MCFC_Boss wrote:
True, but there are some businessmen who understand what they have to do and what is their job. Such as Ramon Calderon Real Madrid's chairman, or even Massimo Moratti Inter Milan's chairman. We can't compare these two chairmen with our Frank, at less they have some knowledge about football. In addition they know when they need to replace the manager.
Hmmmmm. This would be the Real Madrid Chariman who sacked his manager after winning the champion's league? Calderon has to be one of the loosest cannons in football...
Nope, that would be my mistake for having the wrong chairman, apologies (I'll leave my numptism there for all to see!).
Still, This is a man who wants to be involved in the team selection, or for sure the transfer policy (from wiki):
Calderon was elected President of Real in 2 July 2006, winning the elections with 8,344 votes whilst Juan Palacios was second with 8,098. After discussions with his football director, Predrag Mijatovic, Calderon hired Fabio Capello as club manager, after initially considering Bernd Schuster, the manager of Getafe. [1]
Amongst his promises when running for election was the signing of Arjen Robben from Chelsea, Cesc Fàbregas from Arsenal and Kaká from AC Milan. Despite denials from the respective clubs, Calderón remains confident that these transfers will be successful, downplaying the accusations of illegal approach from the clubs in question.
On 19 July 2006 he announced his first two signings, Fabio Cannavaro and Emerson; both signed from newly demoted Juventus for an estimated €20 million.
He later signed Ruud van Nistelrooy from Manchester United and Mahamadou Diarra from Olympique Lyon. A year long loan swap deal was also concluded with José Antonio Reyes from Arsenal moving to Real Madrid in exchange for Júlio Baptista.