Randy Lerner

[curiousorange]

It's going from multi-millions to a trickle with no in-between that's killed us. We bought Milner for £12 million and Ashley Westwood for about a tenth of the price. We probably guessed as much, but it's no surprise that statistically, the teams that win spend the most money. You have outliers (like Leicester at the moment), but if the cost cutting policy had been to go from spending £100 million, to £75 million, to £50 million and so on, or a sensible amount added to what we earned from player sales, we wouldn't be a League One club in Premier League livery.

[PeterWithesShin]

'Fun' fact. We have more defeats than points this season.

[PeterWithesShin]

Another 'fun' fact. Going on our points per game ratio this season, if Leicester stopped playing games it would take us 72 games to catch them.

[Chris Harte]

'Fun' sadist fact. We have more defeats than points this season.

Fixed it.

[DaveD]

If I were paying £50m for an overseas business  in an industry I'd never worked in, with a view to investing significantly more, the first thing I would do would be to poach a top class CEO from a successful competitor, wit a track record of acieving what i wanted wit that investment. The fact that ten years later he still hasn't learnt that lesson frightens me. Or maybe he has, which should frighten us all.

[adrenachrome]

If I were paying £50m for an overseas business  in an industry I'd never worked in, with a view to investing significantly more, the first thing I would do would be to poach a top class CEO from a successful competitor, wit a track record of acieving what i wanted wit that investment. The fact that ten years later he still hasn't learnt that lesson frightens me. Or maybe he has, which should frighten us all.

The truth of the matter, in my view, is that it was never a purely economic investment. Rather it was an investment to afford cultural pleasure and enhance his brand a sort of enlightened benefactor who does the right thing despite all the malign forces arraigned against him.

For this reason, I do not think he will sell any time soon. On the plus side, he is not and never was and never will be an asset stripper, and neither would he ever sell us to such.  On the downside, history and literature is awash with stories of noble intentions with tragic ends. 

We have to hope that he appoints people who can turn this around. No trust in Fox at all, and this Hollis character inspires no confidence either.

[olaftab]

6 fucking years notice you have had Mr Lerner.... FIVE years .... for you to get it right and you have still fucked it up. How could you do that .....

[dave.woodhall]

6 fucking years notice you have had Mr Lerner.... FIVE years .... for you to get it right and you have still fucked it up. How could you do that .....

Would you care to do that one again?

[olaftab]

Yes probably on Saturday evening ...but  I may give up and not bother ever again!

[Stirchley Villain]

The three stooges all getting the yakedy yak at the end of the season according to the Mail.

[walsall villain]

Think they have lifted John Percy article from telegraph.....
Aston Villa are ready to axe chief executive Tom Fox and two key members of senior staff in a ruthless cull at the end of the season.
Fox, sporting director Hendrik Almstadt and head of recruitment & scouting Paddy Riley are fighting to save their jobs after an extensive inquest by Steve Hollis, the new chairman.

Hollis has conducted a full-scale investigation into Villa’s nightmare campaign and believes major changes are required at boardroom level, with the club on course to start next season in the Championship.
Fox could even leave before the season ends with sources claiming his position has now become “untenable”, while his two big appointments Almstadt and Riley are also expected to go.

[BC54 VFC]

I posted on 28th December last that RL's Dassault Falcon 7X was on the market for USD36.95m.

A quick revisit to the sale site has revealed he has now dropped the asking price to USD29.95m:-

http://www.aso.com/listings/spec/ViewAd.aspx?id=155824

I make that an 18.9% reduction in the asking price; Randy, for f**k sake make the same percentage reduction to your price for AVFC.

[malckennedy]

Don't think Hollis' investigation needed to be that extensive in order to discover that Fox is out of his depth! But then what?

[Ad@m]

I posted on 28th December last that RL's Dassault Falcon 7X was on the market for USD36.95m.

A quick revisit to the sale site has revealed he has now dropped the asking price to USD29.95m:-

http://www.aso.com/listings/spec/ViewAd.aspx?id=155824

I make that an 18.9% reduction in the asking price; Randy, for f**k sake make the same percentage reduction to your price for AVFC.

How do you know he hasn't? I bet the clubs market value has fallen by more than 19% as a result of the inevitable relegation.

[Toronto Villa]

Complete unfounded speculation but why do I get the feeling that Garde has somehow gone to Hollis and said "them or me" regarding Fox and the other two? Off course Hollis might think clean sweep and dump Garde also, but it would be some upheaval. Not saying we don't need it. The presence of Fox just seems so poisonous and watching him last night gave the impression of a bloke who couldn't give a shit just waiting for a payoff.