borntobe Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 I would be very worried if he turned up #: (
Youri McAnespie Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 Peter Risdale has darkened their door according to the BBC.
jayjayoghani Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 (edited) One Peter Ridsdale I believe http://www.lep.co.uk/news/ridsdale_named_as_new_pne_chief_1_4034390 Edited December 6, 2011 by jayjayoghani
borntobe Posted December 6, 2011 Author Posted December 6, 2011 Yep lilly whites prepare for shut down!
HomerJay Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 why whould anybody want him running their club hemmings must be going senile in is old age!
Matt Lofthouse Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 As a Wanderer who was born and lived in Preston, I?m very happy with this appointment. This should be the end of that horrible little club.
Youri McAnespie Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 13 pages and counting in just over an hour on a 'Risdale arrives' thread (PNE-Online Forum). They've (PNE) actually released a press blurb detailing his shameful CV
Youri McAnespie Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 At least he screwed Leeds. We could be swapping places with them next season...
Rembrandt Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 Did he not do a good job at Cardiff? Beat me to it, Traf. They got a new stadium & they're still challenging in the Championship. I think there might have been some financial brinkmanship along the way though, which could have gone horribly wrong.
borntobe Posted December 6, 2011 Author Posted December 6, 2011 Think he pulled others out the preverbial as well. But glad he aint at the reebok
Youri McAnespie Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 (edited) He's a carpetbagger, like the poster previous said I wouldn't want him near the Reebok. For a start our resident (not WWs - you know who I mean) investigative reporter would have a field day. Anyway, like I said, they're not best pleased up the road - 20 pages of bile in an hour and twenty minutes...oh, and some commiserations too: Pengedragon wrote: hey fellas cardiff fan just registered to genuinely wish you all the best its actually a disgrace that this bloke is still allowed anywhere in the game, keep a close eye on everything he does and get rid as soon as you can good luck Edited December 6, 2011 by Youri McAnespie
Frank Costanza Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 Read his book on holiday this year - his excuses are brilliant. The man is completely blind to all his failings, blaming everyone else but himself. That said, glad to see that he doesn't hold back on O'Leary. What a twat he is
no balls Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 Anything that pisses my brother off is good enough for me. I'm churlish like that. I'll be looking at the locals a little more smugly this afternoon.
Zico Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 Did he not do a good job at Cardiff? will let you be the judge of that, I;m saying no: He became deputy Chairman of Cardiff City, who had recruited him to help with their new stadium project, which eventually became Cardiff City Stadium. He became chairman in October 2006 after Sam Hammam stepped down. The clubs debts were estimated at ?35m, and losing ?10m each year, according to Ridsdale.[8] In mid-2007, Ridsdale campaigned to become a member of the Football Association of Wales council and hoped to be elected as one of six south Wales representatives on Welsh football's ruling body. However, when the vote took place in July he finished bottom of the candidates with just fourteen votes.[9] It has been alleged that the former Leeds chairman has flirted with disaster, trying to build a promotion-winning side while, at the same time, the Bluebirds have fought off four winding-up orders.[8] Ridsdale was forced to apologise for "misleading" fans when he conceded money raised during Christmas period 2009 from season ticket renewals for 2011 had to be spent on settling debts rather than reinforcements.[10] He announced his intention to quit as Cardiff chairman at the end of May 2010, the play-off final loss to Blackpool at Wembley Stadium on 22 May 2010 his final game, with Malaysian Consortium head Dato Chan Tien Ghee taking over as part of a ?6m deal for an estimated 30% of the club.[11] The club was estimated to have between ?10m[8] and ?30m of debt.,[11] and faced a fifth winding up order over a ?1.9m tax bill on 16 June. The publishing of the financial accounts for year 2009 in August 2010 revealed that the clubs actual debt was ?66 million, leading to concerns over the continued existence of the club.
pato Posted December 6, 2011 Posted December 6, 2011 I thought when Leeds got to the semis of the European Cup and he said it was sustainable as long as they reached the quarter finals every year. Is he advising Greece as well?
green genie Posted December 7, 2011 Posted December 7, 2011 Poor old PNE. Where to start Ref Cardiff. They would have gone pop if the Malaysians (that he had nowt to do with) hadn't turned up. He had spent most of the following season's ST sales paying off the taxman instead of on players in the January transfer window as he advertised. He was taken to court over this issue but wasn't prosecuted. He arrived in Plymouth at the request of the Directors who had run up ?18M debt (including a still unexplained ?4.9M other operating costs in one year) and introduced his mate Brendan Guilfoyle who had been administrator at Leeds. He presided over a firesale of players last January, which although needed to bring in revenue and reduce wages was obscene with most of the deals brokered by Paul Hart's son (another Yorkshire mafia connection). Brendan and Risdale then decided to ignore bid from the cash rich James Brent back a bid for the club fronted by disgraced local businessman Kevin Heaney (he is Truro FC chairman who spookily enough now face a HMRC winding up order and haven't paid players for months) who alledgedly had an Irish Consortium behind him. In this deal PR would have bought the club for ?1 as the consortium was only interested in the ground for development. They strung this charade out for six months with BG running up bills at ?270/hr and PR at ?20K/month whilst the players and more importantly the backroom staff went unpaid. When they had to admit that Heaney wouldn't be able to complete, PR dashed around Europe and New York trying to find his own funding. When he failed with that he then spouted he had been behind Brent all along. Hopefully some of the digging going on down here will manage to link him to the administrator and stop them raping another club.
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