And why do we want to "explore overseas?" Cheaper wages. I very much doubt that Eustace's only grievance was transfers. Im not convinced there is a self imposed wage cap but I am pretty sure that its an unwillingness to offer competitive wages (throw in some general incompetence at all levels) that means that basically all of our key players have 0 or 1 year left and dont seem close to anything new.

Thanks for response Tompill2

The funniest scene was Sunderland's scouts listing Ibrahimovic on their target list.

Some other young players 😀

and what happens if the wage cap rumour is wrong? I wouldn't have been offering Batth a straight 2 year contract if that what Derby have offered him to sign there. Eustace jumped ship cos he wanted more say and mostly full control of transfers which he now as Derby I would guess hence when you look at his signings they are former players of his from previous clubs or experience championship players like Morris. That's is how he wants his squad. Rovers want to explore the overseas like we done the last 2 summers windows with some signings which have worked out and we are looking at continue with the plan from Gestede, Owen and Ismael.

Both Waggot and Mowbray mentioned the Barnsley model a few years ago when ironically at the time they'd challenged the play offs under Ismael. They had the all in one first team and academy complex i think on one site and were quite advanced with their tech and coaching at the time. Focusing on academy products and scouring the lower leagues with the aim of most of their first team being made up of produced players rather than bought ones. No idea what's going on there now but their model has only been successful in creating a low budget, low expense top 10 league 1 club.

Because Suhail clearly prefers to be the dickhead he is with as little attention as possible.

I think the next CEO from the job advert is just chief administrative role with no involvement or say in the commercial side or the Football side of the club. Yes the CEO should run the club for the owner or the Owner as CEO run the club is how a club should be run. I have previously mentioned how I would run Rovers if I was the owner and it wouldn't be the way it is now,

Why they just don't appoint Suhail as CEO and appoint a Deputy CEO under him to do the administrative role surely would be better for them When I read the job advert for the CEO which was for the role here and its genuine, I posted it was Chief Administrator role with little say in the commercial side of the club or Football side of the club, Which Suhail fills one and Gestede/Owen fill the other. I said it like the club have been split into 3 different companies with 3 different heads running them Who says all good, nothing to see here? Do I think Martin Bain would be awful or bad appointment or even good appointment, tbh I have mixed feelings on him. On the Sunderland, the blame has to be on the owner Ellis Short who cut all funding to the club and refuse to put another penny into the club. Bain made 2 appointments which on the face of it should have ok/good appointment but neither backed by the owner. People mentioned asset stripping but if the owner has stop funding and the club has only the money it gets in to spend that what you can only spend. Some of the other things like comments about Rodwell or other things show him in a poor light but you honestly do think that happens at most football clubs if that situation. The pool incident was poor from him. He stand up for Rangers minority stakeholders against the sale of the club to Craig Whyte and He was proved right. Rangers crashed and burned after the sale went through. At Maccabi Tel Aviv, Bain was the CEO during their domestic treble win and Champions League qualification. He also negotiated a record financial TV package for the club. Said that as soon as I read the job advert cos no have say in commercial or football side of the club What the Barnsley model please?

Lets just hope he can do all his talking on the pitch.

As are the players, ground staff, marketing and HR folks. And as we know, in this life, if you pay peanuts.... This is a very f'ed up world, where Orange Buffoons play puppet to crazed and blood-thirsty lunatics and Horse-riding psychopaths speak in snake-eyes from the end of ridiculous long tables. Football should be a welcome diversion for the masses, and should allow us escape from the awful realities of human suffering. Instead, we are treated like idiots and expected to swallow relentless shit dressed up as a football club. Stop the ride. I want to get off. VENKYS OUT!

If it helps you feel a bit easier he has dual nationality with Cape Verde.

Shaw, Agnew, Shebby, Senior then choas without even a CEO until Waggot so why is this one going to be any different ? 'Cue the "Give the guy a chance ffs" brigade. When the writing on the tin says what's inside it that's what comes spilling out of it when it's opened. The most worrying post Waggot thing is the real CEO now has free reign without challenge this end. That is truly petrifying.

why does it matter?

Andy Zaltzman has a fascinating stat in his Observer column today. Across the world and in England & Wales except Headingley runs per wicket have been greater in the first innings, then 2nd, then 3rd and then 4th, as you might expect. At Headingley it is exactly the reverse - the best innings has been the 4th.

Nothing ultimately changes until the owners change. The COO, the CEO and HoF are all paid employees, nothing more.

Sorry to be an old fart, but this reminds me of seeing Genesis at the Amethyst Club in Preston. A quick google search tells me it was 30th September 1971 - no idea how much I paid but something online tells me that Genesis were paid £75 for it. My memory thinks there were only about 20 of us there. The Amethyst was a Thursday night residency at the Hibernia club on Avenham Lane and all sorts of other bands also played there around that time. I also saw them earlier that year at the Floral Hall in Southport with Lindisfarne and Van Der Graf Generator - the latter were top of the bill. Ticket price 50p.

Don't see what difference it makes whom we have in this position... Ultimately the club's still being run by the same people..

it matters not who our ceo is,the man really in charge is pasha,the new ceo will have the job of being the public figurehead and taking all the flack from the fans,snake like pasha will be still be slithering about in the background

What annoys me about Buckley is that what he can do and bring can't really be taught. Some of his vision stuff is fantadtoc. But the stuff which is basic and can be taught he doesn't do. That three different managers haven't drummed it into him doesn't auger well but there's definitely a case of what could have been with the lad.

Interestingly I watched it with the wife who has no interest in football. She enjoyed it too and had no idea prior to watching that they got relegated again. I think seeing her incredulity of the situation helped reinforce how nuts the whole thing was.

Funniest series I've ever seen and not in a good way

Having watched the documentaries- which really are excellent- I can't say I'm excited to have him here. Not sure Grayson was a bad shout, with 4 promotions for few failures at that point, but the contracts and the way the season went showed he was plenty culpable. The moment that stands out was Bain overseeing a machine that was brought to aid revoerely that none of the team used but that he did. Sunderland were a basket case club. So are we, so it's a good fit in that respect. The solution to some problems however - I'm far less confident of.

One thing people overlook when it comes to cheap punts and clever work in the transfer market is that under the previous competent regime it was always combined with spending proper money on players too. Nelson and Mokoena came in on the cheap - at the same time we paid good money for Savage. We had punts on whether strikers like Fowler & Jeffers had anything in them - at the same time as paying for the likes of McCarthy and Santa Cruz. Nothing wrong with punts so long as they are combined with proper investment. That never happens with this lot.

Now, they really are taking the piss and pushing it our face.. Will this nightmare ever end? Just fuck off Suhail and all of your agent, clubkiller friends!