The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

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Hypothetical situation.

Say we have a decent season and suprise a few poeple. We finish top half, do ok in the cups (maybe win the League Cup?) and actually turn a profit. Does anybody think Randy would stick around and try and work the Everton model?

[Ger Regan]

If he sorted out a CEO with real football knowledge (and gave him a good degree of control) then I wouldn't be totally against it. Big if though.

[silhillvilla]

Hypothetical situation.

Say we have a decent season and suprise a few poeple. We finish top half, do ok in the cups (maybe win the League Cup?) and actually turn a profit. Does anybody think Randy would stick around and try and work the Everton model?

Yes I think I could see that happening. Equally if we start doing well I think we will have more suitors than Everton have ever had.

[bertlambshank]

Good question if he did he would have to work bloody hard,and stop appointing his mates.

[dave.woodhall]

Realistically, I can't think of a better owner than an older, wiser version of Randy circa 2006.

[silhillvilla]

There are a lot of positives around Lerner. Watching the palace chairman at the weekend hogging the media limelight reminded me of this.

[Jon Crofts]

Realistically, I can't think of a better owner than an older, wiser version of Randy circa 2006.

This or alternatively we were just 1 appointment short, a proper football man as CEO/COO would and should have made the difference.  Oh well, hindsight and all that.

[maidstonevillain]

Realistically, I can't think of a better owner than an older, wiser version of Randy circa 2006.

Pity then that Randy has not become wiser as he has got older.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

Wiser with his finances perhaps, not quite as an owner of The Villa.

[Tony Erdington]

whats going on, all this positivity is making my head spin, but i like it.

my two penith , maybe Randys lernerd (like what i did with that) some stuff about running a premiership football club and is reassessing his position, OK now Randy go get Sir Graham in as director of football, makes sense to me.

[The Laughing Policeman]

Wiser with his finances perhaps, not quite as an owner of The Villa.

But it was him giving MON free reign with the cheque book that has got us to where we are now, he's obviously wised up over that and wont make the same mistake again.
We've had four years of profligacy followed by four years of retrenchment and now we seem to be very slowly moving forward again.
If he's wiser with his finances surely it follows that he is a wiser owner. The two things aren't mutually exclusive.
After all , all we ask of an owner is to spend money on the club wisely, to ensure that our tradition of always doing the right thing is carried on and the fact he is also a fan is a bonus, although maybe that got in the way in the first four years.
If he could find a Steve Stride type to come in as CEO, then I would be quite happy to see the for sale sign come down.

[oldtimernow]

My take on it was that he had been badly burned by MON's splurges and then when he took all that flak  that followed he retreated into his cave and tried to rein things in. This is something that his business senses would have told him to do but unfortunately he had to deal with fans and not sensible shareholders so hence the poor perceptions of him as a custodian of our club.

If things have finally turned a corner(fingers crossed of course because it was only one game) then perhaps he will regain his passion(?) for the club and may just decide to stick around , especially if no suitable option turns up ( ie no Eastern Ukraine moneyglot with dubious connections)

He does need to find some experienced advisors though and pretty quickly too.

[Des Little]

My take on it is when he got back to the USA he suddenly worried that he's left his straighteners plugged in back in Tamworth so he's come back to make sure he hasn't.

[Jimbo]

An older, wiser, richer, more interested and grounded, less potty version of Randy, with a better grasp of the realities of the game and a willingness to be advised by a capable administrator with experience and understanding of the business of football, would be ideal.

[oldtimernow]

Mine would have been  he'd left the safe door unlocked and has come back to check he hadn't