Walter Smith: I don't have the business brain to take Rangers forward

[the gunslinger 3,366]

Top men from bt amazon the government and a billionaire. We are talking about their business acumen in this thread. We have a guy who runs 350 busses at a loss.

[foggy dewhurst 0]

but tax avoidance is not a crime

[der Berliner 3,245]

Top men from bt amazon the government and a billionaire. We are talking about their business acumen in this thread. We have a guy who runs 350 busses at a loss.

 

Our former chairman's wealth was estimated at 720m in 2008 though. It is a bit strange how people pluck a specific time, preferrably "now and here", and put us under the microscope. As if 5 years ago and 5 years from now are utterly irrelevant. Well, it might be for some. We will not always stand head and shoulders above them, but to compare our current standing - after these last two years - with theirs is stretching it. You wonder what the choir would sing if it was Smith and McColl at the helm ...

[simplythebest 0]

Walter's business brain shouldn't be an issue so long as we can trust our CEO and Finance Director are doing their jobs properly.

 

Having a good mind for business in general doesn't necessarily correlate to the business of football anyway. What business credentials do the likes of Beckenbauer and Platini have?

Platini isn't much of an example to back up your point mate.

[UCF2008 0]

Platini isn't much of an example to back up your point mate.

 

He's got his faults and he does seem to have a problem with the English. I think he's probably tried too hard to make changes. He's a beacon of integrity compared to Blatter though.

[UCF2008 0]

I feel very comfortable with having Walter as Chairman. Apparently it's not a position he feels comfortable in though and I think that's the issue here.

[Zappa 0]

Apparently it's not a position he feels comfortable in though and I think that's the issue here.

 

It's a bit unclear as to how uncomfortable he really is. Certainly the article in the OP isn't giving us much to go on because Walter would just have been answering questions and as usual, we don't get to read the questions as well, so it's quite easy to take comments out of context and read into them too much. We're left having to speculate as to what the questions were and what the context of them actually was.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

Our former chairman's wealth was estimated at 720m in 2008 though. It is a bit strange how people pluck a specific time, preferrably "now and here", and put us under the microscope. As if 5 years ago and 5 years from now are utterly irrelevant. Well, it might be for some. We will not always stand head and shoulders above them, but to compare our current standing - after these last two years - with theirs is stretching it. You wonder what the choir would sing if it was Smith and McColl at the helm ...

 

We need our current board to improve here and now. Not our former board.

[54andcounting 0]

It's sad how far we've fallen when some want to use the scum as an example...it really is.

[54andcounting 0]

Derek Johnstone: Three men with vision to take Gers to the top

 

The sight of Walter Smith, Craig Mather and Ally McCoist together on the training pitch in Germany would have pleased the Rangers support.

 

 

You know the club is in good hands when Walter is there and what I'd say about Craig is that he has learned very quickly just what the club is about.

 

It is all very well being a successful chief executive of a business unrelated to football and then finding yourself in a very public spotlight when you are charged with the running of a club the size of Rangers.

 

But so far I think he has made all the right noises and done the right things.

 

To know that all three guys sat down this week and spoke of their long-term vision of the club, how they want to achieve that and where they want to take the club is good.

 

These three guys are basically the most important people and the club and you need them to have a good working relationship, to speak regularly and to be on the same sheet – these are things that have not necessarily been the case over the past few years.

 

The ultimate aim is that the club is in the top flight and competing in Europe again.

 

It is a dream that will come to fruition and if these three are the ones who make it possible then they will be held in the highest regard by everyone associated with the club.

 

But the main aim is that business affairs are conducted sensibly and within budget.

 

There is just no point in hanging themselves in order to get into the top flight – when Rangers are there we want it to be from a position of strength both on and off the park.

 

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/rangers/rangerscomment/derek-johnstone-three-men-with-vision-to-take-gers-to-the-top-130975n.21643162?