Randy Lerner

[OzVilla]

Hounded out? He owns the club lock stock. You need a buyer and McGrath knows he's tried to sell. We are snookered.

I don't think he's a bad bloke, I just thinks he's utterly useless as running sporting clubs.  His appointments are almost universally appalling.

[aj2k77]

Hounded out? He owns the club lock stock. You need a buyer and McGrath knows he's tried to sell. We are snookered.

I don't think he's a bad bloke, I just thinks he's utterly useless as running sporting clubs.  His appointments are almost universally appalling.

Whatever he's asked for the club no one is willing to pay. Lower the price.

[Ads]

His chickens have more than likely come home to roost. He's got one final throw of the dice left, although at present that would seem too little too late.

[aj2k77]

He won't spend in January. We've spent something like £13m net the last 2 seasons, to improve a side that only just survived by the skin of their teeth. To get us out of this mess would take some extradordinary wages being offered and fee's. Not going to happen, we should have done this in the summer. Replacing your Benteke's with Gestede's, absolute recipe for disaster.

[Dan England]

We won't get a penny in January.  Look at it from Randy's point of view. We are almost certain we will go down which will devalue the clu,b probably by £50m. Why would you gamble another 25-30m on the off chance we might stay up? He'll cut his losses as soon as he can in the summer.

[OzVilla]

Hounded out? He owns the club lock stock. You need a buyer and McGrath knows he's tried to sell. We are snookered.

I don't think he's a bad bloke, I just thinks he's utterly useless as running sporting clubs.  His appointments are almost universally appalling.

Whatever he's asked for the club no one is willing to pay. Lower the price.

I'm afraid that will happen anyway once relegation is confirmed. Any astute buyer wouldn't touch us with a barge pole now anyway.

To all intents, we are a Championship club playing out 6 months of Premier League football.  Why buy us in this state when you could buy Everton for example.

[ROBBO]

We sold our only avenue to goal the player that kept us up the last two seasons and replaced him with a player whos only asset is the ability to head the ball, now it takes some sort of negative brilliance to do that, and instead of spending the money on three or four top players decide that getting ten for the price of four is a better deal not withstanding that none of the ten have premiership experience and have come from lower leagues. We are run by dummies from the top down.

[Clampy]

He's made mistakes and I think we all can agree on that. I also saw a defence make colossal one's today and not for the first time this season. Blame needs to be pointed in various directions, not just one. That's the easy thing to do.

[aj2k77]

Lerner will get his for what he's helped served on the club and it's support, a great big hit in the wallet when he finally goes and that will hurt him the most.

[ChicagoLion]

Lerner will get his for what he's helped served on the club and it's support, a great big hit in the wallet when he finally goes and that will hurt him the most.

I guess that is the only saving grace, today has cost him over a $a hundred million.

[SoccerHQ]

We just need a fresh start. Lerner has to go if we go down. There's no way he could demand 150m with championship income streams so the price would have to drop significantly.

Could be a great chance for a new consortium, take us over at our lowest ebb for decades with all the potential we'd still have and the chance to be heroes if we went up and then re-established us properly in the prem.

[saunders_heroes]

Lerner will get his for what he's helped served on the club and it's support, a great big hit in the wallet when he finally goes and that will hurt him the most.

If he loses hundreds of millions he'll still be a stinking rich man. The man has no shame.

[ChicagoLion]

We just need a fresh start. Lerner has to go if we go down. There's no way he could demand 150m with championship income streams so the price would have to drop significantly.

Could be a great chance for a new consortium, take us over at our lowest ebb for decades with all the potential we'd still have and the chance to be heroes if we went up and then re-established us properly in the prem.

i think he would do well to get£ 50million. That is one hell of a write off.

[dave.woodhall]

Lerner will get his for what he's helped served on the club and it's support, a great big hit in the wallet when he finally goes and that will hurt him the most.

If he loses hundreds of millions he'll still be a stinking rich man. The man has no shame.

How do you work that one out? There's plenty to criticise his ownership of the Villa for, but to abuse him personally is wide of the mark.

[phantom limb]

Mike Ashley didn't sell Newcastle when they went down, and I bet he really wanted to. We will be stuck with Lerner unless there is a buyer, but unfortunately I think the era of rich people buying football clubs and pumping millions of pounds into them every season is over.