Ex-Chairman's Statement

[zulu]

how can you force him to sell

[valiant_593]

A good statement from him to be fair.

[valiant_593]

I don't think anyone has got what they want.

When we sang get out of our club, that's what we want. Sell up and **** off, not hide away like a ******* coward, watching the demise of the club.

 

He needs to sell the club in a month. That's decent enough timescale. If he's still here after that then he needs to be found and forced to sell up.

The man is an evil coward.

 

Come on.

 

He's been a disaster of a chairman in many respects, but given what's happened surely he's done nothing wrong here?

 

Stepped down leaving someone who knows what their doing (apparently) in control.

 

He's said he's looking for a buyer and surely it would be in his interests as well to get it sold asap?

 

Glad he's gone, hopefully we do get sold fast and hopefully no managerial changes are made until the club is sold.

[PVTony]

Until Smurf finds a buyer he wil pocket any money coming into the club e.g. S/t sales and any small amount that he can sell Smith for.

 

He will claw back what ever he can and leave Port Vale in a very much worse state than when he bought it.

 

I can only visualise the club at the base of L2 next season struggling like Leyton Orient did this season.

[Ben]

Surely the football league will require clarification of what is happening? or maybe not knowing them and who they let into football.

[Andy06]

I'm sure they knew prior to smurf even mentioning it been abit odd as he's been very very quiet before this announcement today

 

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[Family Stand Terrier]

Garlick needs to come out ASAP and provide a statement as to where we go from here first to tell us the Management structure including the Team Manager and new Season Ticket prices

 

The Fans who have deserted us because of Smurf need to come back and support our club going forward as most critics have said that we need to be run within our means which in the grand scheme of things is a League Two club!

 

We will be a bigger fish in a smaller pond next year and we enjoy bigger gates than most of the clubs that are left so I can't see us failing to work within our turnover, its not like we have a load of Players under large contracts so it will be a situation where we have to live within our means until the club has sold

 

When we are eventually sold I would hope that our 'toxic' fans get behind the new regime and support whoever it is insteadd of launching vendettas to discredit them again and so we go on!!

 

You can't help but blame the fans can you. It's beyond a joke now. Your ************ of a friend has had you wrapped around his little finger from day one, and you still can't see it can you.

 

He became Chairman of a newly promoted L1 club. The fanbase was positive, with zero resentment of his ownership. We owned the ground, had no debts, and had seen two of the highest attendances at Vale Park for decades.

 

In 4 years, he's taken us back to L2, riddled us with debt (owed to him), taken ownership of the ground, divided the fanbase again, and seen attendances plummet.

 

Now all of that has been "achieved", he has simply walked away, stuck two fingers up at us and said, you lot can sort that mess out. I'm off, but I'll still own the ground and take the rent from the new owners.

 

He's had everyones pants down...and yet after all that, you still find a way to blame the fans. Staggering. Wake...the ****....up!!!

 

If a new owner comes in, and repeats those same mistakes, you better believe it, I'll be shouting from the rooftops about how **** they are, as should every single person who has ever dared to refer to themselves as a Vale fan.

 

I hope to god that's not the case though. Believe it or not, despite all of the, "be careful what you wish for" and "we could be a lot worse off, look at etc etc FC" warnings you come out with... there are actually clubs out there that are run properly. They make a profit, they attract investment, they attract sponsorship, they work with the fans, not against them, they don't threaten reduced investment if fans don't turn up, they don't treat professional managers and players like dirt thus soiling the reputation of their clubs. Basically, there is another way, and it's not too much to ask for.

[Wise Owl]

You can't help but blame the fans can you. It's beyond a joke now. Your ************* of a friend has had you wrapped around his little finger from day one, and you still can't see it can you.

 

He became Chairman of a newly promoted L1 club. The fanbase was positive, with zero resentment of his ownership. We owned the ground, had no debts, and had seen two of the highest attendances at Vale Park for decades.

 

In 4 years, he's taken us back to L2, riddled us with debt (owed to him), taken ownership of the ground, divided the fanbase again, and seen attendances plummet.

 

Now all of that has been "achieved", he has simply walked away, stuck two fingers up at us and said, you lot can sort that mess out. I'm off, but I'll still own the ground and take the rent from the new owners.

 

He's had everyones pants down...and yet after all that, you still find a way to blame the fans. Staggering. Wake...the ****....up!!!

