Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
Like others, I would like to hear more about the status of the court cases, the reasoning behind the share issue, whether the club has decided it now wants a strategy, the plans for the academy, ambitions for the season ahead and a personal view on the state of football in the UK after Covid and in the middle of various new crises.

I don't expect to get an injury update from Mehmet Dalman, but maybe something on further recruitment and the prospects of two new strikers rolling up any time soon (and another winger if I was greedy). That is something Dalman would know.

As dml1954 keeps telling us, we are customers of the club and have no right to any information. But this type of public Q&A goes a long way to build relationships and increase some level of trust in the owner and board. It is good practice and can have commercial benefits for the club too. Silence feels like incompetence or contempt. Rumours and resentment fill any vacuum.

I just saw this Q&A piece with Dean Hoyle at Huddersfield. He used to do these regularly with the local media and fan groups. It covers some of the ground I would like Mehmet Dalman to discuss - and at a level of detail that helps fans to understand what is going on.

https://www.htafc.com/news/2022/july...d--dean-hoyle/

Some possible questions to ask

1. the club has no full time directors, which is very unusual for a football club or any other business of this size. Is it the intention to change this in the near future?

2. there has been a recent share issue of Ł19m in order to comply with the EFL Profitabiity and Sustainability rules. This is welcome support from Vincent Tan as owner but are the directors now confident ,with the recent big reduction in player wage bills etc. that this will not need to be repeated in the future?.

3. Losing David Hughes to Manchester United is a big loss. Are the club well advanced in finding his replacement and who is advising on the suitability of candidates for the job?

4. Have CAS advised the club of a likely date for issuing their verdict on the Emiliano Sala case as the hearing itself was at the beginning of March?