Our Board v Brightons Board. Shows where the issues lay

[wainy]

But we're not talking about investment ere - we are talking about Brightons "success" on the field the past 12-18 months which is ultimately down to smart recruitment.

Prior to Martinez Everton were doing the exact same as what Brighton are doing now.

Coleman: 60k
Jags: £5 millions
Baines: £6 millions
Lescott: £6 millions
Felli: £15 millions
Cahill: £2.5 millions
Arteta: £2 millions
Peanuts: £2.5m

You dont need to have 20 board members with vast business experience to recruit smartly - thats football basics.

Moyes left and all that stopped, which would suggest Bill Kenwright and now Farhad Moshiri literally have no clue about football.

 

[magicjuan]

Brighton are doing what Brands wanted to do. And bit by bit the reality is coming out. He wasn't allowed to do his job without interference from all and sundry.
Amazing what can happen when everyone does their own thing.

 

[Joey66]

I pointed this out to BK letter on what have they done wrong - just look at Brightons set up - Graham Potter should be our next Manager imo ....

 

[Blue peter]

Owner - Farhad Moshiri - He is the chairman and a shareholder of USM, a diversified Russian holding company with significant interests across the metals and mining, telecoms, technology and internet sectors.
Chairman - Bill Kenwright - Local Life Long Evertonian & Prolific theatre Production Compnay ( No Business Back Ground)
CEO -Denise Barrett-Baxendale - worked for a small schools charity in Liverpool, called The Fiveways Trust
Financial Director - Grant Ingles - Been in and around the club on and off since 2006 with varies roles up to now FD
Directors
- Grahame Sharp Former Player

Brigton
Chairman - Tony Bloom - Local Life Long Brighton Fan & Success Business man outside of football
CEO - Paul Barber - 25 Years experience in the Football Business up to and including head of marketing for the FA.
Finance Director - Lee Cooper - Accountant with a background in Audit,Tax and Corporate finance.

Directors
-Ray Bloom -founder of the IMEX Group
- Derek Chapman - Founder of Adenstar Developments Ltd, which grew to become one of the largest construction companies in the south east.
- Robert Comer - Former HMRC tax inspector
- Adma Franks - worked at KPMG and subsequently ING Barings before using his considerable business acumen to build and grow businesses relating to the professional sports and financial markets. He is currently chairman of Blue and White Capital, a single family office that specialises in private and public equity investments.
- Peter Godfrey - He is an entrepreneur, founder and chairman of a number of companies, including First Agency, a global experiential creative agency, and a director and chairman of a number of other entities.
- Marc Sugarman - graduating from Oxford University, he qualified as a chartered accountant in 1996. Marc joined Morgan Stanley that year as an Equity Analyst covering European Media and continued as an analyst in the same sector for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup until 2009.
- Michelle Walder - Having studied Russian and French in Bristol and Law in London, Michelle worked in HR in financial services (Commerzbank, Nomura, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein), before cofounding TXG in 2004 – a leadership development consultancy where she is CEO. She is also a director at Hay Festival and Chair at the Migraine Trust.


Everton have 5 people on there board 3 with no real business experience, Brighton have 10 people all with real life business experience covering all the areas needed to run a football club, they have constructions specialists, HR specialist, Tax Specialist.

They are fast becoming the Model we should be trying to follow from top to bottom.

Our board is too small but I have to say Brightons looks too big however it’s clearly working for them

 

[nsno-chris]

Correct, but one thing you do need is an owner who leaves the right people to do the job and doesn't stick his nose into business affairs he doesn't understand

Glad you agree he should have sacked Chairman Bill

 

[magicjuan]

I pointed this out to BK letter on what have they done wrong - just look at Brightons set up - Graham Potter should be our next Manager imo ....

The set up Joe, according to Brands, was to set up a system so you can change manager without missing a beat, like Brighton have done, you just go out and find a manager with the right profile to fit that system.
Actually think Potter could do a job for us, given the system. Chelsea was a leap too far too soon for him

 

[4737carlin]

Glad you agree he should have sacked Chairman Bill

And if he didnt then al the mess is on his shoulders, which is it. You employ the wrong people you are the one responsible, nobody else

 

[4737carlin]

The set up Joe, according to Brands, was to set up a system so you can change manager without missing a beat, like Brighton have done, you just go out and find a manager with the right profile to fit that system.
Actually think Potter could do a job for us, given the system. Chelsea was a leap too far too soon for him

Yeah leap too far, same Moyes going to United

 

[nsno-chris]

And if he didnt then al the mess is on his shoulders, which is it. You employ the wrong people you are the one responsible, nobody else

I agree, and that’s good that you’ve also agreed that Chairman Bill was responsible for the absolute financial mess, and complete lack of commercial growth including failed stadium moves, that this club found ourselves in prior to Moshiri.

As you’ve said, you leave the wrong people in charge it’s on their shoulders.

Well done mate, that’s growth on your end.

Have a blessed day

 

[Simon Buttle]

Our board is too small but I have to say Brightons looks too big however it’s clearly working for them

Most of the bigger teams have around 10 people on the board, it's more us with our closed shop of 4 that are the odd ones out.

