Takeover Rumour

[Walmley_Villa]

Was it around Christmas? Any nativity plays in the area?

[Walmley_Villa]

I saw the piccie that was on Twitter of some dark skinned gents pictured in the Trinity with Ken McNaught amongst others. It apparently got a few people excited.

Unfortunately it was the owner and manager of the Kababish Indian in Boldmere!

[Mazrim]

The huge work going on at Snow Hill and the surrounding area will increase the relevance of the North and North East part of the city. It's not an overnight thing but it will spread out from there. Plus it's right on the M6 Birmingham junction which makes it very accessible and important.

Why is the work going on at Snow Hill going to have any impact on Aston?

State of the art transport services attracts business and commerce. Snow Hill is/will be a major station relatively near to Aston.

We're getting a bit sidetracked here anyway. Aston itself isn't integral to any potenial suitors for Villa anyway. It's just a nice bonus if they want somewhere close to regenerate/redevelop at relatively low cost.

[itbrvilla]

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

And come up with there was an Arab looking chap at the training ground recently who could have been our next owner, or, more likely was a man on a day out looking for autographs.

Arab looking?  Dark skin? Moustach? white robes and tea towel? 

It was when he arrived on a camel that really gave him away

BloodyBedouins and their camels, they'll be more skint than the Venkys. We need our Arab to arrive in a gold played jet fuel led by camels.

[pauliewalnuts]

The huge work going on at Snow Hill and the surrounding area will increase the relevance of the North and North East part of the city. It's not an overnight thing but it will spread out from there. Plus it's right on the M6 Birmingham junction which makes it very accessible and important.

Why is the work going on at Snow Hill going to have any impact on Aston?

State of the art transport services attracts business and commerce. Snow Hill is/will be a major station relatively near to Aston.

Snow Hill station isn't changing, though. It's an office development next door that is being built. The only difference will be the Metro, but that's just an extension through the city centre, which will make it easier for the yams to go shopping.

We're getting a bit sidetracked here anyway. Aston itself isn't integral to any potenial suitors for Villa anyway. It's just a nice bonus if they want somewhere close to regenerate/redevelop at relatively low cost.

They might want to do something for the surrounding area, like the Man City lot, that's true. I remember reading something to the effect that a lot of the land in Aston on the one side (it was specifically about the Serpentine, actually) is very limited in what it can be used for, because of the pollution levels.

Someone tried to put in an application to develop housing / a school on the Serpentine land and got knocked back because the Expressway practically next to it generates pollution levels which are far too high.

It'd be nice, but if their generosity only extended to buying us some silverware, that'd still be nice.

Shit. I'm now starting to sound like I believe it is going to happen.

[Percy McCarthy]

While we're all day-dreaming, I'm fantasising about the kind of things Man City are doing round their ground. I'm just saying Aston would be ideal for a similar scheme.

EDIT: just read paulie's post above. Re: pollution, maybe not so ideal after all. Then again, we'll always need a car-park.

[Mazrim]

Exactly, not just the yams but the north west Midlands, Staffordshire etc will have better access to commercial and business activity in and around Birmingham especially the area nearest Aston. It improves desirability to invest there. That whole area is being looked at for redevelopment though. From the new Colmore development right out to the Aston distressway. I've seen plans for it.

Not all approved yet, it has to be said.

[pauliewalnuts]

Exactly, not just the yams but the north west Midlands, Staffordshire etc will have better access to commercial and business activity in and around Birmingham especially the area nearest Aston. It improves desirability to invest there. That whole area is being looked at for redevelopment though. From the new Colmore development right out to the Aston distressway. I've seen plans for it.

I think that's a pretty tenuous link to Aston, to be honest, but hey ho, we'll see how it pans out I guess.

[Mazrim]

Development from St Chads to the Aston Expressway is tenuous to Aston?

[The Laughing Policeman]

Hmmm. Very interesting. So some unknown super rich person or people are going to buy a football club that has just posted record losses, that has an owner who if he were to sell would at least want his outlay back. And into the bargain they are going to spend billions redeveloping whole swathes of North West Birmingham.

Sorry I have to go now my transport back to reality has just arrived.

[Walmley_Villa]

Bloody hell TLP we can dream can't we? Miserable so and so....

[The Laughing Policeman]

Bloody hell TLP we can dream can't we? Miserable so and so....

I'm a Villa Fan what more do you expect?

[SashasGrandad]

Is this rubbish 29 days early?

[bertlambshank]

My mate is a builder,he has been told to put his transit and shovel on stand by.It gonna happen I tell ya!

[Percy McCarthy]

Yes, it's ridiculous to imagine Aston being part of any city centre regeneration. I mean, it's so far away! It must be at least 90 seconds walk from the law courts in one direction, and you can double that trek walking from Snow Hill in another.

As for anyone thinking little Aston Villa could possibly be as attractive to investors as sleeping giants Man City, get your head tested FFS.