[Archived] #findpasha

[JHRover]

In 12 months Pasha has delivered:

Cairney, Gestede, Olsson, King, Rhodes, Hanley, Duffy and Marshall sales for a combined £30 million+. Invested £200,000 of that back into the playing squad.

Removed Gary Bowyer from the club and installed his own candidate who is more willing to work to his requirements.

Dismantled the board leaving one active director.

Appointed Paul Senior to handle the day to day operations on his behalf whilst he goes back to India.

Not said a word in public.

He was appointed to do a job alright and he's doing it just as he was told to. The only problem he's had was the Lambert appointment because Lambert had too much self-respect to participate in the sham.

[Dunnfc]

Agree with allot you say JH, you going to the supporters meeting tomorrow?

[JHRover]

Possibly, not sure whether I can yet.

My belief is that Senior is Pasha's protégé, who has been brought in to 'head up' the operation from the UK. Senior has more experience than Pasha in terms of running a club and handling the media and has been brought in to handle all that side of it whilst Pasha remains hidden in the shadows.

I expect in some regards it is 'job done' for Pasha for the time being. He's come in and in a short period of time successfully sold off all the assets for millions of pounds, which will please his superiors in India, reduced losses and the wage bill, installed people who they want to be running the club for them rather than the situation before with Shaw and Bowyer doing things somewhat independently.

There isn't much more for Pasha to do for the time being. Allegedly he doesn't even want to be here anyway so expect to see him slope off back to India over the next few months leaving his puppet Senior to take all the criticism and attention away from him. Pasha has completed his job - got 'their men' into place, slashed costs and liquidated all the assets for the owners' benefit.

He might get some questions when we get relegated as to what has happened, but I expect demotion is a minor inconvenience to them as long as it doesn't start to cost them a lot more money. I doubt they'll lose sleep over it and Pasha has done his side of the job with the financials.

[Dunnfc]

Don't think we will see Suhail again 

If he isn't at Utd he's defiantly a goner.

Home Office sniffing around and Pasha being strongly suspected as not his name.

One down, few more to go including Cheston and Senior to expose.

[Roverthechimp]

21 hours ago, Dunnfc said:

Don't think we will see Suhail again 

If he isn't at Utd he's defiantly a goner.

Home Office sniffing around and Pasha being strongly suspected as not his name.

One down, few more to go including Cheston and Senior to expose.

Suspect senior was brought in partially because Pasha had been "outed"... Timing is very coincidental to say the least 

[Lancaster Rover]

Who does Seniors wife work for again?

[pk1875]

The Cheston parody account twitter made me laugh

[Dunnfc]

Suhail Shaikh 

[Oldgregg86]

Get his phone number and I will pretend I'm from the immigration department

[A cup of beans]

Just now, Jimbo2 said:

This man is Suhail Shaikh

working illegally in the UK under the fake identity Suhail Pasha

 

Why ?

 

Scruffy bugger, or is it just me.

[ChrisyG]

I've reported him a few times now. Hopefully they'll get him removed from the UK - https://www.gov.uk/report-immigration-crime

[yoda]

Just now, Oldgregg86 said:

Get his phone number and I will pretend I'm from the immigration department

Just ring immigration, they have a unit patrolling in Blackburn

[chor808]

Any company wanting to do international business knows that you cannot afford to fall foul of visa requirements, it is damaging for the individual and the company.  As a club we need to confirm this guy's role and status in the UK ASAP.  

 

[yoda]

Just now, chor808 said:

Any company wanting to do international business knows that you cannot afford to fall foul of visa requirements, it is damaging for the individual and the company.  As a club we need to confirm this guy's role and status in the UK ASAP.  

 

Plus the £10,000 fine per individual

[Dunnfc]

7 minutes ago, chor808 said:

Any company wanting to do international business knows that you cannot afford to fall foul of visa requirements, it is damaging for the individual and the company.  As a club we need to confirm this guy's role and status in the UK ASAP.  

