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Author Topic: Tony’s Statement.  (Read 320686 times)

Offline old man villa fan

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #270 on: June 04, 2018, 05:04:05 PM »
I wonder if every set of supporters are so anxious to hear something all the time and if not, whether this all stems from the old board's early days when they seemed to have an open line to everybody with an internet connection.
I think the last 3 years of Lerner has left deep scars and probably engendered a higher level of paranoia.
Other than Sunderland Has another high profile club recently traumatized its supporters as much as Villa have?
Add the internet era which this site is part of.

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Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #271 on: June 04, 2018, 05:06:23 PM »
I wonder if every set of supporters are so anxious to hear something all the time and if not, whether this all stems from the old board's early days when they seemed to have an open line to everybody with an internet connection.
I think the last 3 years of Lerner has left deep scars and probably engendered a higher level of paranoia.
Other than Sunderland Has another high profile club recently traumatized its supporters as much as Villa have?
Add the internet era which this site is part of.
It’s some time since they were in the top flight but I get what you are saying.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #272 on: June 04, 2018, 05:46:36 PM »
I wonder if every set of supporters are so anxious to hear something all the time and if not, whether this all stems from the old board's early days when they seemed to have an open line to everybody with an internet connection. 

It might have create some heightened expectations regarding communication and in turn be driving behaviour for some. Truth is it probably happens to some degree (less or more) at every club, and there is no way it will please everyone. The board says nothing cue skepticism and cynicism from some. The board says something it will prompt the same. The majority don't jump up and down, are concerned but don't hang off every word, and don't read all between the lines trying to find a hidden meaning or something that just isn't there.

I suppose a lot of it is also down to the modern need for information to fill every gap in the internet, and to get it NOW. One story has to be credible and can be refuted. A hundred will be 99% rubbish and not worth dignifying with a reply. 

Well that's the issue with 24 hour everything. The principle of time hasn't changed just that you can make a minute stretch for eternity when you keep clicking refresh. And the mind can play incredible tricks and take you to dark places. We're all devastated by how things transpired this season, and now with the consequences it's almost natural as football fans and especially us lot who have seen close to 10 years of decline to fear the worst. The end of Doug was meant to herald the "Bright Future". Instead "Bright Future" for us has almost come to mean almost the exact opposite of its intent or at minimum a term trampled on and treated with a degree of contempt.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #273 on: June 04, 2018, 05:51:27 PM »
For what it’s worth the friendly Meaning Evil are now saying that the British consortium mentioned is bollocks, that Tony will only ever sell as a last resort and is now in China trying to think of ways of reenergising us.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #274 on: June 04, 2018, 06:10:17 PM »
For what it’s worth the friendly Meaning Evil are now saying that the British consortium mentioned is bollocks, that Tony will only ever sell as a last resort and is now in China trying to think of ways of reenergising us.

I can think of a couple of ways.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #275 on: June 04, 2018, 06:32:15 PM »
For what it’s worth the friendly Meaning Evil are now saying that the British consortium mentioned is bollocks, that Tony will only ever sell as a last resort and is now in China trying to think of ways of reenergising us.

I can think of a couple of ways.

Does one of them involve making a spectator sport out of cutting open Micah Richards and Ross McCormack in the winter and using their insides for warmth like Han Solo did to the TaunTaun in Empire?

Offline Ads

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #276 on: June 04, 2018, 06:42:10 PM »
No point in flogging McCormack as far as FFP goes. Seen elsewhere that a 4m sale represents £166k profit.

Offline Little Class

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #277 on: June 04, 2018, 07:38:09 PM »
Plus £2m in wages at least

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #278 on: June 04, 2018, 08:11:11 PM »
Interesting little line in that article that hasn't really been picked up on here. Apparently China are stopping/limiting some of their residents moving capital out to foreign ventures so guess this is an additional problem we have on top of FFP now.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #279 on: June 04, 2018, 08:15:08 PM »
Interesting little line in that article that hasn't really been picked up on here. Apparently China are stopping/limiting some of their residents moving capital out to foreign ventures so guess this is an additional problem we have on top of FFP now.

Depends what for. Infrastructure isn't an issue (redeveloping the local area). Pissing it away on John Terry's wages, not so much.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #280 on: June 04, 2018, 09:34:38 PM »
Interesting little line in that article that hasn't really been picked up on here. Apparently China are stopping/limiting some of their residents moving capital out to foreign ventures so guess this is an additional problem we have on top of FFP now.

Depends what for. Infrastructure isn't an issue (redeveloping the local area). Pissing it away on John Terry's wages, not so much.

The key needs to be getting the first team competitive for another promotion push so it's obviously another barrier to that we could do without.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #281 on: June 04, 2018, 09:35:58 PM »
Plus £2m in wages at least

The FFP profit includes that.

Online kippaxvilla2

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #282 on: June 04, 2018, 10:12:14 PM »
Meanwhile, back in China, Xia is exploring options to fund the 2018/19 campaign and help make Villa a success.

But with a limit on capital outflow, moving money out of his homeland has become increasingly difficult in recent times.

Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #283 on: June 04, 2018, 11:04:26 PM »
Millions move out of China every day. They are trying to clamp down on certain types of capital outflows,
Xia would have had approval at a pretty high level to make the initial investment so I don’t think this is a problem at this time.

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Re: Tony’s Statement.
« Reply #284 on: June 05, 2018, 10:04:12 AM »
If they’d said something meaningful in the 8 days since Wembley those type of articles would have 0% credence - the radio silence makes you wonder if there is something in it, the source makes you believe there isn’t....so yes, the club needs leadership, it pays leaders very good salaries to lead so they need to manage the message.

Out of interest, what do you mean by 'radio silence'?

I don’t regard Dr T’s statement as anything of substance because it said nothing so for me radio silence is not trying to control the speculation, zero word from chief exec who is paid to lead.

 


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