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sendô wrote:David Sullivan is the football club chairman equivalent of Donald Trump.

He needs to learn to stay away from twitter and to just shut up and do his job.

Nothing he says is of note or beneficial to the club at large, just his ego.
Actually he needs to stop thinking he knows abpout first team affairs and stopping using agents to scout.

Spend money on a proper Director of Football who can work with the manager so we don't end up with regular farces like Iheanacho
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Whilst I massively dislike the pair of them, are the PR/Media team on work experience?

Do they not advise Sullivan he is liable to make himself look a bigger clown than he already is when he opens his mouth.
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Nesticles wrote:Whilst I massively dislike the pair of them, are the PR/Media team on work experience?

Do they not advise Sullivan he is liable to make himself look a bigger clown than he already is when he opens his mouth.
I'd imagine that Sullivan doesn't take advice from those that sit beneath him in the pecking order - which is everyone at West Ham.
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nice to see david golds car getting ' long live the boleyn ' stickers last night
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Nesticles wrote:Do they not advise Sullivan he is liable to make himself look a bigger clown than he already is when he opens his mouth.
Not if they want to keep their jobs.
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Up the Junction wrote: Not if they want to keep their jobs.
I've long thought this.

Yes men who know to stand aside, stare in the opposite direction whilst whistling random tunes whilst Sulli does his thang could stay there an eternity. One way or another, PR professionals with any self respect who try to do the job properly wouldn't last 10 minutes.
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DaveWHU1964 wrote: One way or another, PR professionals with any self respect who try to do the job properly wouldn't last 10 minutes.
The last one didn't.
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DaveWHU1964 wrote:PR professionals with any self respect who try to do the job properly wouldn't last 10 minutes.
I refer you to Paul Cox.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... ky-sources
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I don't have much time for the average PR professional but what struck me most from working with them best part of twenty years ago now is how much they hate their expertise/ advice being ignored.

Most of their clients value the protection good (I didn't say likeable or scrupulous :) ) PR staff can give. Some clients don't though.
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Sullivan thinks he knows more than people in professional football. He know doubt thinks he knows more about PR than PR professionals as well. The only topic he can talk about with authority is being a badly dressed short arse
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Kialos wrote: The only topic he can talk about with authority is being a badly dressed short arse
Maybe so, but he's a badly dressed short arse with a billion quid , and that means he doesn't give a toss about what anyone else thinks .
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He seemed to care when the Essex Spiderman paid him a visit. :lol:
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I could always say something about Sullivan - a man I have never liked, from way before he became owner of the greatest club in the world - but I'll let John Cleese do it instead;

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He will not learn. He will not change.
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Up the Junction wrote: I refer you to Paul Cox.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/ ... ky-sources
Came, saw, probably thought it was a wind up and then left
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I don't mind Gold but I've had it with Sullivan. His unprofessional comments on the Hart loan is just the icing on the cake... I catch myself wishing that we get relegated to end all this nonsense.
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Nesticles wrote: Came, saw, probably thought it was a wind up and then left
Not that we need someone to drive the club's communications or anything
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I got rejected for one of the jobs in the media team last year, despite offering to take a sizeable pay cut.

Happy to see they recruited well. 8-)
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Gonna put a £1 bet on Sullivan quoting 'Hernandez is the best goalkeeper I have ever worked with' :D
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DS interview with Talkpsort is mad, don't know where to begin

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Hernandez could become the best player the club has ever signed :arry:
Sakho is 100% fit and ready to go
We knew Payet was a flawed individual & Zaza wasn't interested (slagging off previous players should attract top names in the future)
Arthur and Fernandes will come good for us (agree)
Its unfair to say we've signed 33 striker because we took a lot on six month loans (except its true)
'washed up' Mido was a good punt for £1000 a week and we'd do it again (not if he had to play in the Premier League he wasn't)
one bit of good news, he seemed to rule out a bid for Wilshire by saying we're not looking at midfielders.
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Sullivan really loves himself, our mini-Trump
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