Randy Lerner

[preston28]

I just found out today that Lerner has only been to Villa Park once since December 2012.

How the fuck did he get a cup final ticket?

That'll learn the fucker

A bit mixed up there with a spelling mistake and extra word? Surely you meant: The f**ker Lerner?

[AV89]

Rory Smith's view on our decline.

Take a look at @5liveSport's Tweet: https://twitter.com/5liveSport/status/719610293119094784?s=09

[Phil from the upper holte]

Someone asked Stan on twitter if next manager search is on hold due to Lerner not agreeing budgets next year.

Anyone heard owt?

[saunders_heroes]

Someone asked Stan on twitter if next manager search is on hold due to Lerner not agreeing budgets next year.

Anyone heard owt?

That's what the Mirror are reporting.

[Villafirst]

More dithering and incompetence from our owner. Doesn't this undermine  the new board if reports about budgets are true? We need a new manager in this week to assess the wreckage of this car crash of a season to start preparations immediately for next year.

[john e]

As far as I'm concerned the 'Randy out' stuff is a waste of time, he's already out

He couldn't sell so he's passed it over to the new board, it's they who will now run the show,
Because he is the owner he will obviously be told what's going on but will have virtually no say in any decisions made

he will agree funding budgets just like any bank/investment type company would with any club working with a board of governors

[Risso]

As far as I'm concerned the 'Randy out' stuff is a waste of time, he's already out

He couldn't sell so he's passed it over to the new board, it's they who will now run the show,
Because he is the owner he will obviously be told what's going on but will have virtually no say in any decisions made

he will agree funding budgets just like any bank/investment type company would with any club working with a board of governors

The money situation is such a huge part of running a club though. And there's going to be very little next season.

[saunders_heroes]

To claim he has nothing to do with the club when he still sets the budget is a tad naive.

[john e]

As far as I'm concerned the 'Randy out' stuff is a waste of time, he's already out

He couldn't sell so he's passed it over to the new board, it's they who will now run the show,
Because he is the owner he will obviously be told what's going on but will have virtually no say in any decisions made

he will agree funding budgets just like any bank/investment type company would with any club working with a board of governors

The money situation is such a huge part of running a club though. And there's going to be very little next season.

Yes I agree, but loads of clubs struggle on tight budgets
I'm just saying Lerner has zero interest in Villa now, he would sell if he could but the next best option for him is to have little to no involvement

He effectively has gone apart from the money side which is obviously very important but it can be done at arms length while others take the decisions and run the club

[OzVilla]

I just hope he's utterly ashamed and embarrassed by his custodianship.

[aj2k77]

But there are decisions Lerner is going to have to make regarding money as well, he can't hide away from any responsibility thousands of miles away. All he has to do is tell them what they have to work with and to get on with it, it's not hard, if he can't even be bothered with that and we are waiting around for his bi annual phone call then he's a bigger ****** than I imagined.

Either way the coward is a neglectful idiot who should be barred from owning any sporting institution in the future.

[CJ]

Lerner's 'stewardship' of Aston Villa has been nothing short of an act of monumental buffoonery. Failing to invest to keep us in the PL just as the new money comes in will cost the club around £50-60M in the first year alone. Sadly the longer we're down the harder it will be to get back up as the gulf between those on the gravy train and the rest widens. And I honestly don't think we'll go straight back up while he continues his vice-like grip on the purse strings just as we need to completely gut and rebuild the squad, and any real-value saleable assets have now all gone. I can't see us getting back up until Lerner goes and we get some new investment in regardless of who the new manager is, especially with a squad of players who are either disruptive, not bothered, or simply not good enough.

[pauliewalnuts]

He's been a total fucking disaster and should be ashamed of himself

If he's really not doing everything he can to sort this shit out asap then you start to think he's getting some vindictive pleasure out of it.

The bloke is a brainless rich kid who got bored of his new toy and stood by as a British institution fell to pieces as a result of his own stupidity.

[auntiesledd]

But there are decisions Lerner is going to have to make regarding money as well, he can't hide away from any responsibility thousands of miles away. All he has to do is tell them what they have to work with and to get on with it, it's not hard, if he can't even be bothered with that and we are waiting around for his bi annual phone call then he's a bigger c*** than I imagined.

Either way the coward is a neglectful idiot who should be barred from owning any sporting institution in the future.

Correctamundo, sadly. Some folk blame everybody else at the club for this horrendous state we are in, but the buck stops (quite literally) with the useless, cowardly moron at the top. Words barely describe the utter contempt I have for Randolph Fecking Lerner. When our club so desperately requires leadership & a completely new plan to rebuild this utter shambles, our owner continues to hide somewhere on the USA's Eastern Seaboard & thinks the best part of 200 million quid is a realistic price to rid him of his wrecked toy. God help us.

[john e]

But there are decisions Lerner is going to have to make regarding money as well, he can't hide away from any responsibility thousands of miles away. All he has to do is tell them what they have to work with and to get on with it, it's not hard, if he can't even be bothered with that and we are waiting around for his bi annual phone call then he's a bigger c*** than I imagined.

Either way the coward is a neglectful idiot who should be barred from owning any sporting institution in the future.

Correctamundo, sadly. Some folk blame everybody else at the club for this horrendous state we are in, but the buck stops (quite literally) with the useless, cowardly moron at the top. Words barely describe the utter contempt I have for Randolph Fecking Lerner. When our club so desperately requires leadership & a completely new plan to rebuild this utter shambles, our owner continues to hide somewhere on the USA's Eastern Seaboard & thinks the best part of 200 million quid is a realistic price to rid him of his wrecked toy. God help us.

e

Let me get this right, you actually want him to come back take charge and start running the football club under his leadership ?