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Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6195 on: June 06, 2018, 09:42:54 PM »
Find new investors but remain in overall control.
The above might be bullshit but the chances of that happening are close to zero.

Offline Matt Collins

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6196 on: June 06, 2018, 09:43:39 PM »
Jesus wept

We might have been able to predict no matchday income in June

There is no fucking way that anyone is going to invest alongside Xia

He will have to sell. The question is when does he bite the bullet. I fear he'll drag it out for so long that we're really screwed

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6197 on: June 06, 2018, 09:46:28 PM »
Yes I can see it’d be hugely tempting to be invest...

Offline aj2k77

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6198 on: June 06, 2018, 09:49:02 PM »
It sounds completely deluded. More fantasist rubbish. Not encouraging at all.


'' You know that club I fucked up who are on their arse and hemorrhaging money left right and centre? Well fancy buying in to it and letting me spunk some of your money instead?''

''Oh yeah, I retain control by the way''

The only person on this planet stupid enough to invest would be Randolph Lerner.

Offline Phil from the upper holte

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6199 on: June 06, 2018, 09:49:38 PM »
I feel fucking sick. Thanks Randy and Dr X for destroying my football club. Well done!

Randy yes, I genuinely think Xia did his best to get us up

I would say Xia appears to be very similar to Randy, just Randy wasn’t skint.

You don't believe he can't get his money out?

Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6200 on: June 06, 2018, 09:50:21 PM »
Jesus wept

We might have been able to predict no matchday income in June

There is no fucking way that anyone is going to invest alongside Xia

He will have to sell. The question is when does he bite the bullet. I fear he'll drag it out for so long that we're really screwed
Depends on how much and how quickly he can raise cash and how soon he runs out of it.
If as is being reported that he is taking Insolvency advise he would need to sell to avoid Administration, unfortunately the diligence and sale process takes time.

Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6201 on: June 06, 2018, 09:51:32 PM »
It sounds completely deluded. More fantasist rubbish. Not encouraging at all.


'' You know that club I fucked up who are on their arse and hemorrhaging money left right and centre? Well fancy buying in to it and letting me spunk some of your money instead?''

''Oh yeah, I retain control by the way''

The only person on this planet stupid enough to invest would be Randolph Lerner.
Thanks, that did make me chuckle.

Offline Ad@m

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6202 on: June 06, 2018, 09:52:22 PM »
I feel fucking sick. Thanks Randy and Dr X for destroying my football club. Well done!

Randy yes, I genuinely think Xia did his best to get us up

I would say Xia appears to be very similar to Randy, just Randy wasn’t skint.

You don't believe he can't get his money out?

If the stories about the banks lending us money to pay the tax bill are true, Xia must have some assets tucked away in order to guarantee the loan.  Given our current state, and the quite obviously stuffed financial forecast there isn't a bank on earth that would give us unsecured debt at this point.

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6203 on: June 06, 2018, 09:52:36 PM »
I feel fucking sick. Thanks Randy and Dr X for destroying my football club. Well done!

Randy yes, I genuinely think Xia did his best to get us up

I would say Xia appears to be very similar to Randy, just Randy wasn’t skint.

You don't believe he can't get his money out?

Personally I don’t believe he’s got the proverbial pot to piss in. He’s pawned all the silver and now he’s fucked.

Offline VinnieChase84

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6204 on: June 06, 2018, 09:53:00 PM »
How can we plan anything for the new season, all Xia has done is keep the wolf from the door for another month. What happens come July? We still don’t know if Bruce is staying or going.
The fact he’s looking for investors worries me as it’s never going to happen, why would anyone entrust their capital to a man whose created our biggest crisis in our 144 year history.
The only way we move on from this is a complete sale. Until that happens we are in deep deep trouble and doesn’t send any positive message to the players or staff ahead of the season starting.
Hopefully this American puts something concrete on the table ASAP and at least forces Xia to seriously consider it.
I don’t feel anymore confident tonight than I did last night about our long term future as a club.  To be royally skint after having to watch Tony asset strip the life out of us will be sickening. Genuinely don’t know how he thinks he can stay on!? Why would the fans trust our future to an owner who has shafted us royally?
He has to go. Position is untenable

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6205 on: June 06, 2018, 09:54:24 PM »
It sounds completely deluded. More fantasist rubbish. Not encouraging at all.


'' You know that club I fucked up who are on their arse and hemorrhaging money left right and centre? Well fancy buying in to it and letting me spunk some of your money instead?''

''Oh yeah, I retain control by the way''

The only person on this planet stupid enough to invest would be Randolph Lerner.

Aye.  I'll be honest, I'm struggling to see the incentive there in that scenario.

Offline Phil from the upper holte

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6206 on: June 06, 2018, 09:55:08 PM »
Lucky he passed the fit and proper persons test :-/

Offline FranzBiberkopf

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6207 on: June 06, 2018, 09:55:16 PM »
Why would anyone buy? He’s going to have to give it away ultimately for a token price.

The only question, and the worry for us is “when?”.


Offline Matt Collins

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6208 on: June 06, 2018, 09:55:43 PM »
He has been putting £4m in every month. Every month.

That's not a good thing..it's scary. But he's obviously had access to some pretty big money

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Re: Fans Worried Over Villa Future
« Reply #6209 on: June 06, 2018, 09:55:53 PM »
I'm not demanding hourly Twitter updates or anything but some sort of communication from the club would nice. God knows what I want them to say though...

Edit, I did get an email from them this morning, offering discounts in the club shop.

They've probably had the broadband disconnected.

 


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