Ken Deluded - Q&A with CT (1 Viewer)

An excellent piece of PR!

Excellent PR techniques used in this and exceptionally well worded - CCFC definitely stepping up their game ready for exit

'It wasn't SISU's fault, we did our best to save CCFC - but Ranson and Hoffman did the damage' - all in aid of reputation management for SISU.

All total BULLS**T mind...

The good news is, reads like they are preparing for exit - putting out some press to say that SISU made the best of a bad situation.

ccfcway said:

Well done Ken, 4th to cast adfirft at the bottom in 12 months, I am still hoping that this interview is a joke !

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/co...e-turned-coventry-city-around-92746-29897270/


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How the f*ck did Deluded pass the fit and proper test, as he is a sandwich short of a picnic.

I thought I had seen it all with the clowns running our club, but his ridiculous Q and A session takes the biscuit.
In his own words he is proud of his achievments, yes of taking the club from 6th to 24th in less than a year, well done you.

He also waffles about his extensive (non) football knowledge and even of his bullsh8t history of building bridges in N Ireland. I didnt realise they had been tangoed.

In analysis in can only be said that not only is Dulieu mental, but he is proper mental and someone as mad as that should not be anywhere near our club.

He really has turned the club around though. Huge attendances and 4th in the league to crap attendances and bottom of the League in less than 12 months is impressive. Congratulations kenneth I wish I could be as good as you.

In a nutshell:

1. We have no money and can't bring in any new players (except two non-existant loans) - it's all the fault of the previous administration
2. We are likely to sell Juke, Cranie, Clingan, Thomas and Bigirimana in January - it's all down to the previous administration.
3. We can't get a proper manager in and must make do with Thorn - it's all because of the previous administration.
4. We have to hope some decent kids come through the Academy as that's the only way we will find players in the future - due to the previous administration.
5. He clearly despises Gary Hoffman - who was part of the "previous administration"
6. He thinks he is qualified to deal with the football side of the club and probably wants to be manager if Thorn goes.

Thanks for everything Ken. We should all be SO grateful to you.

It's weird that even though he is no longer chairman, he thinks he will still deal with the same issues i.e. offers to buy players. Surely if he was doing that before then it's the Chairmans job ant not his?

I'm so fecking angry that what ever i do write will be stopped by the administrators. What a complete donut this man is.A bellend of the largest size
He has to be the most biggest twot i have ever heard. More fecking whisky and beer tonight to try and cheer myself up. If i become an alcoholic its all down to that wonderful businessman Ken Deluded

The Rev

I read the article and actually felt unclean at the end of it, like my senses had been violated by the prejudiced, deluded bullshit - same reaction I had after once reading a BNP pamphlet. Just empty pointless words but you get the feeling he actually believes them, I feel he honestly thinks he has done a good job - he's a conceited, arrogant cnut and the sooner he fecks off with his SISU mates the better.

I'd love to know why he's really resigned from the Board.

He's still effectively doing the Director of Football job, but wants to be "Head of" rather than "Director of". Why?????

And given that we now have no Chairman and no CEO, who is actually running the place?

The lunatics are running the asylum..................and still some cretins defend the shits that are SISU.

The guy is a prized c-unit! Some of his replies are just pointless. He may aswell have just said "erm......I dont know"

One answer he gives is;

I used to look after security operations in Northern Ireland and it was a nightmare. But, ultimately, people did start talking and resolving their differences and it is actually quite a nice place to go now.

Well im glad we have someone with this type of background in board :facepalm:

Another classic, when asked about his new / current job;

No, I’m Head of Football Operations.

Yet an earlier question he answered was "but, at present, I am doing three jobs – director of football, CEO and chairman – and have been for some time and that is too much for one person." So hes either still director of football, or he's quit the 3 he was doing, and create a 4th that he fancied a try at.

When asked about transfers we've brought in, after basically saying "ask Andy although hes signed a contract not to discuss his personal transfer targets publicly" he goes on to say "The style of play is not for every footballer so we have been looking and we have in our budget the room to bring in another couple of loan players, and we have had that all the way through the season to date." Is he suggesting our style of play isnt liked by all the players we have?? Secondly, why is he feeding us more BS about what transfer funds we have?? We all know this is a complete lie!!

He then claims (for the reason in us only getting Gardner) "But this is not because the club have said we can’t bring in loan players. It’s because Andy and the scouts haven’t found the right players that are better than what we have got"

Dont I recall AT stating publicly that we did have our eye on another few 'experienced' players but he had to choose between them and Gardner?? Again more BS from our favourite employee.

