There is nothing new about tension at a football club between the dugout and the boardroom.
Therefore, I was not surprised to hear of a rather frank tête-à-tête at Fir Park at the weekend.
I’m told that a member of the Sevco High Command caustically observed that “we should have a better product”.
My information is that the likeable Dutchman quickly responded that he didn’t have the tools to achieve that.
Moreover, he probably doesn’t have the resources he expected to have at his disposal once he had successfully navigated past PSV into the Champions League.
Dear reader, it is almost as if the money isn’t there.
Then there’s the delicate matter of the RIFC year-end accounts.
Where are they?
If they are not good reading after a stellar revenue year, then any functioning Fourth Estate should have plenty of questions for the Blue Room brethren.
Fortunately for the Sevco High Command, they only have to deal with the succulent suspects in the Stenography Corps.
Is this a harbinger of an age of austerity at Sevco?
It is a question that should be posed; just don’t expect the Stenograph Corps to be fronting up about it at a Sevco presser.
My guy said that Giovanni had a solution for the dissatisfied Blue Room brother at the weekend.
If he wasn’t happy with what was on the field of play, then the club could pay up the contracts of the management team, and that would be that.
I can see a problem with that right there…
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GVB knew the state of play, if not at the beginning of his tenure then surely at the last transfer window. He is probably getting the best out of the team he has but you only get what you pay for and the Blue Room haven’t spent the money for a CL run. HH
Sevco accounts are not due until 31 December (check Companies House). Unless they make for very good reading, I fail to see why they would be posted early? That is if they are even signed off yet.
They have to publish within 6 months of their year end… same as Celtics and most football clubs… but are required to also hold an AGM (late nov/early dec ) and have to publish in advance of that.
Halloween is their traditionally appropriate time ..
Accounts had to be submitted today for UEFA competition Participants
For Gio to say that to a Blue Room resident’s face, then he must be extremely frustrated,
and more to the point: everyone at the club must be aware that Gio is not a happy bear?
Not a good look when his team is performing poorly, and Gio himself has to erm, gee them up somehow.
As for the elusive Accounts…
I have it on good authority that they will be released on the evening of 31st October.
Apparently, the financials are quite scary. 🙂
It’s a tough job when out-performance is demanded on a constant basis.
You really would expect the succulent press corp to be asking Gio why he hasn’t spent significantly considering all the incoming transfer fees, EL and CL moneys. Has he got the money and decided he didn’t need to spend or is the money going elsewhere? Perhaps they have big bills to pay. Perhaps “soft loans” have been called in and directors are recovering these while the money’s there. I mean they have brought in money “off the radar” to paraphrase a succulent chap who is usually intrepid at least when dealing with non-sevco stories.
Maybe the succulent lambs should be asking Gio if sevco deserve to be in the CL after a 7-1 home pumping rather that posing the question to Ange who’s team made a better fist of competing in their CL games. Perhaps if sevco had splashed their cash, or opened their biscuit tin, they would have players who could compete in the CL instead of ageing veterans like McGregor and Davis and their creaky old bones trying to keep up.
Roll on the accounts. No doubt the focus of the accounts will be the incomings and the top line turnover as opposed to the outgoings and the bills to pay and player values to be written off. How’s the negotiations with Kent and Alf going anyway? Should be straight forward, neither kicked a ball against Liverpool.
JS.
Over on Ibrokes noise they have an article asking what has the board done with the £130m .
They have did their sums and state that their turnover with the EL run to the final ,the player sales and slippy Gs compo from Villa ,added up to £210m.
I kid you not
You seem to have a bit of a soft spot for Gio but I can’t see why? Like Gerrard before him he would have looked at the Skull Mountain job as a cushy number with a high chance of winning a pot or two, and as a self-serving vanity project knowing he will never come under any kind of scrutiny from the media, etc. He especially knew this, having played there once upon a time. Anyone taking on a job like this knowing what he knew deserves no sympathy at all.