Evangelos Marinakis And Co

[Strawberry Avenger]

I agree and you would be naive to think anything other than EM is ultimately in it to get PL money. The frustrating thing as DR says is that he could have had it. They have financial backing and the knowhow to run a Champions League football club yet have made mistakes that a novice owner would make.

Ive not given up on EM yet, still believe his intentions were good even if money driven and he is ultimately a winner. Yes it will be interesting to see what happens with the new stand, if planning still comes through etc, they looked serious enough to push it through by schmoozing a government minister over the summer.

It could be that he has realised the time and effort it ultimately requires to get out of the sodding championship. He has big businesses to run and his main club - maybe he feels he can't devote enough effort to Forest to get us where we need to be?

That's a mighty fine bit of reasoning there Shawoddy and is a valid consideration. He is successful in all of his ventures and NFFC must be like a massive millstone around his neck, dragging him down in terms of his successes

Probably a large part of the reason if this is correct but surely the expression ‘eyes wide open’ applies?
Disappointing if it happens due to that Groundhog Day feeling but get it done quietly and quickly so there is minimum disruption. Maybe one day an owner will finally get it right or we will get a slice of Leicester level luck.

I dunno about eyes wide open....I work a lot in Africa and the amount of people that try to do business there, who are very successful elsewhere else is astonishing! I'm not trying to compare Africa to the Champoinship but it's not just a copy and paste from his Greek league success. Perhaps he thought it would be perhaps, but looks like it's not been as he had hoped.

Culture.

It shouldn't be under-estimated.

And I think it was.

You can't necessarily 'cookie cutter' things like that.

SA.

[Strawberry Avenger]

I agree and you would be naive to think anything other than EM is ultimately in it to get PL money. The frustrating thing as DR says is that he could have had it. They have financial backing and the knowhow to run a Champions League football club yet have made mistakes that a novice owner would make.

Ive not given up on EM yet, still believe his intentions were good even if money driven and he is ultimately a winner. Yes it will be interesting to see what happens with the new stand, if planning still comes through etc, they looked serious enough to push it through by schmoozing a government minister over the summer.

It could be that he has realised the time and effort it ultimately requires to get out of the sodding championship. He has big businesses to run and his main club - maybe he feels he can't devote enough effort to Forest to get us where we need to be?

That's a mighty fine bit of reasoning there Shawoddy and is a valid consideration. He is successful in all of his ventures and NFFC must be like a massive millstone around his neck, dragging him down in terms of his successes

Probably a large part of the reason if this is correct but surely the expression ‘eyes wide open’ applies?
Disappointing if it happens due to that Groundhog Day feeling but get it done quietly and quickly so there is minimum disruption. Maybe one day an owner will finally get it right or we will get a slice of Leicester level luck.

A few models to promotion: 

1) Smash your way up by gambling & cheating big time on ffp (Wolves)
2) Slowly build your way up (Brighton), 
3) Get a decent coach and let him coach the club (Sheff Utd, Leeds)
4) Go off piste or be a boutique club and do things differently (Brentford, Bournemouth)

We've got none of these going atm. Our best chance is probably hope for a new manager to come in and perform a miracle.

We haven't got the patience for 2 and 3.  The money for 1. Plan B is no.4, I take it. Have we got the consistency to stick with that? The patience? It would be better if we have no choice but to follow 4. Then all can grudgingly accept it and hope recruitment can grow their magic beans into beanstalks. *(Selling the odd Academy cow to keep the giant from the door.)

It's about consistency.  And Forest haven't had the courage of their convictions.

The club talk about not fit for purpose, appoint a Forest Way style coach and get rid of him for 4(?  I"ve lost count...) attritional managers.

The club let go Warburton, Aitor, MoN.  Keane.  They clearly can't cope with strong characters.  There seems to be a brittle ness there.

Why bring them in the 1st place.  You bring in Hughton.  It takes a year to back him with permanent players.  He's still out to dry on a striker.  And yet is expect to get a 'nice boy' team (that is barely better than the one that nearly got relegated on paper...) to beat the likes of Cardiff, Boro, yer Millwalls (when Forest struggled with supposed 'better' recruitment.)

A miracle?  Luckily.  We do have 'Christ Hughton'.  He did perform a miracle last season in keeping Forest up.  (An under appreciated fact by many because they thought last year's players were 'good enough.'  So good they were murdered in the crib and thrown out in the trash, saving millions on Forest's wages turnover.)

My opinion is he will find a way to start picking up points.  It may not be pretty.  (But nice boy football doesn't work as we saw on Saturday.  Forest aren't good enough to play football against the likes of Cardiff.  How do you play your football if you're getting man handled?  Where are the Archie Gemmils, Birtles?  Woodcocks?  Robertsons?  Bower?  The veteran calmness of Captain Govern.)

It was lost on Randall what all the promoted clubs had.  He didn't think there was any magic ingredient?

