Takeover rumours

[Toronto Villa]

who's buying us today?

[Small Rodent]

who's buying us today?

Lee Longlands

[dubaivillain]

Leave it!

[Mazrim]

Don Amott, King of Caravans.

[itbrvilla]

If the megalomaniac Chinese industrialist has a cat he certainly won't be stroking it.

Interesting that the club say our profile is rising in China. I find that most Chinese fans know us by name but can't name a single player. I have yet to meet a Chinese Villa fan - most follow the glory teams and are happy to change colours from Real, to Barca to Bayern.

Quite a big following of Chinese students at the Uni.

[pauliewalnuts]

Hugely credible source, and it is paywalled anyway (and who would want to pay for that shit in the first place?) but:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/5416661/Randy-Lerner-ready-to-sell-Aston-Villa-for-%C2%A3200million.html

[Rotterdam 82]

Can someone who has paid for the pleasure of reading it please post the article?

[adrenachrome]

Hugely credible source, and it is paywalled anyway (and who would want to pay for that shit in the first place?) but:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/5416661/Randy-Lerner-ready-to-sell-Aston-Villa-for-%C2%A3200million.html

There is a quote from the article on Villatalk which a google search shows Lerner made in 2006:

'I'm what you call the custodian. There have been plenty of custodians of Aston Villa since 1874 and if I can't make it work, I will do what the others did, move on and let someone else try.'

'People like me come and go. The fans will always own Aston Villa because they never leave.'

Brum Mail 21 Aug 2006

EDIT: The quote on VT is NOT from the Sun article.

[Shrek]

I would be really worried if Randy sells us.

I dred the possibility of an owner like Cardiff, Hull or Blackburn.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't think for a minute that the reason we've not been sold is because Randy doesn't want to sell. it's because nobody wants to buy. See also Everton.

[willywombat]

I can see no other logical reason for the hugely risky cost cutting that we've seen over the last few years other than RL preparing the club for sale

[saunders_heroes]

It's a pity we weren't for sale when the Arabs were sniffing around Man City. Damn!

[dave.woodhall]

I can see no other logical reason for the hugely risky cost cutting that we've seen over the last few years other than RL preparing the club for sale

How about because we were spending more than we were earning?

[saunders_heroes]

I would be really worried if Randy sells us.

I dred the possibility of an owner like Cardiff, Hull or Blackburn.

We weren't worried when Ellis was looking to sell us, why should we be now?
Can't see him selling us to any Tom, Dick or Harry though.

[PaulWinch again]

I don't think for a minute that the reason we've not been sold is because Randy doesn't want to sell. it's because nobody wants to buy. See also Everton.

Yep I think Randy would sell but there's no-one available to buy. I think we need a new owner or investment but I doubt it's out there.