The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[Yossarian]

I sell to anyone who gives me £2.

I have got £1.24, a 1987 Match annual and a Toffee Crisp. Will that do you?

[Legion]

Deal.

[Yossarian]

Well that was easy enough. As new owner of Villa Park my first acts will be rename the Witton Road Stand The Tony Barton Stand, slash ticket prices and to sign Gareth Bale from Real Madrid for a knock-down price.

[PeterWithe]

Wasnt one of the characters in Wolf Hall called Robert Rich?

The Duke of Norfolk maybe? Or Bernard Hill's character?

Richard Rich also pops up pretty regularly in the Shardlake novels, it was he who got the hero sent to the Tower of London and tortured.

[pauliewalnuts]

Jon, why do you now think selling responsibly will not come into Randy's thinking? Not dismissing the money thing but do you really believe he'll just sell the highest bidder irrespective of the person or groups motivation and credentials?

I think money is going to be the deciding factor. He is getting out, and if we have a situation where one group offers more or better terms, he'll go for that.

He's burned huge amounts of money, can't really blame him for wanting as much back as he can get

I just hope it doesn't wind up with someone loading debt onto the club

[peter w]

Well that was easy enough. As new owner of Villa Park my first acts will be rename the Witton Road Stand The Tony Barton Stand, slash ticket prices and to sign Gareth Bale from Real Madrid for a knock-down price.

no no no

i'd build the ground up to 80 000 and rename the Witton into the Devey Stand or something. maybe Athersmith. I'd buy as many of the top players as I could and then just pay off the FFP fine. prices would double. You wanna watch the best? You pay for it. There'd be a standing bit for amfy and Witton End, or whatever his name is. I'd sell crack pipes at half time and have a chill out zone at the pack of the trinity. replace the seats with sofas. We'd sell mars bars, Yops, and doritos. We'd also have the sofas angled at each other with ripped rizlas on the floor and Future sound of london playing in the background.

I'd also have a giant picture of my face on the badge. There'd also be 10 minutes of homage to me at the start of each game and I would lead the team out. Everyone would then have to applaud me. Those not will be ejected and unlikely to be heard of again. Villa park is nice an' shit but the name doesn't do me enough credit. Pete's Parlour has a wonderful ring to it.

the ground would also be full because I'd fly lots of homeless people in to shout, make noise, and sit on the seats. or I'd just pluck Filipino workers from the streets and dump then into the ground to pay more homage to me, I mean support Aston Villa.

The turf would also cleverly have my face woven into the fabric.

I think i'd be a great owner.

[KRS]

Looks like FFP rules will be relaxed so I hope Randy takes into consideration that any new owner needs to be considerably richer than him.

[Legion]

How about he does not sell?

[Toronto Villa]

How about he does not sell?

I'd go with that. If he wants to spend responsibly and within the existing revenue streams there's no reason why we can't go back to spending accordingly. I wouldn't expect us lashing out a net £50m, but £25-30m well spent can go a very long way. If he only harbours the appetite to spend a net £10m then he may as well stand aside to someone with greater ambition.

[KRS]

As long as the era of austerity is stopped and we start conducting our business off the pitch how a Premier League club of our size should do then I think the majority would appreciate that the grass isn't always greener.

[Jon Crofts]

Jon, why do you now think selling responsibly will not come into Randy's thinking? Not dismissing the money thing but do you really believe he'll just sell the highest bidder irrespective of the person or groups motivation and credentials?

He's a businessman and at the end of the day he'll make a business decision based on economic facts rather than what his heart might be telling him.  Deep down he could be thinking, I don't owe you anything.

[Malandro]

Well that was easy enough. As new owner of Villa Park my first acts will be rename the Witton Road Stand The Tony Barton Stand, slash ticket prices and to sign Gareth Bale from Real Madrid for a knock-down price.

no no no

i'd build the ground up to 80 000 and rename the Witton into the Devey Stand or something. maybe Athersmith. I'd buy as many of the top players as I could and then just pay off the FFP fine. prices would double. You wanna watch the best? You pay for it. There'd be a standing bit for amfy and Witton End, or whatever his name is. I'd sell crack pipes at half time and have a chill out zone at the pack of the trinity. replace the seats with sofas. We'd sell mars bars, Yops, and doritos. We'd also have the sofas angled at each other with ripped rizlas on the floor and Future sound of london playing in the background.

I'd also have a giant picture of my face on the badge. There'd also be 10 minutes of homage to me at the start of each game and I would lead the team out. Everyone would then have to applaud me. Those not will be ejected and unlikely to be heard of again. Villa park is nice an' shit but the name doesn't do me enough credit. Pete's Parlour has a wonderful ring to it.

the ground would also be full because I'd fly lots of homeless people in to shout, make noise, and sit on the seats. or I'd just pluck Filipino workers from the streets and dump then into the ground to pay more homage to me, I mean support Aston Villa.

The turf would also cleverly have my face woven into the fabric.

I think i'd be a great owner.

No objections from me

[Toronto Villa]

Jon, why do you now think selling responsibly will not come into Randy's thinking? Not dismissing the money thing but do you really believe he'll just sell the highest bidder irrespective of the person or groups motivation and credentials?

He's a businessman and at the end of the day he'll make a business decision based on economic facts rather than what his heart might be telling him.  Deep down he could be thinking, I don't owe you anything.

I don't at all dismiss the money thing. At the end of the day he's lost a shed load on this and wouldn't blame him for sticking to a sales number. But I still don't think he's selling to just anyone otherwise I imagine he could have cut his losses before now. Might just be a gut thing but he doesn't strike me as someone who is a take the money and run type of person.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Seems to me that Lerner was perfectly happy to see us do the absolute minimum as long as we retained our Premier League status. Why should I trust him to give a shit who he sells us to? We've done what we've done this season ( in terms of the Cup run and scraping our way to survival) in spite of him, not thanks to him. We were on the brink a few times this season and he didn't even crawl out of his shell to help us so fuck him.

[Toronto Villa]

Didn't he write off a bunch of his money in that period of time? Hardly nothing but certainly not enough on the football side. I know hindsight is 20-20, but I wonder how someone like a Sherwood might have done in the time we "enjoyed" TSM and TSM2? Part of the problem was certainly Randy, a good chunk was those two. It's not like they were given nothing at all to spend between them.