• Mangetoutpanorama_fish_eye
    a year ago

    Being pissed off at PvH really masked how stupid we were to sell Campbell.

  • Simonhelp_outline
    a year ago

    I'm not sure it did. I was furious when they sold Campbell and Cooper. (Although the latter was more understandable.)

  • Mangetoutpanorama_fish_eye
    a year ago

    The anger at the club was partly diverted to PvH.

  • BrettWilliamspanorama_fish_eye
    a year ago

    Those two were a genuine PL-ready strike force, which is why they pissed all over defences at D1 level. PvH was entirely correct that with a couple of quality additions in summer 1998 (which was all it needed), we'd have been back to a comfortable mid-table side again.

    Going up and losing PvH, Campbell and Cooper while replacing them with the likes of Darcheville, Shipperley, Freedman and Quashie was only ever going to end badly.

  • JRs_Cigarettepanorama_fish_eye
    a year ago

    Who got rich from that business, was that Scholar times?

  • Chrispanorama_fish_eye
    a year ago

    I always thought the strangest thing about that period was that the money from the Cooper and Campbell sales was actually reinvested, but blown on vastly inferior players (£2.5m for Campbell on Freedman Shipperly and the Darchville loan; £2.5m for Cooper on Quashie). Then, of course, having to make £1m available to BFR to sign Palmer, along with other futile sundry purchases.

    It was just all so pointless - I could at least have understood it (without accepting it) if they'd simply aimed to maximise profit.

  • BrettWilliamspanorama_fish_eye
    a year ago

    Wasn't the thing that tipped PvH over the edge that the club wasn't interested in signing Wim Jonk?

  • Jim7panorama_fish_eye
    a year ago

    It's all a bit hazy now but wasn't the consensus at the time that Quashie was the next big thing and that we'd actually done a great deal in getting him to the club?

  • Russlens
    a year ago

    Yes, and to be fair he was starting to look good until he his infant son died. He did well after he left us.

  • Jeff_Albertsonhelp_outline
    a year ago

    I think that was Scholar and Wrays plan - to jump on the bandwagon of clubs being floated on the stock exchange. Unfortunately that bubble burst before Forest were ready so we avoided that particular clusterfcuk.

  • Simonhelp_outline
    a year ago

    Oh, they did float (on AIM) and, somewhere, I've got the share certificate to prove it. When ND took over he did it in a way that those shares became worthless.

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    a year ago
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  • chicagopanorama_fish_eye
    a year ago
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