Randy Lerner attacks Manchester City - Interview from today

[john e]

Right, so we don't struggle to score goals.
We may struggle to do it consistantly but that's an unknown at this time, too.

New manager, newly invigorated players, new faces.....same old pesimism from Chris Smith.

i think thats unfair on Chris, he's the one of the few on here who have been positive about the former manager and his team, when the rest of us were moaning.

i think you'l find he was in the 'happy clapper' camp as people rediculously called it, so how you can say 'same old pessimism' is just not correct.

a bet the majority of your posts before the end of MON were very pesimistic,
so you got what you wanted, same as me,
but it doesnt mean that everybody is happy about the new situation.

we still dont know how it will all play out, you might find we all end up more pessimistic when the new manager is unfolded

[john e]

They were breathtaking in their ignorance.  But then what would you expect from Oliver Holt, whose paper The Mirror is to football reporting what Gold and Sullivan are to running a football club.

did you not read brian read column yesterday, very critical of MON and in praise of Randy and also in the Mirror

Reade has a different agenda though, he's very anti-MON, and has been for a number of years so not overtly pro-Randy. 

Though on this occasion he's right.

he's right because you agree with him, same as me.
not all journalists agree with us, they will god forbid right things we dont like.

its called a free press

[BannedUserIAT]

I'd be very interested to hear what our approach to Newcastle constituted. Who was it who publicly praised the Villa recently for our transfer dealings as we'd done it 'the right way'?

To ask, be told no and go back with another offer is fine and Man City can do this until the cows come home. I don't belive Man City operate like this, though. It's all a bit scummy.

[PhilGibson]

Comments like the ones made by the journalists on sunday supplement will hopefully give us a galvanising effect, us against the world. If we can perform to the high standards we set yesterday for the next few games then who knows what can happen this season. One swallow does not make a summer, however the signs were positive.

[BannedUserIAT]

More Man City cuntishness:

http://www.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=186122

Sorry about the spelling of the lads name [Albrighton] im not to sure, Did anybody see his performance for villa he looked absolutley fantastic very confident twisting and turning players inside out, good delivery and end product 90% of the time. Deserved the man of the match.

I think we should sign him up.

I wonder if he'll be next years summer transfer saga with Villa...?

I agree make him (Albrighton) our annual Villa purchase next year.

I watched him play for England U-21's the other night and he was quite good, much better for Villa yesterday though. I've got a feeling he isn't going to get much better than he is now. Will probably be a regular for Villa over the next few years but not of the standard we need.

Very good young talent good on the ball , cuts inside and outside , great winger . Sign him up now before he becomes really good and his price rockets

[Somniloquism]

I'd be very interested to hear what our approach to Newcastle constituted. Who was it who publicly praised the Villa recently for our transfer dealings as we'd done it 'the right way'?

To ask, be told no and go back with another offer is fine and Man City can do this until the cows come home. I don't belive Man City operate like this, though. It's all a bit scummy.

Leeds and specifically Santa praised us over the Delph deal. There was talk that City was the other club interested in him at the time. As for Milner, doesn't a written transfer request whilst at Newcastle change the rules when a club is asked?

[BannedUserIAT]

Mystery Man (VT) is in the Milner thread over there, too:

http://www.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=175975&start=3950

[The Man With A Stick]

That really annoyed me more than I should have let it. I cant stand Oliver Holt and his shitty rag of a paper at the best of times but this morning I wanted to reach through the screen and snap his fucking neck. How can these morons earn money for this drivel? General Krulak isnt an irrelevance you scrawny ugly little twat, you are.
You're not even capable at what you do, never mind reaching the very top.

I only saw a minute of it but if that's what they said then we should ban them from the ground, the pack of ******.  Paul Hayward from the Guardian was slating us earlier in the week saying we'd go downhill now that Mr Aston Villa has left, we'll see shall we.

Colin Murray was slagging off the Villa fans for singing "there's only one Randy Lerner" on R5 earlier too, we've been doing that for the last 4 years you ignorant, gloryhunting, absolute fucking anus.

[Chris Smith]

Paul Hayward from the Guardian was slating us earlier in the week saying we'd go downhill now that Mr Aston Villa has left, we'll see shall we.

That's just an opinion, one that might (or might not) be shown to be correct and he's perfectly entitled to say it. It's not the same as the shite Holt came out with.

[hilts_coolerking]

Paul Hayward from the Guardian was slating us earlier in the week saying we'd go downhill now that Mr Aston Villa has left, we'll see shall we.

That's just an opinion, one that might (or might not) be shown to be correct and he's perfectly entitled to say it. It's not the same as the shite Holt came out with.

The problem is that it is based on a) an overestimation of O'Neill's abilities as a manager, b) an underestimation of the players we have, and c) an assumption that whoever we appoint cannot possibly be as good as O'Neill.

As you say, he's entitled to his opinion but I don't see that it is based on sound reasoning.

[john e]

i'm sure when MON left/walked out he thought there would be uproar at the club, and mutiny in the ranks,

so when he sees the players playing like that, the fans singing the chairmans name,
 he must think he's played the losing card

[Rudy Can't Fail]

i'm sure when MON left/walked out he thought there would be uproar at the club, and mutiny in the ranks, so when he sees the players playing like that, the fans singing the chairmans name, he must think he's played the losing card.

I certainly hope so although I have serious doubts. He's not one to question is own ability, he's probably waiting by the phone for a call from Fergie inviting him to shadow him in his last season before taking over next season at OT.

Either that or the England job.

[KevinGage]

I really, really hope he gets the England job.

The backtracking Holt et all would have to do when they clock JT at rightback and all his other idiosyncrasies would be quite something.

I can only assume most of those doughnuts haven't watched us at home over the past four years (that I can actually believe TBH) If It needs a national/ international audience to dispel some of these myths then so be it.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I really, really hope he gets the England job.

As does the rest of Ireland, I'd imagine. (winky)

[The Man With A Stick]

Any chance O'Neill ever had of taking over from Taggart evaporated long before last Monday.