So had a listen to this. Was sort of interesting, but was pretty much Akl FC came to fruition and exist in a vacuum. No real insightful learnings.
It’s harder to hate Becker after this too.
He managed to surf some good waves! Let’s be honest the wave is breaking in Auckland now. There’s a good regular swell in Welly, but Auckland is where the big waves are right now.
Seems like he’s done this his whole career. Heh. Though to be fair, it’s something of a drop down from Arsenal and Man City to Melbourne.
He is something of a corporate guy, but the interesting takeaway for me is he admitted the City group failed to engage with the local community. And though he didn’t say that seems to be a big issue with WU and MacArthur too. The A league is a franchise, not a club model and has to earn the local support. That seems to be one interesting takeaway.