JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 (edited) He looked disgusted when they panned the camera on him. Edited October 16, 2022 by JAMAICAN-VILLAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinebro Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Looking forward to the day he is gone. Hate him as much as i hate Gerrard. Get these Liverpool w***ers out of my club. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Right now, he is as culpable for our position as Gerrard is. Unless he pulls his finger out his arse, or Gerrards finger out of it he deserves all the criticism that now comes his way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciggiesnbeer Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Do your job Purslow. Your gerrard experiment was a failure , fix it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Delphinho123 said: It’s worth looking more at the job he did at Liverpool. In particular, giving the job to Dalglish and spending all that money on dross like Andy Carroll. I don’t think he has a very good record on the footballing side of things at all. Looking more and more like some intelligent, posh Liverpool fanboy. Someone will defend him with some nonsense about only needing to sell the club. I mentioned it before but type Purslow Liverpool into Google and it returns some very negative articles about him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinebro Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 (edited) 25 minutes ago, ciggiesnbeer said: Do your job Purslow. Your gerrard experiment was a failure , fix it now. He is a CEO. Footballing decisions shouldn't be a part of his job. Should stick to finances and commercial deals and let football people make footballing decisions. Edited October 16, 2022 by Pinebro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozvilla28 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 We become a club that accepts mediocre because of a lack of football brains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Purslow out! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messi11 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 1 hour ago, Pinebro said: Looking forward to the day he is gone. Hate him as much as i hate Gerrard. Get these Liverpool w***ers out of my club. 100% 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 2 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: He looked disgusted when they panned the camera on him. That's because his love child Gerrard was getting stick from the crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Inspiration Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 5 minutes ago, Condimentalist said: That's because his love child Gerrard was getting stick from the crowd. Probably accurate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 Purslow is the route of our problems. I was saddened by but didn’t particularly disagree with Deano’s sacking. However I’m now annoyed that the motive for his sacking appears to be to install the CEO’s hero and bask in the limelight. A move that was dressed up as an inability to move the club forward. Since this contemptuous manoeuvre, we have gone way backwards in terms of both style of play and results. To continue with this farcical situation for no reason other than to protect his pal and his own ego is beyond belief. Questions must also be asked about his appointment of Lange, who has yet to make any appointments that could be described as anything better than average and obvious. The best thing about the club at the moment is the academy, which up to now he probably regards to be too far from the limelight to interest him. We need to get shot of him before he gets his weasel like fingers onto that too. ROK a long term colleague of Dean and then JT, who seemed to love it here, both suddenly and mysteriously leave. Something stinks and goes deeper than just the manager. Wake up NSWE and cut the poison out quickly. We no longer feel like a well run club on the up. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PieFacE Posted October 16, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 16, 2022 We need a DoF. Between Purslow and Lange they've made a right balls up of things. So much good work undone by some terrible decision making. Since the moment Grealish left it's been disaster after disaster. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaParkAvenue Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 2 minutes ago, PieFacE said: We need a DoF. Between Purslow and Lange they've made a right balls up of things. So much good work undone by some terrible decision making. Since the moment Grealish left it's been disaster after disaster. Yeah. Of course, we already have a DoF — sporting director is just another name for it. But Lange certainly isn’t the industry heavyweight Villa need. He’s either doing a poor job, or is sidelined by more powerful personalities in the form of Gerrard and Purslow. Every club that is successful in the long run has a strong DoF, someone who has the last word on football matters (within budget limits obviously). Villa’s leadership structure doesn’t look good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted October 16, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 16, 2022 (edited) 38 minutes ago, DaveAV1 said: Purslow is the route of our problems. I was saddened by but didn’t particularly disagree with Deano’s sacking. However I’m now annoyed that the motive for his sacking appears to be to install the CEO’s hero and bask in the limelight. A move that was dressed up as an inability to move the club forward. Since this contemptuous manoeuvre, we have gone way backwards in terms of both style of play and results. With all due respect, this sounds a little bonkers, reading into our failures on the pitch all kind of dark motives and evidence of devious personality/character