In this day and age, you’ve got to have a bit of money in your bank account in order to be able to buy a football club.
It’s a fair assumption then, that Birmingham City’s owners aren’t short of a bob or two.
However, it would appear from their actions, that any money they may have is for the exclusive use of the men’s first-team.
How else do you explain chief executive, Xuandong Ren’s refusal to pay £500 for their women’s team to move their Midlands derby against Aston Villa from their usual Damson Park Stadium to St. George’s Park, after the former was ruled unplayable?
According to the Daily Telegraph, Birmingham Ladies staff and players are livid with the owners over this latest lack of support.
Moreover, the postponement doesn’t help them in any way as it now means they have four games in hand on the teams around them, meaning almost certain fixture congestion later in the campaign.
Given that the FA and Villa were more than happy to make the switch say the Daily Telegraph, it does show where the club’s priorities lie.
Only 24 hours ago,Ren was staying that in comparison to some other clubs in the Championship,BCFC,were financially better off,as in his opinion, they spent money in the transfer window when others hadn’t .If this is the case, then £500 is a drop in the ocean.But this also shows, more importantly, that he lacks the football knowledge, and experience,to make the type of decisions so necessary to be the CEO of a proffesional football club,and all that goes with it.
He and the owners will run the club into the ground, and,I hate to say, will at worst, bring on the ruination and closure of Birmingham City Football Club.
Just echos everything going on at the Club as a whole.
Disappointed for the Ladies Team, not good enough.
It doesn’t matter which sex is playing, they both wear the badge and represent BCFC. Ren isn’t just disrespectful towards our ladies team, he’s disrespecting Birmingham City. When it comes to running a football club he’s about as much use as a fireguard. I have to question, has he been planted on us by Villa?
Unfortunately,this has been coming for a while now,and I agree the current owners will run our club into the ground.We supporters unfortunately will have no say in the future of BCFC.The running of club has been a disgrace and the league should take a long hard look,before it’s too late.