Randy Lerner

[Villa in Denmark]

agree with most of that however the bottom line is that randy owns the club and he can do what he wants

what can we do? short of not turning up which wouldnt have a great effect as what 70% of the crowd have season tickets

i dont know the answer

Find the thick end of £150 million and take it from there.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

agree with most of that however the bottom line is that randy owns the club and he can do what he wants

what can we do? short of not turning up which wouldnt have a great effect as what 70% of the crowd have season tickets

i dont know the answer

Find the thick end of £150 million and take it from there.

ill look in me sock drawer

[brian green]

Thanks for the detail Dave about the Man City deal. You can't beat having the taxpayer in your squad.

[dave.woodhall]

Thanks for the detail Dave about the Man City deal. You can't beat having the taxpayer in your squad.

That's not the half of it. Apologies if I'm repeating what I've said before, but the council were desperate for a tenant because without one they wouldn't have got the Commonwealth Games. City were the only possible candiates, they didn't need to move from Maine Road so were able to name their own price. The council paid £22 million to convert the stadium into a football ground, City gave them Maine Road in return and paid £20 million for catering and corporate facilities.   

[Chris Harte]

Has this been posted anywhere? An open letter from the myoldmansaid site, completely agree.

....

In the summer Villa sold Christian Benteke and Fabian Delph for circa £40m (in addition to a few other smaller sales) and whilst I accept we then proceeded to spend more than this amount, it was still a minimal net outlay.

So to put it into perspective a team that finished 17th last season sold their two best players and then had a net outlay of less than £10m (source: Sky Sports); meaning we even spent less than all of the promoted teams but expected to see an improvement. This is at best naive or at worst, yet again mis-management.

I would finally like to ask the question in an era of untold riches for Premier League clubs where is the money going? Because it certainly isn’t being invested in the football team.

Pretty damning.

[brian green]

Makes me wonder what would have happened if HDE had succeeded with the eminently superior M6/M42 alternative to the black hole of debt that is the new Wembley.  VP would be the Charles Chaplin Leisuredrome and we would be owned by Donald Trump and playing at the NEC Stadium.

[hipkiss92]

agree with most of that however the bottom line is that randy owns the club and he can do what he wants

what can we do? short of not turning up which wouldnt have a great effect as what 70% of the crowd have season tickets

i dont know the answer

Find the thick end of £150 million and take it from there.

Villa Fans Euromillions consortium

[Sexual Ealing]

At what point does any random post on an internet message board become an 'open letter'?

If I start any old nonsense that I write on here with "Dear Randy", does it mean I get to join the ever-increasing crowd of people writing open letters?

I think original the idea of an open letter was bound up with a thought that anyone other than the sender or recipient might give a shit about what was contained within. I think this recent one fails by the parameters of that test.

[dave.woodhall]

How many players is it now who we've not played because of some extra money clause in their contract?

[kippaxvilla2]

When it's an open letter does it get sent with envelope unsealed?

[DaveD]

How many players is it now who we've not played because of some extra money clause in their contract?

I've always assumed this was nonsense, please don't tell me there's really something in it...

[villadelph]

How many players is it now who we've not played because of some extra money clause in their contract?

I've always assumed this was nonsense, please don't tell me there's really something in it...

Didn't Bent have an appearances clause?

[brian green]

Half awake and half asleep the thought passed through my mind that perhaps we are not playing Libor Kozak in the first team due to a clause in our player insurance that we can claim if a player never fully recovers from injury.  A Premiership appearance would nullify such a claim. Mind you I had the same sort of notion about Delaney and dread the thought of having it about Jordan Amavi.

[Clampy]

There were people on here suggesting that Traore wasn't being picked because his wage would go up lots of thousands, despite him only playing about a game and half in total.

[ROBBO]

Brian what is the french for we are fucked?