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What if Short wanted to return

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Grumpy Old Man said:
With someone like Nicola Cortese as CEO, it could work. However, with a £200m pound hole in his wallet, I can't see it.
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He went to the check a trade trophy final. I debated whether or not I could be bothered to go an I live an hour away from Wembley, he flew in from Florida. He does care and having met him I did get the impression he cared and he was was hurting that the club was struggling probably for personal, financial and professional reasons.
Lonz said:
Grass was green on this side of the fence when he was here iirc.
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I remember saying "be careful what you wish for" and was berated and then when the seats were getting changed someone said "See, you reckon this would happen under Short?!?!?"
 
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Think Short started to lose interest around the time Bent left - he'd been sold a dream that if he turned up with his chequebook we'd sell out every week, qualify for Europe and need to extend the SOL. But then the recession hit, crowds dipped, he backed Bruce with decent money but had nothing to show for it and Quinn ended up saying things that he clearly wasn't comfortable with to try and tempt the fans back like the 'despise' comments.

Summer 2011 we sold Henderson on the back of selling Bent, Gyan left after the transfer window closed and we brought in a job lot of shite to rebuild. Then every summer after that we'd scrimp and save and piss about with free transfers and cheap shite then end up panic buying and splurging at the end of the window - Johnson, Fletcher, Rodwell, Borini, Ndong and Djilibodji all came in in August - Lens was the only big money signing that came in earlier than that.
 
Mallard said:
He went to the check a trade trophy final. I debated whether or not I could be bothered to go an I live an hour away from Wembley, he flew in from Florida. He does care and having met him I did get the impression he cared and he was was hurting that the club was struggling probably for personal, financial and professional reasons.

I remember saying "be careful what you wish for" and was berated and then when the seats were getting changed someone said "See, you reckon this would happen under Short?!?!?"
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I said the exact same thing. Too many fans want change for the sake of change. Leaving the port without any idea what the destination is going to be.

Never read “can’t do any worse” so often. It’s the same with managers. We can.
 
Definitely Maybe said:
Think Short started to lose interest around the time Bent left - he'd been sold a dream that if he turned up with his chequebook we'd sell out every week, qualify for Europe and need to extend the SOL. But then the recession hit, crowds dipped, he backed Bruce with decent money but had nothing to show for it and Quinn ended up saying things that he clearly wasn't comfortable with to try and tempt the fans back like the 'despise' comments.

Summer 2011 we sold Henderson on the back of selling Bent, Gyan left after the transfer window closed and we brought in a job lot of shite to rebuild. Then every summer after that we'd scrimp and save and piss about with free transfers and cheap shite then end up panic buying and splurging at the end of the window - Johnson, Fletcher, Rodwell, Borini, Ndong and Djilibodji all came in in August - Lens was the only big money signing that came in earlier than that.
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Spent a shit load of his own money and got shocking returns. I’d probably be sick of paying Jack Rodwell £80k a week for doing fuck all.
 
Lonz said:
I said the exact same thing. Too many fans want change for the sake of change. Leaving the port without any idea what the destination is going to be.

Never read “can’t do any worse” so often. It’s the same with managers. We can.
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short had given up and let is slide into league one. things would be much worse had he stayed.
 
Short was badly advised for far too long. The place full of individuals being paid far too much for what they were supposed to do but were not good enough to do so. Interesting idea from Grumpy that might be worth a run.
 
The bloke fucked off to let us rot and fall through the championship. Through all of his board appointments, he seemed to never really take us seriously...more of a rich mans play thing that he lost interest in.

No thanks.
 
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Would it involve him giving back the tens of millions of pounds of parachute payments that he took so that he could pretend he sold the club debt free?

Would he be bringing back Martin Bain, Margaret Byrne, Roberto De Fanti, Paolo Di Canio, or any other of his f***ing ridiculous appointments?

Would he be looking to invest hundreds of millions of pounds on utter f***ing shite again?

Would he be putting his mates' sons in charge of football operations and / or recruitment again?
 
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He would lose more and more cash to just try and chase the dream of the Permiership rat race that he got tired of. No idea why he would even give it a second thought.
 
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