mikeyp102 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Very surprised at this. Yes Hollis has been cutting everyone but I thought that Fox with his high wages would be the one to stay. Lets just hope Hollis knows what he is doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-Reacho Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Wonder how much involvement Bernstein has had in this. Hopefully he'll be key to finding the replacement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliffy Biro Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 He was a merchandise guy at Arsenal for god sake, who else is shocked he completely failed at running us and has managed to do in 18 months what we've been trying to avoid for 6 years? Not saying we'll hire anyone better and knowing Villa we wont but he and his clueless cronies simply had to go. Good riddance. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Could have been useful employed as a commercial man as at Arsenal but how on earth he landed the CEO job baffles me. Good riddance to more expensive waste. I just hope he's replaced by someone who knows what they're doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 (edited) didnt he secure the Under Armour kit deal for next season ? Yeah ok it's not a lot of return for his salary but clearly he knew how to do some things ? Edited March 17, 2016 by tonyh29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 No surprise that he has gone but good news anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
It's Your Round Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 17 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: didnt he secure the Under Armour kit deal for next season ? Yeah ok it's not a lot of return for his salary but clearly he knew how to do some things ? No doubt if he was employed in a role similar to his last be could've brought some more revenue in. The CEO role was too much for him and his reputation is now too far gone to go back to that role with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 On 13 March 2016 at 03:59, Zatman said: that was 30 years ago, football has changed a hell of a lot since then. Ranieri probably has no idea who Ron Saunders is Football changes by the day.....but many principles of football have been around for over a hundred years. certain things change all the time....some things don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 2 hours ago, thabucks said: What's the betting he goes to another prem team as CEO and becomes a success.... Now the hunt begins for one of these mythical football people. (Can only think of Cortese) Like our players, will do.lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PompeyVillan Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 I think it is difficult to say he is incompetent, but not to say he was out of his depth. I wish him well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 3 hours ago, villa4europe said: as long as the ink is dry on all them mega money deals he had lined up... Those probably left some time ago along with the football team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 So Fox is gone. I wonder who will be next in this Randy Lerner version of the Agatha Christie classic "Ten Little *******" (or "And then there where none") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 I think the point is that he and Almstadt were so close to each other. They came more or less as a team, with a vision/plan- and as CEO, Fox was instrumental in supporting the footballing direction that Amstadt took,ie signing cheapish imports with no experience of the premiership. Almstadt and Fox as a team, buying playersof dubious quality, based on statistical analysis. That it clearly hasn't worked, and £60 odd million spunked on players who have not only failed, but done so very badly, without any fight or determination, all of whom have left the club with little resale value on the balance sheet. That Almstadt and therefore by implication, Fox, went against and over the wishes of two managers, and have upset them,willnot have gone unnoticed. Fox chose the plan of action, and his fellow Directors for his experiment, it failed,badly, and so he must go. Fox was clearly off as soon as Almstadt was. Although some of us predicted this at the start of the season, that a large influx of mainly young French Ligue 1 players would not form the required "dressing room bond", nor have the support systems to allow them to be a success, that they were not a good cultural fit, and got dogs abuse off this board for it. Indeed, most here thought that it was an excellent transfer window, and were full of optimism. Those that begged to differ were roundly told we were fools for laughing at the Kings new clothes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 I am getting more depressed by the minute. We have sacked our CEO and are now trying to find a replacement? You don't sack the CEO until you have a replacement lined up FFS. Let's hope this is just the latest in the long line of lies and half truths from the club and they really do know who is coming in next. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 £1.2 million. Amazing. Might have been a ok commercial manager but a dismal failure as a CEO, even with mitigating circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 talked a good game but he got us relegated sadly. next hopefully will be Remi to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 7 hours ago, thabucks said: What's the betting he goes to another prem team as CEO and becomes a success.... Now the hunt begins for one of these mythical football people. (Can only think of Cortese No premier league side will touch him aftrhis huge failure with us. Bye bye clown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 5 hours ago, PompeyVillan said: I think it is difficult to say he is incompetent, but not to say he was out of his depth. I wish him well. I agree with the first part but I don't wish him well - he had me fooled for quite a long time with his slick PR but his true colours were shown in the last few months. Glad to see him go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 6 hours ago, briny_ear said: I am getting more depressed by the minute. We have sacked our CEO and are now trying to find a replacement? You don't sack the CEO until you have a replacement lined up FFS. Let's hope this is just the latest in the long line of lies and half truths from the club and they really do know who is coming in next. I thought he resigned? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincenzo Posted March 18, 2016 Share Posted March 18, 2016 (edited) How many people are recruited on personality alone? A bit of the old blarney fools so many employers. Let's see evidence of what you've done in the past, is it appropriate for the job. That's what counts. I've heard he's a confident personality with a lot of charm so he's convinced Randy and co that he can turn the club around with his fantasy football tactics. As we know this has failed spectaculary so he had to go, one way or the other. Common sense would tell anyone with any football knowledge that when you strip out the experienced spine of a football team it is essential that first and foremost you replace it. That is where they went wrong big style. I can't believe that nobody at the club didn't try to tell them but they probably didn't listen. At least now we seem to be assembling together people who understand the game of football cause that's what we are, a football club. All the commercial stuff is very important but they are nothing without that team on the pitch and the fans who support this magnificient (yes even now when we're struggling) football club. UTV Edited March 18, 2016 by Vincenzo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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