Takeover rumours

[Ad@m]

Apologies if I've missed it but is there anything new to justify dragging up this thread again?!

We are just bored?

Fair enough.  As long as I haven't missed anything.

[TonyD]

OK not that any of it is palatable but what about if they kept the name as it is but changed the kit colours to RB corporate colours?

No fucking way olaftab. Just no.

No, our claret and blue is not for sale.

Yes it is claret blue we all fell in love with.

Yep,  it's something very special.

[danlanza]

The poll should not just be Yes or No.
This goes far deeper than just yes or no.
Would we like to become the next Man City- YES
Will we have our stadium name changed, ie Etihad, Emirates, new grounds, i know.
Would we re-locate to a state of the art stadia-60,000 plus- No
If we were to be taken over would we have any choice in the matter ? No
Whatever happens would you still follow The Villa ?-Yes.
Always remember that we have never been a Sky TV plastic fan club. Our fan base was there for decades before Sky got involved. We are a solid club with solid fans. You are either Villa or you ain't, simple.
Even if some crazy multi billionaire decided to come and take us over, as a club, we will still be the fans. We may become a slight more popular within the foreign market, when we beat Bayern in the 2017 Champions league final. You know what i mean.
Serious investment would be very welcome, to compete at the very top. Sell our soul ? Never, never never.

[TonyD]

The poll should not just be Yes or No.
This goes far deeper than just yes or no.
Would we like to become the next Man City- YES
Will we have our stadium name changed, ie Etihad, Emirates, new grounds, i know.
Would we re-locate to a state of the art stadia-60,000 plus- No
If we were to be taken over would we have any choice in the matter ? No
Whatever happens would you still follow The Villa ?-Yes.
Always remember that we have never been a Sky TV plastic fan club. Our fan base was there for decades before Sky got involved. We are a solid club with solid fans. You are either Villa or you ain't, simple.
Even if some crazy multi billionaire decided to come and take us over, as a club, we will still be the fans. We may become a slight more popular within the foreign market, when we beat Bayern in the 2017 Champions league final. You know what i mean.
Serious investment would be very welcome, to compete at the very top. Sell our soul ? Never, never never.

"You are either Villa or you ain't, simple"

Probably the best comment of the night!   Too true.  UTV

[ciggiesnbeer]

Apologies if I've missed it but is there anything new to justify dragging up this thread again?!

We are just bored?

Fair enough.  As long as I haven't missed anything.

Stan Collymore tweeted this week that he had heard a rumour about Red Bull and Villa.

Means nothing of course but gives us some cover to discuss it again

[paul_e]

The only problem with a for/against poll is that, personally my answer is 'within reason'.  There are a lot of good things about the brand and their approach to sporting excellence, the success of that approach is unquestionable and doesn't involve chelsea/man city levels of over-funding.  I'd happily buy into that culture.  I'd also happily see some commercial changes, but without knowing the extent of those it's tough to decide for or against.

On balance I'll say for because you wouldn't buy a club which has such a deep history and then shit all over it, it's not like we'd be ridiculously cheap.  If you really want to buy a premier league club you'd look at someone like Southampton who have a largely disinterested owner (which is apparently why Cortese has left), similar colours, less history to be weighed down by and, I'd guess, a ground that will be a lot easier to expand.

[Des Little]

I'd rather they bought the Blues, flattened it and built a pop factory.

[TonyD]

I'd rather they bought the Blues, flattened it and built a pop factory.

Nah.. just leave them where they are.

[mr woo]

They could do whatever they liked. As long as they don't re-name the Doug Ellis Stand.

[Des Little]

Doug invented Red Bull you know. Only he called it Aston Best Bitter.

[rob_bridge]

They could do whatever they liked. As long as they don't re-name the Doug Ellis Stand.

Ha ha. Very Good.

[pauliewalnuts]

if it happened and they changed the name of the team would people really stop following the club? I think there would be a lot of anger and fist pounding, and some would call it quits I'm sure. But would the majority? Wouldn't it still be Aston Villa and Villa Park to those of us who have always known it that way? It's not like if it happened I'd have the option of following someone else.

I would. Stop, I mean.

A large part of the reason I follow the club at all is because it is engrained in my family right back to shortly after they moved to Aston from the country side in the mid-late 19th century.

Get it changing to a corporate themed kit, change its name to Red Bull Birmingham or whatever, and we'd be trampling over a huge slice of history - the history of the game, the league, of this city, of the sport, and of my family.

It would be the most grotesque defiling of sporting history that this country has seen.

Maybe that sounds somewhat over-emotional, but I honestly believe that.

What would be the point any more?

[pauliewalnuts]

And it is that defiling of sporting history which means it'd never actually happen, thankfully.

[dave.woodhall]

It wouldn't be Aston Villa, they wouldn't play in claret and blue at Villa Park. There wouldn't be a Villa left to support.

[taylorsworkrate]

if it happened and they changed the name of the team would people really stop following the club? I think there would be a lot of anger and fist pounding, and some would call it quits I'm sure. But would the majority? Wouldn't it still be Aston Villa and Villa Park to those of us who have always known it that way? It's not like if it happened I'd have the option of following someone else.

I would. Stop, I mean.

A large part of the reason I follow the club at all is because it is engrained in my family right back to shortly after they moved to Aston from the country side in the mid-late 19th century.

Get it changing to a corporate themed kit, change its name to Red Bull Birmingham or whatever, and we'd be trampling over a huge slice of history - the history of the game, the league, of this city, of the sport, and of my family.

It would be the most grotesque defiling of sporting history that this country has seen.

Maybe that sounds somewhat over-emotional, but I honestly believe that.

What would be the point any more?

Totally agree with Paulie here.