On Juke he claims "I took a lot of stick in the summer that I was going to sell Lukas in the last transfer window and I managed to repel all borders and convince him to stay, even though he got a much, much better offer.
But I convinced him to stay and managed to convince the owner that he would be better value later on and Lukas has responded very well and been a better player this season." So Ken, why does Juke claim he has never been told of any offers, and he's never had contact with another club? If he had been offered "a much, much better offer" why havent you reported the club for tapping up the player?? Oh yes because its more BS!! And does he expect us to belueve that HE was the one who talked Juke into staying?? Our knight in shining armour!! What a moron!!

On recent games he says "They have just played three of the top teams and not been hammered." Guessing he couldnt make the Southampton game then??

Then to sugges "we have a stronger commercial team coming in". Well is it going to be a case of 3rd time lucky?? How long before this team walk out on us??

On wages he states average wage in the Championship " it is £4,000". I think he should re-do his research. I dont have facts but i cannot see that being true.

Sorry for the long winded reply. Felt it necessary tho to air my views on it (made me feel better anyway)

I like the way he thinks our squad is worth more than last year considering we let our 3 top valued players go and gave extension to our shit/ injured players

Bennets Afro said:

I like the way he thinks our squad is worth more than last year considering we let our 3 top valued players go and gave extension to our shit/ injured players

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Most of them are like Freddie can't give them away.

Try again Cloughie

sw88 said:

Try again Cloughie

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yep sorry guys

Bennets Afro said:

I like the way he thinks our squad is worth more than last year considering we let our 3 top valued players go and gave extension to our shit/ injured players

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but did you see his explanation?? I think he confused himself by that BS! atleast we know the players who have got new contracts are worth more now. Shame no fecker else wants em so kind of defeats the object!

unbe-frickin-leavable!!!!! I wish they would just get the f*&k out of our club, this guy makes me so angry:facepalm:

Just read the Q&A on CT website and I expected to see a thread here about it. The guy is an idiot, if he really thinks things are going well. The spanner.

Incredible, really-apart from the fact that I'm now so used to this bull that I'm almost desensitized to it now. Thanks to all the above for articulating what I'd say if I could be bothered typing it for the nth time! And yes, he does believe his own lies half the time. That happens with these people who live in such luxurious fantasy worlds as he.

sorry guys but it isn't comimg up as posted and won't delete when deleting post

cloughie said:

yep sorry guys

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Nearly there

Oh I can't resist..."We are backed by a bank that is a hedge fund that has never been in football before so it is quite a learning curve for them."

They aren't a bank, though-they are a hedge fund. Stop with this already, it's not the same!

"They went into this as a turn-around situation and probably expected that to happen a lot quicker than it has."

They went into this claiming that they would invest in young players capable of reaching Premiership standard and buy back the stadium. Then they decided they couldn't afford that now, and it became a recovery situation. He really is factually clueless...unless he's just revealing lies; perhaps the original "plan" was just BS and spin? Maybe they pretended to buy into the Ranson idea-but he'd tipped them off, saying "but if it doesn't work out, you'll be able to sell on the decent players you bought and quadruple your money on them"?

"From their point of view it has probably not been one of their best investments so far but it has turned around an awful lot over the last eight months."

I'd say it isn't their best investment...why, they claim it's cost them 30-40m! Pretty shocking management of a club with massive potential that you got for sod all...how about admitting that the hedge-fund "strip it bare" approach simply doesn't work in football?!?

Nonleagueherewecome said:

"From their point of view it has probably not been one of their best investments so far but it has turned around an awful lot over the last eight months."

I'd say it isn't their best investment...why, they claim it's cost them 30-40m! Pretty shocking management of a club with massive potential that you got for sod all...how about admitting that the hedge-fund "strip it bare" approach simply doesn't work in football?!?

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I wouldnt say they've turned it round; more like we've gone full circle and back to how we were when they bought us! And this time round id say we're worse off!

"I used to look after security operations in Northern Ireland and it was a nightmare. But, ultimately, people did start talking and resolving their differences and it is actually quite a nice place to go now."

I bet Sammy loved this one... "Yeah, my homeland used to be terrible, you wouldn't wish a visit there on your worse enemy.." What an insensitive pratt! "It was a nightmare..." Maybe that's 'cos you were doing such a bad job, Ken!

It really is a shockingly inappropriate gaffe to compare the dispute between The Council and SISU over the Ricoh to The Troubles...nobody's been shot or blown up yet, have they? He should resign for these comments alone. That said, I'd say there's more chance of Iain Paisley being elected Pope than there is of John Mutton overseeing a sale of The Ricoh to SISU, or whoever the owners are calling themselves today.

