The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[john e]

the Chinese billionaires have been out in force opportunity hunting in Birmingham this past week. There's your answer! Land, houses, factories, malls and Aston Villa!

Eh?  Is that true and how do you know?

Bryan Small told him

[Phil from the upper holte]

My mate said he'd read something on villa talk about an announcement next week

[Steve67]

Yeah, from someone known only as small Bryan.

[silhillvilla]

the Chinese billionaires have been out in force opportunity hunting in Birmingham this past week. There's your answer! Land, houses, factories, malls and Aston Villa!

Eh?  Is that true and how do you know?

It was on central news, they are over buying up large tracts of land eg. Birmingham Eastside etc.
If I'm honest I'm a bit uncomfortable with it all .

[cdbearsfan]

Because you're a weirdo.

[Percy McCarthy]

the Chinese billionaires have been out in force opportunity hunting in Birmingham this past week. There's your answer! Land, houses, factories, malls and Aston Villa!

Eh?  Is that true and how do you know?

See here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3dISRQ6uVtI

[Villa in Denmark]

Bryan Small who does community work/coaching for us has told my daughter that he can't work at their school on Tuesday because he and other staff have been called in for a meeting where announcements are to be made. So there you have it, all sorted, done deal Tuesday. I'm too good for this place, might need to go to where the other ITK's are at TBAR?

Nothing to do with a takeover, there has been a phantom shitter at the villa park

Stephen Ireland got off the pot 2 years ago.

[Sexual Ealing]

I saw Gary Penrice in Wickes and he said Cisneros was back in the frame. He was hitting himself on the head with the lid off a biscuit tin.

[Villa in Denmark]

the Chinese billionaires have been out in force opportunity hunting in Birmingham this past week. There's your answer! Land, houses, factories, malls and Aston Villa!

Eh?  Is that true and how do you know?

See here:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3dISRQ6uVtI

Regardless of the story, what the f##k was that shirt  Peter Plisner was wearing?

[Villa in Denmark]

the Chinese billionaires have been out in force opportunity hunting in Birmingham this past week. There's your answer! Land, houses, factories, malls and Aston Villa!

Eh?  Is that true and how do you know?

It was on central news, they are over buying up large tracts of land eg. Birmingham Eastside etc.
If I'm honest I'm a bit uncomfortable with it all .

Regardless of your personal preferences/casual xenophobia, you'd better get used to the last 3/4 of the 21st century being dominated by China, having spent the last 30 years out competing the traditional economic powerhouses (whilst buying a huge proportion of US government debt) and now starting to dominate in technology development instead of copying design.

It's also a nature consequences of the way the UK has been run over the last 40 odd years. Oscillating between rank incompetence and ideological dogma regardless of consequences and sometimes hitting the bittersweet spot of both. Result? Undervalued assets and a culture that knows the price of most things and the value of very little lacking the funding to pay for their upkeep.

Anyone uncomfortable with that better sign up for the one way mission to Mars, because that's the only way you're getting away from this inconvenient truth.

[ROBBO]

Well our fantastic goverment have just signed a free trade agreement with the Chinese that says anything  built costing over one hundred and fifty million and they can bring Chinese workers over to build and operate it. I will gladly swap your leader for ours.

[mr underhill]

what a load of polemical tosh - despite its undoubted faults I'd rather be living here than in Greece. And some of my best friends are Chinese.

[john e]

what a load of polemical tosh - despite its undoubted faults I'd rather be living here than in Greece. And some of my best friends are Chinese.

When Greece leave/thrown out of the EU they will devalue and we will all be over there on cheap holidays and going out for a meal for 4 for a fiver including wine

Happy days just round the corner

[Toronto Villa]

what a load of polemical tosh - despite its undoubted faults I'd rather be living here than in Greece. And some of my best friends are Chinese.

When Greece leave/thrown out of the EU they will devalue and we will all be over there on cheap holidays and going out for a meal for 4 for a fiver including wine

Happy days just round the corner

Yep and because they'll be skint they'll be importing the cheapest food and supplies possible to cook and serve you that you and your three friends will be shitting yourself for weeks after. Not so happy days beyond the initial happy days.

[David_Nab]

what a load of polemical tosh - despite its undoubted faults I'd rather be living here than in Greece. And some of my best friends are Chinese.

When Greece leave/thrown out of the EU they will devalue and we will all be over there on cheap holidays and going out for a meal for 4 for a fiver including wine

Happy days just round the corner

Greece leaving should hit the Euro value at least in the short term , good news for Villa buying players from Europe.