Takeover Rumour

[TheEgo]

Nixon is hit and miss, but on the rovers site generally fairly ITK, most of his stuff on there is reliable from what I have read.

It's not him it's some guy by the name of kamy100 seems massively respected on their site....

[Shoody]

Ah right. Presumed it would be Nicko as he is usually the go-to guy over there, i thought.

[saunders_heroes]

So was anything said on Midlands Today?

[Jimmy Smash]

It's bollocks. We'd all just better get over it. I'd be happy to be lampooned on this site in four months time though.

[itbrvilla]

Anyone watching Midlands Today?

anything said?

[mr woo]

This was posted on a Blackburn Rovers site by a guy they all seem to respect and consider legit. I think he may be a local journo or something.
Anyway:

"Ok i'll clear this up once and for all.

The Qatari's are talking to Villa, even their players know about it. The last I heard was that Lerner is contemplating selling but would rather wait until the end of the season before deciding. The Qatari's are willing to wait as they believe that they can get Villa. Once they have completed the Villa deal, they have promised me and a couple of other Journo's that they will talk on the record about what happened with Venky's."

This would be the work of self-confessed 'King of Transfer Gossip at the Daily Mirror' Alan Nixon. Maybe what he says is true as he often gives info on BRFCS that he isn't ready to make into articles just yet or rumours he hasn't had confirmed yet etc.

And I presume IF this were true the  bit where he says:

they have promised me and a couple of other Journo's that they will talk on the record

Is under the condition they don't talk beforehand. Could it be true? Yes. I guess.

That said, he works for The Mirror and is their 'King of Gossip'. Who report the most unsubstantiated bollocks out of all the red tops pretty much every transfer window. So I shudder to think how much utter crap they decide ISNT worthy of an article.

Not so sure that guy is Alan Nixon after this exchange on twitter:



Darran Nicholas ‏
@reluctantnicko have you heard anything about QIA interest in any premier league teams?

Alan Nixon ‏
@darrannicholas Been sniffing around for months. Plenty of talk. No action.

Darran Nicholas ‏
@reluctantnicko I read that Kamy (BRFCS) thinks there is something more concrete? I don't know who Kamy is, but said players are in on it?


Alan Nixon ‏ @reluctantnicko
@darrannicholas Villa players spottd an Arab-looking chap at training ground recently. Put two and two together.


Nixon (or Nicko as he sometimes tags himself) certainly doesn't appear aware of anything going on. 

And in reply to an earlier post, the news report from Central News a couple of weeks back was this...

Foreign Investment
6.30PM   Wed Feb 22 2012
Central Tonight has learnt foreign firms and wealthy nations are looking to invest in Birmingham. Microsoft is looking for a base and the oil nation Qatar is on the verge of announcing a major investment. It's thought to have been in talks to spend 150 million pounds.


So nothing concrete there either. Didn't see Midlands Today but assume any report would've been a rehash along the same lines?

[Percy McCarthy]

Didn't see it either. My 20- month old daughter had a tantrum when I turned over from the Chase, which we were watching on ITV+1. Luckily, she likes football as well.

[cheltenhamlion]

My lad is a similar age and goes batshit mental at the lights when the chaser comes out.

[bertlambshank]

Nothing said on Midlands Today.Miss Verdi looking as good as ever.

[mr woo]

Never mind The Chase, there were a couple of fit birds snogging on Hollyoaks over on Channel 4.

And just to confirm it, they also snogged on Channel 4+1 an hour later.

Then several times on 4OD.

[ozzjim]

Was the bird on dancing on ice involved? If so I may break my never watch Hollyoaks rule to have a gawp.

[ROBBO]

Just read the Moxley article and must comment that it was the most succint explanation of what has gone wrong at Villa especially the sacking of Steve Stride. There is not one other club that would have given MON carte Blanche over all footballing matters including player payments,the idiocy of it beggars belief. I still believe with the right investment over the longer term we could match any club in the premiership, but investment is useless unless there are wise heads on the board and the right manager in place. I am coming to the realisation that AM was given the job because he was the only manager available who was willing to see his best players sold, nothing to do with ability all to do with cost cutting.

[HalesowenVilla]

Just read the Moxley article and must comment that it was the most succint explanation of what has gone wrong at Villa especially the sacking of Steve Stride. There is not one other club that would have given MON carte Blanche over all footballing matters including player payments,the idiocy of it beggars belief. I still believe with the right investment over the longer term we could match any club in the premiership, but investment is useless unless there are wise heads on the board and the right manager in place. I am coming to the realisation that AM was given the job because he was the only manager available who was willing to see his best players sold, nothing to do with ability all to do with cost cutting.
Spot on

[old man villa fan]

Foreign Investment
6.30PM   Wed Feb 22 2012
Central Tonight has learnt foreign firms and wealthy nations are looking to invest in Birmingham. Microsoft is looking for a base and the oil nation Qatar is on the verge of announcing a major investment. It's thought to have been in talks to spend 150 million pounds.

It is true that development companies are looking at Birmingham with a view to invest in regeneration.  Salhia, a Kuwaiti real estate company are looking to redevelop an area in Digbeth, to be called the Beorma Quarter (£100m + land costs etc) but like many things, they have stalled due to the economic climate.

The Middle East are looking to use their oil money to regenerate rundown areas in Western cities so that if the oil does dry up in the future, they are well set to profit.

When you look at the Aston and Witton areas there are vast areas of under performing light industrial, together with vacant land that is idealy situated for transport links and fairly near the city.  Prime areas if you have vast amounts of money and a long term strategy.

[pauliewalnuts]

When you look at the Aston and Witton areas there are vast areas of under performing light industrial, together with vacant land that is idealy situated for transport links and fairly near the city.  Prime areas if you have vast amounts of money and a long term strategy.

Light industrial doesn't fetch big money, though.

I can't see any reason for arab investors to focus on Aston other than the football club.