 

If a new owner comes in, and repeats those same mistakes, you better believe it, I'll be shouting from the rooftops about how **** they are, as should every single person who has ever dared to refer to themselves as a Vale fan.

 

I hope to god that's not the case though. Believe it or not, despite all of the, "be careful what you wish for" and "we could be a lot worse off, look at etc etc FC" warnings you come out with... there are actually clubs out there that are run properly. They make a profit, they attract investment, they attract sponsorship, they work with the fans, not against them, they don't threaten reduced investment if fans don't turn up, they don't treat professional managers and players like dirt thus soiling the reputation of their clubs. Basically, there is another way, and it's not too much to ask for.

 

Excellent post.

 

 

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[Guppy 4 England]

He became Chairman of a newly promoted L1 club. The fanbase was positive, with zero resentment of his ownership. We owned the ground, had no debts, and had seen two of the highest attendances at Vale Park for decades.

 

Not defending anyone, but....

 

He was chairman before we went up, we didnt own the ground, we had lots of debts.

[CambridgeDon]

My feelings too, BUT what if the sale of the Club takes time and by that I mean the time any manager needs to agree new players etc,etc. We could well find ourselves in a situation without a new owner rubber stamping any contracts/deals for a long, long time and that really would balls up our start to the new campaign.

 

The more I look at Smurf's statement the more concerned I become wondering when he will sell up? It takes time to agree this but have we, Port Vale FC got that time? In the interim are we to believe that Garlick/Brown/or another have Smurf's agreement to get rid/purchase players for Division 2? If a sale of the club is imminent will the new regime not want to have their say in who is manager/ who is to be retained/ who is to be recruited?

 

Vale at present are in a mess and how can the current people at the Club do all of the above IF we are to have new owners soon? If I was a prospective buyer I would want to install ALL of MY people , not be lumbered with those possibly left behind or possibly wanted at this point in time. Unless there really is a buyer in the next few days I can see one almighty bigger mess on the horizon.

 

You just have to love football don't you to actually make any sense out of the Circus that we are.

 

You are right about the timing. In an ideal world, we could do with a quick sale that enables the club to go forward and plan properly for the new season. The dilemma for Smurf is that, assuming there are interested parties willing to take on the club, he could probably achieve that (and so get the Vale out of his hair) BUT not at the same time recouping his investment (meaning he would have to walk away with a significant loss). But if he delays, in the hope that he can sell at a better price, he has to continue to ensure the club is solvent or, if not, declare it bankrupt or take it into administration.

 

My observation on this is that Norman seems determined to get his money back and whether, ultimately, he cares about the implications for the club is anyone's guess. You would hope from his comments that he has given this some thought and also considered his own dignity and reputation. Going down in history as someone who saved but then destroyed a football club, particularly one as old and respected as the Vale, is not something many people would want.

 

Time for all good supporters to come to the aid of their football club, to coin a phrase.

[Family Stand Terrier]

Not defending anyone, but....

 

He was chairman before we went up, we didnt own the ground, we had lots of debts.

No he didn't. He became Chairman in May 13, after promotion. His actions since then have led us to this point.

 

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[toyahw]

It's so funny watching the Smurf fans blaming everything on anything other than their man. What a bunch of *********.

[Doha]

When we are eventually sold I would hope that our 'toxic' fans get behind the new regime and support whoever it is insteadd of launching vendettas to discredit them again and so we go on!!

 

Oh for ***** sake John. Come on.

 

How much did you enjoy that relegation ride? I didn't.

[Santa]

No he didn't. He became Chairman in May 13, after promotion. His actions since then have led us to this point. [/url]

Norman was nominally the CEO up until that point, although he had us believe that Wildes was spending all his money and he didn't have a clue what was going on.

[Paul6754]

Considering Smurf has had much time to think about that statement, well before Sunday, it contains a number of untruths the biggest one being, " When considering Bruno’s replacement I interviewed a very successful established manager who stated that my loyalty to the people I employ was my achilles heel".

 

He would have been considering Bruno's replacement well before Bruno left in Dec 2016 and a long time after the dirty tricks he played on Rob Page and his players. He had no loyalty whatsoever to the people he employed, anyone who had would never have played such underhand games.

 

Smurf I don't buy that inept statement and crocodile tears. Have the decency and courage of your convictions and sell for what you paid for PVFC to a new owner who has the best interests of the club at heart, a local company, Synectics and do it now.