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[Matthew Le God]

3 minutes ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

Point is cortese is the perfect person to let run the club .. solak wouldn’t have to lift a finger if he had him in charge just  like Markus didn’t. Pinning all our hopes on spors who probably won’t even stay two seasons seems a reach 

Spors is not running the club, Cortese was. That is why I said it wasn't a like for like comparison.

If Spors ends up leaving for an elite club it'll be because he has done well with us. He won't attract a big club offer if we aren't promoted. 

It is better to have good players and staff for a short period that top clubs want, rather than plod along with players and staff they don't want. It means we get to benefit from their time here before they move on and we hopefully replace then well. That has largely been our problem since 2016.

[Badger]

37 minutes ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

Point is cortese is the perfect person to let run the club .. solak wouldn’t have to lift a finger if he had him in charge just  like Markus didn’t. Pinning all our hopes on spors who probably won’t even stay two seasons seems a reach 

It’s hard to compare roles like for like as cortese was super hands on and was dictating everything whilst other executive chairman might be the opposite .,

Know the point you’re making, and a CEO like Cortese (but not him) might be good, but it’s an over simplification to think just parachute him into SFC.

As I recall Cortese wanted to be left alone to run the club on Liebherr money, without input from the owners. I don’t expect he’d want to be accountable to Dragan Solak, and doubtful Solak would be open to that arrangement either.

Sad thing is had Markus Liebherr remained things might have been different. Until AC Milan came calling of course. 

[ApprenticeBillionaire]

5 minutes ago, Badger said:

As I recall Cortese wanted to be left alone to run the club on Liebherr money, without input from the owners. I don’t expect he’d want to be accountable to Dragan Solak, and doubtful Solak would be open to that arrangement either.

You really think ANYONE is being held to account by Solak right now?

We've been relegated twice and we're currently have the worst points haul since Derby.

Edited 2 hours ago by ApprenticeBillionaire

[Badger]

Just now, ApprenticeBillionaire said:

You really think ANYONE is being held to account by Solak right now?

We've been relegated twice and we're currently have the worst points haul since Derby.

Fair point. You’re probably right in football terms. 
 

But I’m damn sure he and those he’s brought in from his other businesses would be over it if we were haemorrhaging cash. My point is that I can’t see him giving a CEO an open cheque book without being held accountable. 

[pimpin4rizeal]

I see dragon pretty much as a backseat owner a bit like Markus was the main difference is Markus had a absolute gem in cortese overseeing everything so he didn’t have to ., whilst solak has had idiots like Ankerson and Kraft and is now having to step in himself 

as for open cheque books it isn’t like cortese was spending more then Sr anyway. What he did well aas to put excellent people in positions like  Mitchell, adkins pochettino.. he wouldn’t tolerate failure which is why we had a great recruitment period and we where always on the upwards trajectory