Owners don't run a football team - that is the route to all sorts of problems.� You appoint a CEO to run it off the pitch and a coach or director of football or whatever to run the football side.� Then you have a board that oversees it all� The owners�may have an involvement in the commercial operation because of their experience, maybe help with sponsors and sponsorship, but they don't need to run the club.
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Terry had no experience running a football club, but in the first 2 years when we had an experienced off field team we were one of if not the best run club in the league
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This is a bit of a fantasy.� Generally, chairmen run football clubs, usually because it's their money.
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Edit - in England at least.� Bits of continental europe have much less of this (Germany, France, the Scando countries), and bits have it much worse than England - Italy, Greece.
It's difficult to generalise - but then you have far stronger boards there too, and far bigger management operations. The situation changes when you drop down the pyramid. In the premier league at least a decent majority of chairmen are independent, although of course they are appointed by the owner
anyway, that's a bit off topic. I have complete faith in these clever business men to run the club well and appoint the right people. They've just got to stay away from team affairs, we don't want amateur fantasy footballers
james dean2011-09-16 19:05:08