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Ian Ayre Has Left The Building (almost)

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StevieM said:
It depends on his replacement
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Guess that makes sense.

Just got a hunch that Ian hasn't really been up for the task really, but as I have very little fact to use to back it up maybe someone could shed some light on how he'll be looked back upon when he leave?
 
Not sure how long he was here.. But we have finally built the extention to the stadium and increased Income. But seem like all Clubs has increased Income by a mile anyway. However, it all seem like the owners has been hands on so I hope the New guy is not there just to massively capitalize on the "brand".
 
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We'll never forget him, the leader of the pack - vroom vroom!
 
I get the impression he was decent enough at the commercial side of things, which was the job he was first employed to do, but not so good with other things. Maybe he was over promoted a bit?

Still, I don't think he was a total disaster by any means.
 
Mystic said:
Always got massively unfair criticism.
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Without having anything like an inside view, I would agree.

The club has missed out on some good targets during his tenure, but you could argue we lost out to more attractive clubs who were offering Champions League and more wages.

We've also caught up with the rest of the big boys on the commercial front while being relatively unsuccessful on the pitch, which is fantastic when you consider Ayre joined the club when it looked to be in free-fall and even close to administration under Hicks and Gilette.

Even when you throw in the ticket pricing stuff from last year, I'd still say - on balance - it looks like he's done a pretty good job.
 
Did a magnificent job commercially, but was almost as passive, over-cautious and unimaginative as Rick Parry when it came to recruitment. He was just given too broad a remit. The other problem was his embarrassing egomania and lack of diplomatic skills: he alienated most of the other Premier League bosses very quickly, which may not sound too bad but it meant we weren't represented strongly on the various committees and lacked any real influence (see the Suarez affair among many examples). His ability to cause pointless upsets, such as his silly public comments about the big clubs maybe selling foreign TV rights separately, showed that, in that area of his role, he was just unsuited to the task. A master schmoozer like David Dein won Arsenal so much influence where it mattered behind the scenes, whereas Ayre would turn up for meetings in London and end up as the proverbial Nobby No-Mates.
 
Almost certainly not. FSG always wanted Klopp as their manager eventually and I suspect they kept in touch with him from quite early on in their tenure.
 
Judge Jules said:
Almost certainly not. FSG always wanted Klopp as their manager eventually and I suspect they kept in touch with him from quite early on in their tenure.
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What? He was the masterplan all along?

The only thing FSG have had in their long-term plan has been improving the value of the club and then selling it.
 
The new CEO will be more of a figurehead because all the operating roles have been taken on by Billy Hogan (MD), Michael Edwards (sporting director) and Billy Hughes (finance).

Maybe that's to give us more influence with the FA & Premiership like macca said we need.
 
I am rather disappointed that we promoted internally rather than get a fresh face in, unless the options out there were worse than what we had.
 
manwithnoname said:
What? He was the masterplan all along?

The only thing FSG have had in their long-term plan has been improving the value of the club and then selling it.
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Certainly, but there were a number of references at the time he signed for us to the effect that FSG saw his appointment as a keystone of that plan, and that they had tried to get him to begin with but he wouldn't break his contract.
 
DHSC said:
I am rather disappointed that we promoted internally rather than get a fresh face in, unless the options out there were worse than what we had.
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I think the idea is to revive the tradition of promoting from within with a smooth transition. Not slavishly, obviously, but as a general ambition.
 
I may be making things sound easy or belittling his contribution but given how the club failed to capitalize on the massive support and fan base coupled with increasingly more money generated/pumped into football, how big an achievement did he make for growing us commercially?
 
As a commericial director or COO he has the right attributes. However CEO of a football club was beyond his capabilities. As it probably would for most business people.

He was frustrating, but there is no denying his committment for wanting the best for the club.

Good luck Ian. As a CEO you won't be missed.
 
Agreed. I can't see them bothering to jump through these hoops if they were about to sell. They'd leave that to any new owners.
 
I'm fairly sure he's been a useless prick who couldn't negotiate his way out of a wet paper bag - oh how those Russians must have laughed when he turned up
 
I think it's Hogan that's been doing most of the clever stuff behind the scenes on the business side of it since FSG arrived
 
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