Tony's Tweets

[Malandro]

MSG isn't actually as bad as some make out. Glutamate occurs naturally within our own bodies as we process and metabolise food.

[ez]

Lerner told him the squad was good enough, what a clueless tnuc he really was.

If Lerner really believed that it's little wonder we had problems. It's more likely to be just a bit of sales fanny.

[PeterWithesShin]

He's hardly going to tell someone buying the club that the players are shit is he.

[kippaxvilla2]

But not hard to tell with 17 points bagged in a 38 game season. 

[ozzjim]

Credit where credit is due to Tony. We've restructured the backroom team which looks on paper very good, we have a very solid looking spine (nearly, less CF), with more coming in it seems. He's not elusive and the fans and public seem involved with news and general information.

What a breath of fresh air he really is.

Brilliant so far.

[Diablo]

Has he said anything about changing the fucking shit badge with which we have been lumbered?

At the moment he's got his work cut out changing the fucking shit team with which we have been lumbered.

Hahaha!

[OCD]

I do wonder who is running all his other businesses at the moment, which adds an element of doubt for me.  Either:

1. This level of in-put cannot be maintained (logically it would subside after the transfer window)
2. The empire he runs might not be as big as we hoped.

Neither option is the end of the world - and there are other scenarios like he has other people heading up the other companies - but ultimately I doubt this level of communication will be maintained.

He's probably got those businesses into a good state and built an infrastructure where they don't need him micro-managing everything. We need a lot of work up front to get us to that point but once he has, he may well take a step back and let competent people run the business. That was my problem with Lerner, I don't mind an owner taking a step back but the aforementioned things have to be in place first.

[ROBBO]

Does anyone else get the impression that he is no ditherer, I think he would be in the deadly mould if the manager doesn't produce.

[OCD]

Does anyone else get the impression that he is no ditherer, I think he would be in the deadly mould if the manager doesn't produce.

The man who wants us to be the biggest club in the world within 5 years? Whatever gave you that impression?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I'm still not convinced to his real wealth but what I do like is his astuteness with our money. The fact he's taking a year out to oversee all things at VP comforts me but I do hope he is what we all need; somebody that takes us by the short and curlies, fixes the obvious and has a real financial plan for a club of our stature.

Maybe it's all a marketing thing but I'm struggling to see how a quick fix to your electro-domestics company that has an edge by bringing in cheap parts from China can be worth so much. The scale is there but I'm not seeing the profit. The less said about his questionable board members the better.

[ciggiesnbeer]

He is off to a very good start. This twitter stuff I thought was a disaster that would not last a month has turned out to be a great thing. I love the way he lays into anyone against the club or crap associated with it. I like the fact he is plain speaking. When he says he is trying to sign a world class number 9 then I beleive him, he has been 100% forthwrite so far. He has spent the money he needs to spend and has stated very clearly his goals for the club and how he intends to get there.

I know we all laughed when he said he wanted to make us the top club in Europe in five years, but dammit I think he means every word. Good for him, nice to have a leader at the club looking up for a change.

[sid1964]

My only concern is that IF we don't get promotion in the next 2 seasons will the good Doctor, suddenly upsticks and say enough is enough and leave us in as bad as mess as we were under Lerner

[brian green]

Perhaps he will, perhaps he won't but he is giving it a bloody good rattle and I will settle for that.  After the years of corner shop Meg of Crossroads Doug Ellis and well meaning not in front of the children fan management by Lerner, Tony Xia is absolutely what we were crying out for.  A swaggering, larger than life extrovert.  A Gazza of an owner.  A show off.  Somebody confident, outgoing and outrageous.

Last season we were crushed, humiliated and laughed at by the likes of Linkeker and Lawrenson.  We were a pathetic shambles.  Now we have an owner who says, come on, get back on your feet we are the Villa.

I don't care if it a transitory phase and Tony goes back to his other businesses.  It is what we need now.  A demonstration that we are a club to be reckoned with not ridiculed and pitied.  Never has the expression cometh the hour cometh the man been more appropriate.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

My only concern is that IF we don't get promotion in the next 2 seasons will the good Doctor, suddenly upsticks and say enough is enough and leave us in as bad as mess as we were under Lerner

we are fine if we go up within two seasons, after that the parachute money is something like 14 million for the third season

bearing in mind that in the last accounts our turnover was 115 million and 65 of that was from sky and whilst in the championship our commercial revenue will also drop

[brian green]

Without disagreeing with you Oswald, the corollary of all that is that the resale value of a club pressing hard for promotion to the Premiership is considerably higher than one dropping like a stone out of it.  Randy Lerner was such a poor businessman he allowed himself to drift into a position of inevitably taking a heavy loss on the sale of the club.  Tony's costs may rise but his asset value is rising.