Foot Long Hot Dog
Player Valuation: A packet of pork scratchings
The example you gave was from over a decade ago, when the landscape was totally different and therefore it's irrelevant to today.Your question is about why Elstone isn't sacked if he isn't a rain maker for the club. I'm giving you an example of a rain maker being sacked because the ideas he had to move the club forward were seen by the owners as threatening. It's entirely relevant. What they get from Elstone is a yes man who can shuffle the papers a bit, knows the ropes between accountancy (his real trade) and managing club debt, but cant cut it marketing the club (hence the recent recruitments...because Elstone is a clown at it).
If you mean by a 'yes man' a CEO who's prepared to work within the parameters the stakeholders give him in terms of resource, then he is. As are most others....









