| Mark Ashton - one of those most successful CEOs in football 12:13 - Aug 10 with 1913 views | John_Warks_Willy |
since he joined Town?
Must be on ‘the list’ for many many clubs and investors should he ever leave or can be prized away?
Surely - when looked at as a general trend - one of the more successful in achieving a net gain on transfer fees (at least for our size of club)?
Has repeatedly come good in the majority of transfer windows.
Many more positives than I can be bothered to write
Then why do I see a growing number of posts seemingly questioning him? It’s a minority, but still.
We are so lucky to have him right now. Could it be argued he is more important to us than McKenna even? [Post edited 10 Aug 12:14]
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| Mark Ashton - one of those most successful CEOs in football on 10:44 - Aug 11 with 89 views | darkhorse28 |
| Mark Ashton - one of those most successful CEOs in football on 17:24 - Aug 10 by Nutkins_Return |
I had to stop reading because this was primarily taking the worst possible outlook on every scenario over the last 18 months with a bit of fantasy/speculation thrown in. |
But they’re all measures. They aren’t opinions.
That you had to stop processing it, says it all, we aren’t a cult that blindly follow off a cliff.
None of ‘the most succesful CEO’s’ operate in the EFL for their entire 35 year careers, and when they have a chance to step up, fail dramatically at WBA and Ipswich.
You wouldn’t need to follow football for a day to see by definition, the elite CEO’s operate at one or even two levels above.
Sadly, for us, and Mark you don’t need to be a very good CEO, which he is in the EFL for sure.
You need to be world class at the level above.., there a levels.
It seems a bigger step up now off the field than it is on the pitch.
If he was elite, how do you spend £150 million in a year.., then end up with an expensive squad that won’t get as many points as our league one group?
It’s been poor decision after poor decision.., even Mcknna contract was a poor decision, you can’t pay a world class salary in the EFL.., see our player sales if you don’t believe me.
I don’t know how you think blind emotion and burying heads in the sand helps?
We need to stay positive, but that’s rooted in fantasy.
We wasted huge opportunity, and committed to years of additional liabilities, that we will see the financial consequences of for potentially decades if we don’t go up.
That’s where we are.
Look at our transfer business if you don’t believe me.
We will sell £90 million worth of players, all our best players will have left, replaced with loans .
And that’s the best CEO in football?
It’s not even an average CEO with those generational opportunities.
Maybe Ashton benefits from our lack of success and the spectre of Clegg.
Sadly, he has to be measured against other clubs and in context.
23/24 was sensational, and he deserves full credit for that success, an unbelievable season.
And back to back promotions is generational success for the level.
But even second to Plymouth with twice their budget.
If Ashton is elite, what does that make the Plymouth CEO??
Serious question?
Above us, with 30% out budget.., and a manger and group of players, who have had zero success since.., so half our ability, a third our budget, and finished above us.
Sorry, our league one success is expected with our fan base and budget and players like Chaplin and Sam who were 100% recruited by Cook!
Sorry if the evidence doesn’t make you feel warm and fuzzy .., but it’s true.
If we don’t go up.., the liabilities are horrific, and already the squad is being stripped to cover Ashtons failures.
Yet a rump of fans who don’t understand the financial consequences.., still look at our EFL recent past and can’t see the reality.
We aren’t a league one club.., we never really were and so aren’t Leeds, Sheffield, Man Coty, Forest, Sunderland etc
You need higher expectations for our club.
It’s not ‘supporter of the year’ stuff happy clapping Ashton while time burns.
This is our future.
Look at our player exits at the end of the window.., and we’ll pick this thread up.
£80 million bet sakes are loading.
And that’s 100% because we aren’t for sale, due to Ashton telling the owners, giving a manager a champions league contract and £150 million to spend should secure our top flight status.
We got the worst points total in the clubs history!!
Out legacy group costing peanuts, couldn’t have done worse.
And now we would be investing maybe £50 million to get back up, instead we are selling close to £100 million gross.
That’s not an elite CEIO
It’s someone massively out of their depth outside the EFL.., woeful executive decision making, completely devoid of strategy.
So poor if the owners didn’t need continuity for the sake, he’d be sacked.
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| Mark Ashton - one of those most successful CEOs in football on 10:51 - Aug 11 with 67 views | Reuser_is_God |
Bit of a marmite character but clearly good at his job & done wonders for this football club.
However he’s not more important than McKenna, not in a month of Sundays. |  |
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