It really isn't a difficult question to answer.

No

Was the FF meeting not before his departure was announced?

This is our club ❤️ You can f#@k off, Pasha. When Arsenal met Benni McCarthy:

Another feather in the cap from the Venkys and Suhail. Gone from a team producing European champions to losing against teams no one has ever heard of. All because they won't give the women's team roughly the amount of money they spent on Dennis, one of the worst ever signings in the history of the men's team.

I just watched it and can confirm it is very good. If anyone is interested in what happened with the minutes, then all is revealed in the second part.

no it`s does`nt, but not spending also puts you at risk of relegation,especially when other clubs in the division are indeed spending,this clown is supposed to be a "business man " is`nt he

1 hour and 45 minutes!? Chaddy won’t have time to watch all that 🤣

Nothing in football guarantees success but as you say a lot guarantees failures

Yes and since then of course Suhail let his views slip in the FF by saying spending doesn't necessarily guarantee success. ** So what Gestede said is probably basically correct. **Maybe it doesn't but not spending over an extended period of time is an absolutely 100% guaranteed way to fail.

I think where we are right now with strategy is the owners would rather finish 14th but have a higher squad value due to young players who can be resold than finish 7th with older players coming to the end of their careers. Is a strange place to be as a competitive football club.

What Is Gestedes idea of success here tho? Staying in the division? Hoping to hit the jackpot with a few bargain basement signings to make a few million profit to lessen the money required from the owners to keep the club running? To develop some players from the academy to sell at the earliest opportunity? Imo he isn't here to try help build a team that can get us promoted. Promotion is not on the agenda here. Broughton might not have been very good at his job but imo he wanted the club to progress and wasn't just looking at saving the owners a few quid

He was the best one i can recall in recent times although i think JDT did ok at first. Thing is with Eustace he wasn't listening to the club rhetoric he was only really bothered about results, hence why they wanted rid.

Eustace seemed to do ok with that in the first half of last season.

I'm sure Gestede said the same thing in the Allardyce podcast. Eddie put him under a bit more pressure with his questioning and he blurted out "My job is to make sure academy players develop so we can sell them" Going off both those podcasts he is an absolute clown." The fans should be happy we have a team to play on a Saturday and Tuesday night"

Your sophistry is tiresome.

If we ever had a head coach who was good at subs and game management it would gain another 5-10 points per season. Always get the impression that getting players on the pitch to gain mins and increase in value sometimes trumps common sense reactions to what's actually going on out there and occasionally its bitten us on the arse.

It’s a possibility that certain posters will be more balanced with pronouncements and thinking less dogmatic than Pravda, the Taliban or QAnon. Or that the Raos will develop some football acumen, interest and increase spending, that Pasha will resign, that more money will be spent on players and the fabric of the building, that the astonishing haughty approach to the fans will change or the club will stop falling into decline…whether it happens....

There can't be many clubs where sales have 0% impact on the transfer budget. It's a ludicrous statement unless the club is in deep financial peril and needs every penny to keep the lights on.

Yeah, that's fair enough. There is definitely a contradiction in what Gestede has said. In a couple of interviews he said what I mentioned, about the plan being to reinvest. Later though, he has clearly said something else i.e sales don't affect our transfer budget. That was the last thing he said on the matter, so presumably that is the current situation. It could be a language barrier thing and him being put on the spot. Or it could be a changing of the goalposts from somebody above him. We have heard rumours of the latter before. If paragraph 2 above is what was told to Ismael at the start in good faith, but then the situation changed, as per para 3, then you begin to see why there are some theories that he has been sold a dream and that this has a similar feel to JDT and Eustace. Theories, though. All we can do is see how it plays out.

They’d just cut back on expenditure. They’re way past caring now, if they ever cared in the first place. We’re just a broken toy.

Dexys Midnight Runners - Keep It (Part 2)

This is the scary bit.

Beaten by Cheadle Town Stingers. Wonder how long it'll be before similar ignominy is being heaped on the mens' side?