donaldfisher

This is getting boring now. Just sell him and lets get on with it. Selling Barry didn't hurt us, and provided we replace well, neither will Milner. 24 - 30 Million for Milner is a joke, ridiculous money for someone who had a good second half of the season. MON should sell him and get on with strengthening the squad before the season starts.

Hey General, I was wondering if any further thought about membership schemes, especially international memberships for us Villans not in the UK, has been given by the Club. I have only recently become a father for the first time and would love to sign myself and my little boy up. I have already signed him up as a baby member to the Adelaide Crows Australian Football team here and would love to add a Villa membership to that. Thanks

Hey General, I posted this about a month ago and it may give you an idea of what a member ship scheme is - I was wondering if the Board have any plans to get some sort of membership scheme up and running at Villa. These are very popular with the football (Australian) teams here in Oz and could be another form of revenue raising at the Villa. It would be great as a Villa supported outside of England to be a member of the club as obviously having a season ticket is not possible. Here most clubs have various categories of membership ranging from season ticket holders (automatic membership) to childrens memberships. Child membership here generally gets the child a skarf or the like as well as free tickets to 5 games which generally means the parents buy tickets to take their child. This could be a good way to promote the Villa to the younger generation. Most membership packages provide a quarterly magazine and pin / badge of the clubs emblem and year of membership that can be worn. Each of the 16 national football clubs in Australia have at least 20,000 members of some form with the most be 50,000 paid up members. It could be quite popular considering that Aston Villa as set to become more known world wide. This just something i had been considering as it would be great to be an international member and feel that i am contributing to the club from such a distance. Keep up the good work. Cheers Donald Fisher (Australia)

Hey General, I was wondering if the Board have any plans to get some sort of membership scheme up and running at Villa. These are very popular with the football (Australian) teams here in Oz and could be another form of revenue raising at the Villa. It would be great as a Villa supported outside of England to be a member of the club as obviously having a season ticket is not possible. Here most clubs have various categories of membership ranging from season ticket holders (automatic membership) to childrens memberships. Child membership here generally gets the child a skarf or the like as well as free tickets to 5 games which generally means the parents buy tickets to take their child. This could be a good way to promote the Villa to the younger generation. Most membership packages provide a quarterly magazine and pin / badge of the clubs emblem and year of membership that can be worn. Each of the 16 national football clubs in Australia have at least 20,000 members of some form with the most be 50,000 paid up members. It could be quite popular considering that Aston Villa as set to become more known world wide. This just something i had been considering as it would be great to be an international member and feel that i am contributing to the club from such a distance. Keep up the good work. Cheers Donald Fisher (Australia)

A thought i have had over the last week and i just wanted to put it out there and see if anyone thinks it is plausible or not is what if an inprincipal deal between Ellis and Lerner has already been done but because the take over would take a couple of weeks to complete then it is being held up until the start of the season. I remember in January when West Ham were rumoured to be taken over by the British Iranian bloke that they had all transfers put on hold until the takeover was or was not complete ( i may not have this correct but i seem to remember this stopped them from buying a player or two) If this happened in our situation it would almost guarantee that MON would not have time to add to the squad during this transfer window. This way new players can be purchased using the overdraft which will then be covered by Lerner when he takesover the club. This maybe why Lerner and MON have had meeting to discuss possible transfer targets / transfer fees and wages. Any thoughts??

Surely being the only club from the region in the premiership for next year now makes us a more attractive proposition for any prospective purchaser. Any board/management with half a brain could see that with a bit of decent marketing there is a real opportunity to generate a lot more interest in Aston Villa next season without having to compete in the spot light with our neighbours. A board with ambition should be able to make a killing out of this and ensure we remain in premiership and well above the likes of Birmingham City, West Brom and Wolves for many years to come. Surely if Rothschilds are looking for buyers they must be pushing this angle. Someone please buy Ellis out!