Drew 2-2 today. Six points from safety. Three games to play. Play the side just above them on Wednesday. Lose that and it's the Danish third division for Mr Conway and pals
I've just read this on their Wikipedia page. And we thought we had it bad. All of this completely passed me by. Maybe it's because it began to occur around the time we were in the top 6: In May 2021, Peter Hyballa was hired as head coach of the club.[37] Less than two months into his tenure, Danish newspaper B.T. reported that multiple Esbjerg players demanded his dismissal after "mental and physical punishments".[38][39] The following day, Spillerforeningen, the Danish Player's Association, reprimanded the Esbjerg board after the American chairman Michael Kalt had toned down the conflict and informed JydskeVestkysten that only a few players were involved in the demand.[40][41] One day later, Hyballa demoted four key players to the U19 team: Yuriy Yakovenko, Jakob Ankersen, Kevin Conboy and Zean Dalügge.[42] On 15 July, Esbjerg fB were reported to the Danish Labour Inspection Authority ("Arbejdstilsynet") by Spillerforeningen after reports came out that Hyballa had allegedly hit and "mentally terrorised" players.[43][44] The following week, Hyballa stated that he had never hit anyone, and that he had only tried to motivate his players.[45] On 24 July, Hyballa appointed the 19-year-old Mads Larsen as the new team captain.[46] Three days later, on 27 July, new accusations arose against Hyballa – this time from Kasper Pedersen – who had terminated his contract by mutual consent the day before. He stated that Hyballa had created a "horrible mood" and that he had left the club due to the manager.[47] On 28 July 21 of Esbjerg's first-team players sent an open letter to club management, expressing "strong distrust" to Hyballa. The letter, which was also published in several media outlets, mentions several episodes where Hyballa had physically or mentally abused players.[48][49] Responding to the letter, investor and spokesperson for the Esbjerg board, Paul Conway, stated to JydskeVestkysten that "t's so unprofessional, I've never experienced anything like it. It can never be the players who get to decide who get to play and who is the coach."[50] On 11 August after weeks of stories in the press and a bad start to the season, Hyballa resigned as manager of Esbjerg and was replaced by Roland Vrabec.[51] He was dismissed in March 2022 after seven months, as the club were mathematically out of reach of promotion.[52] Rafael van der Vaart was appointed caretaker coach.[52] On 18 March, in a 3–0 home loss to Lyngby, Esbjerg hooligans threw firecrackers onto the pitch and rioted after the game which resulted in multiple arrests, as the team were in a relegation battle.[53][54]
Sounds a very happy ship. Conway was spotted in Esberg on Sunday for the first time in an age. Word has also spread about events at Barnsley. Media article here. https://jv.dk/artikel/paul-conway-p...ng-tid-efb-ejere-på-sidelinjen-i-barnsley?rss
Text minus pictures: Paul Conway visits Esbjerg again for the first time in a long time: EfB owners have resigned from the board of Barnsley In the summer of 2021, Paul Conway was a diligent guest in Esbjerg and EfB, but since then there has been a long time between the visits. This weekend, Conway was on a Danish visit again, he and chairman of the board Michael Kalt only want to talk to the press after the season. Photo: Claus Fisker / Scanpix Paul Conway and Chien Lee are no longer on the Barnsley board. Conway's visit to Esbjerg this weekend has nothing to do with a similar initiative in EfB. On Friday, the club's sporting situation was further aggravated when Fremad Amager beat HB Køge. 14 May 2022 at 06:00 If you were in the conspiratorial corner, you could easily get a whole lot out of the fact that one of EfB's American board members, Paul Conway, is in Esbjerg this weekend. On Thursday, it was revealed that Paul Conway and Chien Lee, who also sits on the board of EfB, together with two others have resigned from the board of the sister club Barnsley and have been replaced by, among others, Jean Cryne, the widow of the previous owner, Patrick Cryne . Pacific Media Group, however, retains its shares in the club. Conway and Lee were the principals behind the acquisition of 80 percent of the shares in Barnsley in 2017 and installed themselves on the board, but in the past year, the collaboration has been anything but smooth. Barnsley moved out of The Championship, the American investors have been very unpopular with the club's fans, and board member Neerav Parekh addressed them directly in the official announcement of the change of board on the club's website. - It takes a long time to rebuild a broken relationship, but that is what we want to do now, step by step, wrote Neerav Parekh among other things. The talk goes As you know, Paul Conway and the other American investors do not have many supporters in Esbjerg and the surrounding area at the moment, and it is a well-known fact that there is rumbling in the local business community, where rumors of more or less concrete thoughts about a repurchase of EfB abounds. But director Jens Hammer denies that the smoldering unrest has anything to do with Paul Conway's visit to Esbjerg. - It is not relevant in this context. He has some meetings with purely sporting content, and to my knowledge there is nothing more in it, says Jens Hammer, who is naturally aware that the talk is going on in the city right now. - Of course we also hear that here in the office, and I can easily understand that there is talk, it is a reflection of a dissatisfaction with the sporting results. But we have not been informed that there should be anything new about the ownership. Here in the office, we work on the basis of the same assumptions that we have always made, and they are that the Americans are also here after the summer holidays, says Jens Hammer. Victory for Fremad Amager EfB's sporting situation was significantly worsened on Friday, when Fremad Amager beat HB Køge 1-0 at home and thus increased the lead for EfB to a full seven points. Before the home game against Vendsyssel on Sunday, EfB is thus under considerable pressure, but it apparently does not make coach Steffen Ernemann panic and make the big replacements on the team that most recently lost 2-1 away against HB Køge. In fact, at Friday's training session, it looked like there was only one change and the coach had to make it. Elias Sørensen has been quarantined after his warning at HB Køge, and he will probably be replaced by Emil Holten - the team against Vendsyssel could very well look like this: Jeppe Højbjerg - Linus Rosenlöcher, Kevin Conboy, Seid Korac, Jonas Mortensen - Simon Bækgård, Yacine Bourhane, Mads Larsen - Nicklas Strunck, Emil Holten, Patrick Schmidt.
He’s a cancer to the game, and we’ve been lucky enough to get shut of him before too much damage has been done.
Resigned they were forcibly booted off kinda lets them off the hook saying they resigned, as though it was there decision presume the " synergies " weren't aligned anymore he he
Nancy fans (in French) genuinely very happy for us right up to the point where they realise that they don't have a Parekh or a Cryne and are 98% owned by the 'evil axis' and their cronies.
But you’re forgetting it’s just all smoke and mirrors just to get season ticket money out of everyone
Looks like the Con-man's on a European Tour:- AS Nancy Lorraine has an appointment with the Metropolis this Tuesday An important day for the ASNL, which will meet local political leaders. The new owners of the club are expected to be represented by US shareholder Paul Conway. Is this finally the beginning of the great maneuvers to propose a project worthy of a historic club of French football like AS Nancy-Lorraine? Or is it a new episode that will push the ASNL a little further, already relegated to the National for the first time in 55 years of existence? In any case, according to our information, the Nancy-based club has an appointment, this Tuesday evening, with Mathieu Klein, the mayor of Nancy and president of the Metropolis. It is the American Paul Conway, one of the shareholders, who must represent the ASNL. For local politicians, it will be, perhaps, an opportunity to know a little more about the strategy hitherto quite illegible of the buyers who bought the club.
Loosely translated Mayor: Mr. Conway, what the fk are you doing? Literally, what are you actually doing?
Interesting that Conway's new German 'victims' Kaiserslautern will play their 3rd tier vs 2nd tier promotion/relegation play-off against Michael Sollbauer's Dinamo Dresden on Friday and next Tuesday.
