Originally Posted by
Erik Setzer
No, it's because the prior owner was an idiot. Gave a three-year extension to the manager who'd been bungling the personnel literally the day he sold the team, so the new owner was stuck with that guy at first, plus an awful coach. Fired the coach, tried to keep on the manager (because, you know, contract... he was stuck paying him anyway), hired a new coach with the manager's "help." That coach was a horrible mess. So he figured he'd just eat the remaining contract years, fired all those guys, brought in a new coaching staff, general manager, and a guy to manage the football operations (because he was smart enough to know he can't). Spent his own money upgrading a stadium owner by the city, which now has some seriously sweet locker rooms (wish my office was that nice!), biggest video boards in the world, pools, cabanas, upgraded video strips, a nice sideline reporter, pretty much a club at the stadium, all kinds of other goodness. But it's taking time to turn around the team itself. They've done a lot of work, but they had to draft a new QB, and don't want to throw him in before he's ready (last staff did that with a guy and it was awful), so they're trying to bide their time with a pathetic player, which drags down the whole team. They have a plan, just have to have faith... but it hurts in the meantime.
I haven't followed what he's done with Fulham, so not sure of the story there. Did see them play DC United a couple months ago in a "friendly" match to celebrate the new video boards (which saw three DCU players go out with injuries, in the middle of their actual season), they looked competent, but eh, American soccer teams aren't the same as English teams.
(Sorry, folks, I'm passionate about the NFL just like I am about Warhammer. Maybe a bit more so.)