19 Jan 2017 11:12:03
To try and make sense of the mess Forest have got themselves into, one has to try to understand the mindset of Fawaz Al-Hazawi. Whatever he may say in interviews, on Twitter or through the Forest website, you can be sure it's not what he really thinks. What he says one day can change 180 degrees before the next day dawns. "Oliver Burke, great player, not for sale" - next day Burke is sold. "Sean O'Driscoll, wonderful manager" - sacked following a 4-2 victory with the club in 8th place. In the light of all that's gone on at Forest, it's easy to conclude that Fawaz is deluded, but that's looking at it from a normal perspective. If any normal Forest supporter had failed so badly with a business, they'd call it a day, but not Fawaz. He doesn't think like the average fan, let alone the average person. People may conclude that the desire to claw back cash was the main factor behind his fall-out with the Americans, but I would say it's much more a case of pride than greed. I suspect he felt insulted by JJ Moores, who probably told him he was living in La La Land with his valuation of Forest. He could have afforded to give the club away for nothing and take a hit on his £100 million "loan", but that would amount to an admission of failure - and that's what he can't stand. This is a man with a HUGE ego and his ego is on the ropes right now, which makes him a dangerous and unpredictable animal. One only has to look back at the Al-Fayed situation at Fulham to work out that these kinds of people - who have inherited vast sums and have always lived like kings - have a very different idea of reality. When Fayed first arrived at Craven Cottage, he ran the length of the pitch waving his scarf at the fans at the start of every home game, thinking he was adored. The truth was that most fans (and I know this because I attended many of these games) thought he was a complete t**t, whilst at the same time secretly admiring him for stumping up the cash - and this is problem for clubs like Forest, who need ego-driven multi-millionaires like Fawaz Al-Hazawi. Only the very wealthy have the means to buy and run top football clubs. These types of men, the Fayeds, the Al-Hazawis and so on, are not stupid people. They have financial empires after all. However the more sensible ones delegate, the less sensible ones dictate, because they think they can do everything better than everyone else. At this moment in time I suspect Fawaz trusts very few people, is worried about his reputation and will be very reluctant to admit failure. Even that rather sombre interview with Natalie Jackson when he more or less admitted he'd cocked it up, was a smokescreen. "The people want humility, I'll give them humility". But this is not a humble man - you can tell that by every action he has ever taken. Understanding pride is the key to understanding Fawaz. So when it comes to getting him out, be careful what you wish for. A mass protest outside the City Ground gates may well have the opposite effect. We're all fed up with him but demonstrating it publicly could make him even more determined to stay put and prove everybody wrong. He's keeping a lowish profile right now, but the only way he's going to permanently vanish from the scene is when his family tells him enough is enough. Let's just hope that day comes soon.

1.) 19 Jan 2017
19 Jan 2017 12:38:34
Swiss Red You are spot on with most of your post but first of all Fawaz has no money of his own it is all Family money loaned to the club. His family would disown him if he lost them that amount of money. "IF" he were a business man He would have had people in to run the club from day one, instead he employed Family and friends to oversee something that they knew nothing about . If you ask yourselves why the answer is simple. He did not want people to know that everything he said was a lie and it was not his money and by having family and friends around him nobody would find out. That was they until the incompetent fools he had employed didn't pay the bills on time because they didn't realise they were running out of money and Fawaz was not able to put any more in because the Family said NO

2.) 19 Jan 2017
19 Jan 2017 12:59:25
thanks for that update 1978, you're obviously in the know here, all I would say is that if what you say is the case, we're doomed because no-one is ever going to buy the club for anything like the money the family has put in - so the likelihood is he'll let the club burn and the family will disown him anyway

3.) 19 Jan 2017
19 Jan 2017 14:37:04
I have friends who work at the ground and have done for a very long time so I get to hear things that don't come out very often, but have to be careful as not to get anyone in trouble. As I posted yesterday why would a so called Millionaire Have to borrow 2.2 million from JJM to help run the club through December, That in its self tells you He has no money