Randy Lerner

[claret and blue blood]

This is more complicated than I thought, obviously we can't compete with The oil/Russian money, but we ain't competing with anybody else either. 2012 saw us produce the worst results of all the teams in the Premier League.
 Wigan, West Brom, Norwich, etc.haven't had anything like the money spent on their teams so how has it got to this stage ? The common denominator is Lerner, and he makes it harder to work out the problems because he has a lower profile than Lord Lucan and rivals mime artists for the spoken word.Is he interested ? God knows ! Was he at the match yesterday ? Does he care ?
I always felt it was like living under a dictator under Doug, but at least he spoke to us and knew football, but I hated him.
I left the game yesterday thinking we just have to hope Lambert can turn this around, but I'm not confident and I wouldn't put money on it...

[mrfuse]

I would just like to hear what Randy's intentions are and what policy he is looking to introduce.

We all hate interfering owners that think they can pick a football team but on the other hand it would be nice to have some feedback from the horses mouth.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

What's the worst that can happen? Next season we could relive the glory days of beating Bournemouth at a packed VP.

We will have to increase the capacity by almost 6,000.

[bertlambshank]

So much ignorance on this page that it is hard to know where to begin, but if you really think that the board chose Lambert "because it is what the fans wanted," then you are past reasoning with.

But I agree that there is no excuse for the AM appt. Before that, when MON left us deep in it, I thought the Houllier appt had potential, esp considering all the available options at the time. He might have been on the right track, but the heart issues means we will never know for certain.

All this from a man in America who probably doesn't even know where Villa Park is.

Randy?
Pelty?
Or both?

[Apyadg]

So much ignorance on this page that it is hard to know where to begin, but if you really think that the board chose Lambert "because it is what the fans wanted," then you are past reasoning with.

But I agree that there is no excuse for the AM appt. Before that, when MON left us deep in it, I thought the Houllier appt had potential, esp considering all the available options at the time. He might have been on the right track, but the heart issues means we will never know for certain.

How's the old man doing? That school of his still believing that "proud history, bright future" bullshit? Or have they got rid of all of their best teachers and brought in some 20 year old trainees that can hardly read?

[Jon Crofts]

Randy bought a classic sports car.  The previous owner kept it in good order & when Randy bought it a 3 year warranty was put on the car.

When that warranty ran out 3 years on, the expensive original parts were sold off, some were replaced with cheap copies but not all.

The classic car now sits on his driveway under a tarpaulin, an embarrassing rusting hulk, not worth anywhere near what he paid for it.

[Fergal]

So much ignorance on this page that it is hard to know where to begin, but if you really think that the board chose Lambert "because it is what the fans wanted," then you are past reasoning with.

But I agree that there is no excuse for the AM appt. Before that, when MON left us deep in it, I thought the Houllier appt had potential, esp considering all the available options at the time. He might have been on the right track, but the heart issues means we will never know for certain.

Well that's told us....

[curlytailavfc]

Randy bought a classic sports car.  The previous owner kept it in good order & when Randy bought it a 3 year warranty was put on the car.

When that warranty ran out 3 years on, the expensive original parts were sold off, some were replaced with cheap copies but not all.

The classic car now sits on his driveway under a tarpaulin, an embarrassing rusting hulk, not worth anywhere near what he paid for it.

bang on

[bertlambshank]

Still blaming MON oh dear.

[Villafirst]

Lerner should go for broke and hand Lambert at least £50M. He'll lose probably twice that much if we get relegated - particularly with the huge increase in Sky/BT money from 2013-16 starting next season. He should splash it on 5 players to try and arrest this tailspin to the Championship.

It would still leave him with about £950M to survive on - hard times I know...

[Mortimer's Bear]

Lerner should go for broke and hand Lambert at least £50M. He'll lose probably twice that much if we get relegated - particularly with the huge increase in Sky/BT money from 2013-16 starting next season. He should splash it on 5 players to try and arrest this tailspin to the Championship.

It would still leave him with about £950M to survive on - hard times I know...

This.

[Jimbo]

Randy bought a classic sports car.  The previous owner kept it in good order & when Randy bought it a 3 year warranty was put on the car.

When that warranty ran out 3 years on, the expensive original parts were sold off, some were replaced with cheap copies but not all.

The classic car now sits on his driveway under a tarpaulin, an embarrassing rusting hulk, not worth anywhere near what he paid for it.

bang on

Sorry, but this is nowhere near bang on. The classic car that Randy bought was falling to pieces and had to be heavily invested in to keep it on the road. It was only when he'd spent what he thought was too much money on it that he lost interest and left it out on the drive to rot.

[ronshirt]

when MON left us deep in it

I'm still a bit confused about the Mon episode. Was he sacked or did he resign? And if the latter did he give any reasons for doing so?

[Irish villain]

So we're all agreed then. The classic car is now rotting and has been left out in the pissing rain for two long.

Radical surgery needed in January.

[Dave Clark Five]

when MON left us deep in it

I'm still a bit confused about the Mon episode. Was he sacked or did he resign? And if the latter did he give any reasons for doing so?

The horrible thing is that the odious little man is a whole lot richer for it.
Sorry for harping on about O'Neill but The General's son brought it up again.