge those in power now reflect on you as being a no-ability, nobody.
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So I am salmon pants am I ? I posted the thread he had put on LinkedIn silly boy
Raven5 said:
The only good thing to come from that period is the Netflix series than kinda got us where we are now. 😂
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Sshhhhh or Charlie will be lapping up the praise again
 
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He's a piss head, isn't he?

It's difficult to have much sympathy for the Donald regime. It was literally the worst period in the history of the club (the four lowest league finishes since we joined the league in 1892). Methven just seemed like the latest in a long line of trickster gobshites employed by the club after Quinn left- diminishing in quality each time.
Di Fanti, Congleton, Bain then Methven (I don't actually know what Methven's job was- he was just always the one gobbing off in the press).

But we didn't go bankrupt. Id rather be in our position now, after going through all that- than have only spent two seasons in league one and be where sheff Wednesday are.

There is also the signing of Luke O'Nien.
 
Safc1987 said:
They used him to put positive propaganda about anything and everything they did
In return he got on their payroll and as result his site got ‘exclusives’ and increased traction they wouldn’t of had
Horrific time it was, it was embarrassing how small time we were
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There was an overwhelming majority of this board who were shameful too.

It was as plain as day that the two of them were used car salesmen types
 
hertsmackem said:
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.
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My goodness, first time I've read this :lol:
nandos sonic sauce said:
Has kildaire mackem or whatever he was called gone? I can't even see his name anymore on the search list :lol:
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@kildaremackem
 
The only good thing to come out of that twat being involved in our club is it’s made this season so much sweeter. We’re one win away from being 2nd in the premier league after 10 games.

The dark and depressing lows of 15th in league one under Methven make us appreciate how fortunate we are to be in the position we’re in now. We’ll never take anything for granted again unlike our Saudi garb wearing soul selling cretinous neighbours.
 
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