The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[Des Little]

I'm clinging to the hope that, if talks are at an advanced stage (as we've been led to believe), then there must be airtight confidentiality agreements in place; no one on the verge of spunking £100m wants their business made public until the ink is dry, surely?

Plus, if things are close, the only people actively involved are hardly the type that would be whispering to the security bloke on the gate as they leave VP.

Depends whether they romantically nourish them!

Oh James...you speak the Randy language of love

[wozwebs]

Talk on Twitter and other forums that Peter Rigby, Birmingham based millionaire is the one in talks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rigby

[peter w]

Millionaire? Wrong consonant.

[PeterWithe]

Talk on Twitter and other forums that Peter Rigby, Birmingham based millionaire is the one in talks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rigby

My mate used to work for him, we had a pint with his son. Dead posh.

[Toronto Villa]

Millionaire? Wrong consonant.

Yeh just what I was thinking. We need more than some poxy millionaires.

[wozwebs]

Worth around 1% of Ellison so bound to be him isn't it.

[ozzjim]

Depends who else is in the consortium I would guess.

[Steve67]

The man is a Villa fan, that automatically gets my respect. Hopefully, he has a couple of mates lined up too and this happens very soon.

[Phil from the upper holte]

If he's a rational man if he's anything like most Villa fans he'll constantly be sacking managers

[pauliewalnuts]

I'm clinging to the hope that, if talks are at an advanced stage (as we've been led to believe), then there must be airtight confidentiality agreements in place; no one on the verge of spunking £100m wants their business made public until the ink is dry, surely?

Plus, if things are close, the only people actively involved are hardly the type that would be whispering to the security bloke on the gate as they leave VP.

Who said talks were at an advanced stage, though?

Don't get me wrong, I hope they are, but nobody has gone on the record to say that.

[Malandro]

Talk on Twitter and other forums that Peter Rigby, Birmingham based millionaire is the one in talks.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rigby

More likely to be Eleanor

[paul_e]

I'm clinging to the hope that, if talks are at an advanced stage (as we've been led to believe), then there must be airtight confidentiality agreements in place; no one on the verge of spunking £100m wants their business made public until the ink is dry, surely?

Plus, if things are close, the only people actively involved are hardly the type that would be whispering to the security bloke on the gate as they leave VP.

Who said talks were at an advanced stage, though?

Don't get me wrong, I hope they are, but nobody has gone on the record to say that.

King came very close to it, his 'next few weeks' comment in that interview really shouldn't be dismissed, I think he'd have been much more vague if there was nothing happening.

[edgysatsuma89]

I'm clinging to the hope that, if talks are at an advanced stage (as we've been led to believe), then there must be airtight confidentiality agreements in place; no one on the verge of spunking £100m wants their business made public until the ink is dry, surely?

Plus, if things are close, the only people actively involved are hardly the type that would be whispering to the security bloke on the gate as they leave VP.

Who said talks were at an advanced stage, though?

Don't get me wrong, I hope they are, but nobody has gone on the record to say that.

King came very close to it, his 'next few weeks' comment in that interview really shouldn't be dismissed, I think he'd have been much more vague if there was nothing happening.

I thought people were jumping on the fact he said 'the sale' rather than 'a sale'? I don't remember the 'next few weeks' bit.

[paul_e]

He said something about the sale rather than a sale and then followed up with something about the events of the next few weeks putting villa back where they belong.

Put both of those together and I reckon that's as close to getting something on record as we'll get before the ink is dry.

[levico]

Or........ the poll carried out over a year ago remains spot on.