justvisiting
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As you're still in the "being owned by uncaring moneygrubbers" phase I thought I'd sling in an update about post-Bates Leeds United. Bit of light relief for you, maybe.
We've been recently bought by the former owner of Cagliari, Massimo Cellino. An undoubted football man with decent finances, he also has fraud convictions and moved Cagliari to Trieste to play their home games after a row with the council. By way of comparison, Trieste's not much closer to Cagliari than Northampton is. His first priority, he said, was buying back the ground and training complex. What he actually did was not buy the ground and closed the training complex over the summer, along with making a load of staff redundant. Rumours are we're losing £1million a month from somewhere, but how is not precisely known. Now we've just named Dave Hockaday as our new head coach because our new owner likes to buy players and pick teams and doesn't want someone with their own ideas chipping in. Dave Hockaday's only previous managerial role was an unsuccessful stint in charge of Forest Green. We are effectively a particularly expensive game of Football Manager to our new owner.
I'm not saying this is worse than being owned by SISU, but being bought out by a rich guy who really wants to run a successful football club's not necessarily brilliant either.
We've been recently bought by the former owner of Cagliari, Massimo Cellino. An undoubted football man with decent finances, he also has fraud convictions and moved Cagliari to Trieste to play their home games after a row with the council. By way of comparison, Trieste's not much closer to Cagliari than Northampton is. His first priority, he said, was buying back the ground and training complex. What he actually did was not buy the ground and closed the training complex over the summer, along with making a load of staff redundant. Rumours are we're losing £1million a month from somewhere, but how is not precisely known. Now we've just named Dave Hockaday as our new head coach because our new owner likes to buy players and pick teams and doesn't want someone with their own ideas chipping in. Dave Hockaday's only previous managerial role was an unsuccessful stint in charge of Forest Green. We are effectively a particularly expensive game of Football Manager to our new owner.
I'm not saying this is worse than being owned by SISU, but being bought out by a rich guy who really wants to run a successful football club's not necessarily brilliant either.