On 09/07/2025 at 11:05, riverholmes said:

A rather irrelevant point given the tragedy, but the modern game means players lack something of their game identity. Will we remember Diogo as a great winger or striker or an amalgam?

Couldn't  give you any more precision than "forward". But I think he'll be remembered as a great finisher. I know a lot of Liverpool fans, unfortunately, who said that on his day Jota was a better finisher than Salah. If you get a key chance in the 90+ who would you want on the end of it - they said Jota over salah (they said this before he died, its not some post death bias creeping in). 

33 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

The money from sales hasn't been taken out of the club and has paid the debt off,

How does that work? 

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

how long does it take companies house to update their website?

Online submissions - fairly instant a day or so to process

Paper forms posted in - a week or more. 

The last couple of terminations were done electronically.

Silvestre was terminated on 4th April but companies house not updated till 8th May

I assume his contract wasn't terminated effective immediately and he is on some form of notice period / gardening leave so whilst not actively part of the club is still technically a director?

Absolutely mad. Looked like a really nice guy, recently married and leaves 3 little kids behind. 

20 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

this is in england,the name blackburn rovers is virtually unheard of in india,even the premier league teams,though recognized,don`t hold any importance in a country where cricket is ingrained in the culture

But the point is if their mates and peers don't know they're failing to run the club now, they're not going to suddenly know they've been fucking the club for 15 years if they quietly sold it. 

If their £200m loss making machine is an irrelevance now, is it suddenly going to be front page news if they quietly just cut it loose. I doubt it. 

51 minutes ago, simongarnerisgod said:

they`ll lose face in front of all their business partners,reputation and status is very important in india

I don't buy this one. They own a club where the fans all hate them, makes huge losses and they're currently barred from subsidising said losses and the club has never been ranked higher than the day they bought it. If they've not lost face / reputation by now and don't think selling up will do anything

1 hour ago, rigger said:

That's all a bit Hush-Hush.

I wouldn't read too much into it

Doesn't even make sense on a pay to play contract - where he is paying us to play. 

4 hours ago, RevidgeBlue said:

Probably if you're a big Southgate fan you'll be jumping up and down at these irrelevant performances and results.

Ridiculous statement. 

20 minutes ago, wilsdenrover said:

Now draw Rovers

7 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

They split the club into 3. They want CEO to run the Administration side of the club, Pasha to run the commercial side of the club and Gestede to run the football operations side of the club. 

The CEO should have accountability for it all. If he wants to delegate it out elsewhere that's fine but the buck stops with him. 

24 minutes ago, OllieNO said:

I thought this was a joke (nice one🤣), but no, it’s real 😫

https://www.linkedin.com/company/executives-in-sport-group-recruitment?originalSubdomain=uk
 

Must say it’s quite tempting to post a comment to this on LinkedIn… will I be reported and excluded from LinkedIn if I post a comment asking if this isn’t really more of a COO role?

How can this ever be called a CEO position, btw? Only reason I can think of is the fact that the position that fits the description - COO - is already taken🙈

Spam that post  

I'm nowhere near qualified to be CEO of a football club but I'm damn near qualified to get that "CEO" job. 

3 hours ago, Brfcrule1 said:

Glen while I appreciate all you're doing but I feel it's something that needs to be addressed having read the first statement from the coalition it was gramatically poor the points made were very good however in some places it didn't make sense I know how it is for some people myself included it's very difficult & so I understand how difficult it can be I do think before putting out large statements someone should proof read it before it goes out however I completely agreed with all the points made 

Would you like me to lend you some commas and full stops?

26 minutes ago, Exiled_Rover said:

What's the starting point for 'credible offers' though?

If the Venkys want their £200m back (I remain unconvinced it's all their money, but I digress) I can't see any of us having such contacts - nor is the club worth anything like that. 

It's an easy bar for the (now two) stooges to set though, knowing nobody is going to clear it. 

The thing that they have to realise is there's three scenarios

1. We get PL money and they stand a chance of clawing their money back - but they need to run the club properly to do that

2. We stay in the championship and they hold out for their 200m but end up pumping in more and more money to maintain a championship club and before long 200 becomes 300 becomes 400 

3. They stop putting money in, we slide down the leagues and suddenly they're asking for £200m for a league 2 team. 

That £200m is dead money. They need to write it off. 

If this happened in October it would have been nothing more than a tut and a shake of the head. The fact its happened on the last game of the season has raised the profile of it but ultimately its just the cherry on top of a season of shortcomings in the league.

Id give Ange another season. They sacked Jose before the league cup final and they might soon sack Ange after winning one - its very spursy. As he said himself the club needed a trophy far more than it needed a 3rd place finish. 

15 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

How it makes sense to come into a club and refuse to even consider playing anything other than a pre conveived and very specific tactic rather than actually considering the squad at his disposal is beyond me.

Crazy isn't it. If there's one way to show that you're not dynamic and adaptable as manager it's that. Surely also a wet dream for opposition managers who know exactly how he's going to set up each week. 

Managers these days are wedded too much to playing styles when really your philosophy should be to win football matches. Sometimes that's playing sexy football sometimes it's two banks of 4 and hoof it up to a big lad. 

Players thrive away from united. Its like a graveyard for players. Its hard to tell the true ability of a player whilst they're wearing a united shirt

A stakeholder is just anyone impacted by what you do so supporters are the obvious one but it would also include staff, sponsors, local businesses, residents that live nearby. In our case its largely irrelevant as they all get equally ignored

Heard he's banned anyone who might be a no vote. Squash the uprising before it starts. 

Any plans to bribe waggot onto the coalition with the offer of a curry? He knows where the skeletons are. 

17 minutes ago, Gav said:

Have them Albanians only done half a job Dom? 

Yeah but that's all I wanted them to do - I'm penny pinching. I'd have tried my hand at plastering but the wife made us get someone in.