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Offline SamTheMouse

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #525 on: June 07, 2018, 01:23:38 PM »
Fucker's no better than the hairdresser. C**t.

Offline aj2k77

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #526 on: June 07, 2018, 01:24:53 PM »
Hurting. Pathetic, his ego is bruised, he's been part of the Villa tapestry and us his for barely 2 years. The Villa have been part of my life for pretty much all of it that I can remember. Child and Adulthood. The bloke has no idea what he is on about.


Offline Des Little

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #527 on: June 07, 2018, 01:32:32 PM »
Seriously, who on here would trust him staying in charge?  I'll wait.

Offline VinnieChase84

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #528 on: June 07, 2018, 01:41:19 PM »
Seriously, who on here would trust him staying in charge?  I'll wait.

No one - his position is untenable. He has to sell up

Offline Pat McMahon

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #529 on: June 07, 2018, 02:21:46 PM »
If he has sorted out the HMRC debtband is he’ll bent on keeping control, now watch the players being sold to pay the money back.

Or the other possibility is that he would consider it to be career endingly bad for the club to go bust so he'll make sure that doesn't happen and then get out while he can, unwilling to gamble on a football club any further.

Based on absolutely nothing, this is my most likely scenario too.

Offline frank black

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #530 on: June 07, 2018, 02:25:51 PM »
His last tweet reads like a suicide note.

Offline Marlon From Bearwood

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #531 on: June 07, 2018, 02:26:29 PM »
Seriously, who on here would trust him staying in charge?  I'll wait.

No one - his position is untenable. He has to sell up

This. There’s no coming back from this now for the Dr. The sooner he goes, the better.

And then we start the whole process again. (Sigh)

Offline Richard E

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #532 on: June 07, 2018, 02:27:00 PM »
His last tweet reads like a suicide note.

Does he have £40m in life insurance?

Offline Rudy Can't Fail

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #533 on: June 07, 2018, 02:54:19 PM »
His last tweet reads like a suicide note.

Does he have £40m in life insurance?

Yes but he does but forgot to pay his last premium.

Offline PeterWithe

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #534 on: June 07, 2018, 03:17:33 PM »
Hurrah, we are saved. At least until the end of the month.

Offline jwarry

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #535 on: June 07, 2018, 05:14:25 PM »
I probably shouldn't say this but I am beginning to feel a bit sorry for Tony.  He inherited an absolute basket case which no doubt was losing money (do we know if Randy was propping us up by £4m a month before Tony took over?) and then was probably advised by KW and RDM to throw more money at it to gamble on a quick return to the PL, probably assuring him it would be a no brainer because they would get the right players (assuming Tone knows nothing about football of course!). 

So he did and ended up pouring more petrol on the fire because they couldn't get rid of the wasters.  Is this his fault?  Bottom line now is that he is personally trying to put out the fires and sounds like he has at least saved us for now, and possibly found some new investment to boot which might be what we need rather than a complete new change of ownership. There again he could be the Crason Young-Like chancer many have made him out to be, but I have seen nothing from his statements or tweets that suggest he didn't want the best for the club.  I guess it will all come out in the next few weeks if we see our best players all buggering off, but for now I am clinging to the notion that he is trying to do his best to get investment in so we can field a team that can challenge again next season - he said with every extremity tightly crossed....

Offline Villafirst

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #536 on: June 07, 2018, 05:21:51 PM »
How can anyone feel sorry for Xia? He's brought nothing but shame and embarrassment on our great club. A complete amateur at running a football club. He needs to do the right thing and sell-up as soon as possible  - can we trust him to find the right owner??

Offline Risso

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #537 on: June 07, 2018, 05:23:10 PM »
I probably shouldn't say this but I am beginning to feel a bit sorry for Tony.  He inherited an absolute basket case which no doubt was losing money (do we know if Randy was propping us up by £4m a month before Tony took over?) and then was probably advised by KW and RDM to throw more money at it to gamble on a quick return to the PL, probably assuring him it would be a no brainer because they would get the right players (assuming Tone knows nothing about football of course!). 

So he did and ended up pouring more petrol on the fire because they couldn't get rid of the wasters.  Is this his fault?  Bottom line now is that he is personally trying to put out the fires and sounds like he has at least saved us for now, and possibly found some new investment to boot which might be what we need rather than a complete new change of ownership. There again he could be the Crason Young-Like chancer many have made him out to be, but I have seen nothing from his statements or tweets that suggest he didn't want the best for the club.  I guess it will all come out in the next few weeks if we see our best players all buggering off, but for now I am clinging to the notion that he is trying to do his best to get investment in so we can field a team that can challenge again next season - he said with every extremity tightly crossed....

He's supposedly a billionaire businessman.  He should have known exactly what it was he was getting himself into.

Offline wittonwarrior

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #538 on: June 07, 2018, 05:23:35 PM »
We dared to believe and we could still be believing if we had won at Wembley.  As it stands appears he is another football fraud.  Just wish it hadn't happened to our club.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #539 on: June 07, 2018, 05:29:51 PM »
We’ve seemed to have attracted the shittest billionaires on the planet

 


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