 

I'd like him brought over the coals in relation to how an indian can be allowed to continue his shadow directing of a uk company. It's not as if he posses a specific skill set for this football club, he knows nothing about the game nor has any similar experience. Given he is a specialist in food and beverages i think he's also involved in UK operations of venkys which to date have been kept secret.

Especially when most uk companies in regards to floated companies require two directors, whilst we are not floated we are the commercial size of a business what is and questions need to be asked.

[OJRovers]

There's plenty of incriminating facts to show he's not doing the job as advertised 

- Not announced on the club website as you'd expect

- Not on his linked in profile

why the secrecy?

[JHRover]

When they went through the sham process of advertising the vacancy on the club website it was clear it was being done for two reasons. Firstly and most importantly to give the impression that the job was open to all and a thorough selection process would be undertaken to get the best candidate, and secondly so Mike Cheston could whip up some free positive publicity and try to convince some fans that they were actually taking things seriously and were seriously wanting to improve the running of the club and speed up communications with India.

Straight away it was obvious that they had a specific individual in mind for the job. Pasha had been hovering around the club for some time, sacking Bowyer and all his staff, appointing Lambert and his staff, seeing off Shaw and Myers, but needed a proper job title to enable him to spend more time here in an official capacity.

The only criteria of the job vacancy that Pasha could satisfy that Joe Bloggs from Blackburn couldn't do is speaking fluent HIndi and Marathi. This is despite all the owners speaking fluent English as evidenced whenever they have given interviews when they have spoken in English without needing interpreters, so the ability to speak Hindi was not an essential requirement, nor should it ever have been allowed to be so for an English football club.

Rather than 'improve communications' as Slideshow Cheston boasted last summer, all it has done is added another layer of mystery and suspicion to this operation. 

The only person employed by the club to have named him as working for the club in any capacity was Slideshow Cheston when he was on the spot in the club fans meeting last year. Following on from that the club were so desperate to avoid it being confirmed that they refused to produce minutes of the event and instead used a third party edited recording of the night as the only record. Since then Cheston has been demoted back to his original position of finance chief and one presumes we'll be hearing no more from Mike ever again except to comment on the finances when needed. Rather than risk a repeat of his gaffes of confirming Pasha and lauding Coyle as the outstanding candidate, they've now found someone else to handle the tricky questions, someone who looks like another slippery character who's swallowed the textbook on cringeworthy media comments.

I think we're all supposed to have forgotten about Pasha amidst the Senior arrival.

[AllRoverAsia]

6 hours ago, A cup of beans said:

Scruffy bugger, or is it just me.

He also drives a Taxi.....allegedly....

[Gone to seed]

10 hours ago, Jimbo2 said:

This man is Suhail Shaikh

working illegally in the UK under the fake identity Suhail Pasha

 

Why ?

 

Next question is, "Who is Jimbo2"? and why has he suddenly appeared, to 'out' Suhail (Pasha) Shaikh?

Isn't there a battle raging somewhere in the background between India and (alledged) London based co-ownership interest?

Whilst I agree that serious questions need to be asked about the use of an illegal worker behind the scenes at the club, I also have my suspicions about the motives and tactics of a certain 'Senior' figure recently appointed at the club.

I come back to the most troubling of questions about the systematic dismantling of a well run Premiership outfit - "WHY?"

WIR

[Meadows2]

Anymore news #Pashaout

[Dunnfc]

Interesting that email works...

[Dunnfc]

So from what i can gather from fans who went Thursday and the audio;

Mike Cheston got asked what his name is, whether it was Pasha, Shaikh or someone else? He answered that he didn't know and just knows him as "Suhail"

When pressed on what Suhail does and his title, Mike Cheston was going to apparently confirm this later but mumbled that it might be management consultant or something of which is confirmed on the LET updates.