 

[stamullenblue]

Owner - Farhad Moshiri - He is the chairman and a shareholder of USM, a diversified Russian holding company with significant interests across the metals and mining, telecoms, technology and internet sectors.
Chairman - Bill Kenwright - Local Life Long Evertonian & Prolific theatre Production Compnay ( No Business Back Ground)
CEO -Denise Barrett-Baxendale - worked for a small schools charity in Liverpool, called The Fiveways Trust
Financial Director - Grant Ingles - Been in and around the club on and off since 2006 with varies roles up to now FD
Directors
- Grahame Sharp Former Player

Brigton
Chairman - Tony Bloom - Local Life Long Brighton Fan & Success Business man outside of football
CEO - Paul Barber - 25 Years experience in the Football Business up to and including head of marketing for the FA.
Finance Director - Lee Cooper - Accountant with a background in Audit,Tax and Corporate finance.

Directors
-Ray Bloom -founder of the IMEX Group
- Derek Chapman - Founder of Adenstar Developments Ltd, which grew to become one of the largest construction companies in the south east.
- Robert Comer - Former HMRC tax inspector
- Adma Franks - worked at KPMG and subsequently ING Barings before using his considerable business acumen to build and grow businesses relating to the professional sports and financial markets. He is currently chairman of Blue and White Capital, a single family office that specialises in private and public equity investments.
- Peter Godfrey - He is an entrepreneur, founder and chairman of a number of companies, including First Agency, a global experiential creative agency, and a director and chairman of a number of other entities.
- Marc Sugarman - graduating from Oxford University, he qualified as a chartered accountant in 1996. Marc joined Morgan Stanley that year as an Equity Analyst covering European Media and continued as an analyst in the same sector for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup until 2009.
- Michelle Walder - Having studied Russian and French in Bristol and Law in London, Michelle worked in HR in financial services (Commerzbank, Nomura, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein), before cofounding TXG in 2004 – a leadership development consultancy where she is CEO. She is also a director at Hay Festival and Chair at the Migraine Trust.


Everton have 5 people on there board 3 with no real business experience, Brighton have 10 people all with real life business experience covering all the areas needed to run a football club, they have constructions specialists, HR specialist, Tax Specialist.

They are fast becoming the Model we should be trying to follow from top to bottom.

Kenright would not appoint any of these as they would show him up . Only wants yes people who need a job !

 

[Blue peter]

Whilst I agree with you I think its too early to be labelling Brighton as some beacon of success that we must follow. Under Wee Davey/Kenwright we were doing the exact same as what Brighton have been doing but over a longer period of time due to being skint.

Brighton have had 2x seasons in the top 10 - under Moshiri's tenure we've had 3x. You also have to acknowledge you always get a small club punch above their weight for a few years - Swansea and Watford did similiar a couple of years back.

They'll be back in midtable within 2-3 seasons like WHU, Wolves, Leicester, Villa, Brentford etc who chase their tales underneath the glass ceiling of the scab 6 + oil Newcastle.

@Saint Domingo

I think you’re missing the point mate - we should be expected to do it…..traditionally a far bigger club, bigger and wider fan base, most years in the top flight, and a PL ever present (to this point). Brighton in comparison have come up from League 1 under Tony Blooms ownership and leadership of Paul Barber so whilst some might say their relative ‘success’ has not yet proven to be sustainable in the PL, I would say after 5 years this has proven sustainable. They clearly have a formula - they have moved into a new stadium during their rise through the leagues, and in the PL have shown to be astute in the transfer market, in their targeting of coaches and in their style of play. if they go down in the next few years it is not likely to be because they were mismanaged.

 

[Blue peter]

Most of the bigger teams have around 10 people on the board, it's more us with our closed shop of 4 that are the odd ones out.

It’s just a parochial attitude which is more in line with the 70s then a modern football club….the rumour was that is why our former Financial Director brought in by Moshiri, resigned.

 

[Saint Domingo]

Whilst I agree with you I think its too early to be labelling Brighton as some beacon of success that we must follow. Under Wee Davey/Kenwright we were doing the exact same as what Brighton have been doing but over a longer period of time due to being skint.

Brighton have had 2x seasons in the top 10 - under Moshiri's tenure we've had 3x. You also have to acknowledge you always get a small club punch above their weight for a few years - Swansea and Watford did similiar a couple of years back.

They'll be back in midtable within 2-3 seasons like WHU, Wolves, Leicester, Villa, Brentford etc who chase their tales underneath the glass ceiling of the scab 6 + oil Newcastle.

@Saint Domingo

Brighton will be selling Mitoma McAllister Caicedo within the next few windows and the first big club to bat their eyelashes at de Zerbi will see him go just like Potter did. They’ll miss top 4 this season and end up trophy less.

You’re then asking them to perform the same recruitment miracles again to go out and find players better than the ones they’ve just sold and an even better manager. They won’t.

 

[4737carlin]

I agree, and that’s good that you’ve also agreed that Chairman Bill was responsible for the absolute financial mess, and complete lack of commercial growth including failed stadium moves, that this club found ourselves in prior to Moshiri.

As you’ve said, you leave the wrong people in charge it’s on their shoulders.

Well done mate, that’s growth on your end.

Have a blessed day

Apart from the fact Moshiri is reponsible, he decides who he employed and has from day one, his failings at recruitment have killed us, directors of football, managers, when to hire and fire, his moves in the transfer market, something he should of stayed well out of..
Terrible ownership, worst in our history, worst owner in the Premier League history without question. He wanted it both ways, he wanted to own the club but also wanted his say on not just managers but also transfers, and refused to let the chairman and board work.