[Albion] Albion announce £73.9m profit for 2023-24

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I don't think we should replace him with anyone, but when someone exclaims he's paid a lot of money and is met with "Barber is worth every penny because he is elite", I'd quite like to see the evidence - especially given the poor reviews he had at his last job in Vancouver. I guess Bloom's endorsement is good enough for most (including me, tbh) and that's fair enough, but that really doesn't prove that he is elite. I wouldn't even know what makes a CEO elite really, would you?

Fair enough. Good question.

I suppose being the CEO of a club rated very highly in the world according to most metrics,
trusted by the owner,
the owner of a club that even 10 years ago wasn't on any map of any sort,
a club that now has lifelong fans who will be disappointed if we finish below 11th,
means that he's probably elite.

But to be honest, I don't really know what elite means either.
There again, I don't really care too much about the word, or its use.

A bit like 'big'.
Are Leicester 'bigger' than Celtic?
Robbie Savage thinks so.
Chris Sutton doesn't.

It's a debate, but.... <sigh>

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Fair enough. Good question.

I suppose being the CEO of a club rated very highly in the world according to most metrics,
trusted by the owner,
the owner of a club that even 10 years ago wasn't on any map of any sort,
a club that now has lifelong fans who will be disappointed if we finish below 11th,
means that he's probably elite.

But to be honest, I don't really know what elite means either.
There again, I don't really care too much about the word, or its use.

A bit like 'big'.
Are Leicester 'bigger' than Celtic?
Robbie Savage thinks so.
Chris Sutton doesn't.

It's a debate, but.... <sigh>

Robbie Savage and Chris Sutton. The debate between two intellectual behemoths.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Robbie Savage and Chris Sutton. The debate between two intellectual behemoths.

That was my point.

And that it is the sort of 'debate' that is best had between such sorts.

 

[El Presidente]

Robbie Savage and Chris Sutton. The debate between two intellectual behemoths.

Robbie Savage phoned me up a couple of weeks ago! I have no idea how he got my number though.

 

[dazzer6666]

Robbie Savage phoned me up a couple of weeks ago! I have no idea how he got my number though.

Special Interest Film Club records ?

 

[Bold Seagull]

I don't think we should replace him with anyone, but when someone exclaims he's paid a lot of money and is met with "Barber is worth every penny because he is elite", I'd quite like to see the evidence - especially given the poor reviews he had at his last job in Vancouver. I guess Bloom's endorsement is good enough for most (including me, tbh) and that's fair enough, but that really doesn't prove that he is elite. I wouldn't even know what makes a CEO elite really, would you?

He’s been good enough for Bloom who slapped a salary on him so that the Chelsea’s of this world wouldn’t come knocking. That’s how much Bloom values him. It’s whether you take Bloom’s opinion or not on him being elite because clearly he thinks he is.

 

[medwayseagull reborn]

Robbie Savage phoned me up a couple of weeks ago! I have no idea how he got my number

It's a pain getting nuisance calls.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

So without buying or selling players, and presuming we didn't pay any money back to Tony for a year, we're comfortably in profit right?

 

[jcdenton08]

Robbie Savage phoned me up a couple of weeks ago! I have no idea how he got my number though.

Ahhh liaisons…

 

[dazzer6666]

There are CEOs and CEOs, but a sensible benchmark would be CEOs of FTSE100s (as opposed to CEOs of smaller private businesses). I suspect PB‘s rem will be median for this group. It’s rather irrelevant whether we think he’s value or not (I do as it happens), because it’s Tony and the board (or at least the remco) who think he’s worth it.

As for elite, I think you’d be in a minority here, Simster. He’s an exceptional CEO in my opinion and that seems widely shared by the footballing community (boardrooms and pundits). You mention what Whitecaps fans’ views of him were - good point but he left there c14 years ago when he was in his early 40s. Fair to say he’s continued to grow and develop since then.

I believe we are incredibly lucky to have him and I wouldn’t swap him for any other footballing CEO in the world.

Median for FTSE100 is £4.22m

 

[Barham's tash]

Robbie Savage phoned me up a couple of weeks ago! I have no idea how he got my number though.

Looking for some advice on accounting chicanery for Macclesfield?!

 

[Wozza]

I don't think we should replace him with anyone, but when someone exclaims he's paid a lot of money and is met with "Barber is worth every penny because he is elite", I'd quite like to see the evidence - especially given the poor reviews he had at his last job in Vancouver. I guess Bloom's endorsement is good enough for most (including me, tbh) and that's fair enough, but that really doesn't prove that he is elite. I wouldn't even know what makes a CEO elite really, would you?

I assume the judges of Premier League CEO of the Year, and similar awards which Barber has won, have criteria.

Personally, I have no opinion whether he's worth the salary and don't require 'evidence'.

It's Tony Bloom's money.

 

[huzzah]

Looking for some advice on accounting chicanery for Macclesfield?!

I believe the correct term is shenanigans!*

*not an accountant

 

[dazzer6666]

BLOWN IT all on a free pie and a pint for anyone travelling to Newcastle tomorrow. Cheers

 

[Peppermint Tea]

Median for FTSE100 is £4.22m

Thanks, Dazzer. Have you got the FTSE350 median number too?

 

[JBizzle]

I assume the judges of Premier League CEO of the Year, and similar awards which Barber has won, have criteria.

Personally, I have no opinion whether he's worth the salary and don't require 'evidence'.

It's Tony Bloom's money.

Isn't the evidence, in part, the successful running of the 4th most profitable Premier League club ever. Bloom is undoubtedly a HUGE influence, but my understanding is that he leaves the running of the club, in the main, to Barber.

This isn't directed at you, by the way, @Wozza more a wider attempt at an answer

 

[dazzer6666]

Thanks, Dazzer. Have you got the FTSE350 median number too?

FTSE 100 bosses earn UK average salary in three days, says High Pay Centre

Bosses of the biggest firms will earn more than the typical worker by Thursday lunchtime, research claims.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[WATFORD zero]

No we don't. We've been pretty successful since Bloom arrived. Who do you attribute our success to? Bloom or Barber?

I'll call it now - Bloom is the one who has risked millions of his own money and surrounded himself with competent people (of which Barber is one). But Barber the main reason of success? Maybe but unlikely.

I'd suggest that if Bloom had surrounded himself at the Albion with 'competent' people we would see the club performing (both football wise and financially) in a competent manner, broadly in line with the level of money invested, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

In fact the whole of TB's history suggests that his expertise is in recruiting people of a significantly higher level than 'competent', unless he has cocked up on this particular appointment which I think is unlikely. All circumstantial, I'll give you