[Official Site] CLUB STATEMENT | KHALED EL-AHMAD

This, he did make some pretty big **** ups but then certain posters on here held him accountable for absolutely everything going wrong at BFC.

 

I hope you can get over this devastating loss for BFC...... Glad you aren't involved in hiring the new CEO

 

Only whispers, and nothing specific, but that there's plans for significant investment into the ground and surrounding area. I didn't understand whether it was the club or the council planning it.

 

This comes back to Conway boasting about how they spot opportunities to merge roles to make savings etc, interesting that in the Minnesota article at Barnsley he is a CEO & DOF, his new role is just the DOF side of things.

 

Not an issue mate. I wanted to add more bones to it. Team tbf was the most irrelevant part.
Tbh the colchester stub is not summat I can add to, as I've forgot what was significant about that one. But the liverpool job stuck in a lot of fans throats and rightly so. I was so fekkin angry at the time. Even though I myself, got a ticket.

 

What a silly childish comment.

 

Which whitey defended the decision. And gave reasons why.
I believe they wanted someone on call at any given time. And I believe kieth (Stretch) couldn't commit to that. As he fitted in the role with his job as a postie. and the Chron.
An agency can give the club the requirement they needed.

 

I will wish him well as I would most people who leaves and I'll say that he has done some good things while here but his communication has been abysmal throughout his tenure and particularly the last few months, seemingly due to his impending exit so I will be glad to see him gone for that and frankly due to the regular **** ups that have occured under his leadership I think we could do far far better than him. But he's a human being and as a human he appears extremely friendly, polite and actually hard working (his lack of pr skills doesn't mean he hasn't worked hard) so I wish him nothing but the best at his new job. Imo it's win win for all parties.

 

Whatever folk think. Dane was not pulling the strings as much as Khaled. (And I'm not a big fan of either) Both until these last 2 seasons were under the watchful eye and overridden by conman. Khaled didn't sugarcoat anything. And told it how it was most of the time. And a lot was unpalatable. His comms have been lacking at times. Eg the fanatics debacle.

At least Mansford didnt have to cope with that fekker. Although im sure Patrick would not have made life easy for him. The less said about that Linton guy the better.

 

This seems welcome all round. Just too many non-footballing decisions have been going badly and ultimately that's the responsibility of the (very well paid) CEO of an organisation. Whether it's the 'hand he was dealt' to blame, I don't know, and I'm sure he was a genuine hard worker.

For whatever reason, he's clearly been in discussion with several other clubs a while. That can't be good. Correct me if I'm wrong but where is the sense in having a CEO on a fixed contract? Surely bad practice. Incumbent permanent and committed please. By all means, sell our centre halves after a whiff of success, but roles this important need to be stable and to foster confidence.

Another tie severed with the PMG era is a positive too. Khaled was tainted by association (and perhaps by his seeming commitment to Conway's modus operandi). I agree with others; a CEO/DOF model would be worth a try.

 

Especially when some ST holders took the **** and bought tickets for people who weren't even BFC fans.

 

Ohh no, Ive just seen a car reg that says CON1 on it, parked next to the fish shop.
And somebody in there is related to a neighbour who used to know a friend of a fan who... well you know the rest, Mr Paul Conway is going to be the new Ceo.

 

1 per season ticket holder when you have more than the allocation. was a must. I can't remember the maximum we could have had. But getting shut would not have been a problem that was the main point. Every time we talk about this issue. My blood pressure goes through the fekkin roof. .

 

I can’t forgive the bloke for shutting the West Stand like he did. Good riddance.

 

Private Paul Conway I hope. (M.A.S.H)

 

Might have been financial too . He joined when we had been in the championship but now in league one. Imagine that creates some budget issues too.

 

Yeah but the turnstile wall was structurally unsafe and could fall down erm but only inwards, no risk to public leaning on it outside of course oh and except the turnstiles in the same wall that the ponty end continued to us.

Sorry did I say wall? I meant the refreshment stalls weren't disabled friendly. As opposed to the stalls in the other stands that are extremely disabled friendly of course. I do wonder what changes were made to the stalls before it reopened to make them more accessible because they look the same to me.

My bad, I didn't mean refreshment stalls, I meant the stand had steps that people could trip over. Because as you know steps are extremely rare in a sports stadium. None of our other stands have any at all.

What am I talking about? Silly me I don't know why I mentioned steps. I meant the unique bad behaviour of the west standers. I personally dont know why the club keep accidentally referring to it as the south stand when they put out constant pa announcements about the bad behaviour of the fans really, it's a silly error to make every week.

Oh yeah that was it, a lack of stewards. That's the one, I remember now.

No hang on. It was the home we cut in the floor wasn't it. Someone could have fell through the hole WE put in the floor.

I haven't seen so many different, random, and so easily disprovable excuses since the last time the Tories got caught breaking a law.

As I've said, I am glad he's going due to things like this but still, good luck to him. He's a CEO, CEOs lie. It's how they're successful, they all do it. I have no ill will towards him for that but I think he will seriously regret making that poor decision so early in his tenure here as it meant he was really on a hiding to nothing ever since


Is hiding to nothing a saying or have I got it wrong?.

 

A crazy period!! I suspect the real answer is that they could make more money by reassigning stewards to the away end, but we will never know unfortunately.

 

I do not have enough information to know whether he did a good job or not.

He now seems to have landed a decent enough post elsewhere though.

He and his family seemed very pleasant when I was sat near them in the West Stand at a "friendly".

He made a glaring error with his "big news", and BFC info regarding matters of interest (apart from the routine stuff) has dropped off noticeably recently.

What annoys me is the need for everyone to know that we've got a dead man walking in charge of our affairs, possibly until the end of the season.

That state of affairs benefits nobody.

 

I have a friend who works for a Premier League football club (a very successful one in recent times, especially for its size/history) who knows Khaled both from while he was at City and through an inquiry we made about signing two of their youth players on loan at the start of last season. He was full of praise for him. He told me that he has a great reputation in the game as he really knows his football, that he’s charming, intelligent and a brilliant negotiator. When you look purely at the footballing decisions made under his watch, that seems to hold water.

As others have pointed out though, the CEO role at Barnsley FC will encompass far more than just football and I suspect he’s found that difficult and perhaps not very enjoyable. He’s made some gaffs but those suggesting he’s the worst CEO we’ve ever had are way off the mark. Baffling.