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Deep, I don't know what to believe when it comes to Pompey but those are my thoughts based on what I have seen and read.
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Just to point out, I've spent many years working for and running American businesses and what I'm trying to get across is that you won't find more dispassionate people than Americans when it comes to running a business and money. Everything that has happened at Pompey in the last almost four years is exactly what I thought would happen, and whether we like it or not, if they aren't ready financially or with the club's structure then they won't want to be promoted and when they don't want something then that's exactly what they expect to happen. There's next to zero income, costs would rise through the roof in the Championship and most wealthy people got (and remain) wealthy by not putting their hands in their pocket for spurious reasons. The Eisners are no different.
It's not a conspiracy theory but based on what I know to be true in a wider context. There's nothing wrong at all with an 'eat what we kill' policy, in fact after the two recent financial meltdowns it's what we need, and the fact remains that right now we aren't killing enough to prepare for a Championship feast.
Apart from the Liverpool owners I can't recall successful American football club owners in the UK. You might argue the Glazers, although most Utd supporters wouldn't, and I think that's because how they run their businesses doesn't really suit the football club model. But that's just my opinion.
Catlin still needs to grow a pair or go though
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Rick, my experience of american companies is that they want instant success and long term profit.
In that respect their 'eat what you kill' poilicy is a breath of fresh air, but fans need to realise that that means we will probably never kill enough to be in the top 3 budgets in the league. Top 6 maybe (I believe Catlin said we were 5th at the mom), but expectations need to be more realistic. We should be in the play-offs but have no right to more than that, and thoese who think we have a divine right to promotion are as arrogant as Sunderland fans IMO.
And the long term profit can only come from promotion to the Championship, where the value of the club proably quadruples overnight if we get promotion, as of course do the costs of surviving.
But I still don't see them as the type of owners that would interfere on the playing side of things, let alone to interfere by saying 'fail'.
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Deep, I don't know what to believe when it comes to Pompey but those are my thoughts based on what I have seen and read.
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Just to point out, I've spent many years working for and running American businesses and what I'm trying to get across is that you won't find more dispassionate people than Americans when it comes to running a business and money. Everything that has happened at Pompey in the last almost four years is exactly what I thought would happen, and whether we like it or not, if they aren't ready financially or with the club's structure then they won't want to be promoted and when they don't want something then that's exactly what they expect to happen. There's next to zero income, costs would rise through the roof in the Championship and most wealthy people got (and remain) wealthy by not putting their hands in their pocket for spurious reasons. The Eisners are no different.
It's not a conspiracy theory but based on what I know to be true in a wider context. There's nothing wrong at all with an 'eat what we kill' policy, in fact after the two recent financial meltdowns it's what we need, and the fact remains that right now we aren't killing enough to prepare for a Championship feast.
Apart from the Liverpool owners I can't recall successful American football club owners in the UK. You might argue the Glazers, although most Utd supporters wouldn't, and I think that's because how they run their businesses doesn't really suit the football club model. But that's just my opinion.
Catlin still needs to grow a pair or go though
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Editing cos looks like my last post was lost ...
Rick, my experience of american companies is that they want instant success and long term profit.
In that respect their 'eat what you kill' poilicy is a breath of fresh air, but fans need to realise that that means we will probably never kill enough to be in the top 3 budgets in the league. Top 6 maybe (I believe Catlin said we were 5th at the mom), but expectations need to be more realistic. We should be in the play-offs but have no right to more than that, and thoese who think we have a divine right to promotion are as arrogant as Sunderland fans IMO.
And the long term profit can only come from promotion to the Championship, where the value of the club proably quadruples overnight if we get promotion, as of course do the costs of surviving.
But I still don't see them as the type of owners that would interfere on the playing side of things, let alone to interfere by saying 'fail'.