It is within the realms of possibilties that there is a realisation that you are not some 'Whipper snapper' but someone of a certain vintage, however not reached the stage of being a jowly old crustacean.

Textor interviewed Glasner for Lyon in September 2023, for whatever reason Glasner declined the offer & Lyon have employed 2 new managers since then -

Whilst its clear there was a link between the 2 parties, and for sure its entirely possible that Textor recommended Glasner based upon being impressed when he interviewed him, but does that then follow that Textor is calling the shots & as Lando suggests leave Parish as a puppet ?

To me - its a stretch, personally I think, Textor threw his toys out of the pram several months ago when it became clear he wasnt being involved as much as he would like & the voting structure left him almost completely on the outside looking in, the club has since then been more agreeable to him implementing some of his ideas given that after all he has the majority shares (even if he dosent have the voting rights) this led to the O Brien transfer, the Franca buy & maybe even more recently this Glasner appointment, as I said before come the end of the season this whole 25% per person voting arrangement will probably be reviewed in favour of something more representative of acting shareholding & then we may well see Textor flexing his muscles more, where that then leaves SP who knows.

Hi Neillo -
I see it pretty much the same & I do think that this summer is going to be significant in deciding the make up of the board going forward & indeed the future outlook -

Presumably if Textor wants to increase his shareholding the 10% that SP has in his pocket would be the obvious way to go (rather than fighting H & B for their shares, unless they want out then its a lot of money for Textor to raise) -

At that point Textor has a clear decision to make - Employ SP as MD to look after the day to day stuff (if SP would agree to become an employee) or he puts his own man in the chair.

Well the answer to this thread is NO. JT has just said so himself that SP runs the club.

Interestingly I was working with two Lyon fans last year.
They told me we're so lucky Parish is being an awkward b******, that Textor is the worst thing to ever happen to the club and the only good thing that's come out of it is the O'Brien deal.

I've never been enamoured by Textor particularly on account of multi ownership. However I found the interview enlightening. It was probably polished but doubtless there were some truths there.
So Textor maybe suggested SP look at Glasner - so what. He has a significant financial stake. Why wouldn't he.
His views on the state of the Premier League and Nottingham Forest are sound. Money can't just be pumped into the club for players, although I suspect we could be a little more creative.
Let's say I now have a slightly more balanced view of the man, perhaps not extending to the bromance he has with DF!