The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[myf]

Saw tom fox tonight in brindley place . He was speed walking and on his phone hands free. Looked quite tense and animated and I caught him say "how do we find ourselves in this position"...

[wozwebs]

... the appointments of Gerrard Houllier, Alex McLeish and Paul Lambert for starters!

[villadelph]

Saw tom fox tonight in brindley place . He was speed walking and on his phone hands free. Looked quite tense and animated and I caught him say "how do we find ourselves in this position"...

Everybody freak out!

[ciggiesnbeer]

Maximum panic incoming!!!!!

[Matt Collins]

The thing is at most clubs that would probably mean someone has put a meeting in the chairman's diary at the wrong time

At Villa it probably means we've accidentally put a clause in delph's new contract meaning he can leave if someone bids more than £6m.

[Villa in Denmark]

The thing is at most clubs that would probably mean someone has put a meeting in the chairman's diary at the wrong time

At Villa it probably means we've accidentally put a clause in delph's new contract meaning he can leave if someone bids more than £6m.

(Only joking, but how low.......)

[Ads]

I saw Tom Fox in Tescos talking to another bloke (who was also wearing a suit). Not sure what this means.

[eric woolban woolban]

I saw Tom Fox in O bar, Broad Street, listening to DJ Foxy spinning the discs. What did the fox say?

[mr underhill]

Bingo?

[PeterWithe]

Does anyone know he will have appointed as lawyers?  I have a very good friend who will be able to give us some gossip if we can find out which company.

Randy uses Squire Patton Boggs

I read that about fifteen times trying to decipher the pun.

[ROBBO]

If there were no buyer would Lerner have made a statement by now seeing that has been widely reported?

[Ads]

I would assess the position as thus;

We have interested parties who have the funds to meet the asking price. I say plural, as a period of exclusivity has been granted. It may be a belts and braces exercise, but it would suggest there is at least some concern of being gazumped.

The preferred bidder has enough money to meet the supposed £150 million asking price, they're in the process of carrying out due diligence to see if our years of austerity are as advertised. Within that period, as long as the books satisfy what was described on the sale document by BoA, then we will be sold.

What else you can read into that, I'm not sure, but I would make the two following assumptions.

1) For whatever Randy's faults and the valid criticisms we have of him, he seems a genuinely decent bloke, who has stated that ideally, he would like to sell to somebody with good intentions. Whether that's possible or not, remains to be seen.

2) If you have enough capital to spend £150 million, you're not short of a pound or two and you're not making such an investment merely to let it wither on the vine.

[not3bad]

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[not3bad]

Ladies and gentlemen - our new owner.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-gossip-wikipedia-page-9423303

Admin

[pauliewalnuts]

Ladies and gentlemen - our new owner.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-gossip-wikipedia-page-9423303

Admin

Is that what passes as journalism these days?

Reporting that a wikipedia page says something?

It's like something out of The Onion.

Oh, and saying it has since "tellingly" been removed. Maybe they could have taken a look at the history on the page and seen what kind of user had done the editing?

What a desparate mess, a once-decent regional newspaper in the second biggest city in this country, reduced to hopeless, meaningless clickbait like this nonsense.