Hmmm...I'd wager there must be some hardcore Real IRA nut-job left who must have a bone to pick with this particular Orange Man. If we pay for his plane fare and give him a map to Coombe Abbey, do you think he'll "take care of business" for us?

Thing is I think he genuinely believes what he is saying, as he says he was bought in to stop the losses well we all know thats true due to the lack of investment in the team. The numbers he mentions such as contract "value" and average age of squad are better than last year. Ultimately though Mr Doolally those numbers, "value" and average age count for nothing, league points is the tally which concerns all.

It's alright Super Ken saved Northern Ireland single handedly. He is a legend...

Calm down Nonleague....your heading for a heart attack at this rate mate!

"Sisu, basically, is a bank with a load of funds in that bank from different sources....I am not an expert on hedge funds.."

No, I can see that...odd that SISU keep hiring a man who openly professes his lack of understanding of the type of business that they are involved in though, isn't it?

He's a George W.Bush type front-man; "Put up the dumbest dummy you have as the mouthpiece- bullshit baffles brains; they'll never get any coherent truth out of the mong!"

Tonylinc said:

Calm down Nonleague....your heading for a heart attack at this rate mate!

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It's all-or-nothing with me. I was gonna let it lie, and say nothing, but I couldn't let it lie, so I'm weeding out every effing bit that is blatant BS. There is, as you can see, quite a lot of it...

I wish Vic Reeves was still funny..

I'm really concerned for your health now

KD. You can't dismiss it and waffle around it but what I would say is that I was brought in to do a turn around job and have succeeded in that in record breaking time which I am pleased about.

As previously ststed you certainly turned us around / down, yet all you do is waffle around

KD. I am not an expert on hedge funds but that's my limited understanding of what's happening

So as you have no understanding of what's going on behind the scenes, how come you are a director of Otium Entertainment

KD. I will have nothing to do with the intellectual side of football / will do everything I can to support the manager and coaching staff

As you are not helping intellectually with the football side of things how will you help the manager ,... by bringing water bottles to trainning?

KD. I would rather they stayed because I rate them highly as players / Andy Thorn has forgotten more than I will ever know

So why would your opinion of players count for anything

KD. I have been dealing with transfers for years when I was at Southampton, so it is something I am skilled to do

Just how long were you at Southamton and if you are so good at dealing with transfers why have YOU failed to get players identified by the manager

KD. I took alot of stick in the summer that I was only going to sell Lukas in the transfer window and I managed to repel borders and convince him to stay even though he got a much, much better offer.

A player can surely only get a better offer if he is given permission to speak to another cllub, so that would mean you had accepted a figure for him. So how do you explain that you were willing to take the money, yet convince him to stay????? Yet Onwyge? said he had loads of calls with higher bids yet didn't answer the phone,, Lies from him and more lies from you I might suggest

KD. I can give you my veiw. It will depend on the value. If anyone comes in with an offer for any of the players I might not think it's right but sisu might think it is

You have gone on record previously as stating that sisu do not get involved in the day to day running of the club they leave that to the board of directors so how would they over rule a succesful man such as you. As you have no intellectual involvement, how is it you can put a value on a player surely that would be the managers veiw

just a little bit that the telegraph should be asking and of course the ruthless CWR sports team

"Do you think the club will go into administration before the end of the season?"

"The honest way I can answer this is that I don’t think that Abramovich is going to pull out of Chelsea any time soon but if he did they would have a problem – and I’m not trying to be facetious here."

You don't have to try at something that comes naturally, Ken. Another incredibly pointless analogy. There is nothing similar between SISU and Abramovich, aside from both being gangsters who make money out of economic losers.

"The business has been losing between £7-10million a year here and now we’re on the road to recovery. Our players are worth more than they were last year, the average age of the squad has come down to about 23 and we have got a lot more youngsters coming through, so logically, why would they (go into admin)?"

Our players are not worth more than they were last year. Westwood is looking like a 5m+ player, Turner is again looking like a Premiership defender who could fetch 3m+, King is banging goals in for fun for Birmingham and Aron looks to be exactly the kind of midfielder we need, lack, and can't afford. The players in their positions are no way near as valuable: Murphy (0-200k), Cranie/Wood/Cameron (500k tops for any, less for the last 2, and the only one of value is a Bosman in July), Platt-zero value and contract expiring, McDonald-looking close to worthless, Midfield-none as good as Aron, the older ones unsaleable, the younger ones not Championship standard yet. That's without the loss of McIndoe/Carsley/Doyle/Osbourns. Maybe he meant to say "our squad costs a lot less than it did last year"?

The honest answer to this question is, of course, "We will never go into administration as the vast majority of the supposed 30-40m debt is owed to SISU (or whoever the owners are called today). They would then lose that money, so it will not happen".