No point looking back now, let’s look forward and try and build something sustainable and vibrant for the future.
Please, no more. Please.
Doug was useless in a different way. He held us back from being competitive at the very top of the first division when it was possible. We would probably never have got relegated under him and certainly wouldn't have gone bust. I didn't like him and I'm not going to get misty eyed or revisionist, but the scale of how he let us down was probably less than Lerner or Zia.
Quote from: tomd2103 on June 12, 2018, 12:15:03 PMNo point looking back now, let’s look forward and try and build something sustainable and vibrant for the future. This is sort of what I was trying to get to in a roundabout way. At some point Tony Xia will sell up (this year, next year, 30 years, ...). Personally, I don't particularly want Villa to be another billionaire's ego massage plaything (I didn't sell my shares to Lerner for exactly that reason, even when it was financially insane to keep them). But, foresaking the billionaires means that, in all probability, an Ellis-like arrangement is the best situation (or Kenwright at Everton, or whatever).