Mike confirmed that Suhail is employed now by the club but couldn't answer those two questions above and if he's employed by the club must have signed being a director "Suhails" contract of employment off and his work permit sponsor?

Mike confirmed Suhail is a useful tool at getting stuff fed back to India and believes he is working on things for the owners relating to businesses in the UK. Great the club is paying for this lad to not even be at the club, to jet willy nilly around the world to "provide communication". 

Mike confirmed he works with him and Paul as a panel but he is not the shadowing managing director confirmed by Senior. However later on in the audio about 35 mins in a gentlemen then question Suhails role again and Mike says Venkys to Suhail to him and Paul....

Astounding, what a way to shadow direct the running of a club by the looks of it.

Anyone there who can confirm the above?

[Dunnfc]

Pasha?

[Dunnfc]

New chant along the lines of only two Andy gorams 

we could have the same

"theirs only two suhail pashas" two suhail Shaikhs there's only two suhail pashas"

[Dunnfc]

Again thanks to a wonderful supporter, the two Suhail questions have been managed to be transcripted as below;

 Question 1

Andy Bayes: There’s a gentleman waiting to ask a question.

Andy (fan): My name’s, Andy, Paul, I think it was your first or your second interview, you said that you spoke to the owners on a daily basis. My question is: Who exactly do you speak to? Do you mean you speak to the owners via Suhail or do you speak to Belaji Rao or another individual? Who exactly do you speak to on a daily basis?

Paul Senior: During January, having just started at the Football Club there was regular communications with several of the aforementioned people that you’ve just alluded to because during January was the January transfer window and there was other things going on at the Football Club and as well maybe a duty of care to ensure that how I felt the club was going, in my early observations. And that has been lessened now in terms of there isn’t that need for a daily, regular communication.  Results on the pitch are improving so there is less intensity off the pitch if you like, for all of our departments, not just the first team. So that regular feedback loop is not as intense as it was during January.

Andy (fan): The thing is Mike said at the last meeting and has said at numerous times that he has no direct contact with the owners, it’s always via Suhail. For yourself, so it seems very bizarre that yourself came in as a new employee and suddenly has direct contact with the owners, when the Finance Director has no direct contact. Seems very strange.

Mike Cheston: I wouldn’t say no – it’s very infrequent but, you know.

Andy (fan): We really want to get to the crux of Suhail Pasha and clarify his role because it seems that everything goes through him and is he actually the Shadow Managing Director of this club?

Paul Senior: No, not at all. As Mike has said, Mike manages Finance and most of the other areas of the Football Club I am responsible for. So there are different levels of accountability, not different levels of accountability, different areas of responsibility that may come into focus. And the first team, let’s be clear, the fortunes of the first team drive the  fortunes of the Football Club, which is why that comes under intense scrutiny and interest to the owners at any given time. Finance is important because it’s important that we have those parameters in place and infrastructure in place so we’re not compromised. But during January, where results were, there was a sharp intense interest from the owners: What was going on and how were we going to address those shortcomings?

Question 2

Steve M:  Why is Suhail not here tonight? If he’s talking to the owners through you, Mike, surely he should be here giving us the answers instead of you being here. At the last forum you promised to get an interim meeting with him and that’s not happened. Can you tell me why that’s not happened? 

Mike Cheston: I said I would do my best. That’s exactly the words I used. And I have tried. He can’t make it tonight. His role at the club is, as is always stated, is to improve relations between the club…  

Steve M:  So who’s his boss?

Mike Cheston: His boss are the owners.

Steve M:  It’s the owners and then it’s Suhail and then it comes down.

Mike Cheston: Hmm.

Steve M:  So surely he should have been here tonight. If he’s in direct contact with the owners, he’s the man who we want to see. And he’s not here again tonight. Does he actually work at this club or not? 

Mike Cheston: Yes, he does work at this club.

Steve M:  Is he based here is he based in London?

