Randy Lerner

[Malandro]

Not sure why its putting what I write within the other text. Done it a few times lately. Odd.

[Dave Clark Five]

Not sure why its putting what I write within the other text. Done it a few times lately. Odd.

Not using an iPhone are you?

[Malandro]

Not sure why its putting what I write within the other text. Done it a few times lately. Odd.

Not using an iPhone are you?

nope on pc. Its done it a number of times in last few days, at first I thought I'd made a mistake.

[TheSandman]

My MON anecdote is that my old Manager used to  knock round in a circle of friends, in which he was included. This was in his Leicester days. I asked her what she thought about him.

'He will argue black is blue that he's right about something, even if he's patently wrong, he never used to see anybody else's point of view at all...

Sounds like most of the folk on here.

[Zakk Fatt]

I think he's had enough and is cutting back to save cash, can't blame him he has spent a fortune on fuck all. I blame Martin O' Neil for spunking the cash and not getting Champions League Football when we had a chance. He knew he'd fucked it up and left before anyone noticed.  We are now the new Leeds.

[pbavfckuwait]

Who can blame him, well me for one, bad business decisions made by a bad business man, that now are having a terminal effect on the football club that I love, there is not one supporter of this great club who has made those decisions, tattoo on leg or not, it is a business man that employs friends rather than qualified football people, that allowed MON to play with his money and now he sits and watches while Villa burns.
Please Randy time to call it a day and if not now at the end of the season, so at least we have a chance to rebuild with people who know the game at the helm, not someone who as each day goes bye, seems to get further and further out of his depth. Proud History, you have destroyed our immediate future.

[peter w]

Its not going to be too long before we start having a go at Randy. A proper go. He has got away with it thus far but its simmering undeerneath. We are walking around a little dazed at the moment wondering how they have allowed our team to get so poor. We can't just keep sacking managers and then give them little to work with. As has been said elsewhere the squad has been overhauled and what has been left is not very much. Its okay to rely on players coming through but they should have been brought through with more experienced players so that they could be dropped, or 'rested', when the need is there.

But, as we sleepwalk to relegation the first absolutely vital 6 pointer that pushes us closer to no way back, then I think the fans will vent their fury. Lerner needs to look to sell. The problem here is that it will only come after anger fromt he fans. That, in turn, may force his hand. But, if that is the case i hope he doesn't become like an ex-partner with a chip on his shoulder following a divorce. He could decide to get all of his money back out - at an iterest rate that is acceptable to him - which would in turn make us look less desirable to buy.

Unless a big billionaire is in the pipeline we are stuck with him for a while. And he's killing us.

[PaulWinch again]

He's destroying us, pure and simple.

[hilts_coolerking]

Surely the priority should have been to stay in the Premier League and then address the salaries, not the other way around?

[aj2k77]

Out of his depth in a sport he has no understanding of.

Anyone with any integrity would be looking for a buyer.

[jonzy85]

I think it is quite simple what has happened with Randy. He bought the club in 2006 and invested well over the next few years. These were the days of the 'Big 4' and it looked like Arsenal and Liverpool were there for the taking. We got close a couple of times and with an extra injection of cash probably would have got into the sacred land of the top 4, if wasn't for the big X-factor, being Man City.

Since Man City were taking over and started spending their silly money, the whole thing changed. Randy wasn't willing to match their millions, which was fair enough.

It is what he did since that makes me angry with him. At this point he decided we were paying our players too much and that the wage bill needed to be slashed dramatically. A lot of people seem to blame MON for this, which I don't quite understand. Randy is the man who signs the cheques etc. Either he gave MON free reign to offer what he wanted or else he ratified every deal - either way he is culpable of the wage bill getting out of hand, if that's what it was.

Ever since, he has stripped the squad for parts, bringing in the flimsiest of supports to keep us in the league (with the exception of Bent) and now the whole thing looks like it's going to come crashing down on top of him.

I knew at the time MON walked there was something up with Randy. The fact that MON was compensated through settlement after an Employees Appeal Tribunal, shows that he had a valid grievance. We may never know the facts of what happened there (I don't believe most of what the internet warriors say they heard). MON's conduct in leaving at the time was at best disrespectful, but there is no way it can be used as an excuse for the club being in the state it's in now.

[Villadroid]

Zakk Fatt

This is the thread for Randy Lerner.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

He came in, thought we could qualify for Champions League, we haven't, now we can't spend as much as we did (more than most, less than others) and he appointed a couple of poor managers.

Don't understand what people want him to speak out for? We clearly haven't got the money, so why bother asking. If you ask why he appointed GH & AM then he'd probably tell you they were a mistake, so what can you say to that?

The club, from a business point of view, is being run so it doesn't go bust after an initial outlay to try and improve it.

[Des Little]

A charlatan and a fraud.  A pox on his bleedin' house.  Same goes for his ginger weasel.

[Old Salt]

A ITK on VillaTalk is saying the sh*t is about to hit the fan at Villa Park, he claims first hand knowledge from "The highest possible source" that Lerner is about to f*ck over Aston Villa in a very big way, that staff at VP all despise him, and all the Lerner apologists will be turned on their heads this summer...

Anyone on here hearing similar murmurings?