I was surprised a crack legal whiz didn't get it.  Had he not choked on his 'short-term-ism?'

Consistency.  And for 24 years.  Forest haven't had it.

SA.

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Lets stay on track please lads.

This is the EM thread.

[Reds73]

Lets stay on track please lads.

This is the EM thread.

So in your opinion Sniff, has EM almost admitted to himself that he cant’t succeed, and therefore isn’t prepared to fund us to the tune of probably around 20m a year ?

Do you think he is actively looking to sell, or was he approached by an interested party.

So in a nutshell - do you think he is committed to succeeding even if a new owner is not forthcoming 

Be good to have your opinion on this

[Sniffer Dog (Admin)]

Reds73 I can't say too much on this because it's not been reported on so it's not in the open so i want to tread carefully as I am sure you can appreciate.

Question number 2 I honestly don't know.

Question number 1 and 3 I prefer not to answer and not to get involved if you don't mind.

[Username]

Good little summary that Paplane.

The problem with this club though is that it crosses philosophies. We buy a 13m creator, we then go on to employ managers who don't play with a player in his position. We employ a proven manager like Hughton who brings in some decent loans like Garner & Krovi (considering the position we were in), and we then decide it's time to impose someone to recruit over him. We takl about playing "Forest style football" to paraphrase in the open letter, then we sack the passing/attacking manager to bring in 4 attritional/defensive ones Etc.

Frankly, whoever is making these decisions at the club is an idiot.

Cracking post Alf

[TwangandBoots]

TwangaandBoots Sniffer lives in Greece he's definitely not Jom and not even close.
Sniffer actually gets stuff right.

He said he wasn't Jom. I just guessed it might have been him due to the similarities.

It wasn't meant as an insult, I appreciate(d) the gossip from both of them. I have no idea what the strike rate is for either of them, nor do I care. It is vaguely entertaining, unlike the football being played at present.

[TwangandBoots]

We will wanted and still want EM to be a success... there has been so much good done off the pitch and behind the scenes but what’s happened over 4 years on the pitch is beyond belief.

I refuse to believe EM has given up and will let us sink to league 1.

But equally I also hope that if we do sell it is to someone who doesn’t own another football club. I honestly believe this is where the issues have arisen. Apply the same tactics to those that work in the Mickey Mouse Greek league in the championship will never work.

I mean the worst owners are often the ones that come with no footballing background as they have no idea what they're doing. Also, they're often the ones in it for financial gain which isn't very likely unless you manage to establish yourself at the top

Hopefully if EM does sell, the next owner will take advantage of our connections, and look to appoint someone like Stuart Pearce to help run the club. 

I mean, how the **** has Johnny Owen, a Cardiff fan who's trade is in the film industry, got a position on our board?

My understanding is that he isn't a very pleasant person either

[TwangandBoots]

Has EM ownership been any better than Fawaz?

OK so theres no pizzagate or ASDA training balls, but he has sold our talent and the club has steadily gone backwards in relation to the starting point in the league.

If he does sell, which I doubt, history will tell a story of a failed Greek ownership. Hardly a legacy, and that is why I believe he is made of sterner stuff.

[Marinakis Red]

Has EM ownership been any better than Fawaz?

OK so theres no pizzagate or ASDA training balls, but he has sold our talent and the club has steadily  gone backwards in relation to the starting point in the league.

If he does sell, which I doubt, history will tell a story of a failed Greek ownership. Hardly a legacy, and that is why I believe he is made of sterner stuff.

Currently as it stands and hypothetically speaking our position stays the same then the ownership can only be described as worse than fawaz, not something I thought id never be contemplating thinking nevermind writing. Being in charge when were relegated to league 1 in the same amount of time fawaz had us would be catastrophic so no wonder he may well want to sell quickly not to have that attached to his name. But it's too late for that now unless things drastically change quickly.

That will hurt the big man for sure if he is a born winner.

[Shawoddyred]

To be honest, these rumours could indicate any number of possible scenarios and could also indicate nothing other than we've had a couple of chats outside the bogs in some fancy restaurant in New York.

Could also be that EM might want to bring in another party to share the burden? Could it be an agreement with another club, stateside? So many possibilities!

[McDurban]

If he is going to sell it'd be nice if it was just announced as done out of the blue, rather than being one of those long drawn out affairs that are tedious and so debilitating for clubs.

I remember the multiple 'new owners' threads on Vital, before it degenerated into the farce it is now.

I think everyone needs to take a step back. Kind of wish I hadn't hinted at it now.

Nothing is close but they are willing and some chats with those in the west have already taken place.

That's it, I'm saying no more because it can get taken out of context. These things can drag on for ages as we know.

Sorry, but that's *really* made me chuckle now. Reminds of of Jom (if anyone remembers him) and his 'look to the East' hints.  :D

That's his name, I made the look west comment on another thread and then starting wondering what the name of the poster was who launched the look east.
I enjoyed OldJom from back in the 606 days.