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I think this is somehow right, not far from what I've heard. Although I'm not sure what they mean with two investors. Wether they mean partners or two separate investors. Because from what I know, Al-Baltan won't go only by himself, He's going to have partners while he's going to have the most percentage.

I had a call today, There is a good chance that Khaled Al-Baltan is in the last stages of negotiations. Him with some partners. That's what I heard from a very very good source.

Is it not the same as the Fifa.com Fantasy?

Colombia v Greece 2-1 Uruguay v Costa Rica 2-1 England v Italy 1-1 Ivory Coast v Japan 0-1 Switzerland v Ecuador 2-1 France v Honduras 3-0 Argentina v Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-1

Brazil v Croatia 1-1 Mexico v Cameroon 1-1 Spain v Netherlands 2-1 Chile v Australia 2-0 When can I put the other predictions ?

It could be the second option, but getting the best out of players was what sort of defined lambert at Norwich. And us at the end of 2012-2013 !

I'd say paying like 40m the first year, then an average of 45m every summer won't be changing the identity of the club, If we could pay the wages too, We won't be a new Man City or Chelsea. And we would have a good chance of pushing on. Ofcourse without changing the name or the stadium.

No one could tell.

The Malaga one was always going to fail. The La Liga income isn't good instead of top teams. I remember one year Real and Barca were about 140m , While Valencia and Atletico about 40 ! Were West Ham who were the bottom of the league in the premier league were more than 40m. Teams in Spain sometimes fail to even pay 2m for a player ! In our worst cases we've paid about 15m with wages not far from top 10 teams in Spain while we're reducing wage bill ! The attraction of the Premier League is much more than La Liga (apart from 2-3 teams). So Malaga owners played it wrong by buying a team in Spain not in England ! I don't remember Portsmoth model very well but it was very bad. Don't know about Notts County aswell.

I don't really think. Our club usually doesn't put a statement where they aren't sure about. I like Lerner way in managing, The only thing I think isn't helping him is dis-interest. Which makes him wanting to make the club as healthy as possible to sell. I don't really think. Our club usually doesn't put a statement where they aren't sure about. I like Lerner way in managing, The only thing I think isn't helping him is dis-interest. Which makes him wanting to make the club as healthy as possible to sell.

Here in Saudi, There is nothing named an owner for the Club, There is only a president. They still haven't develop it to be like companies. Prince Khaled Bin Sultan is Behind Khaled Al-Baltan in Al-Shabab, But that doesn't mean Al-Baltan doesn't have money. He's a wealthy business man and one of the most famous (His famous came mainly from football). I'm not sure how wealth he is, Tbh I fail to understand if he could Buy Villa and spend by himself. But at the same time I know he understand football and know how much money he might put. I "think" he have partners with him But still not sure.Al-Sh Shabab team is one of the top 3 in the last 10-15 seasons, But it doesn't have supporters. Anyway They have good money.

Not a rumour though. But as I said here before, Khalid Al-Baltan (Al-Shabab FC former president) is interested in buying Aston Villa, He might be negotiating too. But I'm not sure how far he have gone with that. The rumour about that was right, He is interested. The story I read said he was just interested in a Premier League team but it didn't say Villa specifically. May I ask how you know he is definitely interested in buying us? I asked someone who knows him directly. I think the story was that he's buying an English team (Not only a Premier League), But anyway he didn't give more informations other than that (although I understand from what he's saying that there is a negotiations and it began during the season not only now).

We'd need a new, more competent, defence as well. Just for starters. I won't say. Because I don't think we'd find a gem as Okore. I'd also say we might not find an experienced defender he would get infront of him (in our range). Vlaar is good, Okore could have been fantastic ! I think a fit Guzan,Vlaar,Okore,Bacuna,Delph,AM,Gabby and Benteke Would be good enough to take us to top 10 !

Don't think we're even interested now if I'm honest !

I think we were planning to replaces him anyway, I mean he would've been squad player so the club might thought 40k for a squad players isn't that worth. So the 5.5m isn't really that accurate because he was going to be replaced anyway (And that if we were playing 442 which we usually don't). Saying that doesn't mean that I agree with letting him leave, Atleast not until we know where the club is going exacly.

