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Post by Macmoish on Dec 13, 2011 15:58:18 GMT
Philip Beard to Talk Financial Fair Play at Soccerex European Forum 2012 www.worldfootballinsider.com/Story.aspx?id=34854December 13, 2011 Soccerex are delighted to announce that Philip Beard, Chief Executive Officer of Queens Park Rangers Football Club (QPR), is confirmed to speak at the Soccerex European Forum, 28-29 March 2012, Manchester. Beard will join a session looking at club ownership and the impact financial fair play will have on the opportunities and potential benefits for owners going forward. With the initial phases of financial fair play implementation underway, the Soccerex European Forum will host a number of sessions looking at various areas affected by UEFA’s new policy, such as club ownership, stadia, sponsorship and player development. In his role as CEO of QPR, a club which has had a series of high profile owners and investors in recent times, Beard is perfectly placed to speak on the subject and will give a unique insight into the plans of the club under new Owner and Chairman, Tony Fernandes. Prior to joining QPR Beard worked for US music and sports giant, AEG where he spent two years as Chief Executive of the O2 Arena, leading the transformation of the venue from the Millennium Dome into one of the world’s most popular music and sports venues. Before Joining AEG Beard was one of the Directors of the London successful Olympic and Paralympics Bid. Soccerex CEO Duncan Revie commented: ‘Financial Fair Play is the buzz word of European Football at present but it is still not clear what implications it is going to have. Phil’s role at QPR coupled with his vast experience in the industry makes him the perfect person to give opinion on the matter.’ In addition to Financial Fair Play, the European Forum Conference Programme will also address the latest developments relating to UEFA, Betting, Emerging Markets, Clubs, Stadia Safety and the Future of League Structures. www.worldfootballinsider.com/Story.aspx?id=34854 |
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Post by Macmoish on Dec 13, 2011 16:04:02 GMT
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Post by Macmoish on Mar 15, 2012 7:24:35 GMT
Bump...at the end of March Bump Reminder... Thursday 29th, 10.00 � 11.00 THE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF CLUBS With an era of greater austerity being ushered in by UEFA�s Financial Fair Play regulations, the ownership and financial management of Football Clubs is under ever increasing scrutiny. This session will bring together senior club representatives and financial experts to look at what best practice measures should be adopted and how to overcome the commercial challenges faced in the current economic climate. � Philip Beard, CEO, QPR � Trevor Birch, Partner, PKF - Appointed Administrators to Portsmouth FC � Marco Fassone, Managing Director, SSC Napoli � Dan Jones, Partner, Deloitte - Moderator www.mysoccerex.com/EF12_Conference_Programme.pdf |
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Post by Macmoish on Mar 26, 2012 8:38:37 GMT
Bump
Scheduled to speak Thursday at the Soccerex in Manchester on the Topic "The Financial Management of Clubs"
THE Thursday 29th, 10.00 – 11.00
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
OF CLUBS
With an era of greater austerity being ushered in by UEFA’s Financial Fair
Play regulations, the ownership and financial management of Football Clubs is under ever increasing scrutiny. This session will bring together senior club representatives and financial experts to look at what best practice measures should be adopted and how to overcome the commercial challenges faced in the current economic climate.
• Philip Beard, CEO, QPR
• Trevor Birch, Partner, PKF - Appointed Administrators to Portsmouth FC • Marco Fassone, Managing Director, SSC Napoli
• Dan Jones, Partner, Deloitte - Moderator
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Post by marshbowles10 on Mar 26, 2012 13:37:00 GMT
Instead of yet more self-publicity shouldn't the CEO be working every minute at QPR to make sure that we have a Plan B?
We are financially adrift if we go down and need to make sure that everything possible is being done to secure our financial future. That should be his number one priority and there cannot be enough hours in the day to do this properly.
If that isn't enough and he does have the time, then he could at least have the decency to reply to fans that write to him.
