I think if you consider Sir Alex comments on Edwards, you see a divergence between Edwards the chairman of Manchester United football club, and chief excecutive of Manchester United plc. I'm sure the demands on the latter are considerable in their own way. If you look at the Kenyon era from strictly a business sense, you are left with the fact this club are on a sound financial footing, unlike many European clubs eg Real Madrid, who face considerable debts. In that respect, Kenyon has done a good job, commercially speaking. As to his real allegence to the club, that is another matter altogether it seems.
Bobby Charlton said at the time of the ill fated Micheal Knighton affair, this club shoud belong to the people, the supporters, and said that in regard to the clubs stock exchange flotation. In so doing, he revealed his own business naivety. The idea of fans owning the club if they buy enough shares is an over simplification to the way corperate enterprise works. The reality is Manchester United will always be the target of a Chelsea like Roman empire, or Micheal Knighton-esque figure, who may well then view the club "merely" as a financial asset to exploit. During the reign of Sir Alex he has gone from dealing with a chairman of a great club to dealing with the chief executive of a corperate monster. I only hope whoever runs this club will not lose touch entirely with it's roots. Without the heratige, history, the heartbeat of the club, what then would be the difference between Manchester United and the Chelsea foriegn legion? We may well then have the money to buy any player in the world, Does anyone want to see this club as a millionaires plaything? > to beg them to ensure that when Sir Alex wants to > revisit his contract as the Manager of OUR football club that he is given > what he wants and that we do NOT have the debacle that we understand went > on last time. I have said on a previous post Peter, I consider that imperative. And that he is allowed to continue in any capacity he wishes after his managerial retirement. Edwards has flatly rejected that in the past, refering to what he described as "The Sir Matt Busby syndrome". I understand what went on before when we tried to replace Matt. But this club needs people at the highest level who truly understand the heratige of the club. There is no one I know who understands that better than Sir Alex. Mark ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Buy Ink Cartridges or Refill Kits for Your HP, Epson, Canon or Lexmark Printer at Myinks.com. Free s/h on orders $50 or more to the US & Canada. http://www.c1tracking.com/l.asp?cid=5511 http://us.click.yahoo.com/l.m7sD/LIdGAA/qnsNAA/GtUolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Subscription info WWW http://red11.org/list Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] = subscribe to the list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] = unsubscribe from the list. Post message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
