The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[cdbearsfan]

Not sure why anyone would still be panicking. See my sig if you need reassurance.

[Percy McCarthy]

Surely if their intention was one of money laundering, they would have gone for a lower profile business rather than a high profile football club with frequent media attention.  Isn't it more likely they either see an opportunity to turn a quick profit (most achievable via success on the pitch) or it's a rich mans vanity project?

i think they see the opportunity to make money which may not be related to on pitch activity.

Well they won't succeed at that if they don't relate it to on the pitch activity. The best way for Villa to make a lot of money is to be in the Premier League.

What if they develop the land? They may see the club as an anchor tenant. There are lots of opportunities to make money from the site. To think that this is a football only purchase is a bit naive. I hope I am wrong.

be interesting to see the extent of Villa's property ownership within the locality. Here in Aus I have access to a website called RP Data, which allows subscribers to conduct title searches on defined land parcels and thus identify who owns the subject land.

Presume such a website exists in the UK and there would be H&Vers with access to it, who may be able to enlighten us?

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry

There's a fee for a search.

That would be a nice challenge for somebody on here. Someone allowed to conduct financial transactions over the internet perhaps, unlike me?

[Phil from the upper holte]

We're a miserable bunch

Lets just enjoy it for now, were free of Randy

[ChicagoLion]

Blimey it's unbelievable on here. The sheer misery and gloom. Randy has finally sold the club. Hollis a man of excellent reputation has overseen the sale to people he clearly must trust. Sold to man where he described his ambitions glowingly and transformational. Yet we have more experts on here than any of those involved in these transactions and the sky is falling in.

Nobody has any idea in 2008-2009 when things looked great under Randy how things would turn out in 2016. So why jump to conclusions now about this man and the people he has trusted? They may not all be here long term and it is possible that they will operate to get things going at the club before Xia brings in others as longer term hires. We just don't know. For me today marks the start of a period we have all been crying out for, with a new manager and staff. Brian Little still at the club. Now the proper work starts on the team and getting the right players in and getting rid of some to secure promotion. That's as far as I am looking.

Yep, you wouldn't think Randy had sold up and we now had a new manager, owner and a potentially new exciting future to get behind. 

Proud History, Potentially New Exciting Future.

I'm sure I've heard summat similar before...

I think we should forgive people for not going overboard with the enthusiasm just yet. 

He's not going overboard.

I know. That's why I didn't say he was.

it's really unusual for them to be defending the ownership.

[pauliewalnuts]

We're a miserable bunch

Lets just enjoy it for now, were free of Randy

It is hardly surprising of people are apprehensive.

This isn't a new landlord taking over at your local, this is important.

It is also possible to be free of Randy and much worse off, believe it or not.

[Musicmaan]

It's on the OS now, although I'm really not sure who proof reads this stuff...

[pauliewalnuts]

No body is going to pay 100m for a football club just to get their hands on some land in a run down deprived area of Birmingham - one with plenty of similar brownfield sites available.

[Chico Hamilton III]

It's on the OS now, although I'm really not sure who proof reads this stuff...

Someone needs to learn how to use apostrophes

Owners and Directors Test? Following the competition of paperwork?

[Clampy]

Blimey it's unbelievable on here. The sheer misery and gloom. Randy has finally sold the club. Hollis a man of excellent reputation has overseen the sale to people he clearly must trust. Sold to man where he described his ambitions glowingly and transformational. Yet we have more experts on here than any of those involved in these transactions and the sky is falling in.

Nobody has any idea in 2008-2009 when things looked great under Randy how things would turn out in 2016. So why jump to conclusions now about this man and the people he has trusted? They may not all be here long term and it is possible that they will operate to get things going at the club before Xia brings in others as longer term hires. We just don't know. For me today marks the start of a period we have all been crying out for, with a new manager and staff. Brian Little still at the club. Now the proper work starts on the team and getting the right players in and getting rid of some to secure promotion. That's as far as I am looking.

Yep, you wouldn't think Randy had sold up and we now had a new manager, owner and a potentially new exciting future to get behind. 

Proud History, Potentially New Exciting Future.

I'm sure I've heard summat similar before...

I think we should forgive people for not going overboard with the enthusiasm just yet. 

He's not going overboard.

I know. That's why I didn't say he was.

it's really unusual for them to be defending the ownership.

It's unusual for some to be pessimistic.

[Chris Smith]

We're a miserable bunch

Lets just enjoy it for now, were free of Randy

It is hardly surprising of people are apprehensive.

This isn't a new landlord taking over at your local, this is important.

It is also possible to be free of Randy and much worse off, believe it or not.

Of course. I am trying to remain agnostic but instead find myself veering between optimism and dread.

[damon loves JT]

The real key to his success won't be how much money he has, or can borrow. It's how good he is at finding and using skilled administrators, how good he is at making decisions, how good he is at delegating responsibility to the right people.

Randy was totally shit at those things, and all the money in the world wouldn't have helped.

[john e]

So much for mr Xia hangers on we're just facilitators,

we will now have the dodgiest bunch of shysters right at the heart of our club

this is going to unfurl into a nightmare of Mega proportions IMO

[tony scott]

It's on the OS ,but board members to be confirmed later this week ?

[Villa in Denmark]

The real key to his success won't be how much money he has, or can borrow. It's how good he is at finding and using skilled administrators, how good he is at making decisions, how good he is at delegating responsibility to the right people.

Randy was totally shit at those things, and all the money in the world wouldn't have couldn't helped.

Fixed

[Brend'Watkins]

So much for mr Xia hangers on we're just facilitators,

we will now have the dodgiest bunch of shysters right at the heart of our club

this is going to unfurl into a nightmare of Mega proportions IMO

Woe, woe and thrice woe!