General Wolves News

[Jolemai]

Interesting...

Here's a link to the article on the Football League website.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Shame it's not a full time position.

 

[Keef]

Does that make it worse for us? Take it he got the job because of what he does at Wolves,so therefore he's doing everything right so doesn't need to change a thing,so carry on bad business deals and running roughshod over fans

 

[Johnny75]

I wonder what the FA will think we he starts getting dog's abuse from the fans 5 games into the season when no owner, no new transfers and no wins happen. Will they still think he has the ability?

Just for comparison Villa were put up for sale and a Chairman who specialises in mergers and acquisitions put in charge in January. CEO and manager are sacked and a new owner takes over less than 4 months later. Seems the 'best in the business' is lacking the ability to make the right decisions to me.

 

[Premier Quality]

Villa have been up for sale for years, haven't they?

 

[Johnny75]

They have, it is more the Chairman standing down and a new one put in that specialises in M&A (for KPMG) that caused the change. Maybe Mr Morgan needs to get Mr Hollis in as he will shortly be out of a job.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Officially since 2014 but Lerner was backing out a good four years before then.

Wouldn't say Villa are a great example of how to run anything, their boardroom has been complete chaos lately.

 

[Johnny75]

Officially since 2014 but Lerner was backing out a good four years before then.

Wouldn't say Villa are a great example of how to run anything, their boardroom has been complete chaos lately.

There is a reason for that though. Tom Fox was a charlatan of a CEO and Lerner was panicking. Hollis was bought in to sell the club and the other board members (Bevington, King and Bernstein) on an advisory role to do that until the sale completed so they would be gone now anyway. The fact that King and Bernstein fell out with Lerner tells me Lerner isn't the easiest man to deal with.

It also shows if you have the right man in to do a particular role then it will get done.

 

[nimrod]

anyone know how much commitment that FA role needs? apols if its in the article.

difficult to know how to compare our situation to villa. the Chinese buyer is described as a longstanding villa fan. don't know if that's convenient BS or just lucky for villa.

maybe a difference is that the impression i have of Jez is that he'll try to deliver what the owner wants, whereas if you want to get deals down sometimes it's about thinking outside the box, getting out into the market and negotiating as much with your seller as with your buyer. i imagine that's what the new villa team, specialising in this sort of stuff, will have done with lerner as Johnny is saying. how Jez will do this sort of stuff by taking on new commitments seems questionable.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

There's no reason to suspect our approach to selling the club with Jez as CEO under Morgan is any different to how it was with Jez as CEO under Sir Jack, we seem prepared to wait for people to come to us and make an offer that exactly fits our terms rather than the other way round and be actively looking to find a buyer. Given it took four years last time you wonder why we'd go down that road again, same as you wonder why we'd run the club in the same way as far as footballing matters goes while up for sale when all it led to last time was mid-table Championship stagnation, very dull football and growing apathy among the fanbase, but here we are.

I wouldn't seek to defend the way that Jez is currently handling any aspect of the club really, I just think pointing to Villa as an example of how to do it is reaching a bit. This new role shouldn't affect anything really, he'll have an extra meeting to go to a month, I'm sure he'll cope.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Let's all cheer on the brilliance of Villa. For sale for over £200m less than six months ago and now sold for a quarter of what the owner wanted. Brilliant.

 

[nimrod]

There's no reason to suspect our approach to selling the club with Jez as CEO under Morgan is any different to how it was with Jez as CEO under Sir Jack, we seem prepared to wait for people to come to us and make an offer that exactly fits our terms rather than the other way round and be actively looking to find a buyer. Given it took four years last time you wonder why we'd go down that road again, same as you wonder why we'd run the club in the same way as far as footballing matters goes while up for sale when all it led to last time was mid-table Championship stagnation, very dull football and growing apathy among the fanbase, but here we are.

I wouldn't seek to defend the way that Jez is currently handling any aspect of the club really, I just think pointing to Villa as an example of how to do it is reaching a bit. This new role shouldn't affect anything really, he'll have an extra meeting to go to a month, I'm sure he'll cope.

one day a month is neither here nor there as you say.

the villa point may depend on whether the new team went out and skilfully found the buyer, or if he just turned up on his own accord ready to deal, which I guess we'll never know.

the rest of what you put echoes my feelings about the club's recent history and just makes me feel a bit miserable.

 

[nimrod]

Let's all cheer on the brilliance of Villa. For sale for over £200m less than six months ago and now sold for a quarter of what the owner wanted. Brilliant.

it's not a bad result for villa to be fair. if he simply aimed to hold out for that sort of price he'd might still be there as owner in ten years time. could he expect a better price than he's got and maybe he needed the right people to tell him that.

 

[Johnny75]

one day a month is neither here nor there as you say.

the villa point may depend on whether the new team went out and skilfully found the buyer, or if he just turned up on his own accord ready to deal, which I guess we'll never know.
the rest of what you put echoes my feelings about the club's recent history and just makes me feel a bit miserable.

It is only hearsay from people I know who know Hollis but apparently that's exactly what he was brought in to do. Done it rapidly too and I agree with you and DW if our aim is to do it the same way as before then I think Morgan is in for a long wait on his rapidly depreciating asset.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

On Villa: It might all be perfectly innocent but apparently this guy is involved somewhere along the line:

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...financier-behind-ill-fated-everton-fc-3356079

Prominent in a collapsed takeover of Everton where the funds never turned up and subsequently brokered the sale of Reading to Zingarevich which went south (again, lots of promises of money, no actual real life cash) and ended with them in a lot of financial shit. He also apparently took a cut when the club was sold to the Thais who are also nowhere near as rich as was originally made out.

 

[Jinky]

Not sure where else to post this, but Iorfa and Hause are playing for England under 20's in the Toulon tournament against Portugal which is live on BT Sport Europe. It's just about to kick off.

The anthems were absolutely hilarious. As there's no crowd you could hear every word the players were singing. Talk about an uninspiring and totally tone deaf way of getting the lads pumped up and ready!

 

[Jinky]

Not sure where else to post this, but Iorfa and Hause are playing for England under 20's in the Toulon tournament against Portugal which is live on BT Sport Europe. It's just about to kick off.

The anthems were absolutely hilarious. As there's no crowd you could hear every word the players were singing. Talk about an uninspiring and totally tone deaf way of getting the lads pumped up and ready!

They kept a clean sheet in a 1-0 win. Iorfa played well and the commentary team were bigging him up.

 

[wolf]

Friendly at home v Swansea 30th July

 

[darlowolf64]

Friendly at home v Swansea 30th July

Not bad...

 

[MARKakaJIM]

That the glamour tie then?