dongonzalos
Well-Known Member
SISU
When they took over Coventry. They knew the past they knew the debts. The knew the situation with the stadium. The knew the cost of the rent.
They knew all of this weighed it up and said. We can take Coventry into the premiership in three years.
We will get Coventry to own their own stadium again.
That was their two public mission statements.
Privately they would have of course had profit based mission statements.
If you are to truly judge SISU's performance to date.
You have to judge them from this point and on the basis of their mission statements. Not someone else's past.
They come in and personally I think originally seemed end to have a plan.
Buy young emerging talent and develop them. If you get big money for them, sell them but replace them.
Fine. Coleman turned out to be a mistake I don't blame them regarding that.
Then it just seemed to change once they employed AB.
Not my type of manager but I can see why they tried him.
They backed him a little bit. Enough to be able to stay in the championship.
Then they employed AT. It's seems from this point onwards there was very minimal backing. 2 goalkeepers and a striker.
I am not sure at this stage what SISU's strategy was.
What was their aim, just to stay in the championship?
Then came January we sold our top scorer at the time. To me that is a statement that you are prepared to be relegated.
They stopped paying the rent.
So we are now heading towards league one and we are beginning to upset the two parties we need to do business with regarding the stadium.
In between there was talk of a takeover and talk that Ken was briefing against it. The takeover never even got discussed formally (not sure if this one is SISU's or Hoff's fault)
Then we get relegated
SISU start to win me over
We have made mistakes
You have to adequately replace players when you let them go
Andy Thorn is centre of our plans
We need stability
You can't keep sacking managers we have had 12 in 11 years.
Then they start signing players, albeit free transfers and loanees, that is where we are at, I can't really expect anymore.
They start talks on buying half of the stadium.
What more can I ask, they want stability. They are signing players. They are trying to buy half the stadium.
Our club finally has a future. Genuinely I started to slightly trust them again.
Then 3 league games in they sack the manager.
We don't have the stability they are talking about. We lose 5 matches on the bounce.
I am annoyed by this I lose a little bit of trust in them.
Then they sign MR back him with a few loanees. We start get results. I am not sure if I trust them or not.
Then we have all the stuff about the rent and moving to Hinkley winding up orders. We look like a bunch of parts in the media.
Poor little Coventry can't pay the rent. Going to be homeless soon.
I start to get very annoyed with them, especially when Tim says it is not that we can't afford the rent. We just won't pay it as it is too high.
Then a compromise is suggested I think thank god.
Lets get this sorted and get on with promotion.
It then becomes clear it was about forcing ACL into liquidation and getting half the stadium in the cheap.
My trust in them by this stage has completely gone again.
We now are two divisions away from the premiership and the council and the Higgs trust will not do business with us in a month of Sundays.
This is why when people suggest there is no loyalty in football and MR should be more loyal to his bosses SISU.
I can't agree.
When they took over Coventry. They knew the past they knew the debts. The knew the situation with the stadium. The knew the cost of the rent.
They knew all of this weighed it up and said. We can take Coventry into the premiership in three years.
We will get Coventry to own their own stadium again.
That was their two public mission statements.
Privately they would have of course had profit based mission statements.
If you are to truly judge SISU's performance to date.
You have to judge them from this point and on the basis of their mission statements. Not someone else's past.
They come in and personally I think originally seemed end to have a plan.
Buy young emerging talent and develop them. If you get big money for them, sell them but replace them.
Fine. Coleman turned out to be a mistake I don't blame them regarding that.
Then it just seemed to change once they employed AB.
Not my type of manager but I can see why they tried him.
They backed him a little bit. Enough to be able to stay in the championship.
Then they employed AT. It's seems from this point onwards there was very minimal backing. 2 goalkeepers and a striker.
I am not sure at this stage what SISU's strategy was.
What was their aim, just to stay in the championship?
Then came January we sold our top scorer at the time. To me that is a statement that you are prepared to be relegated.
They stopped paying the rent.
So we are now heading towards league one and we are beginning to upset the two parties we need to do business with regarding the stadium.
In between there was talk of a takeover and talk that Ken was briefing against it. The takeover never even got discussed formally (not sure if this one is SISU's or Hoff's fault)
Then we get relegated
SISU start to win me over
We have made mistakes
You have to adequately replace players when you let them go
Andy Thorn is centre of our plans
We need stability
You can't keep sacking managers we have had 12 in 11 years.
Then they start signing players, albeit free transfers and loanees, that is where we are at, I can't really expect anymore.
They start talks on buying half of the stadium.
What more can I ask, they want stability. They are signing players. They are trying to buy half the stadium.
Our club finally has a future. Genuinely I started to slightly trust them again.
Then 3 league games in they sack the manager.
We don't have the stability they are talking about. We lose 5 matches on the bounce.
I am annoyed by this I lose a little bit of trust in them.
Then they sign MR back him with a few loanees. We start get results. I am not sure if I trust them or not.
Then we have all the stuff about the rent and moving to Hinkley winding up orders. We look like a bunch of parts in the media.
Poor little Coventry can't pay the rent. Going to be homeless soon.
I start to get very annoyed with them, especially when Tim says it is not that we can't afford the rent. We just won't pay it as it is too high.
Then a compromise is suggested I think thank god.
Lets get this sorted and get on with promotion.
It then becomes clear it was about forcing ACL into liquidation and getting half the stadium in the cheap.
My trust in them by this stage has completely gone again.
We now are two divisions away from the premiership and the council and the Higgs trust will not do business with us in a month of Sundays.
This is why when people suggest there is no loyalty in football and MR should be more loyal to his bosses SISU.
I can't agree.
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