As you look bad, all the disaster that has been deployed outside the field in Hibernian in the last two weeks is right there. A loss of £ 7.2 million fell on the day of a great game of the televised cup on Friday, with a warning that next year's accounts will not be much better.
The CEO in the hook of those figures has already disappeared for the last time, was last seen in a Porsche with a former soccer operations director who left in the midst of accusations of inappropriate behavior towards a young male player over 18 years .
Yes, there are some new and charming bars and restaurants inside Easter Road these days. Very swish.
However, they are beginning to look like places where their trainers will only drown their sorrows during the time that the owner Ian Gordon can continue to influence the club's travel direction.
For a long time, it has been easy to conclude that the American 34 -year is doing.
He became even easier in September when he accepted his first Big Telly interview and confirmed it more or less.
Hibernian fans seem to continue drowning their sorrows under their owner Ian Gordon
Former Executive President Ben Kensell, on the right, supervised a loss of £ 7.2 million despite the bold promises
The horrible recruitment is still the mill stone dragging Hibs down. And their Pawmars brands are everywhere.
From October 2021 to May 2023, he was head of the department. In that great emergence of the shadows in Sky Sports, he admitted that he should never have been at work first.
Since the Gordon took over in 2019, Hibs has signed more than 80 players. Now they are in their fourth manager since they fired Jack Ross the week prior to the appearance of the team in the final of the 2021 League Cup, another decision recognized as an error, and has been eighth in a league of 12 teams in two of three seasons.
When grouping people like Shaun Maloney and Nick Montgomery before they had even completed a full season, Gordon admitted that the club's decision makers found themselves in a cycle of not having the confidence to support their own calls.
Of course, there are signs that things are changing. Bill Foley's Black Knight Group, tired of being left aside since he bought an action of 25 percent for £ 6 million a year ago, he has clearly begun to flex his muscles a little more.
Bournemouth recruitment analysis head of recruitment analysis, was parachute at the end of last year to take care of hiring and shooting in Easter Road. It is revealing that only a new player arrived in January in Alasana Manneh.
Gordon and the now now distributed Ceo Ben Kensell flew to Las Vegas in November to see clear conversations with Foley and his lieutenants of the Black Knight Ryan Caswell and Tim Bezbatchenko soccer club. Make sure your opinion is having a greater voice in things now.
However, concerns must remain. That Gordon and his mother Kit have committed to subscription losses only buys so much will. Having a constant deficit covered by owners and directors has to bring a calculation day at some point.
Removing the tastes of Shaun Maloney and Nick Montgomery before completing full seasons in charge showed that the club's decision makers have not had the confidence to support their own calls
Manager David Gray has stabilized the ship in Hibs after a terrible start of the season
Just look at the Rangers, who no longer have enough money, according to the manager Philippe Clement, to get Lyall Cameron de Dundee before the end of his contract. There are the years and years of having to take into account to compensate for atrocious recruitment, endless losses and useless management of assets.
In the case of Hibs, there is a real problem in terms of transparency between Gordon and the support of the club as well. When he became head of recruitment, he was never formally announced. That is another thing that admitted that it was a mistake during that interview with Sky Sports.
How explains the absolute Balderash Kensell Fed to shareholders and followers 12 months ago when he announces a loss of £ 3.9 million in the previous set of financial figures is something completely different.
“The accounts for next year are a marked improvement, much better in the number of this year's accounts,” he said with a serious face at that time.
Kensell also promised that a salary / rotation ratio of 81 percent would be “significantly lower” this year. In the accounts published on Friday, it is 78 percent. It is not difficult to see why it disappeared through the door before the chin egg was carried.
It is probably better not to enter the background to former football operations than Derek White, in the photo, drinking coffee and walking with Kensell in that great elegant car last month, renouncing in November. However, it is worth noting that these were people assigned to high management positions under Gordon's reign.
If the current manager David Gray, designated, for all the accounts, against the wishes of Black Knight, has not become an abominable beginning of the season and has become undefeated of 11 games, surely there would be a riot around Easter Road.
