Quote from: saunders_heroes on July 01, 2017, 01:11:02 PMQuote from: brian green on July 01, 2017, 10:08:02 AMFor the first time since Tony Xia took over I begin to have niggling doubts about him. He seemed to want RDM because he was a high profile known name. Now he seems to backing the use of a substantial amount of his money with the same motivation. Our priorities should be the maximisation of the abilities of a talented squad. Picking the right teams, playing them in their best positions, being tactically astute, getting the team fully fit, building team spirit, getting rid of dead wood from the squad. Instead the focus has shifted to us becoming John Terry's Aston Villa.The first half dozen games of the new season are as important as any in our history. I wish I was more confident.I think you're trying to suggest that Xia is trying to inflict certain players onto the manager. I think Bruce would walk if it was the chairman buying the players and not the manager. He is not suggesting that at all. It's an observation that rather than being a resolute club builder Xia is more of a glory hunting publicity seeker.
Quote from: brian green on July 01, 2017, 10:08:02 AMFor the first time since Tony Xia took over I begin to have niggling doubts about him. He seemed to want RDM because he was a high profile known name. Now he seems to backing the use of a substantial amount of his money with the same motivation. Our priorities should be the maximisation of the abilities of a talented squad. Picking the right teams, playing them in their best positions, being tactically astute, getting the team fully fit, building team spirit, getting rid of dead wood from the squad. Instead the focus has shifted to us becoming John Terry's Aston Villa.The first half dozen games of the new season are as important as any in our history. I wish I was more confident.I think you're trying to suggest that Xia is trying to inflict certain players onto the manager. I think Bruce would walk if it was the chairman buying the players and not the manager.
For the first time since Tony Xia took over I begin to have niggling doubts about him. He seemed to want RDM because he was a high profile known name. Now he seems to backing the use of a substantial amount of his money with the same motivation. Our priorities should be the maximisation of the abilities of a talented squad. Picking the right teams, playing them in their best positions, being tactically astute, getting the team fully fit, building team spirit, getting rid of dead wood from the squad. Instead the focus has shifted to us becoming John Terry's Aston Villa.The first half dozen games of the new season are as important as any in our history. I wish I was more confident.
Quote from: olaftab on July 02, 2017, 12:21:40 AMQuote from: saunders_heroes on July 01, 2017, 01:11:02 PMQuote from: brian green on July 01, 2017, 10:08:02 AMFor the first time since Tony Xia took over I begin to have niggling doubts about him. He seemed to want RDM because he was a high profile known name. Now he seems to backing the use of a substantial amount of his money with the same motivation. Our priorities should be the maximisation of the abilities of a talented squad. Picking the right teams, playing them in their best positions, being tactically astute, getting the team fully fit, building team spirit, getting rid of dead wood from the squad. Instead the focus has shifted to us becoming John Terry's Aston Villa.The first half dozen games of the new season are as important as any in our history. I wish I was more confident.I think you're trying to suggest that Xia is trying to inflict certain players onto the manager. I think Bruce would walk if it was the chairman buying the players and not the manager. He is not suggesting that at all. It's an observation that rather than being a resolute club builder Xia is more of a glory hunting publicity seeker.I don't think I've ever heard Xia being interviewed on TV or the radio since the day he took over so how can anyone claim he's a glory hunting publicity seeker is beyond me. What are you basing this opinion on, his tweets?
isn't that because you were living in a one party conformist state?
If somebody asked me to think of the biggest wanker in football today I'd think of John Terry. Considering the competition out there, that makes him a colossal wanker, for all the reasons discussed above.What Villa need, and have needed for some considerable time, is someone to make its highly paid, pampered and very comfortable footballers afraid of losing. So afraid that they won't let it happen. The kind of fear Ferguson instilled at Man United. The kind that makes players super vigilant, switched on and determined to win at all costs.For many years successive owners, managers and captains have failed to do this. Arseholes like Richards, Gabby and Lescott have been allowed to take the piss. That carried on into last season with Fat Ross. There's still an "oh well, we lost" attitude at the club and it fucking reeks. If Terry's influence can have a "don't you fucking dare take the piss while I'm in this team" effect, then it's what we badly need. Like Russon above, we've had so many wankers and arseholes play for, manage, own and run us over the years that I am inured to such arseholery. I don't expect to like modern day footballers. I just want Villa to act like a competitive fucking football club and be winners for once. I want to see us live up to our recently ditched motto.We're not a fucking conference and banqueting facility, or a commercial partner for Fiat and Unibet. Our distant glories and lavish history mean absolutely fuck all if we can't put up a fight against Huddersfield and Brentford. I want to see us win football matches and haul ourselves out of this shit league. But we have no right to anything we're not prepared to sweat blood for. It remains to be seen whether Terry can help in that regard, but that's why he's being brought in. If it works, I really won't care too much what a giant gnashing arsehole he is. They've been ten a penny at Villa.
I have posted many times that I like Tony Xia, right from the very first when there were several on this forum making comparisons with the Small Heath hairdresser. I would go further and say that in the last twelve months he has been the only real asset the club has had.However, to return to my earlier point, I have no doubt at all that Tony Xia has been fully involved in the pursuit of John Terry. Because the whole operation of bringing Terry in is a gamble, I have real concerns that Tony Xia is influenced by Terry's name and Terry's past achievements. I never mentioned glory hunting but I will say that if we are to lift a trophy I would prefer it being lifted by James Chester.My niggling doubts are that Tony Xia is perhaps showing a bit of the naivety that caused Randy Lerner to fail so spectacularly. The assumption that if Terry scores a couple of goals all the Villa fans will love him is as naive as Lerner jumping in his plane to parachute Alex McLeish into Villa Park. Couple of wins and the Villa fans will forget the Small Heath history. The naivety was that Alex McLeish was a terrible manager not that he had previously managed Small Heath.The real problem with John Terry is that he is yet another gamble with the future of the club at a time when we cannot afford to take more risks. To think that the 37 year old is going to be some sort of panacea for all our problems is a drift back to naivety.