Randy Lerner

[kippaxvilla2]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/aston-villa-launch-investigation-disastrous-7408694

[PeterWithesShin]

If possible can folks copy and paste Mail articles please. 1) It stops them gaining from click bait and 2) For a lot of folks with ad blocker it's a pain to read their site now. I know this is the Mirror but thought it a useful time to mention it.

Aston Villa have launched a full-scale investigation into their catastrophic season.

New chairman Steve Hollis and boardroom recruit Sir Mervyn King are conducting an in-depth probe into the club’s affairs.

Consultants have been brought in to pick through the rubble of Villa’s dreadful campaign and the finances, recruitment processes and day-to-day administration are all coming under scrutiny.

And that could spell bad news for several senior staff with chief executive Tom Fox most likely to be in the firing line.

Arsenal’s former commercial officer has been in situ at Villa Park since August 2014 and has acted as the eyes and ears for absentee owner Randy Lerner.

But the awful state of affairs has prompted a roots and branch review and Fox himself – appointed on a £1m-a-year salary – could be the first casualty.

The American was the target of fans’ anger last week as Villa slumped to their worst home defeat in over 80 years in the six-goal thumping by Liverpool.

However, all decisions on Villa’s senior management will be delayed until the end of the season with the positions of sporting director Hendrik Almstadt and head of recruitment Paddy Riley also coming under the microscope.

With manager Remi Garde likely to consider his position at the end of the season there could be a complete overhaul of Villa’s hierarchy as they begin to re-build the former European Champions.

[Steve67]

I know it's the Mirror but.... this is better news. Complete shambles, someone has to pay the price. Fox, Riley? Hope so. I wouldn't be too surprised to see lots of changes for next season and wonder now if it was Hollis who put things on hold for the transfer window, although we tried for Kalinic and Doumbia? I wonder if Remi will also be under scrutiny. Only two wins and a couple of awful recent results. Anyway, like I said, it's only the Mirror.

[pauliewalnuts]

I was at the National Portrait Gallery today.

Childish, but it made me chuckle.

[dave.woodhall]

Elaine seems to be enjoying her five minutes.

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-crisis-part-two-10921790

[Toronto Villa]

Can she shut up now? It's like she's trying to become the voice of Villa. A beacon for the disenchanted masses.

[pauliewalnuts]

I found her original thing interesting, and tend to believe her, but that shit there really is pointless.

Who gives a fuck what she thinks about Sherwood or Grealish?

How shit is our local media?

[saunders_heroes]

I hope she keeps on talking. It's about time the apathy that has surrounded Villa during these last 6 seasons of decline was blown out of the water.

[ChicagoLion]

She sounds like a normal fan with her own views,  what she says or thinks will not make the slightest bit of difference.

[dave.woodhall]

She sounds like a normal fan with her own views,  what she says or thinks will not make the slightest bit of difference.

That's just it. She has normal fan views. She's not some great whistleblower lifting the lid on corrupt or unsavoury practices.

[ChicagoLion]

She will probably get her own column, to get Elaine's view on the latest developments at Villa Park.
Maybe she can guest on here.

[dave.woodhall]

There's some agent who represents the sort of wannabes like White Dee and Sam Barton that surface in the Mail from time to time. He's always saying how they're about to make millions from reality TV shows that they never appear on. I can see him commenting on Elaine soon. 

[villan from luton]

Must admit her thoughts on Jack Grealish and whether Tim Sherwood should have stayed in charge are met with indifference from me

[peter w]

I hope she does have more to say because the more rope you give her...she'll just end up sounding silly and the press will start to wish they hadn't given her so much air time. Which will eventually be her thought when someone not used to press intrusion will suddenly wish she hadn't started all of this.

[villan from luton]

Instead of thinking of hanging her though, the main culprits remain anonymous and that is a disgrace. Lerner and Fox should be holding their heads in shame at what they have done to our club. I have stuck up for Lerner but he has dropped us massively in the brown stuff.