Randy Lerner

[footyskillz]

One thing for sure Lerner going to throw money at this. It's only way. Expect an interesting window.

He won't. We'll be too far gone for major spending to occur. It'll be cost management if we are 10 points plus adrift. Maybe 10-15m tops but we need a 50m investment.

My worry is Lerners reluctance will force Garde into walking early to protect his reputation. This could actually get worse believe it or not.

Well what would get worse is that majority of signings would leave in summer AND for less money than paid for.
Way I see it then some big signings needed. As its the last and only chance to save the club. Investors could come in to help over this crucial period if Lerner isn't spending. Protection on premier league status is a must. If don't stay up that's down to the ownership and the running of the club.

[Steve67]

One thing for sure Lerner going to throw money at this. It's only way. Expect an interesting window.

He won't. We'll be too far gone for major spending to occur. It'll be cost management if we are 10 points plus adrift. Maybe 10-15m tops but we need a 50m investment.

My worry is Lerners reluctance will force Garde into walking early to protect his reputation. This could actually get worse believe it or not.

Well what would get worse is that majority of signings would leave in summer AND for less money than paid for.
Way I see it then some big signings needed. As its the last and only chance to save the club. Investors could come in to help over this crucial period if Lerner isn't spending. Protection on premier league status is a must. If don't stay up that's down to the ownership and the running of the club.

I don't think that there are too many premiership level players for Villa to sell. The new players are still settling in but they won't attract a great deal of interest if they get relegated unless they go back home.

[Nelly]

It seems like a foregone conclusion now that we will be relegated but my greatest fear is that if we were to drop down a division, I couldn't see us coming back up for a long, long time. A club of Villa's resources shouldn't be scraping by in the top flight, yet we'd be asking the same management - who have mismanaged us so badly - to galvanise the club and streamline it effectively enough to be competitive. Essentially, I have no faith in anyone at Villa Park to do that.

"It's a big shit sandwich and we all have to take a bite".

[Phil from the upper holte]

It's like he's obsessed with the Ajax model, young hungry players with sell on value, it's clear that after 5 years it's just not working. You have to spend just to stand still and we've brought a load of untested crap. We should have sent Benteke money on 2 players but we brought a whole squad. Gana has faded. Lescott is shit. Amavi looked decent but he's out now. Gestede is championship at best. Gabby stinks the place out and don't get me started on Westwood who isn't even championship quality

[Steve67]

Dropping down is not the answer. We have planned atrociously for the Premiership, given the crap we have running us, please don't expect anything to change in the Championship. We have very few players who we would be desperate to keep, so wouldn't lose too many, but don't have the type of fighting strength to come straight back up. The only reliance we have is that the likes of Clark, Guzan, Hutton, Gestede etc al will be punching at their natural weight and we'd hope they might be better than their opposite number.

Relegation also won't do the likes of Veretout, Gana or Traore a favour, because just as they adapt to this league, they drop down and would have to adapt all over again if we did manage to get back up at the first attempt. So, relegation is NOT the answer.

[Tayls_7]

It's like he's obsessed with the Ajax model, young hungry players with sell on value, it's clear that after 5 years it's just not working. You have to spend just to stand still and we've brought a load of untested crap. We should have sent Benteke money on 2 players but we brought a whole squad. Gana has faded. Lescott is shit. Amavi looked decent but he's out now. Gestede is championship at best. Gabby stinks the place out and don't get me started on Westwood who isn't even championship quality

Lerner thinks the Ajax model is someone selling kitchen & bathroom cleaner.

[phantom limb]

Don't forget that a pathetic, shambolic joke of a Newcastle team came straight back up and won the vast majority of their games in the championship, and they're owned by a man who only cares about doing it on the cheap and whose popularity is on a par with a registered sex offender. There's no reason why we couldn't do the same, we're not necessarily going to be stuck there for years. Of course we will lose money but it gives us the chance to clear out some of the crap, and finally build up some confidence and momentum.

[itbrvilla]

I wonder how this absentee negligent ****** feels right now?

[bertlambshank]

I wonder how this absentee negligent c*** feels right now?

He feels?

[Walmley_Villa]

He is probably hiding under his duvet thinking "can I come out yet.."

[Malandro]

He is probably under his duvet thinking "how do I get out?."

[Chris Jameson]

We could do with the General making a return to tell us how much it is hurting him and his mate and how everything is going to be fine. Proud history and all that.

[pbavfckuwait]

One of Lerner's biggest crimes is allowing the revision and viewing of Deadly's reign, but in some ways I can understand it. Ellis the way and I agree whole heartedly with Dave, he with alot of malice dismantled the 82 team, made them for years feel unwelcome and at the same time lost a hell of alot of good football knowledge that could have been tapped into over the years by AV.

But and heres the But, people had a focal point to spill their anger, wave our pound signs, chant "Ellis Out" at the back of the Trinity.

He used the Villa for his own extensive ego trip and financial gain, but with Stride there at least had a person with working knowledge of the game of football that was becoming the business of football and one thing I never heard him do, although his actions spoke louder than words at times with his lack of the final penny or pound, was talk down the expectations of AVFC, he would never state that we were there to make up the numbers and that stopping in the top flight was something we should be grateful for.

That is something I will never forgive Lerner and the people he appointed in all positions, for allowing the total dismantling of any ambition held within Villa Park and to turn us the supporters into accepting nodding dogs and just awaiting the inevitable, whatever money he will lose will not even out that bile in my mouth whenever I hear his name.

[pbavfckuwait]

Oh and also Ellis's treatment of the Barton family, that should never be looked at through rose colored spectacles.

[Stirchley Villain]

What about Lerner kicking people out of seats they had for years? No one ever mentions that...