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Title: Aston Villa - the giant killer
Post by: dave.woodhall on March 21, 2025, 10:05:54 PM
Richard Keeling talks money and football.

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Title: Re: Aston Villa - the giant killer
Post by: Legion on March 21, 2025, 11:07:45 PM
Done.
Title: Re: Aston Villa - the giant killer
Post by: Rico on March 22, 2025, 08:14:50 AM
Good read. Ellis, Lerner and Xia WTAF? It was like some sort of horror story where you think that you are being rescued only to find that your saviour is as bad or worse than the one before. (Man Utd Glazers and Ratcliffe Lol)

It's amazing that we're still in business, although going bankrupt never stopped Real Madrid!
Title: Re: Aston Villa - the giant killer
Post by: nigel on March 22, 2025, 08:57:27 AM
Good read. Ellis, Lerner and Xia WTAF? It was like some sort of horror story where you think that you are being rescued only to find that your saviour is as bad or worse than the one before. (Man Utd Glazers and Ratcliffe Lol)

It's amazing that we're still in business, although going bankrupt never stopped Real Madrid!

We’d never have gone bust under Ellis, as he would never have spent the money to put us in trouble. We would have turned into a Norwich or Blackburn, top half of Championship with an occasional promotion with relegation after a couple of seasons.
Lerner, for me, is a bit of a ‘What if’ scenario. He was unfortunately saddled with MO’N (I can say that with hindsight). If he’d had a manager that could have used his money wiser there’s no reason we couldn’t have been regular top 10 Premier League. That would have ruled out Xia
Title: Re: Aston Villa - the giant killer
Post by: AV82EC on March 22, 2025, 10:30:05 AM
Good read. Ellis, Lerner and Xia WTAF? It was like some sort of horror story where you think that you are being rescued only to find that your saviour is as bad or worse than the one before. (Man Utd Glazers and Ratcliffe Lol)

It's amazing that we're still in business, although going bankrupt never stopped Real Madrid!

We’d never have gone bust under Ellis, as he would never have spent the money to put us in trouble. We would have turned into a Norwich or Blackburn, top half of Championship with an occasional promotion with relegation after a couple of seasons.
Lerner, for me, is a bit of a ‘What if’ scenario. He was unfortunately saddled with MO’N (I can say that with hindsight). If he’d had a manager that could have used his money wiser there’s no reason we couldn’t have been regular top 10 Premier League. That would have ruled out Xia

Is pretty much how I see it.
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