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Management Vinai Venkatesham - CEO

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Forget all the fluff. Forget the structure.

The guy is a Gooner.

Yes it's petty but in football we get to be that petty.

He does not get it.

Him laughing and joking 10mins from the end of Sunday's match helps prove it.

Get.. rid... !
 
Aphex said:
Remember Vinai didn't hire Lange. If we get a proper top class SD in at the club, and Vinai then trusts the person to run the club, we will be in a much better place, than what we had before, with non footballing people making footballing decisions.
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Erm he promoted him and forced Paratici out
 
I don't like our end of season letter was penned by the non-executive chairman while our CEO's first words after staying up was doing an interview with BBC, mainly criticising us from the outside.

Just fuck off please you scum.
 
Steve007 said:
Big words from the CEO and Lewis Family.
Let's see if they have the balls to match it.
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Cranston said:
I don’t think so.

I’m as pessimistic as the next man, but I think we will do really well. The three newly promoted sides are going straight back down. The likes of Bournemouth, Brighton and Sunderland will struggle massively with European football.

Scum will get sidelined by PGMOL. They ain’t getting anything. All that ‘luck’ will transfer to UTD. City are getting a 60 point deduction.

We’ve been through the absolute ringer and emerged the other side. Our revenge tour begins in earnest.

Think we’ll be Top 6.
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Aphex said:
I am not talking about the furnishings. I am talking about the players seeing it as a resort rather than a place of work.

The culture at the training ground has been an issue for years. The training ground absolutely has everything to do with the culture, as that is where the players train.

The fact Vinai specifically mentions it shows that this is actually an issue, not something I have made up.
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The CULTURE is nothing to do with the Location/facilities/whether or not it looks like a resort

Completely seperate things

The Culture comes from the top, from the leadership, from the levels demanded every day, from the examples set - from the characters that are promoted and those that are shunned - WHERE these things happen is completely irrelevant.

The fact the training ground is plush is irrelevant, its a total red herring
 
postbox said:
The CULTURE is nothing to do with the Location/facilities/whether or not it looks like a resort

Completely seperate things

The Culture comes from the top, from the leadership, from the levels demanded every day, from the examples set - from the characters that are promoted and those that are shunned - WHERE these things happen is completely irrelevant.

The fact the training ground is plush is irrelevant, its a total red herring
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To get to where we were, 3 short days ago doesn't happen overnight, but also a big part of our failings (in my opinion), has been not understanding the need for big clubs to have at least 2 or 3 big players. Liverpool might just find that out.

Big teams need players who get into your PL squad of the season, and probably at least 1 who gets into the starting 11. Look at that Leicester, PL winning side, and then....

Culture, as you describe it matters, and that's why the likes of Bournemouth, Brighton, and to a large extent Palace delivered, although in the case of Palace, back to my first paragraph.

De Zerbi's challenge, on the pitch is probably going to be to create a team who are competitive without a top player. Once, and if he does that, then we try and capture better players.

Without the injuries last srason we finish mid-table, but it would not have solved the problem.

Someone needs to see both needs.
 
ElTel said:
Possibly.... hopefully a lesson has been learned and Lange is replaced asap
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I do think Lange has his talents

The biggest problem with him is he has been promoted well beyond them

Id keep him around as a youth scout/talent spotter, more a simple analyst role - I think he would do well in that

But Id want him no where near any decision making whatsoever

I mean, none of which is really an attempt to justify him, more just try and be balanced.

Ultimately if he fucks off and is never seen again I wont bat an eye, and will quickly forget he even existed
 
Notabadsquad said:
To get to where we were, 3 short days ago doesn't happen overnight, but also a big part of our failings (in my opinion), has been not understanding the need for big clubs to have at least 2 or 3 big players. Liverpool might just find that out.

Big teams need players who get into your PL squad of the season, and probably at least 1 who gets into the starting 11. Look at that Leicester, PL winning side, and then....

Culture, as you describe it matters, and that's why the likes of Bournemouth, Brighton, and to a large extent Palace delivered, although in the case of Palace, back to my first paragraph.

De Zerbi's challenge, on the pitch is probably going to be to create a team who are competitive without a top player. Once, and if he does that, then we try and capture better players.

Without the injuries last srason we finish mid-table, but it would not have solved the problem.

Someone needs to see both needs.
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Culture is not our only issue, we have been grossly mismanaged in several ways

As you say, recruitment being a major one

I was just contesting Aphex seemingly conflating culture and the training ground, I think they are totally unrelated
 
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