Randy Lerner

[eastie]

I'd be surprised if anyone was interesting in buying until our premiership status was assured .

[old man villa fan]

As for selling up - he's sunk £200m in to the club which he'd want to see a fair chunk of back.  You only have to look at Blackburn and the Blues to see that new foreign owners are not necessarily a good thing.  I think our best approach is to put pressure on Randy to spend more money on players.

I suppose the one good thing about him investing so much in the club is that if he wants to sell, then the buyer would have to be a really serious player in the market.

On the downside, has too much money been invested to make us saleable.

Oh, forgot to say that the only person that has ever made any money out of Villa was Doug.  The only person not to put any of his money into the club was Doug.  He had his head screwed on, din't he.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

The General and his wife were in the VMF restaurant tonight

[Ad@m]

I really hope you are right. I happen to agree that this will happen, however, if he does not invest and we do go down he will have to go down as one of the worst club owners in history. I mean who could destroy a top 6 team and get them relegated within five years. It couldn't happen to a club like Villa!

He bought a club that had just finished 16th.  Last season we finished 16th.  It's more accurate to say we've neither progressed nor gone backwards despite the hundreds of millions he's invested.

Not sure that makes him the worst club owner ever - he's not even the worst club owner in the last decade.

[old man villa fan]

Is Spiderman one or 2 words? Mmmm


Anyhow, it is simple for me. He backed Lambert last summer, if he believes in his manager and wants to help him move the club forward he has to back him this winter with another 20 million or so, which he can afford. He has invested in the past money wise when we have needed him too, and boy we need it now more than ever.

As such, for me it is invest and back Lambert, or face relegation being a real possibility and not being able to get back anything on his investment. He is not as stupid or moronic as people make out I am sure, so I think the investment will be there this winter.

I really hope you are right. I happen to agree that this will happen, however, if he does not invest and we do go down he will have to go down as one of the worst club owners in history. I mean who could destroy a top 6 team and get them relegated within five years. It couldn't happen to a club like Villa!

Who could destroy the European Champions and get them relegated within five years.  I think that caps the current situation.

[bertlambshank]

Who appointed Faulkner?

First prize for stating the bleeding obvious hawkeye.

Isn't it worth changing Faulkner before we hound out the guy who put £200m in to our club?

His club.

[hawkeye]

Who appointed Faulkner?

First prize for stating the bleeding obvious hawkeye.

Isn't it worth changing Faulkner before we hound out the guy who put £200m in to our club?

i am not for hounding out any one right now. Like you I have no idea to what extent Venky delegates to Faulkner. The best we can hope for is that Venky gives PL a decent budget and PL spends it wisely.

[Big Dick Edwards]

I was happy when Randy bought the club and have backed him from the time it all started going tits up from the time O'Neill walked out. This evening though Randy is at a crisis point. If he wants to protect his investment he has to back his manager and provide enough funds next month to get us out of this terrible mess we're now in. If he doesn't he is 1) a poor businessman and 2) no longer cares about the club because the team as it stands is going to be relegated. We have a defence that can't defend, an attack that can't score and a midfield that can't protect the defence nor provide chances for the strikers. We've hit rock bottom but amazingly we've not yet been cut adrift. Decisive leadership now can still turn the season round. Failure to take it cannot be an option.

[olaftab]

I look forward to the contributions of you both.

Feel free to use any of my posts, especially the ones about stupid Americans.

That's 280,000,000 of them. Can you narrow it down a bit please?

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I look forward to the contributions of you both.

Feel free to use any of my posts, especially the ones about stupid Americans.

That's 280,000,000 of them. Can you narrow it down a bit please?

But is he right or is he wrong?
Have Lerner's decision's been stupid?

[Risso]

I was sat next to a Browns fan at an NFL game this week, and his vitriol and sweariness when the topic of Randy Lerner came up made mine and Fletch's rants seem rather timid in comparison.  We both agreed that he was rather useless, and had a couple more beers to celebrate his ongoing idiocy.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I was sat next to a Browns fan at an NFL game this week, and his vitriol and sweariness when the topic of Randy Lerner came up made mine and Fletch's rants seem rather timid in comparison.  We both agreed that he was rather useless, and had a couple more beers to celebrate his ongoing idiocy.

He has got off lightly though.
Most Villa supporters won't hear a bad word said against him.

He had very little stick for the ludicrous McCatpiss appointment.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

when the topic of Randy Lerner came up made mine and Fletch's rants seem rather timid in comparison.

I would like to make it crystal clear that the views of Risso's in no way mirror my own, I have never met Risso, and if I did, it always in the presence of a third party.

[Villadroid]

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[pauliewalnuts]

As for selling up - he's sunk £200m in to the club which he'd want to see a fair chunk of back.  You only have to look at Blackburn and the Blues to see that new foreign owners are not necessarily a good thing.  I think our best approach is to put pressure on Randy to spend more money on players.

Look at where we were when he arrived, look at how much he's spent, and look where we are now, six years on.

It isn't just about throwing money at it, it is about the strategic direction of the club, and it's hard to say he's done a good job of it, having pushed us to this point.