It has been a bad summer, with serious miscalculations, for at least three of Joorabchian's clients - Carlos, Nedum and Mark Hughes. Hopefully, there will be no hiccups in our negotiating a new contract with Nigel, another of his clients.
It makes me wonder what 'advice' Joorabchian actually gave Hughes, considering that he remains out of a job. My theory is that maybe the word has been put about that Hughes isn't to be trusted with money. Although he bought well with Komps, Zaba and NDJ City have taken big hits on the others. Maybe that's why he suddenly left Fulham - it's possible that Khaldoon had a quiet word with Al Fayed, who subsequently put the brake on Hughes' close season spending. Maybe Joorabchian was confident of negotiating Hughes into the Villa job but Khaldoon in the meantime also had a word with Randy Lerner. They could of course be business acquaintances from Khaldoon's time in the States.
All 'Maybe's', but there's something strange about it all. I also wonder what the families of the 'Tafia' make of it ? Hughes walks out and they walk out with him, Hughes still out of a job and so are they. Nice one Kia.
Perhaps Nedum and NDJ should be rethinking their strategy.