Sir Michael Rake, Chairman of the group, is from Warwickshire. So naturally must be Villa not being from Brum.
Even if this crowd were oil-rich with a bottomless pit of money and willing to splurge it all on a struggling football club, they wouldn't be able to. So it's a moot point.
I wonder what TBAR is saying...
I'd be disappointed if we sacked Bruce and brought in Henry.He's as thick as a house brick.
Knowing our luck it’l be Al an Brah Zil.
All this talk of Middle East buyers reminds me of that time years ago when there was some excitement on here as someone had seen some "Arab looking people" getting "the treeatment" in the corporate facilities on a match day, only for them to turn out to be some blokes who owned a curry house in Sutton Coldfield.Brilliant stuff. Like a story line for an episode of Only Fools and Horses.
If this does turn out to be a Middle Eastern buyer we only need a Russian next time to have had the full house of the current likely locations for overseas investors.