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[dave.woodhall]

Let me ask Dave, how do you feel about the sale of the club?   My view is and always has been that I do not want it sold and I think it was a very bad mistake to put it on the open market the way it was.   My preferred option is for Lerner to take it off the market.   Perhaps it is asking too much to also expect some statement of regret that it was handled the way it was.

I agree. I think that if the club was to be sold Randy would rather wait ten years to sell to the right buyer than sell to the next Carson Yeung tomorrow.

[silhillvilla]

Publicly announcing the club is up for sale really smacked of desperation. Another incredibly poor judgment call by Lerner.

[dave.woodhall]

Publicly announcing the club is up for sale really smacked of desperation. Another incredibly poor judgment call by Lerner.

At the time he was being asked to say what was going on. He did so and now you criticise him for doing so.

[silhillvilla]

Publicly announcing the club is up for sale really smacked of desperation. Another incredibly poor judgment call by Lerner.

At the time he was being asked to say what was going on. He did so and now you criticise him for doing so.

Who asked him ? And I don't think you need to advertise s football club for sale. If someone wants it they just make an approach

[brian green]

I know little or nothing about football.   Fact is I know little or nothing about anything much but I did write a racing column for twenty years and I spend a lot of time in and around racing.   If somebody wants to sell a top class horse they put out feelers to the movers and shakers in the industry.   If on the rare occasions that does not result in a sale an individual will contact others and they will form a syndicate to buy the horse.   It has worked perfectly for the last three hundred years.   The point I am making is that if Randy wants to find a buyer why can't he approach a few other billionaires he knows and put a syndicate together?   If he really wants to protect us from the Vincent Tans of the world he himself is best placed to judge a good billionaire from a bad one.

[dave.woodhall]

Publicly announcing the club is up for sale really smacked of desperation. Another incredibly poor judgment call by Lerner.

At the time he was being asked to say what was going on. He did so and now you criticise him for doing so.

Who asked him ? And I don't think you need to advertise s football club for sale. If someone wants it they just make an approach

Do you honestly mean to say that in May nobody was asking/begging/demanding information from Randy?

[saunders_heroes]

I think it was more likely we were close to a sale but it fell through.
I can't believe he'd be that bothered about what the fans are calling for. The decline of the team over the last 4-5 seasons is proof enough of the contempt he has for the fans. In my opinion of course.

[aj2k77]

Publicly announcing the club is up for sale really smacked of desperation. Another incredibly poor judgment call by Lerner.

I didn't mind the announcement, nearly every single one of us was lambasting him for keeping schtum when all rumours we're flying around. It did concern me though the wording of the statement, just sounded weird and unprofessional.

[silhillvilla]

Publicly announcing the club is up for sale really smacked of desperation. Another incredibly poor judgment call by Lerner.

At the time he was being asked to say what was going on. He did so and now you criticise him for doing so.

Who asked him ? And I don't think you need to advertise s football club for sale. If someone wants it they just make an approach

Do you honestly mean to say that in May nobody was asking/begging/demanding information from Randy?

He hasn't cared about the fans from day 1.
Why would he bother then or now. The contempt he's shown for us is incredulous.

[cdbearsfan]

Well, that's just bollocks.

[danno]

I think Mike Ashley announced he wanted to sell Newcastle when they were relegated.
They were Promoted, finished twelve then fifth.

Everton have been up for sale forever, and were often in the top 5 under Moyes.

The announcement wasn't for any potential buyers to hear, or to drum up interest.

It was to put an end to the endless speculation rumours and hearsay.
Now Paul Lambert fields questions, primarily about the first team, and that simply wasn't the case six months ago.

[Ads]

Well, that's just bollocks.

It is indeed.

[brian green]

Whichever way you bat this argument back and forth all I know is that there is a Villa game today and I have not one but two Villa season tickets in my wallet and neither of us wants to go to the game and neither of us will go to the game. The two owners of those season tickets have followed Villa for a combined 102 years. Between us we have followed Villa all over the world.  Four years ago this situation would have been dismissed by both of us as unthinkable.
The fundamental lie that everything is being turned around is the root cause of my discontent and the animosity of this thread only serves to emphasise the vacuum at the heart of the club.

[Clampy]

Publicly announcing the club is up for sale really smacked of desperation. Another incredibly poor judgment call by Lerner.

At the time he was being asked to say what was going on. He did so and now you criticise him for doing so.

Who asked him ? And I don't think you need to advertise s football club for sale. If someone wants it they just make an approach

Do you honestly mean to say that in May nobody was asking/begging/demanding information from Randy?

He hasn't cared about the fans from day 1.
Why would he bother then or now. The contempt he's shown for us is incredulous.

What a pile of crap that is.

[Clampy]

If you go back to earlier last year, every one wanted to know what Randy was planning to do. We were all waiting with baited breath for a statement and he gave one. He get's criticized for not being open enough. When he is, he get's told he should have kept his mouth shut. I don't think the statement he made has made a lot if difference. He wants to sell but he hasn't found a buyer. It's as simple as that really.