The Pit of Misery (All mess in here)

[AsTallAsLions]

Stan Collymore
Stan Collymore
@StanCollymore
Villa.

1. Losing £5m PM.
2. Still haven't got £2m HMRC payment.
3. Can't use BMH as loan collateral to get £2m as bank won't let us loan  against assets.
4. Owner can't get money from China
5. £22m overdraft facility withdrawn
6. 3rd year parachute payment already lent against

7. Don't call me bitter

[sickbeggar]

Amidst all the chaos and confusion is anyone else a tad excited to see a youthful team full of academy graduates? Trying to look on the bright side here ..possibly clutching at straws.

Nah i agree. Could possibly be the most interesting season in my memory at least. Just imagine 30,000 down Villa Park cheering on a load of kids.

[garyshawsknee]

I'd be excited if we had a decent manager to coach them through their informative years and make them better players. If it was someone like Dean Smith it would soften the blow of a non existent summer transfer policy, I guess now we can't afford to sack SB.

[Small Rodent]

Have they blamed anyone yet? I need to know who to tweet death threats to.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Amidst all the chaos and confusion is anyone else a tad excited to see a youthful team full of academy graduates? Trying to look on the bright side here ..possibly clutching at straws.

Nah i agree. Could possibly be the most interesting season in my memory at least. Just imagine 30,000 down Villa Park cheering on a load of kids.

at the HMRC PAYE Arena

[sickbeggar]

Amidst all the chaos and confusion is anyone else a tad excited to see a youthful team full of academy graduates? Trying to look on the bright side here ..possibly clutching at straws.

Nah i agree. Could possibly be the most interesting season in my memory at least. Just imagine 30,000 down Villa Park cheering on a load of kids.

at the HMRC PAYE Arena

heheheh. well they're all linked these government departments. The Universal Credit Arena is more apt.

[brontebilly]

Amidst all the chaos and confusion is anyone else a tad excited to see a youthful team full of academy graduates? Trying to look on the bright side here ..possibly clutching at straws.

Nah i agree. Could possibly be the most interesting season in my memory at least. Just imagine 30,000 down Villa Park cheering on a load of kids.

Getting relegated to the third division in the process

[sickbeggar]

Amidst all the chaos and confusion is anyone else a tad excited to see a youthful team full of academy graduates? Trying to look on the bright side here ..possibly clutching at straws.

Nah i agree. Could possibly be the most interesting season in my memory at least. Just imagine 30,000 down Villa Park cheering on a load of kids.

Getting relegated to the third division in the process

It would be dicey i agree, but what a ride. And lets face it, better relegated that gone totally. And y'know wouldn't be the first time and we didn't do too badly on the way back up.

[montague]

I'd be excited if we had a decent manager to coach them through their informative years and make them better players. If it was someone like Dean Smith it would soften the blow of a non existent summer transfer policy, I guess now we can't afford to sack SB.

I would say the last thing we need to do at the moment is change manager

[villadelph]

Have they blamed anyone yet? I need to know who to tweet death threats to.

Haha, needed that!

[villa `cross the mersey]

Stan Collymore
Stan Collymore
@StanCollymore
Villa.

1. Losing £5m PM.
2. Still haven't got £2m HMRC payment.
3. Can't use BMH as loan collateral to get £2m as bank won't let us loan  against assets.
4. Owner can't get money from China
5. £22m overdraft facility withdrawn
6. 3rd year parachute payment already lent against

7. Don't call me bitter

He is a closet Wolves fan

[boozey182]

I wonder if there’s anything in this American who’s reported to be interested in buying us?

How about this: This American chap offers to buy 51% of the club from Tony Xia, at the club's current value (ie much less than Xia paid), on the condition that Xia invests that money back into the club. It wouldn't be Chinese money, so there should be no problem there. Written into the deal is that when/if we get promoted again, the remaining 49% is sold at the price Xia paid (which would be much less than what it would be worth). This way Xia saves face and makes a much smaller loss, the American chap gets himself a Premier League club at a shitshambles price and we can forget this ever happened.

Of course, in order to assure we were promoted we'd have to keep Jack and buy a load of old, largely shit players on massive wages have a well thought out, strategic plan that builds around a solid youth base. So that would be implemented.

In the unlikely event we don't get promoted in the next couple of years, well, then we're probably going to be really in the shit. But maybe being in the shit in two years sounds infinitely more appealing than being in the shit right now.

[curiousorange]

To be quite honest, I'm sick of this. What a waste of everybody's time, money and energy. Administration, winding up orders, fire sales. Dragging our arses around the country, buying replica tat, revelling in a win, being pissed off at a loss...it hasn't been worth it, has it?

[alan_clarke]

Where is Stan getting the idea that fans need to raise £125m to buy 51% of the club. If another buyer comes in they certainly won't be paying that much to take us on...

[Davkaus]

To be quite honest, I'm sick of this. What a waste of everybody's time, money and energy. Administration, winding up orders, fire sales. Dragging our arses around the country, buying replica tat, revelling in a win, being pissed off at a loss...it hasn't been worth it, has it?

Sometimes when I feel like I've wasted my weekend, the phrase "time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted time" pops in to my head.

Then I try to think of what percentage of my time following Villa has been enjoyed. It's not what I'd call high.