We are a joke- the owner,ceo and manager along with most of the playing staff are an embarrassment! For god sake randy please go and take your clowns with you!
Lerner can decide to sell up if he so wishes and i hope he does , the longer he waits the less he will get for the club as he is running us into the ground- villa a year ago would have been a much more attractive proposition to a buyer than now.I would see a statement from lerner that he looking to sell as a huge positive right now as the longer he remains the worse it will become.He gave it his best shot and came close but if he no longer can afford to compete its time to hand over the reigns .
Apologies if already posted....http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/apr/16/five-things-football-this-weekend
Lerner has invested in the club both with players and infrastructure, and it's the latter that will interest potential buyers as much as the staff at the club, players can be bought and sold, but the real assets are the properties. I think Randy has the club's interests at heart, but his personal circumstances probably haven't helped plus the economic situation. If he sells, we will probably not have an owner who will see VP as anything more than a business opportunity.
Aston Villa are a sad sight these days – tired, directionless, timid, miserably shambling through another season of nothingness. What enjoyment is to be had on the Villa Park terraces these days? They are a club that seem overworked, huffing and puffing just to tread water in the Premier League, running to stand still. They need to recharge their batteries, to find some momentum, to stop constantly fire-fighting and find a way to move forward as a club.What better way to do that than with a year or two (or more) in the Championship? Plenty of clubs have found relegation to have a restorative effect. Norwich are probably the best example. Between 2005 and 2009 the Canaries were going nowhere fast, scratching around in the bottom half of the Championship, good enough to stay up but only just. It took relegation to League One in 2009 and the appointment of Paul Lambert after a disastrous start to that season in the third tier to turn the club around.Instead of grubbing around for points – the club won only 56 league games in four seasons from 2004-05 – they were able to strip things down, start again and build momentum, momentum that stays with them today. If the Canaries had somehow cobbled together enough points to stay up over the final few weeks of the 2008-09 season they would not be in the position they are today. Newcastle are another who have bounced back from the drop in style.Alex McLeish – who would almost certainly be replaced in the event of relegation, another bonus for Villa fans – has a very young squad at his disposal, a talented one that is not yet in full maturity. Ciaran Clark, Nathan Baker, Chris Herd, Gary Gardner, Samir Carruthers and even Andreas Weimann, Barry Bannan and Marc Albrighton could benefit from finding their feet in the professional game at the lower level, rather than learning the hard way in the top flight. Indeed the suspicion is that the only reason several of those players are not on loan outside the Premier League is the paucity of McLeish's squad.One step back to take two steps forward? It can be painful but it might just be fun. And Villa fans have not had much of that this season
Quote from: DB on April 16, 2012, 11:21:55 AMApologies if already posted....http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/apr/16/five-things-football-this-weekendNot havin that at all! Going down will ruin us. Staying in the Prem is key even if it means finishing mid table for the next few years
Quote from: Boz on April 16, 2012, 11:19:08 AMLerner has invested in the club both with players and infrastructure, and it's the latter that will interest potential buyers as much as the staff at the club, players can be bought and sold, but the real assets are the properties. I think Randy has the club's interests at heart, but his personal circumstances probably haven't helped plus the economic situation. If he sells, we will probably not have an owner who will see VP as anything more than a business opportunity.Most of the decent saleable players have now left the club, and we're still in an insolvent position. The only chance we'd have of a sale now is if Lerner would take a big hit on the money his trust has lent the club.
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