Lordsummerisle....You're entitled to your "Opinion" Ranson was so preoccupied with ripping off CCFC that he GAVE SISU his business worth in excess of £5m...While resigning on two seperate occasions because SISU had no intention of taking the football club forward(Investment on the pitch)...(Bought Dann and Fox for peanuts, then sold them for a vast profit) I wasn't a lover of Ranson, but when things came to light about the "Goings on" behind the scenes I began to warm to him a little.
As for being "Open and Transparent"(SISU)...The only time we hear from them is when they are moaning about being "Ripped off" by ACL! when it's them doing the "Ripping off"
ajsccfc...please refer to previous paragraph in reply to Lordsummerisle.
He "Gave" Sisu nothing, please read the links on Pro-zone, and other remuneration,interest on "loans" etc in the Financial threads, Information is all there if you're not blinkered.
Wish Ranson had resigned, however never did, wouldn't have been able to continue to take money out of the club then despite mounting losses and poor performance on and off the pitch.
An interview with him a couple of years ago, now either you believe he resigned on "principle" or you don't, either way very economical with the truth, if not with other peoples money.
"TWO years down the line Ray Ranson insists that Coventry City is a club moving forward.
The Sky Blues chairman admits certain players have progressed quicker than the clubs, with the likes of Scott Dann and Danny Fox being lured away from the Ricoh and admits that he faces a battle to keep hold of some of the club’s current stars in January.
But he insists the foundations for long-term success are in place and that he and manager Chris Coleman will turn the club’s fortunes around.
“I am here to make decisions in the best interests of Coventry City for the short, medium and long term,” he said, speaking just short of his second anniversary at the helm. “Short-term thinking only has one outcome, and that’s failure.
“Results are not reflecting all the hard work that we have done but I defy anyone to convince me that the squad of players we have got now, when they are all fit, is not far superior to what we inherited.
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“The biggest thing for me is that I still believe the club is moving forward. The numbers of the squad has reduced and the quality has gone up, as has the value of it, but you only get that with stability, careful planning and by being pro-active.
“I read comments by Danny Fox recently, who was talking about the challenge of playing at a bigger club because, with all due respect to Coventry, it is a mid-table Championship club. That’s where we are at the moment.
“Scott Dann went to Birmingham for five times what he was getting here. Would we have liked to keep hold of them? For sure, and if we had been in the play-offs at the end of last season it could have been a different ball game and they might have said they will give us another year here.
"But we have effectively replaced those players with Chris Hussey and Richard Wood, who will go on to be as good, if not better.”
As for the manager’s part, he said: “Chris signed a three and a half year contract and he will be given that period of time and then we will review it at the end of his contract, or before if necessary.
“We knew what a tough job it was going to be, which is why we went for a young manager who had time on his side, and he fitted the profile of the football club and he ticks all the boxes for us.
"And when we get everyone fit and invest in January, and tweak it again in the summer, Chris should have his squad of players, and hopefully one that is capable of competing at the top end of the Championship next season.”
He added: “You need stability both on and off the pitch and if you don’t you end up with the 34 pros that we ended up with two years ago. All I heard when I first came here was, ‘Don’t sell Michael Mifsud,’.
"We had no intention of selling him and we had one offer for him from Bristol City. Where is he now? I think he is playing for a second division club in Cyprus.
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“This club sold Gary McSheffrey and with the money bought Leon McKenzie, Chris Birchall and Kevin Kyle, two of whom we had to pay their contracts up to leave, so it actually cost us money to get rid of them. On that basis I think we are doing a good job.”
The question about buying back 50 per cent of the Ricoh Arena crops up time and time again, but with an estimated £10 million price tag for a stadium that makes roughly £1 million a year, the figures clearly don’t stack up at the moment. "
