Fans Worried Over Villa Future

[peter w]

Back on thread topic the take over Neville fronted may be coming "back to life",  they where going to walk away when it was getting boged down with Doug

What? There's a takeover? Bloody-hell. Well its about time. I reckon its going to be Venezuelan flying monkeys with pots of cocoa, or Irish magnets attracted to anything metal.

[peter w]

Morning Peter.  O:)

It's been very quiet on the night shift so far tonight. That's my working day nearly done and I'm off to see if my legs still work properly after the weekend. Will leave it over to you. Have a great day.  \/

Morning JD. I've still got 5 and a bit  hours to go so I'll make sure the daylight dandies have some food for interesting thought. Well, I'll be mostly saying O Leary out in as many ways as possible.  Enjoy the rest of your day mate.

[Legion]

Signed up yet?

[Rip Van We Go Again]

You nightcrawlers aren't doing very well. Still on 155. You should be pushing harder to the magical 200.

[Dave P]

Heres another one towards it then.

[peter w]

We know exactly what we're doing thank-you very much. We'll get to the 200 our way. Experience has shown us what happens when we hit landmark scores, the daylight dandies come out to take our glory.

So, leave us be.

This is a warning.


Don't make us angry.

[JD]

Mr Fletcher, us night crew are the Geoffrey Boycotts of posting.
Very slow and purposeful, no ridiculous playing and can be relied upon to get a thread out of a crisis.

The other thing is that unlike some, we think it is very sad if you start replying to your own posts.  8-[

[JD]

and I am sad.  #-o

[ROBBO]

Seeing as the asking price for Villa is slipping I think we should organize a whip round to see how much we can put up, I will put up 12.000 are their another 5.999 who care to join me?

[JD]

I would Robbo, but I fear we would need a great deal more than that. If we paid 64M for the Club we would need about another 20M to buy some decent players, get rid of the Management Team and sget a new one, plus the cost of upgrading the training facilities.  #-o

[ROBBO]

Hold on i'll just break into the wifes xmas club see how much more i can get.

[JD]

I'll see if I can raid the kids piggy banks, to find some more money.
To be honest Robbo, I've thought of further investment through the Trust (I love having a certificate showing that I 'own' a small piece of my Club), but with a takeover being on the table it doesn't seem an appropriate time to invest any more money in the Club, unless it is enough to make it worthwhile. I don't think my missus would be pleased if I spent our savings on investment in Villa.

[peter w]

That's the thing. Any new investor will have heightened an already expectant fan bases sense of reality. Lets say it did cost £64m to buy the club. Another £20m would be needed to invest in new players. That would be just about enough for a decent centre-half,goalkeeper, central midfielder, and maybe forward. They would need time to bed in and so come the Jan sales we'd need more money.

Let's be honest if/when we are taken over deep down, do any iof us NOT expect our new owners to fund us towards the League title? Or at least a challenge? Yeah, we'll say Europe, but we'll mean top 4. We say top 4, we know, as Villa fans, we still think we've got a title in us. That's the way we think.

It will take a LOT of money, we may just lose Doug, and get chancers, or those that really do not know the pressure we will put on them immediately.

For that reason it was right to reject Ranson, because he and his cohorts would not have improved things with their derisory offer. To be honest all the Comers have done is maybe try and get enough money to give to Doug. They do not appear to have enough financial clout to be able to deal with us afterwards.

We need change at the helm. That is unquestioned, but the silence is killing me in one sense, but golden in the sense that I don't want us to go to any any old Tom, Dick, or Chancer.

[peter w]

Oh, and morning JD, Robbo.

[JD]

Morning Peter.

To really make a difference to Villa, I reckon that whoever does buy the Club would need to invest at least 100M, to move us forward again.

Looks like I will have to buy a Lotto ticket again this weekend and dream.  [-o<