David Healy
David Healy
David Jonathan Healy, MBEis a Northern Irish former footballer and now football manager who is in charge at NIFL Premiership club Linfield...
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth5 August 1979
arrival board bought changes good looks plan simply sure though
It looks like they bought a good part of York's program, though I'm not sure they didn't plan these changes anyway. York's arrival on the board simply accelerated the changes.
healthy plants short sounds talking three
If you're talking three plants in a short period, it sounds like it's a pretty healthy number.
cost cutting ford needs plants position sort ugly year
Ford is in the intolerable position of having too many plants and too many people, ... Cost cutting needs to come before the end of the year -- layoffs, plant closings, that sort of ugly stuff.
management plans reasonable though time
I think it's reasonable to give the new management time to look over the details, though I don't know how Ford's plans are going to change.
fields mark matter people wanting
This is really more a matter of Mark Fields wanting to get his own people in place.
chrysler group tougher
I think it's a little tougher for the Chrysler Group than they're admitting.
accumulate basic fourth seeing third
The improvements we are seeing are real. There are a lot of basic improvements being made that will accumulate in the third and fourth quarters.
board company crisis pressure seems suspect turn
I suspect that Wagoner is under a lot of pressure from the board to turn things around. To me it seems the company is in crisis mode.
company earning environment turn
In an environment where nobody's earning raises, if they turn the company around, they get rewarded.
business cars daily ford less outlet sales
Hertz has become less and less important as an outlet for Ford cars as Ford has pared back sales to Hertz and other daily rental companies. It's really a noncore business right now.
fight gm people scaring shutting strike union
The fight between Delphi and the union is scaring people about a strike shutting down GM. There's been a lot of piling on GM in the media, too.
cash ford help large pension provide research welcome
Ford would welcome the cash for liquidity purposes, to help provide for large unfunded pension liabilities and for research and development.
bankruptcy buy gotten resources stock
I don't buy the bankruptcy talk. I think they have the resources to get through this. The stock has gotten so banged up, it could be an interesting speculation play. But I'm not going to try it myself.
friends-or-friendship
It's strange. I don't even know about friends, what they think about me, ... You don't really know who you can trust.