flaws that just aren't there, IMO. Christian Purslow the root of our problems? This tendency to look for the man causing all the problems is partly what ails us. There's lots of blame to go around, as I see it. What we have is more a process problem, not a personnel issue, even as terrible as, for example, Ollie was today. We are not learning. That's what our problem is. It's actually an educational and organizational flaw. More than goals, strikers, new management, or a new crest, we need a new way of learning from our mistakes, and that's where the crisis lies. It's not hard to see that Purslow's ambitions for Villa are authentic, and he doesn't seem particularly ego-maniacal to me, as Harvard MBAs go. I'll grant that he's fairly immersed in boring bizspeak in interviews, but I also think he's been somewhat distracted in recent weeks with personal issues. Is he learning? I don't know. That's my bigger concern. I actually think Gerrard is finally starting to figure some things out. We learn through failures, not successes. I have no doubt that Purslow genuinely felt Gerrard was a good pick (he along with thousands of others), and I think Purslow comes off in recent weeks as concerned but not panicked. I don't think he will ever get panicked either. That's just not his style. I sure hope we don't lose him, personally. But I also think he needs to join in the learning process more full-heartedly. He may not grasp that. But I think he will have to. Edited October 16, 2022 by Marka Ragnos 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DCJonah Posted October 16, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted October 16, 2022 Purslow loves Gerrard Interesting article in the independent when we appointed Gerrard. I like this bit. Quote It quickly became a joke among the players how quickly Purslow would engage Gerrard in conversation after entering the dressing room. He was a boyhood fan and seemed star-struck. Purslow relished being in the company of club legends and made particular efforts to cosy up to Kenny Dalglish and Gerrard. Many of the squad were amused by his antics. In the tunnel before the 2-0 defeat away to Fiorentina in the Champions League group stage, a member of the team said that Purslow patted the man from Huyton on the backside and said, “Go’ed Stevie, la.” The excursion into mock Scouse by the Cambridge and Harvard-educated southerner was the cause of much hilarity. Would be funny if he wasn't the man ruining all the good work of Dean, Jack and others over the last few years. 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveAV1 Posted October 16, 2022 Share Posted October 16, 2022 49 minutes ago, Marka Ragnos said: With all due respect, this sounds a little bonkers, reading into our failures on the pitch all kind of dark motives and evidence of devious personality/character flaws that just aren't there, IMO. Christian Purslow the root of our problems? This tendency to look for the man causing all the problems is partly what ails us. There's lots of blame to go around, as I see it. What we have is more a process problem, not a personnel issue, even as terrible as, for example, Ollie was today. We are not learning. That's what our problem is. It's actually an educational and organizational flaw. More than goals, strikers, new management, or a new crest, we need a new way of learning from our mistakes, and that's where the crisis lies. It's not hard to see that Purslow's ambitions for Villa are authentic, and he doesn't seem particularly ego-maniacal to me, as Harvard MBAs go. I'll grant that he's fairly immersed in boring bizspeak in interviews, but I also think he's been somewhat distracted in recent weeks with personal issues. Is he learning? I don't know. That's my bigger concern. I actually think Gerrard is finally starting to figure some things out. We learn through failures, not successes. I have no doubt that Purslow genuinely felt Gerrard was a good pick (he along with thousands of others), and I think Purslow comes off in recent weeks as concerned but not panicked. I don't think he will ever get panicked either. That's just not his style. I sure hope we don't lose him, personally. But I also think he needs to join in the learning process more full-heartedly. He may not grasp that. But I think he will have to. I’m sorry Marka I respect your opinion but I don’t agree with you. Intentionally or not he’s doing the club harm at the moment, driven I think by his huge ego and well documented love of the limelight. Which are not good characteristics for a man in his position of responsibility 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted October 16, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 16, 2022 2 hours ago, DCJonah said: Purslow loves Gerrard Interesting article in the independent when we appointed Gerrard. I like this bit. Would be funny if he wasn't the man ruining all the good work of Dean, Jack and others over the last few years. Obviously, the article has made an impression. And a nice little class-warfare narrative tucked into Evans' football reporting nonsense based on such well-known sources as "a member of the team" lol. No, the Hahvad-educated private equity trader who plays polo or whatever musn't offend the earthy salt-o-the-erth Scouse culture. Jesus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marka Ragnos Posted October 16, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted October 16, 2022 1 hour ago, DaveAV1 said: I’m sorry Marka I respect your opinion but I don’t agree with you. Intentionally or not he’s doing the club harm at the moment, driven I think by his huge ego and well documented love of the limelight. Which are not good characteristics for a man in his position of responsibility Oh, Dave, believe me -- I don't deserve respect, but thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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