Rename Villa Park??

[Concrete John]

Maybe a combination somehow?  In the same way that it's the 'Carling Premiership' we could call B6 the 'Forex Pro Villa Park'?   

[JUAN PABLO]

Absolutely NO on principle, but for £150mill, I could always get some different principles

exactly ,   I wouldnt mind 5 new £30 million pound players in the team ...

[not3bad]

Maybe a combination somehow?  In the same way that it's the 'Carling Premiership' we could call B6 the 'Forex Pro Villa Park'?   

I think that's what would be done.  I can't see the words Villa Park being dropped completely, after all there is a certain amount of history there.

[cb]

Yes but for a combination, you'd probably have to accept considerably less money for it...

[JUAN PABLO]

If they want to call it The Exxon Mobil stadium , they can for the bucks . But we the fans will always call it V.P .

[Tony Boucher]

We have to remember though that the Man City thing is just a scam by the sheikh to get around the FFP rules. I'm not sure we could command £150M for the naming rights to VP. When you think about it that's virtually the cost of an entire new stadium.

Exactly - a genuine deal would be worth a fraction of £ 150m.  This is just the arabs moving money from one pocket to another to cheat the new rules

[JUAN PABLO]

p,s  nothing less than £150, 000 ,000 thou and for 5 years only  ;-)

[*shellac*]

No bloody way.

£150m then? Carry on, tell me more.

[sg]

No way, no how.

No amount of money could persuade me. I dont care if we fall even further behind the rich clubs, we already have and its not likely to change.

Would you accept us changing our home kit to blue & white if some rich arab gave us £500mil?

Or how about us changing our name to Birmingham Utd?

No?

Thought so!

[Brend'Watkins]

Well said sg.  Some things are sacred, Villa Park is one of them.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

How about turning it around ? A company changes its name and rebrands itself using our name....for example Norwich Union renamed itself Aviva, they could have paid us by allowing them to rebrand themselves as 'Villa Park' instead.
Why pay copious quantities of cash to Paul Whitehouse and the TV stations for air time when their name/brand would get massive exposure every time we are mentioned ?

"Car Insurance ? Go direct............get the Villa Park deal".

[Dave Javu]

If that Man City deal is allowed under the new Financial Fair Play rules, it will anything but Fair Play.

Etihad pay £2.3m a season to sponsor Abu Dhabi City's shirts, why would they possibly pay 5 or more times that to re-name the stadium?

[Nev]

The price of everything, the value of nothing.

[The Laughing Policeman]

No to renaming Villa Park. But if the owners of Tata stumped up the cash for the new North Stand then I could live with the new "Jaguar Witton End".

[UsualSuspect]

If that Man City deal is allowed under the new Financial Fair Play rules, it will anything but Fair Play.

Etihad pay £2.3m a season to sponsor Abu Dhabi City's shirts, why would they possibly pay 5 or more times that to re-name the stadium?

My thoughts exactly

Are they going to generate in excess of £150 million in extra business?

It's one way around the fair play rules