Randy Lerner

[PeterWithe]

Good, there's one gone.

[Diablo]

Okore's agent is very unhappy with him

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3522349/Aston-Villa-owner-Randy-Lerner-thrown-towel-insists-Jores-Okore-s-agent.html

Why would his agent say this now? Surely best to keep quiet as he will know that the board has changed and that a new manager is being sought. It looks as though he is frantically trying to get him the hell out. How long has Okore got left on his contract?

Looks like he wants out.

Yeah my thoughts exactly. Rats and sinking ships! And so it begins.

Despite some of his mistakes this season I do think there is a good player in Okore. Always thought he had a good attitude too. Shame. He'd be in the small group of players I'd want to stay but obviously not if his heart isn't in it.

[dave.woodhall]

Okore reminds me of this season's Martin Keown - promising, liable to errors, not developed as much while he's been here as he should have done and he'll go on to have a long and successful career.

[saunders_heroes]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
For all his faults, I cant believe anyone thinks Randy wanted this to happen.

Yeah, bless him. Ignorance is no excuse though, he's a fuckin disgrace.

And the man who did it deliberately is beyond criticism.

I think the man you speak of has received more criticism on here than anyone in history but for all his faults he never humiliated the club as much as Lerner has for these last 6 seasons.
This club has been humiliated beyond belief by Lerner and you know it.

[Villa in Denmark]

Okore's agent is very unhappy with him

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3522349/Aston-Villa-owner-Randy-Lerner-thrown-towel-insists-Jores-Okore-s-agent.html

Why would his agent say this now? Surely best to keep quiet as he will know that the board has changed and that a new manager is being sought. It looks as though he is frantically trying to get him the hell out. How long has Okore got left on his contract?

Well that's patently bollocks.

Either part of the problem has been Lerner abdicating responsibility and handing over all responsibility to Faulkner / Fox in which case there's no point trying to make contact with Lerner as he's the absent landlord, or
Lerner has been spinning the whole thing behind the scenes and hasn't been the absent landlord, right up until he appointed Hollis and told him to get on with it, in which case there's still no point in trying to contact Lerner.

What a shock. Footballer's agent spouting bollocks and bullshit to make a case for his client engineering a move. If that's the way Okore feels, then as long as we can get a decent fee, get the f¤¤k out of our club.
We're going to need players who want to be here next season.  No more rag tag can't be arsed parasites.

[saunders_heroes]

Okore's agent is very unhappy with him

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3522349/Aston-Villa-owner-Randy-Lerner-thrown-towel-insists-Jores-Okore-s-agent.html

Why would his agent say this now? Surely best to keep quiet as he will know that the board has changed and that a new manager is being sought. It looks as though he is frantically trying to get him the hell out. How long has Okore got left on his contract?

Looks like he wants out.

Yeah my thoughts exactly. Rats and sinking ships! And so it begins.

Despite some of his mistakes this season I do think there is a good player in Okore. Always thought he had a good attitude too. Shame. He'd be in the small group of players I'd want to stay but obviously not if his heart isn't in it.

Bringing Lerner's name into knowing the fans' dislike of him is a dirty trick in my opinion. Its clear he wants out but he hasn't got the guts to admit it.

[AVH87]

Only got a year left on his contract, Okore, we'll have to cash in for a small fee this summer.

[Dave]

Okore's agent is very unhappy with him

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3522349/Aston-Villa-owner-Randy-Lerner-thrown-towel-insists-Jores-Okore-s-agent.html

Why would his agent say this now? Surely best to keep quiet as he will know that the board has changed and that a new manager is being sought. It looks as though he is frantically trying to get him the hell out. How long has Okore got left on his contract?

Looks like he wants out.

Yeah my thoughts exactly. Rats and sinking ships! And so it begins.

Despite some of his mistakes this season I do think there is a good player in Okore. Always thought he had a good attitude too. Shame. He'd be in the small group of players I'd want to stay but obviously not if his heart isn't in it.

Bringing Lerner's name into knowing the fans' dislike of him is a dirty trick in my opinion. Its clear he wants out but he hasn't got the guts to admit it.

I'd have thought that you'd be in favour of as many people criticising Lerner's ownership as possible. Particularly those whose comments are likely to end up in the press.

[saunders_heroes]

Okore's agent is very unhappy with him

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3522349/Aston-Villa-owner-Randy-Lerner-thrown-towel-insists-Jores-Okore-s-agent.html

Why would his agent say this now? Surely best to keep quiet as he will know that the board has changed and that a new manager is being sought. It looks as though he is frantically trying to get him the hell out. How long has Okore got left on his contract?

Looks like he wants out.

Yeah my thoughts exactly. Rats and sinking ships! And so it begins.

Despite some of his mistakes this season I do think there is a good player in Okore. Always thought he had a good attitude too. Shame. He'd be in the small group of players I'd want to stay but obviously not if his heart isn't in it.

Bringing Lerner's name into knowing the fans' dislike of him is a dirty trick in my opinion. Its clear he wants out but he hasn't got the guts to admit it.

I'd have thought that you'd be in favour of as many people criticising Lerner's ownership as possible. Particularly those whose comments are likely to end up in the press.

Okore and his agent are just using the Lerner thing as a way of getting out of the club and not looking like the snide rats jumping the ship that they clearly are.

[RussellC]

I don't think we'd suffer by selling an of our centre-backs this summer to be honest. There isn't one of them who's been anything other than terrible this season. Clark's the only one who might possibly be capable of raising his game for the Championship, in my opinion.

[auntiesledd]

He's done little of note other than inherit a fortune from his very successful father, and run two sporting institutions into the ground.

I do wonder if he's learnt his lesson yet?
That he might not, on the available evidence, be quite cut out for owning sporting institutions?
He has reduced us to not much more than a pile of rubble, and I gather that his other venture across the Atlantic didn't turn out as expected either.
He should consider buying himself a a small Caribbean island, forget about acquiring historic sports clubs, and just see out his days in luxurious obscurity.
Because, Mr Lerner, if this karma thing is real, you'd better keep your fucking head down.

Given his track record -  the island would rapidly crumble & disappear!

[DaveD]

Agent trying to get best outcome for his client - film at 11.

[dave.woodhall]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
For all his faults, I cant believe anyone thinks Randy wanted this to happen.

Yeah, bless him. Ignorance is no excuse though, he's a fuckin disgrace.

And the man who did it deliberately is beyond criticism.

I think the man you speak of has received more criticism on here than anyone in history but for all his faults he never humiliated the club as much as Lerner has for these last 6 seasons.
This club has been humiliated beyond belief by Lerner and you know it.

Do yourself a favour and don't even try to tell me what I think. Ellis might have been criticised on here but his catalogue of faults deserved most of it. When Lerner dismantles our greatest-ever team for the sake of his own egotism, hounds it's manager beyond the grave and takes us into division three, then I might start to compare the two.

[saunders_heroes]

It's funny you say that Dave because all the Villa fans I know claim this is the worse they've ever felt about Villa in their time following the club, and all of them were around in the 80s when we were relegated under Ellis, but if you say different who am I to argue. Perhaps it's just all a bad dream?

[Jimbo]

It's entirely possible that, in succession, we've had two really shit owners. One a spiteful, self-obsessed profiteer, and the other a detached, aloof, complacent, negligent fool.