The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[aj2k77]

What does he get?

For years we've had managers who quite obviously were crap at managing. A CEO who presided over falling income. A team who got worse as each season passed. He never attended and simply put us on the back burner to other priorities.

He says all the heartfelt nicey bloke stuff but does all the couldn't give a fuck stuff, which hasn't been anywhere near good enough as a chairman of one of the countries biggest clubs.

[Yossarian]

What a statement to wake up to in Cup Final week. Its quite simple really.if Randy stays nothing will change. Sherwood will have to operate with minimal funds just like Paul Lambert and McCleish before him . We will not be in a position to improve.Aston Villa will become a toy in Randy's play box.
Its very depressing.

Become? Became. We were taken out the toy box and boxed up in the garage along with many other toys Randy used to play with a couple of seasons ago. We are sat gathering dust whilst waiting for bids on billionaire's e-bay.

[LTA]

So while Lerner sits in America feeling sorry for himself, nothing will change.  There will be no desperatly needed investment and we will continue to cling onto our premier league status.  Another depressing kick in the balls.

[Malandro]

If we spend what we have over the past few seasons - with a decent manager - I wont be too upset.

[warleyboy]

I for one am not going to worry about it.
The possible outcomes are endless, and I don't want to drive myself nuts thinking about it.

We have an opportunity to win the fa cup the weekend, winning that alters the perspective of it all.

I feel fox and sherwood know what they are doing, we are on the right track at last.
And my god it could have been worse, much, much worse if PL was still here.

[Jimbo]

This year's Boetti Mappa is last year's Shunammite woman. Paddy Power are taking bets on next year's obscure cultural reference:

The mask of Agamemnon - 5-1
Ethelred the Unready - 8-1
Rumi's Masnavi - 10-1
The works of Rainer Maria Rilke - 12-1
Francois Leclerc du Tremblay's eminence grise - 20-1
The Miorita ballads of Romanian folklore - 50-1
Post-'Spit' Carolgees - 100-1
 

[ciggiesnbeer]

This year's Boetti Mappa is last year's Shunammite woman. Paddy Power are taking bets on next year's obscure cultural reference:

The mask of Agamemnon - 5-1
Ethelred the Unready - 8-1
Rumi's Masnavi - 10-1
The works of Rainer Maria Rilke - 12-1
Francois Leclerc du Tremblay's eminence grise - 20-1
The Miorita ballads of Romanian folklore - 50-1
Post-'Spit' Carolgees - 100-1

Bloody great odds that. Rilke is a gold mine for self tortured references. Got to be worth a punt.

You just know Randy knows bostin lines like this by heart.

I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them.

[aj2k77]

If we spend what we have over the past few seasons - with a decent manager - I wont be too upset.

Wasn't it £6/7 million last season? Nowhere near enough to do anything with.

[Clampy]

What a statement to wake up to in Cup Final week. Its quite simple really.if Randy stays nothing will change. Sherwood will have to operate with minimal funds just like Paul Lambert and McCleish before him . We will not be in a position to improve.Aston Villa will become a toy in Randy's play box.
Its very depressing.

We are sat gathering dust whilst waiting for bids on billionaire's e-bay.

Is he sat waiting for bids or waiting for the best offer for him and us to come along? If it's the latter, then that's fine by me.

[Sexual Ealing]

I'm picturing a President Emeritus on a Harley Davidson with a fag on.

[bob]

What the flux?

Great Scott!

[DeKuip]

I can't see how anyone can read that article and feel negative about it.
He's still looking to sell, and when he does sell he wants it to be to someone with the resources and competence to take the club forward. In the meantime he intends to make changes at board level to benefit the running of the club.
It would be very easy to sell to the first consortium of would-be asset strippers who cobble together the asking price.

[Duncan Shaw]

I can't see how anyone can read that article and feel negative about it.
He's still looking to sell, and when he does sell he wants it to be to someone with the resources and competence to take the club forward. In the meantime he intends to make changes at board level to benefit the running of the club.
It would be very easy to sell to the first consortium of would-be asset strippers who cobble together the asking price.

I agree with you DeKuip, to me it's a positive article and good to hear some plans from him!

[Ron Manager]

I can't see how anyone can read that article and feel negative about it.
He's still looking to sell, and when he does sell he wants it to be to someone with the resources and competence to take the club forward. In the meantime he intends to make changes at board level to benefit the running of the club.
It would be very easy to sell to the first consortium of would-be asset strippers who cobble together the asking price.

I agree with you DeKuip, to me it's a positive article and good to hear some plans from him!

It also means Benteke will probably go to a club who are backed financially to achieve success and Cleverley may see things in the same light
and sign for a progressive club somewhat further up the table, and if Randy wants to put in another Chairman tell me what powers will he/she have. I will tell you. None at all!

[AV82EC]

What does he get?

For years we've had managers who quite obviously were crap at managing. A CEO who presided over falling income. A team who got worse as each season passed. He never attended and simply put us on the back burner to other priorities.

He says all the heartfelt nicey bloke stuff but does all the couldn't give a fuck stuff, which hasn't been anywhere near good enough as a chairman of one of the countries biggest clubs.

I don't disagree with anything you say as I said in my post I wouldn't forgive him for the clusterfuck he's made of running the club over the last few years but at some point you have to draw a line and move on and this article to me at least seems to be an honest attempt to do that. We can all carry on trawling over the wreckage of the decisions he's made since he's been here but with a Cup Final just 3 days away, a new Chief Exec who seems to understand his remit, a club with balanced books, a new Manager who is trying to be positive and move us on and a feeling that from this point on we could be moving away from the travails of the last few years makes me think he's at least stopped the rot.  I think paulie wrote a very good post a page or so back that kind of sums it all up, Lerners made massive mistakes in his past runnin of the club, this Cup Final seems a decent turning point for us all to take stock and think about the new way forwards.  Of course in the miserablist world this could all be one of Villas fabled false dawns but until that comes to pass and we're once again only safe with one game to go I'm going to try and look to the future with some positivity.