Takeover rumours

[TheSandman]

Nicely put.

[Sexual Ealing]

Nicely put.

Thanks. And I'd add that there's as little point us moaning about it as there is about a Telegraph-reader moaning about our being overtaken by China or Brazil. We had our time in the sun, most of us weren't born then. C'est la vie. Even if we had most of us would've been sweeping chimneys/...*metaphor breaks*.

[mr underhill]

I think you've been reading too much  bad Dominic Sandbrook. Randy thought he would make lots of money by gate-crashing the CL. He didn't. The end.

[class_of_82]

Quote from: brian green on February 03, 2014, 08:21:29 PM
I cannot think of any football manager past or present who has ever done anything as damaging to his club as walking out without warning five days before the start of a season.   That was pure unadulterated spite.

Not so sure it was pre- planned , more than likely something happened to top him over the edge and he'd had enough - he said at the time something  like they no longer shared the same vision for the club - one day he may reveal what actually happened .


I work on the gas in Central London and was doing a massive job there outside harrods about  6 months after mon had thrown his teddy out the pram.

Who should walk down the street towards me only randy Lerner I vaulted the barriers like Sergei bubka and jumped in front of him.he must of thought he was going to get mugged then seen my villa hat and smiled. I shook his hand and thanked him for all he had done for the villa etc and we chatted for about 20 minutes about the villa. In that time his mobile must of rung 10 times and beeped about 10 more and he Looked at me and said they can wait your more important, Jesus Christ how did that make me feel a fookin million dollars and more.
In that time he told me how much waste he had to witness in the mon years and continually had to watch players being signed on big money which he thought would never add value to the squad. But he admitted he went along with it and he admitted he was glad when mon walked out. The final straw being the euro debacle in mon final season.
We could of been 2 normal villa fans and deep down we probably both was. Yea I know the plan for world domination has gone off the rails for while but that day I was made to feel like a Million dollars.

[Legion]

Wow. Fantastic story.

[London Villan]

That is one of the best posts i've ever read on here. Hope it's true! ;-)

[The Left Side]

Great read, like LV says hope it is true.

[Toronto Villa]

that's a brilliant story and makes me feel even more optimistic that hasn't given up at all and that he has just hit the pause button until we got our house in order. You can see he got burnt but he obviously enjoys being the owner of Aston Villa. If he didn't give a shit he'd have walked on and not bothered discussing any of that. Pat Murphy would be livid if he found out about this interview.

[Monty]

I don't doubt his good intentions and never have. Only his footballing judgements - his off-the-pitch stuff is better than any other owner I can think of.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

Wow that story is amazing. And I like to think its true. I am still amazed as a business man that he never brought in a director of football to guide him through his "new" business. Wage structure-scouting-etc Faulkner is also in a "new" business but seems to have learnt a lot quicker than Lerner about the way forward .......

[nigel]

"But he admitted he went along with it and he admitted he was glad when mon walked out. The final straw being the euro debacle in mon final season."

After reading that, it makes me wonder if MO'N was close to getting the sack. He realised this so he walked.

[Slaphead]

It would look better on him to walk away (despite the terrible timing) than to be sacked and deemed a failure.

[ez]

Something I've noticed about non villa fans and the media is they seem oblivious to the amount of money O'Neil spent. Its as if he got us to 6th place on a budget and we should be grateful.

[Herman]

No wonder the gas takes so long sorting out leaks and digging up the roads.
I hope you were docked 20 minutes wages you bloody slacker.

[Mister E]

Great story from three years ago ... I wonder whether the same would happen now if Randy was 'accosted' on the street? I'd like to thinks so.