The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[not3bad]

It makes you sound like a bigot is what it does.

I knew I shouldn't have filled in that application form for the Westboro Baptist Church.

"What's behind the racist door today?"

"It's Ching Chong Chinaman!"

[silhillvilla]

I don't think there's an issue with stating you'd be nervous about Far East owners . They don't exactly have a Stellar track record in football club ownership - man city , Cardiff , SHA etc etc etc

[Mister E]

"It's Ching Chong Chinaman!"

You're the Duke of Edinburgh and I claim my £5 ... Sir.

[Edvard Remberg]

Arrr naww - Randy Rerner serring Aston Virra...

Que Team America

[PaulWinch again]

I don't think there's an issue with stating you'd be nervous about Far East owners . They don't exactly have a Stellar track record in football club ownership - man city , Cardiff , SHA etc etc etc

British/European owners at Leeds, Portsmouth, Rangers etc etc etc.

The point is that you can always find terrible owners regardless of nationality. I don't care where the new owners are from I just want them to be good owners.

[dave.woodhall]

What I found interesting was at the SCG meeting a couple of weeks ago there was an almost unanimous desire for Randy to stay from supporters.

[pauliewalnuts]

I don't think there's an issue with stating you'd be nervous about Far East owners . They don't exactly have a Stellar track record in football club ownership - man city , Cardiff , SHA etc etc etc

British/European owners at Leeds, Portsmouth, Rangers etc etc etc.

The point is that you can always find terrible owners regardless of nationality. I don't care where the new owners are from I just want them to be good owners.

Exactly.

Carson Yeung wasn't a terrible owner because he was Chinese.

He was a terrible owner because he was a tinpot hairdresser with (comparatively) not a pot to piss in, who managed to take over Small Heath and run them into the ground, and continue to do so while banged up in the big house on the hill in Hong Kong.

Genius like that has nothing to do with race.

[fbriai]

Opening this thread is a bit like stumbling into 'Are you right there Father Ted?'.

[VILLA MOLE]

Arrr naww - Randy Rerner serring Aston Virra...

Que Team America

fuck yeh 

[silhillvilla]

Name a single far eastern owner/s who have done well in English football

[AV82EC]

Name a single far eastern owner/s who have done well in English football

Didn't the bloke at Cit£h make an absolute killing (no pun intended) on his purchase/sale of the club and despite singing Blue Moon badly didn't see to make too many cock ups in his time there?

[silhillvilla]

Name a single far eastern owner/s who have done well in English football

Didn't the bloke at Cit£h make an absolute killing (no pun intended) on his purchase/sale of the club and despite singing Blue Moon badly didn't see to make too many cock ups in his time there?

Erm didn't he end up doing porridge too

[Ads]

I was listening to the wireless on the morning of the final and they had the Chinese commentator on, who suggested that Villa have quite a large supporter base in southern China which started after we finished 2bd back in 93.

Seemed odd to me really, but, unlike our friends down the road, we would probably stand the chance of flogging some tat over there and making a pound or two on a tour.

[OCD]

I don't think there's an issue with stating you'd be nervous about Far East owners . They don't exactly have a Stellar track record in football club ownership - man city , Cardiff , SHA etc etc etc

British/European owners at Leeds, Portsmouth, Rangers etc etc etc.

The point is that you can always find terrible owners regardless of nationality. I don't care where the new owners are from I just want them to be good owners.

Exactly.

Carson Yeung wasn't a terrible owner because he was Chinese.

He was a terrible owner because he was a tinpot hairdresser with (comparatively) not a pot to piss in, who managed to take over Small Heath and run them into the ground, and continue to do so while banged up in the big house on the hill in Hong Kong.

Genius like that has nothing to do with race.

Fault can be found with Sullivan and the Gold brothers though who didn't seem to care what happened with the club as long as they got as much as they could. I can't imagine even Lerner's biggest detractors would put him in the same bracket as them. Lerner has always struck me as someone who genuinely wanted the best for the club and it's supporters but whose lack of sporting experience led him to make some poor decisions that he presumably regrets. I think he will sell to someone who he does think will take the club forward and as such, have resources that allow for a much needed investment.

[AV82EC]

Name a single far eastern owner/s who have done well in English football

Didn't the bloke at Cit£h make an absolute killing (no pun intended) on his purchase/sale of the club and despite singing Blue Moon badly didn't see to make too many cock ups in his time there?

Erm didn't he end up doing porridge too

Not sure, I know it all kicked off when he went back to Thailand but he hardly put Cit£h through the mill in his time there and sold them to one of the richest sovereign wealth funds in the world, it's hardly Our favourite hairdresser and the Blues is it?