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43 minutes ago, Heatwave said:

Bruno? 🙄

That was my first thought. So he admits ripping us off with rubbish players presumably to line his own pockets with fees. I wonder if our former owner will take any legal action? 

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The court was told that Mr Pagliara and Dax Price, a fellow agent, tried to impress an undercover reporter in May 2016. At the first meeting, Mr Price revealed their willingness to be involved in corrupt player transfers. Mr O’Neill said: “They proposed schemes to become players’ agents, buy them and place them in English clubs, maintain ownership of the player and then profit from his onward sale, as well as other schemes, all to be facilitated by bribery.”

The journalists met Mr Price and Mr Pagliara, who said they could guarantee that foreign players would be “fast-tracked” into their national teams, making them eligible to play in England.

At another meeting Mr Price claimed that he was putting a manager into Port Vale, the League One club, so he could filter players into the team. “It’s almost like corruption is just staring you in the face,” he is alleged to have said.

Hmm, where could we have possibly heard this before. 

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It might not name the manager, but I think we all know to whom they are referring. What we do know is, who owned our club at the time, that’s not up for discussion. Perhaps they FA should investigate the matter. I’m sure that there would be enough circumstantial evidence to impose on our previous owner, preventing him from being involved with any other football club.

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Our ex-chairman massively undervalued the managers position. I'm not saying he put the money in the playing budget instead, but he didn't think it was worth paying good money for one.

 

It's been shown time and time again, that if you can get the right manager in place then you can give him a budget and he'll overachieve. I'd much rather we had a manager and backroom (Not just staff but the resources they need) in place to make the most of what we do have, rather than skimping in this area and then seeing the inevitable consequences. Thankfully, Carol and Kevin are from a business background where they understand that theory. I think they've backed Askey in this aspect already.

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On 19/10/2019 at 00:26, stupers said:

Our ex-chairman massively undervalued the managers position. I'm not saying he put the money in the playing budget instead, but he didn't think it was worth paying good money for one.

 

It's been shown time and time again, that if you can get the right manager in place then you can give him a budget and he'll overachieve. I'd much rather we had a manager and backroom (Not just staff but the resources they need) in place to make the most of what we do have, rather than skimping in this area and then seeing the inevitable consequences. Thankfully, Carol and Kevin are from a business background where they understand that theory. I think they've backed Askey in this aspect already.

I think this was why Adams came out publicly and said that he preferred Bratt to Smurthwaite. Hmmm.........

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