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Post by Macmoish on Mar 29, 2012 9:53:36 GMT
Matt Slater @mattslaterbbc
Beard: "I stand behind every contract we put together in January, regardless of where we are in league now." #qpr #soccerex
Retweeted by IanJTaylor
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Post by Macmoish on Mar 29, 2012 10:10:40 GMT
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Post by Macmoish on Mar 29, 2012 10:14:55 GMT
"When we go down....sorry, if we go down."
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Mar 29, 2012 10:25:28 GMT
Nice slip up there by Beard.
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Post by Hogan on Mar 29, 2012 10:28:42 GMT
Matt Slater @mattslaterbbc Beard: "I stand behind every contract we put together in January, regardless of where we are in league now." #qpr #soccerex Retweeted by IanJTaylor Stand behind besdie or in front of but it don't make them the right decisions does it! |
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Post by Markqpr on Mar 29, 2012 11:07:54 GMT
The naivety of the board is really beginning to shine thru now.
Even Abromavich realised when he bought the blue scum that you need people with experience within the football industry to run the club, so he went and nicked Paul Kenyon from Man U.
As the season has worn on Beard has seemed more out of his depth, resulting in this ridiculous situation where upon relegation we are stuck with a Premiership wage bill from our desperation to sign the wrong players at the wrong time.
His tweets? Drowning not waving.
Keep Beard as he seems central to the plans for a new stadium if you must, but ffs, get in someone who knows how to run a football club, not an ex entertainments arena manager.
All Beard has given us really is more spin after spin. Certainly not a successful club slowly grounding it's-self in the Premiership, with solid foundations for growth. Instead we are going down with the type of wage bill that did for Leeds, Portsmouth and Southampton.
If Fernandes says not to worry about it, he'll cover it, then Tony, that is a shocking waste of the club's money and hardly good business. It will actually be an almighty embarrassing failure, despite how the board will spin it.
It certainly puts our plans to become an established Premiership side back 2-3 years and is certainly no fault but our own.
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Post by Macmoish on Mar 29, 2012 14:28:34 GMT
More comments www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-29/qpr-s-beard-says-mittal-s-team-will-keep-players-if-demoted.html?QPR’s Beard Says Mittal’s Team Will Keep Players If Demoted By Tariq Panja - Mar 29, 2012 9:47 AM ET Queens Park Rangers chief executive officer Philip Beard says the Premier League team -- part owned by billionaire steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal and AirAsia Bhd (AIRA) CEO Tony Fernandes -- will keep most of its players should the club be relegated this season. QPR is in danger of moving down to the second-division Championship. With eight games left in its season, the west London team is in the bottom three of the top English league even after spending millions on new talent and replacing its manager mid-season. It’s won just three games and lost seven since Mark Hughes replaced Neil Warnock on Jan. 10. Fernandes led a group that in August bought a majority 66 percent stake from Formula One head Bernie Ecclestone and his partner Flavio Briatore. Since then the team’s bought eight players including strikers Djibril Cisse and Bobby Zamora. “We were very active in the 10 days after the takeover in August and fairly active in January and I’ll stand behind every single one of those contracts irrespective of what happens,” Beard said during a discussion on team finance at the Soccerex conference in Manchester. QPR returned to the top division this season after 16-year absence. “If we do not stay up, I anticipate the vast majority will stay at QPR to try and help us get back,” he said. “We’ve gone into this with our eyes wide open.” Mittal is one of the world’s richest men. Unlike other wealthy owners in the Premier League like Roman Abramovich at Chelsea or Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nayhan of Manchester City, QPR’s owners haven’t spent lavishly on building their roster. Still, they’ve spent significantly more than Norwich and Swansea, the two other teams promoted last season. Those clubs are 14 points clear of the relegation zone after 30 games. Stabilize “Our aim is to find a stabilized position in the Premier League over next few years,” Beard said. Even though Hughes’s appointment hasn’t led to improved performance, Beard said the team remained committed to the former Manchester City coach. “I don’t regret at all the decision to change manager,” he said. “We’ve just got to focus on what we are doing and I think in Mark Hughes we have an excellent manager.” Part of the plan is to build new training