Aston Villa - the giant killer

[dave.woodhall]

Richard Keeling talks money and football.

https://heroesandvillains.info/2025/03/21/aston-villa-the-giant-killer/

[Legion]

Done.

[Rico]

Good read. Ellis, Lerner and Xia WTAF? It was like some sort of horror story where you think that you are being rescued only to find that your saviour is as bad or worse than the one before. (Man Utd Glazers and Ratcliffe Lol)

It's amazing that we're still in business, although going bankrupt never stopped Real Madrid!

[nigel]

Good read. Ellis, Lerner and Xia WTAF? It was like some sort of horror story where you think that you are being rescued only to find that your saviour is as bad or worse than the one before. (Man Utd Glazers and Ratcliffe Lol)

It's amazing that we're still in business, although going bankrupt never stopped Real Madrid!

We’d never have gone bust under Ellis, as he would never have spent the money to put us in trouble. We would have turned into a Norwich or Blackburn, top half of Championship with an occasional promotion with relegation after a couple of seasons.
Lerner, for me, is a bit of a ‘What if’ scenario. He was unfortunately saddled with MO’N (I can say that with hindsight). If he’d had a manager that could have used his money wiser there’s no reason we couldn’t have been regular top 10 Premier League. That would have ruled out Xia

[AV82EC]

Good read. Ellis, Lerner and Xia WTAF? It was like some sort of horror story where you think that you are being rescued only to find that your saviour is as bad or worse than the one before. (Man Utd Glazers and Ratcliffe Lol)

It's amazing that we're still in business, although going bankrupt never stopped Real Madrid!

We’d never have gone bust under Ellis, as he would never have spent the money to put us in trouble. We would have turned into a Norwich or Blackburn, top half of Championship with an occasional promotion with relegation after a couple of seasons.
Lerner, for me, is a bit of a ‘What if’ scenario. He was unfortunately saddled with MO’N (I can say that with hindsight). If he’d had a manager that could have used his money wiser there’s no reason we couldn’t have been regular top 10 Premier League. That would have ruled out Xia

Is pretty much how I see it.