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We all hate him


skimming this thread, i can't figure out if some have v.short memories or whether there is some serious airbrushing of history going on... anyone crediting him with the current success is like someone saying the Reidy-era was thanks to Tom Cowie.
 
Vore said:
Bellend that he is...
  1. he took us away from a Yank that would have seen us drop to Div 4 without intervention
  2. got people keen again (I struggled to get tickets for the Boxing Day Bradford game)
  3. handed us off to our saviour.
No hate left in me for Mr Salmon.

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Class comments from him on the Saudis like. He got them spot on.
 
Quinninho said:
Agree that if Maja had have stayed, we probably would have went up automatically. He wanted to leave as advised by his agent, though.

There was bot all we could do ..other than lose him for nothing when his contract expired, IIRC.
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I honestly don't think we would have went up even if Maja stayed. We drew 11 games WITH Maja and spent a grand total of one week in the top 2 iirc. We had games in hand and were always playing catch up but our best chance of promotion came after Maja left when we went joint 2nd with two games in hand in April and still blew it. I think there were a number of games in the first half of that season where we'd start the game poorly, the opposition would come at us a million miles an hour, take the lead then run out of steam and we'd come back to scrape a point. Think Jack Ross became increasingly cautious in trying to manage games as a result and McLaughlin stopped making miraculous saves every week where we were giving up great chances. But all that would have happened anyway and there wasn't a massive difference in terms of goals per game.

Had a mate who had a very tenuous link up one of the players at the time and said from very early on in the season that Maja wasn't re-signing. Donald explained what happened amongst his bluff and bullshit - he went in to the season with 12 months left on a very low wage, immediately scored goals and attracted attention from clubs higher up who could offer him much more than we were prepared to and by the time the club opened talks he'd already been offered much bigger contracts than we could at the time. Not really his agent's doing, more 'why sign for a League One club on X when you could treble/quadruple that in the Championship or Prem?' Going to Boredeaux suited us more than him because we could offset the fee against what we owed for Khazri. Donald's main error was the performative shit on Twitter/radio (and STID) where he made out as if he was close to re-signing then promised to buy a proven striker after he left, he backed himself into a corner with Grigg instead of looking to loan someone in and sticking with the returning Wyke, who was originally intended to be the main striker but got injured on his debut.
 
Georgewhitt said:
Wtf has politics got to do with how much they were a pair of c**ts????????

If you are a c**t, you are a c**t, regardless of what colour rosette you wear at election time.
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You are right. It was a reply. I don’t care if anyone is a Tory. That is what the post was about. I just added the little rhyme as I don’t mind Kemi and I quite like Boris, Starmer is exactly what you say. But even if he was a Tory, he would still be one.
Walmo said:
It was Juan Sartori that got Kyril involved.
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Absolutely.
Grumpy Old Man said:
I only ever spoke to Methven after he'd fallen out with Donald over not sacking Ross after the playoff final, but he was scathing about the way the Maja situation was handled, implying that was all down to Donald. Methven thought they should have got a senior Nigerian ex-player to talk to him and persuade him that staying would be better in the long run. At the end of the day, Methven was all marketing, and had little or no say in what Donald was doing.
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Methven would probably make a good spin doctor. Smarmy manipulator.
 
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Anyone else done the maths on what he says about our financials?

Wages £85m, Amortisation £24m, Agents £11m

Our turnover was predicted at £200m + by the interim CEO. That was when we were heading for mid table. Europa league will add maybe £20m if we get to knockouts. Add to that improved sponsorship, £240m revenue would be a conservative estimate for next season.

So we are running at 50% SCR

If we recruit at the same ratio of transfer fee, wages and agents fee then strangely we would have £168m to spend (transfer fees). Same as last year.
 
If you didn't know anything about him then it's actually quite a good analysis in terms of how well we have done in comparison with others, especially spending less on wages than Chelsea do on agents fees.

However, he is one of those chaps who always talk a good game but are useless at implementing it practice.
 
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