Brown Nose
Well-Known Member
Tis in the Sun today that Polish billionaire Jozef Wojciechowski is after us. He owns some Polish team at present and this is about him. Sounds like an interesting chap - right up Mad Mandy's street:
"Off the pitch, the Spaniard faces another considerable challenge in the form of the club’s owner, Jozef Wojciechowski. Owner of one of Poland’s largest property development firms, strident businessman Wojciechowski bought Polonia back in 2006 as they languished in the second division and on the brink of financial collapse. The club struggled to battle their way out of the second division over the following two seasons, eventually resorting to buying promotion, assuming the position of Groclin - a successful provincial club whose owner had decided to withdraw financial support – after Wojciechowski bought them out.
Woiciechowski’s sharp business prowess appears to have been transferred into his running of Polonia. To say that the owner hasn’t been particularly patient would be to understate the issue somewhat; he has frequently been accused of to trying to meddle in team affairs, and has made sacking coaches look like a shameless hobby.
The clearest illustration of this came at the end of last season when, following three victories and a draw in his opening four matches in charge, new coach Boguslaw Kaczmarek was fired. Woiciechowski blamed the team’s poor performance in the drawn fixture against Lechia Gdansk, and brandished the experienced Kaczmarek as “too experimentalâ€.
All in all, Woiciechowski has had 14 coaches in his 4 years at the helm, making media comparisons with the late Atletico Madrid owner, Jesus Gil, look rather appropriate. A less favourable tabloid depiction of the belligerent Woiciechowski has involved his treatment of coaches being compared to that of fictional crime boss, Tony Soprano, violently disposing those who dare to aggravate him.
So what does Woiciechowski expect of his latest victim?
“The Champions League would be best,†he replied, completely seriously. “I want championships, then a successful adventure in the cup competitions. I have had enough failures of Polish teams in the preliminary rounds.â€
Regardless of whether Bakero’s side are a success on the pitch or not, his biggest challenges appear to lie off it in appeasing the intolerant demands of Wojciechowski. Given his employer’s track record, Bakero should probably be considered a success if he makes it to the summer with his job still intact.
"Off the pitch, the Spaniard faces another considerable challenge in the form of the club’s owner, Jozef Wojciechowski. Owner of one of Poland’s largest property development firms, strident businessman Wojciechowski bought Polonia back in 2006 as they languished in the second division and on the brink of financial collapse. The club struggled to battle their way out of the second division over the following two seasons, eventually resorting to buying promotion, assuming the position of Groclin - a successful provincial club whose owner had decided to withdraw financial support – after Wojciechowski bought them out.
Woiciechowski’s sharp business prowess appears to have been transferred into his running of Polonia. To say that the owner hasn’t been particularly patient would be to understate the issue somewhat; he has frequently been accused of to trying to meddle in team affairs, and has made sacking coaches look like a shameless hobby.
The clearest illustration of this came at the end of last season when, following three victories and a draw in his opening four matches in charge, new coach Boguslaw Kaczmarek was fired. Woiciechowski blamed the team’s poor performance in the drawn fixture against Lechia Gdansk, and brandished the experienced Kaczmarek as “too experimentalâ€.
All in all, Woiciechowski has had 14 coaches in his 4 years at the helm, making media comparisons with the late Atletico Madrid owner, Jesus Gil, look rather appropriate. A less favourable tabloid depiction of the belligerent Woiciechowski has involved his treatment of coaches being compared to that of fictional crime boss, Tony Soprano, violently disposing those who dare to aggravate him.
So what does Woiciechowski expect of his latest victim?
“The Champions League would be best,†he replied, completely seriously. “I want championships, then a successful adventure in the cup competitions. I have had enough failures of Polish teams in the preliminary rounds.â€
Regardless of whether Bakero’s side are a success on the pitch or not, his biggest challenges appear to lie off it in appeasing the intolerant demands of Wojciechowski. Given his employer’s track record, Bakero should probably be considered a success if he makes it to the summer with his job still intact.
