Evangelos Marinakis Megathread!

[IdiotTricky]

Just came across this. It's from last August, so apologies if it's been posted before. Thought it might interest some of you.

It claims that the figures are adjusted for inflation, but I'm not sure football follows the normal rules of inflation, especially in the days of Boehly and the Saudis!

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/does-spending-big-save-newly-promoted-premier-league-teams-from-relegation/

 

[stockers]

All of this additional ticketing revenue is irrelevant if you then simply end up putting it in Jonjo Shelvey’s pay packet.. We really needed to sell the best part of 100,000 pointless memberships to offset that complete fuckups wages.

 

[Eddie Yates]

All of this additional ticketing revenue is irrelevant if you then simply end up putting it in Jonjo Shelvey’s pay packet.. We really needed to sell the best part of 100,000 pointless memberships to offset that complete fuckups wages.

Shock horror

Football club makes a poor signing

 

[Matt]

All of this additional ticketing revenue is irrelevant if you then simply end up putting it in Jonjo Shelvey’s pay packet.. We really needed to sell the best part of 100,000 pointless memberships to offset that complete fuckups wages.

Agreed, but the club couldn’t have known how badly the Shelvey (or Arter!) signings were gonna go. On paper both made great sense.

Sometimes it just don’t work

 

[SouthManchesterTree]

All of this additional ticketing revenue is irrelevant if you then simply end up putting it in Jonjo Shelvey’s pay packet.. We really needed to sell the best part of 100,000 pointless memberships to offset that complete fuckups wages.

I kind of agree but no club is ever going to get all signings right

You could equally argue the increase goes to the wages of Taiwo, MGW, Danilo…

 

[adam09]

Agreed, but the club couldn’t have known how badly the Shelvey (or Arter!) signings were gonna go. On paper both made great sense.

Sometimes it just don’t work

How did they make great sense? Neither have been any good for years. Limited centre mids was the last thing we needed.

 

[Flaggers]

All of this additional ticketing revenue is irrelevant if you then simply end up putting it in Jonjo Shelvey’s pay packet.. We really needed to sell the best part of 100,000 pointless memberships to offset that complete fuckups wages.

The club is working hard to meet that target.

 

[DizzyBala]

The club is working hard to meet that target.

Jonjo got employed so we have to pay £9 for a overbaked enema from the concourse.

 

[Est.1865]

Seems to be raising his profile in the game.

Appointed president of the Greek Superleague for the next 2 season, managed to get Oly the gig of hosting the UEFA Super Cup. Could end up quite an influential figure.

 

[Redemption]

He was elected as the President last year too. Not sure if this is a profile raising exercise.

 

[Est.1865]

It seems to be IMO especially with his increased interaction with senior UEFA representatives.

 

[Strummer]

I think he wants a plum UEFA role so he can find some way to stitch-up Panathanaikos.

 

[Cortez the Killer]

I think he wants a plum UEFA role so he can find some way to stitch-up Panathanaikos.

Ah. He's playing the long game.

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[GreeksBearingGifts]

He was elected as the President last year too. Not sure if this is a profile raising exercise.

His involvement in the Greek Superleague has a purely local agenda. As the president of the association of clubs in the top tier of professional football he has a de jure role in the executive committee of the Greek Football Association, a very corrupt and incompetent organization. He is pushing hard for professional refereeing, which the GFA vehemently opposes because it gives their ridiculously overpaid executives a chance to run the show. The president of the GFA is a former VP of Panathinaikos (and a far-right politician, with some connections with the now defunct neo-Nazi party a few years back), and he has been at open war with EM for many years (in fact, this is how he got elected at the GFA).

This has nothing to do with international football profile; it's all very local, very Balkan, very messy.

 

[eyupmeduck]

New chairman, didn't expect that especially at this stage of the season

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[HBB]

Hope it goes well with the new guy but Cartledge's can be tricky things

 

[Otis Redding]

Hope it goes well with the new guy but Cartledge's can be tricky things

Am I right in thinking that Tom has a senior role with Benoy?

 

[mister]

Am I right in thinking that Tom is a senior part of the set-up with Benoy?

Yes.

Cartledge, who hails from the Newark area of Nottinghamshire and is a boyhood Forest fan, is the chief executive of Handley House, the parent company for four international businesses specialising in design and architecture.

One of those businesses is Benoy, the Newark-based firm that designed the plans to redevelop of the City Ground with a new 10,000-seat Peter Taylor stand.

Forest announced the plans in February 2019 and, having hit a series of delays ever since, the club hope that Cartledge’s involvement will help the process run more smoothly.

Forest appoint Tom Cartledge as new chairman

Nottingham Forest have appointed Tom Cartledge as their new chairman after deciding to make changes at the top of the club. Nicholas Randall, who had been chairman since Evangelos Marinakis’ takeover in 2017, will remain on the board but has been reduced to the role of non-executive director, on...

theathletic.com

 

[Omar Devone Little]

New chairman, didn't expect that especially at this stage of the season

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Doesn't want to be associated with the club following the Montiel signing clearly...

 

[Heffing Psycho!]

Doesn't want to be associated with the club following the Montiel signing clearly...

Been in the pipeline for a few weeks, way before Montiel.

 

[HBB]

Doesn't want to be associated with the club following the Montiel signing clearly...

Yeah that's right because nothing says "doesn't want to be associated with the club" like staying on the board (even as a non-exec director) ...

 

[Haych]

Seems very out of the blue.

 

[GreeksBearingGifts]

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Am I right in thinking that Tom has a senior role with Benoy?

So does this mean that the rebuilding of the City Ground becomes a big priority?

 

[Berkshire Red]

Seems very out of the blue.

Why? Did you expect these things to be discussed in the open?

 

[Otis Redding]

So does this mean that the rebuilding of the City Ground becomes a big priority?

It possibly suggests so.