Tony's Tweets

[Villa75]

With the current FFP noose hanging above our heads, will we have any money too spend in July 2018, if we get promoted?

Yes, that's a whole new ball game then.

Do we 'start from scratch' then? Or is it that the certainty of PL payments at the end of 2018/19 allows us to spend it in advance, despite any carry over of previous losses?

[Toronto Villa]

@Dr_TonyXia - “We have very big plans for Villa Park. We finished a plan in China a few weeks ago. We handed it to the management team here. It’s fair to say they were shocked. It will be something really different from what we can imagine from other clubs" #AVFC

[saunders_heroes]

@Dr_TonyXia - “We have very big plans for Villa Park. We finished a plan in China a few weeks ago. We handed it to the management team here. It’s fair to say they were shocked. It will be something really different from what we can imagine from other clubs" #AVFC

What a tease!

[olaftab]

It's going to be dismantled piece by piece , boxed up, and shipped to Shanghai where it will be rebuilt on The Bund. We will have to play one League game per season there and rest of the time it will be a museum of football.

[ciggiesnbeer]

@Dr_TonyXia - “We have very big plans for Villa Park. We finished a plan in China a few weeks ago. We handed it to the management team here. It’s fair to say they were shocked. It will be something really different from what we can imagine from other clubs" #AVFC

Beer served and allowed to be drunk in all seats through the entire game?

[Ads]

It's a ginormous space behind the North so there's plenty of wiggle room to do anything.

[DB]

A roof?

[VILLA MOLE]

Fan zone area? ,  I wonder what time scale they are looking to do it in?

[GordonCowansisthegreatest]

When we go up!
Sounds like phase 1.

[kippaxvilla2]

Dr Tony is saying he’s going to be posting less on Twitter in future.

[WarszaVillan]

It's a ginormous space behind the North so there's plenty of wiggle room to do anything.

Being able to wiggle in the North Stand seats will certainly be a novelty

[Smirker]

Tony Xia has revealed plans to make changes to Villa Park’s North Stand to give it a ‘more modern style’.

The Aston Villa owner has been putting plans in place to redevelop Villa Park since buying out previous owner Randy Lerner and has held meetings with Birmingham City council chiefs about his plans.

But those plans have edged closer in recent weeks with Xia presenting them to his fellow Villa bigwigs - and the feedback has encouraged the Chinese.


“We have very big plans for Villa Park," Xia told Villa's official website. "We finished a plan in China a few weeks ago. We handed it to the management team here. It’s fair to say they were shocked.

“It will be something really different from what we can imagine from other clubs.

“One element will involve the North Stand, which I know people talk about a lot.


“The main point I want to make is it will have a very modern style but will definitely keep the historic feel, which is very important.

“But in terms of the whole plan? I am confident people will like it. People who have seen the plan love the plan.”

Wonder what it is. He reckons we can go to 70k on the current site.

[Smirker]

Show us the plan as well please.

[LeeB]

He can't, it's so good it's like the contents of the suitcase in Pulp Fiction.

[Ads]

It's a ginormous space behind the North so there's plenty of wiggle room to do anything.

Being able to wiggle in the North Stand seats will certainly be a novelty

Only part of the ground I've never been in (silver the old ticket office) but I understand the lower tier seats are very cramped on the old terracing.

I'd like to see the lower tier of a new north stand really dwarf the lower Witton Lane.  I think it would make for a much better atmosphere with the away fans adjacent.