Not sure why anyone thinks this is good news. He gets the piss taken out of him and takes all sorts of abuse, but he's obviously good at his job. It'll be interesting to see who we appoint next. At least FSG will have had almost 2 years to plan for this by the time he actually leaves.
His contract expires at the end of that 18 months and as said above, in his position it's fairly standard.
Is he though? He was at Huddersfield Town and they plunged into administration during his tenure....
Good at sealing the commercial deals perhaps, but I think the clout and credibility of FSG (business wise certainly) always meant they were going to find new sources of revenue since arriving in 2010 (FSG have certainly modernised us and dragged us into the 21st century after the archaic business practices under previous regimes).
On the football side of things, he has proven himself to be nothing other than disastrous. He recommended the sacking of Rafa, backed the appointment of Hodgson (a sackable offence in its own right) and lumbered on from disastrous deal to disastrous deal due to being one of the key components of the transfer committee.
Perhaps he is just merely a yes man in terms of accepting any vision FSG throw at him, but it is surely the chief executives job to challenge the position and offer alternative views to any proposition from above.
Will it be a case of appointing someone with a brilliant innovative mind, or another yes man?
If its the latter, it will merely be a case of '
meet the new boss, same as the old boss'.
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