Takeover rumours

[Fergal]

IKN ?   

Well done for picking up on my typo, really impressive

[Fergal]

I knob nuns

Be careful doing that, you never know where the priests have been...

[saunders_heroes]

poor Pat.

And WTF does "don't blame me" mean? Has anyone actually blamed Pat Murphy for Randy not selling the club?

He's probably getting moaned at for not getting any info from Lerner. All we seem to get is bland corporate speak from Faulkner that tells us sweet f#ck all.

No other journalist puts on a "woe is me" act like Murphy. Ironically for him the more he does the less chance there will ever be an audience with Lerner. He's hardly private and respectful about the entire thing. And even if he did get an interview what do you suppose Lerner will actually say? The other day when Faulkner spoke it was dissected within seconds and those who were sceptical before remained so and arguably became even more cynical. If Lerner said "ok, we're done with the cuts and now we're going to go big" who realistically will take him at face value? In fact I would argue there would be more detractors looking to read between the lines and pick holes in every second word. He's in a no win situation and Murphy just needs to get past not getting an interview. He just comes across as a whiny old man.

It would be nice to get even the slightest hint from the club that these cutbacks and bargain basement trash we've been signing for the last 4 seasons will eventually come to an end, but what do we get - bland corporate speak that tell us absolutely nothing. In fact it continues to feed the resentment from the fans, as we're the ones who have to put up with the rubbish we see on the pitch. Just the slightest hint that there may well be light at the end of the tunnel. Is that really too much to ask?
As for Murphy, why shouldn't be allowed to be pissed off for not getting any information out of the club? It's his job, so why should he be happy about it?

[Legion]

I knob nuns

Be careful doing that, you never know where the priests have been...

Probably amongst the choirboys.

[Malandro]

I knob nuns

Be careful doing that, you never know where the priests have been...

not near the nuns I'm sure!

[dave.woodhall]

I am insinuating nothing, just speculating and guessing.   After all nobody is really IKN around here, so it's all guess work and supposition.

Oh, right.

With the wage bill having been slashed and the TV income up I think we must be very profitable at the moment.  Is Randy trousering the profit or saving it for the summer?  Or making what he can before he sells?

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Because Randy is done with us and is only bothered about getting out with the most amount of cash he can.  It looks like we are a safe bet to stay up so why waste money on players?

Obviously I can't prove it but Randy must be making a fair bit of money these days.  Doesn't he also charge a management fee?

Yep speculation all of it,  and a few questions.  So what?

So you keep saying it, you keep getting told you're wrong and you keep saying it again.

[Fergal]

So, are we not allowed to speculate and go on and on about stuff on here?

[dave.woodhall]

So, are we not allowed to speculate and go on and on about stuff on here?

Haven't heard that one for a few days.

[Fergal]

So, are we not allowed to speculate and go on and on about stuff on here?

Haven't heard that one for a few days.

I suppose I am trying to get to why Randy owns us. 
Is it to build a successful football club? Not doing very well if that's his motivation.
Make money? If what I am told is true that's not working either.

[dave.woodhall]

So, are we not allowed to speculate and go on and on about stuff on here?

Haven't heard that one for a few days.

I suppose I am trying to get to why Randy owns us. 
Is it to build a successful football club? Not doing very well if that's his motivation.
Make money? If what I am told is true that's not working either.

Why do people buy anything?

There's an old saying that the two happiest men in the world are a man who's just bought a boat and the man who's just sold it to him. Sometimes you fall in love with a dream and the reality is very different.

[eric woolban woolban]

I assume he purchased the club in the hope of breaking into the Champions League a couple of years later (five year plan).

Then Man City's billions came along from nowhere and essentially blew Randy out of the water.

He had committed money to this plan which  in the main was squandered by O'Neill.

From thereon in we had no chance.

[pauliewalnuts]

So, are we not allowed to speculate and go on and on about stuff on here?

Of course you are, but if you are going to speculate on Randy taking money out of, or making money from, Villa, then expect people to point out that you're factually incorrect - you might as well be arguing the moon is made of cheese.

[Fergal]

So, are we not allowed to speculate and go on and on about stuff on here?

Haven't heard that one for a few days.

I suppose I am trying to get to why Randy owns us. 
Is it to build a successful football club? Not doing very well if that's his motivation.
Make money? If what I am told is true that's not working either.

Why do people buy anything?

There's an old saying that the two happiest men in the world are a man who's just bought a boat and the man who's just sold it to him. Sometimes you fall in love with a dream and the reality is very different.

Randy is a business man, not sure if he would let his heart rule his head.  If he has fallen out of love with HMS Aston Villa what would he do? Cut his losses and get into the lifeboat.
Again it's only speculation on my part but I think that's what he is doing.

[Legion]

HMT Aston Villa sank during the war.

[adrenachrome]

I think RL wants to "do the right thing". It would be unseemly to follow the oligarchs in their ostentatious displays of power and wealth, or the financial manipulators of his countrymen at Manure and RedScouse. He spent the money with MoN when the playing field was less ridiculously skewed, but now he is trying a new approach.

There is no way that he is going to abandon this project when it has hardly started. In PL, he has found somebody who is wholly committed to the plan, and who seems unstinting in his belief that it can work.

There will be no change in ownership or managership any time soon. IMHO, of course.