The Takeover Thread - Recon Group - NOW WITH NEW POLL

[ktvillan]

Well I'm feeling cautiously positive.  At least now we can hire a manager and sign some players, and whoever this guy is, he's not Lerner which is a massive plus in my book.   He could hardly be worse if he were the dribbling, festering bastard offspring of Robert Hopkins and Karren Brady intent on spending his last cent on destroying us.  I suppose he could change our name to Villa Tigers, change our colours to  red and make us play a 39th game in some smog ridden industrial Chinese wasteland of a mere 18m people that makes Middlesbrough look like Beverly Hills.  But I'm hoping he won't do that.  Sounds like he's a foreigner who formed an affection for us while studying at Oxford.   What could possibly go wrong?       

[Ads]

That's my thought too Pat, as I said a few pages back. They're trying to urbanise half a billion people, just by being there and with half a plan, you'd make a killing.

[pauliewalnuts]

Here is another article about Recon. last paragraph
http://www.s-3.ch/en/home/2015/10/27/the-chinese-company-recon-s3-have-signed-a-strategic-cooperation-agreement-to-develop-low-cost-orbit-satellite-delivery

Although  S3 has not completed yet the 1st round of investment, the 2nd is already at the door with a  great cooperation opportunity with RECON to target an IPO in 2016.

Hmmm.

[footyskillz]

The only thing is villa will have the money but it's competitive out there regards premier league players. Championship wise villa can own and get who they like but a few marquee signings to move us back . I could see speculative moves for a few brazillians coming in and other south Americans.  For a strart we can bring in  Michael Carrick and Sergio Romero from man utd. Maybe a bid for Ashley young too. I mean downing dropped a divison to Boro for a season. Basically a stronger squad with quality players.  Now I'm getting excited and slightly off topic but with di matteo he can bring in a few old Chelsea boys and Raul merelies is one who's out of contract maybe bring in Ashley Cole and Essien and kalou snf taje josh mckraen and build him back up touted as good as wilshite before anyway these with a few big money brazillian buys and some Italians would be very progressive for villla

[richl]

Let's all report back here in one month today? We might know more then.

[pauliewalnuts]

One thing, I reckon David Conn will be writing his article on these people already, so it won't be long until we find out more about them.

[Pat McMahon]

Buy the way, well done to all of you who posted on page 888. Many good fortune dragons will come your way.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Richer than Sheikh Mansour you say?

Lets kick off this takeover the way it should be. EVERY VILLA FAN GETS A CAR!

[richl]

The only thing is villa will have the money but it's competitive out there regards premier league players. Championship wise villa can own and get who they like but a few marquee signings to move us back . I could see speculative moves for a few brazillians coming in and other south Americans.  For a strart we can bring in  Michael Carrick and Sergio Romero from man utd. Maybe a bid for Ashley young too. I mean downing dropped a divison to Boro for a season. Basically a stronger squad with quality players.  Now I'm getting excited and slightly off topic but with di matteo he can bring in a few old Chelsea boys and Raul merelies is one who's out of contract maybe bring in Ashley Cole and Essien and kalou snf taje josh mckraen and build him back up touted as good as wilshite before anyway these with a few big money brazillian buys and some Italians would be very progressive for villla

Wtf

[edgysatsuma89]

I thought I'd be doing cartwheels the day Lerner finally sold but I'm not, glad to see the back of him but apprehensive about what's ahead. That might be because i've got the dentist first thing in the morning.

Me too. Well, 11.20. Good luck mate.

What a pity it's not three hours and ten minutes later!





Sorry!

Applause.

FFS I was desperately trying to work out some witty riposte to that along the lines of 2.30, but James absolutely nailed it. Excellent work.

He's sharp this German James. I mentioned a hippo badge and he whipped one up in minutes. Keeps you on your toes this one.

[Louzie0]

The only thing is villa will have the money but it's competitive out there regards premier league players. Championship wise villa can own and get who they like but a few marquee signings to move us back . I could see speculative moves for a few brazillians coming in and other south Americans.  For a strart we can bring in  Michael Carrick and Sergio Romero from man utd. Maybe a bid for Ashley young too. I mean downing dropped a divison to Boro for a season. Basically a stronger squad with quality players.  Now I'm getting excited and slightly off topic but with di matteo he can bring in a few old Chelsea boys and Raul merelies is one who's out of contract maybe bring in Ashley Cole and Essien and kalou snf taje josh mckraen and build him back up touted as good as wilshite before anyway these with a few big money brazillian buys and some Italians would be very progressive for villla

I'm optimistic as well, footyskillz.

[Des Little]

The only thing is villa will have the money but it's competitive out there regards premier league players. Championship wise villa can own and get who they like but a few marquee signings to move us back . I could see speculative moves for a few brazillians coming in and other south Americans.  For a strart we can bring in  Michael Carrick and Sergio Romero from man utd. Maybe a bid for Ashley young too. I mean downing dropped a divison to Boro for a season. Basically a stronger squad with quality players.  Now I'm getting excited and slightly off topic but with di matteo he can bring in a few old Chelsea boys and Raul merelies is one who's out of contract maybe bring in Ashley Cole and Essien and kalou snf taje josh mckraen and build him back up touted as good as wilshite before anyway these with a few big money brazillian buys and some Italians would be very progressive for villla

Wtf

Double wtf

[Ger Regan]

Let's all report back here in one month today? We might know more then.

We certainly should. But again, I'm just tired of the false dawns. Randy, O'Neill, Lambert, Fox, Hollis / King / Bernstein. I don't particularly care who our owner is, as long as they make us successful, and we won't know that until we see what happens with the restructuring of the club and the building of a new squad.

[brian green]

I would not like to tell Steve Hollis to his face that he is anybody's stooge.  I have more than one close contact who have met him a number of times and I trust implicitly their judgement that he is very much his own man.

[Pat McMahon]

Late to the thread - ironically have beeen  at Chinese class tonight - but have asked Chinese friends for their input.

Somebody in a city-focused infrastructure company would have been in a position to make ludicrous amounts in China in the past 20 years. The sheer scale of the place means that revenue and statistics go beyond our imagination - a much quoted stat is that China has used more concrete in the past 5 years than the USA used in the whole of the 20th century.

He sounds bright - current role and Harvard / MIT education - so god knows why he wants to buy a football club. I don't buy the Villa fan for years angle though. The Chinese only care about success in sport so unless we come back up quickly there won't be millions of people queuing up for Villa shirts across the country.

Will comment more when I have proper information.

That's great stuff, so far as it goes - and a useful reminder that China is more like a continent than a country, size-wise at least!

One of my most common refrains about China, Monty.

China gets many things wrong but they are undergoing the greatest rate of change of any country in the history of humankind. With a population greater than the whole EU, USA and Japan combined.