The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[rob_bridge]

Just had a quick search on this Ray Davis chap. Pissed myself laughing as it appears Randy is a media whore compared to Davis, so the thought of Pat Murphy requesting an interview with the new chairman will be one to look forward to.

Other than that, Davis is strictly a businessman, priding himself on the people he puts in position rather than his actual decision making. It will be an investment for him, nothing else. Don't expect to see him at Villa Park, he won't be there. Don't expect to hear anything from him, he doesn't speak to the press. Don't expect lots of money thrown at the club, it won't happen.

Do expect somebody on the board that understands football inside out.

Makes sense why Faulkner has been feathering his own nest mixing with FA / Premiership suits

[eamonn]

I just want us to have players who are - at the very least - good enough. The current squad includes too many who clearly are not good enough.

yep, and the crazy thing is even as recently as under McLeish we were actually going after players we had all heard of. Now, I'll temper that by saying we flushed mountains of cash away on the wrong players. But relatively speaking it was still mountains of cash. This is a criticism of Lambert more than Randy but he took whatever cash Randy gave him and went after very exclusively unknown players where sometimes it worked and when it didn't it, well it was just bad. You've said before as we all have it was just too much too fast in terms of cuts and direction, and we are left with a new rebuilding job. Whoever comes in now will have to take that on the chin and quickly get us back to a solid footing. The same direction again next year and we'd go for sure. In fact two more games this year and I'm convinced we'd be relegated.

Lerner said himself that Lambert has been operating under the terms he imposed, i.e. cutting the wage bill. In that case I don't think he had much choice but to go for relative unknowns.

As much as I understand that, he still didn't have to totally bomb out certain players, and he could have been better in the market in getting some experienced players. Relative unknowns is one thing, but in hindsight I'd rather he played some of our youth and reserves and spent what little he had on some experience. It was all or nothing and it didn't need to be so drastic.

I don't think that was an option. Experienced players would have expected a wage that we were not going to pay at that point, Lerner pretty much confirmed that yesterday.

I still maintain that our undoing has been a series of injuries to key players throughout the season, without which we would be comfortably mid table. Every club has to deal with players being unavailable but we have been particularly hard hit, I doubt there has been a single occasion he has been able to name the first choice team. It gets boring seeing that trotted out all the time but that doesn't mean that it isn't true,

I think Lambert bought into the young, hungry and untried at the top level model gleefully and I don't think he's comfortable managing big players unless he's nurtured them himself.

[aj2k77]

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Just had a quick search on this Ray Davis chap. Pissed myself laughing as it appears Randy is a media whore compared to Davis, so the thought of Pat Murphy requesting an interview with the new chairman will be one to look forward to.

Other than that, Davis is strictly a businessman, priding himself on the people he puts in position rather than his actual decision making. It will be an investment for him, nothing else. Don't expect to see him at Villa Park, he won't be there. Don't expect to hear anything from him, he doesn't speak to the press. Don't expect lots of money thrown at the club, it won't happen.

Do expect somebody on the board that understands football inside out.

Sounds like Nirvana compared to the current muppets trying to keep our heads above the water. Someone stable and long term overseeing things so we don't have to start afresh and appoint random managers with different philosphies every few years.

[mr woo]

There's a second bidder according to TBAR.

Hinting at them being wealthier than the first pair.

[Ron Manager]

Probably the Russians then.

[dave.woodhall]

There's a second bidder according to TBAR.

Hinting at them being wealthier than the first pair.

There's nothing like covering your back is there?

[barrysleftfoot]

 You haven't been told anything then dave?

[dave.woodhall]

You haven't been told anything then dave?

Only where babies come from, which was news to me.

[mr woo]

There's a second bidder according to TBAR.

Hinting at them being wealthier than the first pair.

There's nothing like covering your back is there?

Not only that, changing your supposed ITK info means you are discrediting yourself.

[Legion]

I thought it was an imminent done deal as long as we retained our Premiership status?

[Ozzjim]

I thought an all glorious announcement had been made about the new owners being someg texans or something?

Now a second bidder?

Are they bidding to the announced new owners then?

[barrysleftfoot]

 Good news if true though.

 Be nice to be privy to such info,I don't think there is any doubt we are up for sale.

[pauliewalnuts]

Second bidder my arse.

A few hours ago, he was all "welcome to Villa Park, gentlemen" and now he's "oh, hang on, there's a second bidder!!11!!!!".

What horse shit.

[Mister E]

Good news if true though.

 Be nice to be privy to such info,I don't think there is any doubt we are up for sale.

It would seem "about to be sold" rather than "up for sale" based on the build-up of media noise and the Chairman's statement of yesterday.

Busy summer ahead.

[PeterWithesShin]

How to cover every option and still appear as some kind of ITK guru. The twat.