Randy Lerner

[pauliewalnuts]

In the sense of spending money on the club, he has definitely given it a go, even given recent less spendy seasons.

In terms of our links with the community, he has done well there, too, with some impressive initiatives.

The problem is that everything he has done which affects the football side of it has been a disaster. Even finishing sixth three times seems to have been done with insane scattergun spending.

Villa is an asset to him, and assets need to be treated well in order to maintain their value. He has managed to spend, what, 200m on us, lost tens of millions of his own money - the loans he wrote off - and after all that, here we are, rooted to the bottom of the table.

Nice bloke, but absolutely clueless.

[Ads]

He's only put a credible management structure in place 9 years after buying us.

He needs to look after his asset in January and given the scale of money to come in summer 2016, I think he will.

[mr underhill]

it might well be too late by then ; if we are marooned at the bottom with but the slightest of mathematical chances of survival, it might be better to buy for the championship before  Newecastle and Sunderland do

[brian green]

I am very reluctant to lay excessive blame on Randy but what he did was treat his financing of his asset like a Charles Dickens Christmas. We bloated in the early days, the dog was given beefsteak, the cat was given smoked salmon and champagne went down the plughole. The MON feast was followed by weeks and months of belt tightening and chopping up the furniture for firewood. A proper management structure at the club would have spread the investment longer, more wisely and avoided the brink balancing of the last five years.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I am very reluctant to lay excessive blame on Randy but what he did was treat his financing of his asset like a Charles Dickens Christmas. We bloated in the early days, the dog was given beefsteak, the cat was given smoked salmon and champagne went down the plughole. The MON feast was followed by weeks and months of belt tightening and chopping up the furniture for firewood. A proper management structure at the club would have spread the investment longer, more wisely and avoided the brink balancing of the last five years.

That's true but the only way out of the shit in January is to go on a spending binge, Viv Nicholson-style. The current squad won't keep us up.

[not3bad]

He's only put a credible management structure in place 9 years after buying us.

He needs to look after his asset in January and given the scale of money to come in summer 2016, I think he will.

There's always a big payout in the Summer we need to stay up for.

[kippaxvilla2]

Of course we have money spinning games against Walsall, Wolves, Small Heath and possibly Ryton on Dunsmore to look forward to.

[joe_c]

At least he wouldn't be seen accessorising in a politically inflammatory style like his predecessor:

https://instagram.com/p/-Xf4gCtQGa/

[aj2k77]

I am very reluctant to lay excessive blame on Randy but what he did was treat his financing of his asset like a Charles Dickens Christmas. We bloated in the early days, the dog was given beefsteak, the cat was given smoked salmon and champagne went down the plughole. The MON feast was followed by weeks and months of belt tightening and chopping up the furniture for firewood. A proper management structure at the club would have spread the investment longer, more wisely and avoided the brink balancing of the last five years.

I love reading Brian's posts. It depresses me a lot less reading something like this than just reading we pissed money up the wall on shite like Sidwell, Heskey and Beye.

[mr underhill]

  I live in Ryton on Dunsmore and we don't have a football team, so that's definitely a match we'd win

[Malandro]

Nice body art Randy, what is it, Garfield?

[Jon Crofts]

It takes a special level of stupidity to have led what he has.

[aev]

I reckon he will only spend in January if there is a realistic chance of us staying up.

And the way it is going I can't see it.

[Walmley_Villa]

Well done Randy, I can see now that you really aren't a businessman, you will be lucky to give Villa away. I pray somebody with a scooby doo comes in or we could decline massively.

[Walmley_Villa]

I reckon he will only spend in January if there is a realistic chance of us staying up.

And the way it is going I can't see it.

Agreed, and even if he did, who would come with massive relegation clauses in their contract?