Another one who thinks he's way more intelligent than he is.
He gets shown up by guests who understand what's what. It's alright sounding intelligent sat next to Dim Jim every day but he comes unstuck when he has someome with a brain in the studio.
My favourite was Eddie Hearn calling him a "Disc Jockey" that ran his business into the ground. Can't say I'm a fan of Hearn either, all boxing promoters are snakes but he ran circles around Simon Jordan.
That's why I pointed out this answer he gave in an old interview, in the media thread . He talks about trust fund babies and inherited money. He says he has no respect for people like Eddie or Sheikh Mansour because in his eyes, they've not earned the right to have what they have:
Some may think he has a point if you take it at face value(business is rarely if ever fair like that because it's not an ideal world). However, what he really means
is they haven't earned the right to compete at all with people like him, in his eyes(which is nonsense). He's not a businessman or a football club owner these days, so he's taken to siding with those who he identifies with instead, which is why he still has double standards and agendas.
Go back and listen to him when he brown-nosed Todd Boehly near the start of the season. He was near enough defending their position on the transfer business and the finding of loopholes. Without going back to find actual quotes, I seem to remember the gist of his arguments were:
'They're only doing what they think will help their club and if no rules were broken, it's on the rule makers'
and
'People like Boehly and his people are smart, I think they know what they are doing. Ruthless but good business sense'
Night and day to how he would view those strategies, if a state or a royal from the middle east with inherited fortunes had done the same(ethics/morals, the spirit of the rules, fairness in sport would all come into play in his reasoning). He's only changed his stance because he's either realised how obvious the double standards are(always denying he has agendas) or he knows Chelsea are in trouble and it's not a defendable position. Even when he's talking about players, you can tell he still views everything through the lense of an owner, who sees players as his property, who should do as they are told and be grateful. He's not the objective, no nonsense person he likes to present himself as.