Everything is very good to tell the public that new people are in their place that they know what they are doing, that there are new structures, that the lessons have learned from the past and that money is there to compensate for mistakes and prevent them from accumulating a significant debt.
How do you trust this process if the same type responsible for much of the disasters of recent seasons remains at the top of the tree, with sports director Malky Mackay to make everyone clear and diverse in an interview last year that should ? Participate in the fabric of this football club '?
What Foley does everything would be fascinating to know. Longest long -term intentions are for Hibs are also a matter of interest.
Rocky Bushiri scored the winning goal in the draw of the Scottish Cup of Hibernian in Ayr on Friday
The owner of Bournemouth, Bill Foley, has a 25 percent participation in Hibs and can have a greater interest
Black Knight has 100 percent of Bournemouth. According to an interview, Foley gave Bloomberg in December, there are plans to have a blockade, stocks and barrel of Lorient French, also after the initial purchase of 40 percent.
In another part of the stable, the city of Auckland is now in operation and is being executed to the A-League of Australia and, according to the reports, there is a verbal agreement to buy a 70 percent participation in the Portuguese side Moreirense.
Lorient had to be issued ultimatums by Foley after being relegated to Ligue 1 the last term and are currently at the top of the second level. It is understood that the 80 -year -old adopted a similar approach with Hibs with reports that indicate that he plans to concentrate more intensely in his football operation this year.
“Once I get involved in something,” he said, “I'm all.”
It is not clear if you want to go to Hibs correctly and take charge. If Hibs fans would like that to also be determined properly.
But it is difficult to have confidence on the future of Leith's outfit with Gordon remaining at the forefront of the pyramid given the fact that the most notable element of his time in Easter Road has been the admission of fault after the fault after the fault – above.
It is expected to speak in the shareholder agm on February 25 and it is better that you have something to offer because, at this time, it is too easy to see where the element of the fan base is that they want to sell and send out of coming .
Fickle Duk's farewell has left me dizzy
Just a week or so after his tears in Motherwell's park after scoring Celtic on his return, the Portuguese end Jota has already been expelled from the race for the 2025 Pass Pass prize.
Following its night movement of the deadline for Spanish team Leganes, a message from former Aberdeen Duk Lopes striker appeared on social networks, aimed at the followers of the Pittodrie Club.
Oh my God, should almost have appeared in a novel by Mills and Boon. 'Thank you from the bottom of my heart', 'Incredibly grateful', 'A beautiful chapter in my life', 'The love you gave me has always been mutual', Yadda, Yadda.
Duk Lopes expressed his gratitude to Aberdeen, despite not informing the preseason training
He ended with the firm 'once a gift, always a gift' with a big red and large heart.
Get out of the bus here. Is this the same type that did not report for preseason training in July and ended up having to issue a public apology when it finally reappeared in September?
At that time, there was a fair case to refuse to leave Duk through the Pittodrie gate, but management clearly felt that it was worth returning to the fold with the intention of obtaining some kind of return of his investment.
If the Dons really obtained £ 600,000 for this Leganes Geezer, they left prison.
Celtic should have prepared for the Bayern tie
A lot has been said since the deadline on Celtic's failure to sign a replacement for Kyogo Furuhashi, when they knew for a long time that the Japanese international was anxious to make a corridor.
The Brendan Rodgers manager, for his credit, has not tried to pass the wool on anyone's eyes. I wanted a new striker. He did not get one.
The fact that it is not the “finished” time suggests that the years, in fact, soften man or simply know what he is trying now.
For a long time, Celtic was happy to reach the stage of the Champions League group and the banking the money. It seemed no real commitment, or the obvious care for going, going further.
Brendan Rodgers has run out of replacement for the late Kyogo Furuhashi striker
It seemed that it could be different this season. Reaching Knockout's play-off round has been all that Rodgers was asked, but it would not have been good to have an adequate opportunity to do the last 16?
No one says that Celtic has the right to even give Bayern Munich a game. But I would send the correct message type to all, including the manager, to the tool and the test.
He would show that Europe is a serious and serious ambition against a domestic context of failed rivals and an easy domination.
Unfortunately, old habits die hard, correct enough.