facilities and find a new stadium. Beard, who worked with Los Angeles-based Anschutz Entertainment Group Inc. earlier in his career, said he’d like to use examples learned at the Staples Center, home of basketball’s Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers and ice hockey’s Los Angeles Kings. “It has to be an entertainment destination,” he said, saying though he had a preference for teams sharing stadiums, the competitive nature of English soccer meant it probably isn’t an option for QPR. “I do think there’s a platform where discussions would take place on success and viability of ground-sharing but at the moment that’s very emotional for football fans,” Beard said. To contact the reporter on this story: Tariq Panja in Manchester via the London newsroom at tpanja@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Chris Elser at celser@bloomberg.net |
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Post by Macmoish on Mar 29, 2012 21:46:09 GMT
Responding to Beard's supposed comments (Have to go through the stories and see if perhaps not quite what he said) PFA Give Me Football Premier League must retain relegation Suggestion that relegation from the Premier League is selfish and preposterous' hillip Beard, Queens Park Rangers' chief executive, has decided to use the Soccerex European Forum to comment on a concept so ridiculous, he's likely to have been wheeled away by men wearing white coats come the end of his spiel. While the two day event has showcased the thoughts of Rafa Benitez and Patrick Vieira among others, it's for people like Beard that this conference isn't made for. Given a pedestal, he was unlikely to hold back. Despite downplaying the suggestion, Beard said his club would vote for the removal of the relegation system in the Premier League. Apart from the obvious distancing the Premier League would be making from the Football League, Beard's comments are full of hypocrisy. If he were say in the position of one of those club's in the Championship, he's be hugely dismissive of such a venture. The benefits for a club like QPR or in fact for any of the current Premier League sides is that, without the fear of dropping into the Championship, clubs would have the financial backing of the Premier League for life. Television money could be hoarded by those lucky 20, which would lead perhaps to overwhelming spending and serial mismanagement. From the supporter point of view, any excitement of a relegation battle, or indeed a promotion campaign from the Championship, would be nullified. Any fans of teams in the Championship would have to quickly come to terms with the fact their team can go no further, and with finances therefore at a premium, with no Premier League aspirations likely to lead to lower crowds, the competitiveness between the 72 sides is likely to decrease. The integrity of the football league would take a major hit. And all this to help protect the country's richest sides from falling off their perch. If this is genuinely what the people who run clubs think, then the once noted beautiful game will have it's sole eroded away. Enjoy it while it lasts. By Nick Howson March 29, 201 www.givemefootball.com/premier-league/premier-league-must-retain-relegation |
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Mar 29, 2012 22:12:59 GMT
If Beard actually said that then he's an idiot. If that was to ever happen I would give up on football.
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Post by blueeyedcptcook on Mar 30, 2012 7:59:49 GMT
Bump Scheduled to speak Thursday at the Soccerex in Manchester on the Topic "The Financial Management of Clubs" THE Thursday 29th, 10.00 – 11.00 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT OF CLUBS With an era of greater austerity being ushered in by UEFA’s Financial Fair Play regulations, the ownership and financial management of Football Clubs is under ever increasing scrutiny. This session will bring together senior club representatives and financial experts to look at what best practice measures should be adopted and how to overcome the commercial challenges faced in the current economic climate. • Philip Beard, CEO, QPR • Trevor Birch, Partner, PKF - Appointed Administrators to Portsmouth FC • Marco Fassone, Managing Director, SSC Napoli • Dan Jones, Partner, Deloitte - Moderator Demotion = increased debt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIfu2A0ezq0 |
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Post by obk on Mar 30, 2012 17:43:59 GMT
You would kill football in England if you take away relegation from the premier league. The football league would more or less die, and I'm quite sure the attractiveness of the premier league would dwindle away as well and make it less competitive compared to other european leagues.
It would be against everything football and sport should be about. It is the US way, but I think it is a far worse way of doing things than how we do it in Europe.
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