Not a rumour though. But as I said here before, Khalid Al-Baltan (Al-Shabab FC former president) is interested in buying Aston Villa, He might be negotiating too. But I'm not sure how far he have gone with that. The rumour about that was right, He is interested.

tbh, I don't think our team is that bad. With a playmaker I don't understand why couldn't we be a top 10 side. Our problem this year was against the bottom sides. Add to that some bad tactics and injuries. I would add another factor which is Lambert didn't take gambles as in his first year. Weimann was out of form, Yet he kept playing every game. Gabby isn't that good against the less teams at home yet he kept playing. The only gambles he took was playing Bacuna and Kozak, The first one was forced to be played instead of Lowton and did good in his first game at RB + was faboulous in his second game with assisting a goal and scoring another. After that he cemented his place. Kozak in his second sub game scored a goal in his first minutes. and we were unbeaten for 3 games without Benteke. So Lambert took the gamble by not playing Benteke in some games. Players like Tonev and Helenius didn't have their chances, Although everytime I saw Helenius he used to have things other players don't have, Same goes with Tonev. Yet when Holt came Lambert didn't notice he isn't mobile enough to play in that formation. Lambert wasn't brave in his choices this season, Unlike last season. And this is one of the most reasons that made our season bad.

I'd say loan him for the first month if he won't get the chance. If he played well in the pre-season then it would be another case.

Anyway I think our club usually doesn't put a statement without being sure of it. As when they did when Benteke signed new contract. I think they know what they're doing.

I heard about Khaled Al-Baltan (Which was written few pages ago) And it seems real if I'm honest, I know that he have interest, But I'm not sure if he's negotiating and wether the negotiations are going good or not. But what I'm sure about is that there is interest.

Don't forget he miss a lot of games, And I don't think his best position is the main striker but behind him.

Same here, Although most of people who knows me could see the Villa flag in my facebook page . But many of them don't believe that I support Villa. Almost everyone asks me the same question how and why do you support Villa. Every time I hear from my friends, You only no how to lose. That's why I like it when we beat the big boys ! Last time when we beat Chelsea, I was watching it with couple of my friends (One of them is British and Villa fan) anyway, Most of them were just laughing before the game and started to tell me you're only making yourself tired for trying to watch every game of this team even when you're only going to lose. This feeling came to me three times maybe , Where I was watching with most of my friends (and my younger brother who usually laugh at me too). Liverpool, Chelsea this season. Sunderland 6-1 last season ! And the Chelsea game was lovely because Chelsea didn't lose since 15 games, so no one could say they're in a bad mode they've also smashed Arsenal the week after. Because people usually instead to give us praise they only give say the other team was bad ! I get proud when I have challenges with other teams fans from my friends, Arsenal fans or Chelsea or Liverpool or whatever ! They take it seriously because of me.

I'm not an English so I don't care a lot about the English national team (As long as there are no Villa players there). However, I could understand the view of making the foreigners less to give English players the chance. Although one of the biggest problems for English players are that they're overpriced. Same as we have in Saudi Arabia, No one in another league will pay the amount we're paying players because they're overpriced. In England there were only couple of players who played abroad, Some of them as Beckham and Owen have benefits in the commercial which could pay what they're overpriced in. Anyway, I'm going to talk from a Villa fan view (Which is my only case) , I think this would benefit us. Say we only have the chance to sign 9 foreigners. We'll have let's say 6-7 first teamers and only 2 squad players. Let's say for now we have Delph, Westwood and Gabby as our English first teamers We could also sign another one, with 7 foreign players. We'll be ok with that. Actually we'll be having the chance to take the foreign players that top teams can't afford. And We'd also have the chance to sign them earlier as the top teams will have few choices. So someone like Nacer Chadli won't have gone to Spurs as a back up. Which only would leave him for a team like Villa or other midtable teams. So with less foreigners and less quality Vs number in English players. I could only see that it will fill the gaps between top teams, Midtable and bottom half teams.

Well there is something strange, We've only beaten Top teams , Or the teams below us (Well Sunderland are only above us by GD) .. The only midtable team we've beaten was Southampton .. from 5-13th .. We've only beaten one of them away ! Then we've got the double from 5-7th , 9-11th and 19th .. + Our last 9 games seen 16 goals backwards in the GD .. Good that it was at the end and a had enough points for safety .. + 16 games without scoring a goal , Only 39 goals all season , with 20 of them only in 6 games ! So only 19 goals in 32 games ! We've only scored once against Spurs in our last 6 , While conceding 14 .. If we count the league cup too , Then 18-1 in 7 games !

Try to keep it tight , Sunderland are losing by 2 so hopefully we could pass them by goal difference atleast , although knowing us we would end up with a ridicoulous score !