So you make your money in business, selling top of the range tech, or oil, or whatever the fuck - hiring the right people, managers, CEO's, people that add to the business, we all know the cut and thrust of the business world, these CEO's and leaders are scrupulously vetted, you understand your market, you grew that business from the ground up, so you seek out and hire from a position of knowledge, people at the top of your industry - or at least at the top level you can afford - these people are hired knowing that if they don't perform, then you are replaced. You get rich, through luck or judgement or hard work or whatever... decide to buy a new business... a football club. Suddenly throw all of your business nouse out of the window, hire people incredibly ill-equipped with no experience, or turn around and say "fuck it i'll do it myself" throw millions in investment over years, but continue to make the same mistakes, not changing things at the top boardroom/upper management level, even if you have years of stagnation or even going backwards. Going against every business ideal that made them the success they were in other sectors.
Or is it just us?
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The only thing that deflates an ego is failure and perhaps in our case that means league two football for the first time in our history.
Also, “success” is relevant. Thomas (or Roland) is wealthier than I am, but in terms of wealth (especially disposable wealth) you need to be insanely wealthy to take a club like Charlton on. The losses whilst we’re in L1 (and even in the Championship) are going to be substantial - you really need to be comfortable with those losses and be capable of funding them or bringing in investment to help.
In short, even if you have the money to buy a football club, don’t.
At this stage as thankful as I am about TS taking ownership of the club away from RD, I have absolutely no doubts that TS has no good intentions regarding us, in fact in terms of intentions i think Roland was at least honest about it. This is a vanity project, a hobby. TS has no intention of even attempting to run the club I love properly, he has just played football manager on PC and thinks that is how it works.
TBH I think he is more dangerous to our club than any other owner we have ever had until he has accepted that he doesn't know the first thing about running a football club with a long history and hires a proper CEO/board
edit ; apologies cafcfan1990 took my time to respond and missed your response - i respectfully disagree. Running a multi-million establishment as a hobby is the worst possible thing for our club in my opinion. It might be true what you say at he very top of the game but league one and lower? Disagree
I think Thomas’s heart is in the right place, and I hope he doesn’t read a lot of the stuff on twitter, it’s an angry place, and enough to send someone over the edge!
No doubt things like the status, glamour and potential profit attract owners. Probably all apply to TS. It was (is?) also an exciting project for him as a football fan, unlike RD.
He refuses to hire people with a good knowledge of football to advise him and continues to make the same mistakes.
Just because he's better than Southall does not excuse the fact that he has been in charge for three transfer windows and we are getting progressively worse.
This season will be our lowest position in living memory.
He also reckons we only need between 2 and 5 new signings next season to challenge for the top two.
Deluded.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2022/mar/12/roman-abramovich-and-chelsea-symbolise-the-rotten-state-of-football
TS is a nice guy with his heart in the right place, BUT putting Jr in a senior position with player recruitment is a huge mistake.
Sure have him on the board to make sure Tommy not being short changed, but involved with anything near the playing side is madness