Mike Cheston: He works between both India and here. That’s the nature of his role.

Steve M:  And who pays his salary?

Mike Cheston: We pay a salary.

Steve M:  Blackburn Rovers or Venkys London Ltd?

Mike Cheston: We pay a salary.

Steve M: Well, I think for the next meeting he should be made to come here. It’s imperative that we get to speak to this gentleman.

Andy (fan): One of the points…

Andy Bayes: We really have to make one more quick point and then move on.

Andy (fan): One quick point here. We talked earlier about communication and, OK, that question was asked last time and you said, ‘Oh, I’ll try.’ We accept that’s what you said. But at no point since then have you come out and said, ‘This was the answer…’ which is what I call communication: feedback to the people who are in this room or who attended that meeting and the many people who will listen to it. They want to know: what was the answer? Not just silence and nothing happens. We want to know: What exactly did he say when you asked him? That’s what we want to know.

Mike: I have asked him. And his answer was that his role is to liaise between the club and the owners.

Andy (fan): So effectively his answer was: ‘No.’

Andy Bayes: Ok. We need to move on now to the financial aspects…

Paul Keogh: My question is to Mike. It’s regarding Suhail: you’ve just confirmed that he is employed by the club. Does he have a title for the club at all?

Mike Cheston: Yes he does have a title.

Paul Keogh: Which is…?

Mike Cheston: Errrr errrrrr Something like ‘Management Consultant’. I can’t remember the exact title.

Paul Keogh: And do you not find it a little bit concerning from your point of view, Mike, that Paul has come along tonight and confirmed that he can openly pick up the phone and speak to Belaji or Venkatesh over in India? You’ve been here for how long now? 

Mike Cheston: Three years.

Paul Keogh:  Three years and you still have to go through Suhail?

Mike Cheston: I don’t have to…

Paul Keogh:  Well why is he here, then? If you can open dialogue with the owners freely, why are we wasting money, under the current financial position that we’re in, and paying a Director or ‘Management Consultant’ to jet between India and England? Is that not a drain on our resources?

Mike Cheston: I’ll confirm his exact title. I just can’t remember at the moment. Suhail I’ve found has been extremely useful. And it’s good for Blackburn Rovers that we have somebody representing the owners who works at the club. So it’s much easier to get across the issues back to the owners - in a way that we feel we can get through. So he’s very useful and very supportive of us in that regard.   

Paul: Do you not feel capable, Mike, of doing that yourself?

Mike Cheston: I have always have the option and that’s been made clear and I do have direct correspondence. But for me, Suhail achieves it.

Mark Fish: You just said you didn’t?

Mike Cheston:  For me, I do have from time to time, if I want. And I have done. But I do it mainly through Suhail. When Paul first arrived at the club…

Mark Fish: So you’re choosing to pay that salary that this club doesn’t need, then. So basically what you’re saying is that you can speak to the owners but you’d rather pay somebody else a couple of hundred grand a year to do it.

Mike Cheston:  No, I’ve explained…

Mark Fish: So you can speak to the owners but you don’t want to…

Mike Cheston:  Excuse me, I never mentioned any figures and I’ve already explained that it’s good that somebody who is familiar with the owners understands what the issues are here and can relay that back to India. I do have communication with the owners from time to time directly. Paul’s situation when he first arrived at the club was different in the sense that he was brought in as a Director of Football, with a very specific task and a very immediate issue at hand. And they were very interested obviously in what his initial observations were and Paul’s already explained that over time that’s become less frequent. I don’t need to contact the owners every day and I don’t need to in fact communicate with Suhail every day, either. But from time to time it’s been good to have that ability.

James: What’s his real name, Mike? Obviously on Linked in, he’s called Suhail Sheikh. Every news article I read – Lancashire Evening Telegraph, even yourself referred to him as Suhail Pasha. So what’s his name: Suhail Sheikh or Pasha?

Mike Cheston: I only know him as Suhail.