My view on Khaled.

The first question that someone asked last night was about his background. Here's my notes of what he said. Pretty good grounding for the role he's in I'd suggest?

Half Lebanese, Half Czech. Born in Beirut. In 1989. Fled the war age 9 to Sweden so a war refugee
Then at the age of 19, moved to USA. Like everyone who isn't playing at the highest levels is going to tell you, Was a good footballer
At the age of 16 he was on trial at Bradford. But had a lot of injuries. And his father is a doctor in biochemistry. And for him education was extremely important. His father wanted him to be educated but he thought he was going to be the next Maradonna and knew from an early age he wanted to work in football. The compromise he made was moving to the usa aged 19 to play football and go to college where he got a bachelor's degree in International Business and Marketing and then an MBA.
The first company he founded in 2000 was a women's football agency that is still alive today called Connect management group and it's one of the biggest women's football agencies in the world.
He founded a charity organization called excellency clinic. He wanted to use football to give back to the community because football helped him. It helped him learn Swedish, get friends and become part of the part of the community. At 21 he was with Chicago fire in the MLS and got a career ending injury. Then coached in college systems Milwaukee and Marquette. And then in 2008, after being nine years in usa, decided to move back to Europe but first got the FiFA agency licence. His target was to beomce CEO/sporting director position at the highest possible level and he explained he tried his hand at a number of different areas in football to give himself good football experience to target a CEO/Sporting director role. He moved back to Sweden 2009, Became a coach for a women's team and won the Swedish League, the Swedish cup with the Super Cup.
Then got head hunted with six games to go and went to work in Denmark in the highest league on the men's side, where he was a video analyst and a scout. He did that for a year and then decided to try the agency business and worked for Wasserman for a year. Worked as chief Scout with the biggest club in Sweden for 3 years but also responsible for the recruitment and sporting director entities. Finished 11th ninth and seventh. Completely revamped the squad During that time he connected with Man City. Took Laya on loan for Man City. After his contract expired consulted for his hometown club as the marketing director. Was the CEO for a smaller club for like four or five months. Supported the agency that he founded just to kind of look how to take the next step. But at that point, City Group connected with him and he interviewed and joined City Football group to be the director of CONCACAF, head of recruitment. Moved to New York, it's the time that Patrick Vieira was the coach. He was responsible for all of scouting in Mexico, Costa Rica, Jamaica, all those islands and United States and Canada. And at the same time support in New York. 3 years later moved back to Sweden still had the job, but then was also responsible for Scandinavia. He worked for city group for 5 years.
Last January, he was headhunted for an MLS team. Went through the interview process but declined the offer to be vice president and sporting director for the MLS team. That got him thinking about taking the next step. Then got a text asking if I would be interested in being the CEO of barnsley at which time he met with the owners etc. Didn't know any of them prior to that.

 

Haha and me. How wrong could we be

 

This is a fair point. We've got people being vocal about how he isn't qualified to be our CEO but nobody said the same about Dane Murphy, Gauthier, or Ben Mansford.

Khaled's CV rivals those and then some depending on how you interpret the experience.