Denis_B

Because he can't play in this country due to visa issues him being too lazy to take and pass his English language test

Sorry for interupting.......thought this was a transfer thread involving AVFC

I would play Clarke at LB now Vlaar is back to partner Baker

Gone - according to Mat Kendrick

And that is a very important point that seems t obe constantly overlooked

Guzan, Lowton, Vlaar, Dunne, Clarke, then NRC and Henry, then a 3 of Westwood, Delph and Gabby then Bent up front would do a job better then we are likely to get ATM = 4,2,3,1

I don't get all this speculation about what other owners would/are doing - we don't even know about what happens behind the scenes of our own club let alone others. So how can we maek a genuine comparison?

And Nigel Reo Coker is available on a free now -

Plenty, but we can't afford them

And Bannan, Delph and KEA are wonderful? pheew.... we need a nasty hard bastard ball winner in that midfield then the rest might just be able to be a little more creative.

Well said Nuremberg, thats what people ignore. It's the Lerner Trust that have LOANED the money to Aston Villa not RL personally. He has made loans at a 2% rate which is good for the club but he has also made administrative or management charges against the club which goes back to the Lerner Trust. Certainly I recall one of these 'charges' was £10m. He man be a pretty crap businessman in footballing terms but he's pretty damned good at looking after his own funds............his jet is probably on a rental agreement but how much must that be costing him? No doubt all written off as business expences against his tax bill. He makes no effort to talk to the fans, he makes litle effort to attend that games, he is now not funding the club, so just exactly what use is he? This club needs leadership both ON and OFF the pitch - we have neither.

As one of those actively engaged fighting Ellis I am at a loss to see why people are behind Lerner when we are clearly in a worse position than under Ellis

reported several places going as asst coach at Ingolstadt 04

Even doudonomics can work out relegation will cost £50m so spending £20m is worthwhile

Well as he is leaving apparently to take on a coaching role we will never know. He can probably see we arent listening to him

Even Sir Alex McFergie would struggle under this set up

Benteke missed chances yesterday but in fairness most of those he created himself, something Bent doesnt do. Bent needs players around him to create and we have sold our creative players and not replaced. In other words Bent is wasted in our team

Randy Lerner = bottle gone coward

Championship players on championship wages playing for a championship manager with an AWOL owner = Championship club

From that it seemed you were not sure

The fact thedefence are en masse 'inexperienced' at this level, including Vlaar and the fact there is no midfield to support them makes the criticism of CC unfair in my view

I know it might be a shock VR but there was football for over 100 years before the Premiership started

Yes VFE and just think we will have 46 League games so more football - whooppeee

Jeez, the impassioned views of the great uninformed........ PF is an administrator......... no one KNOWS exactly what influence he has. It just APPEARS that he does what he is told to me, he is an employee no more. RL is set upon running the club his way, that is without any football experience at a high level. As has been pointed out elsewhere PFs role of increasing revenue streams and modernising things off the pitch have been very successful but any company of our size for proper corporate governance needs to have a properly constructed board of directors and NEDs to ensure a healthy input of experience and ideas. RL does it his way with PF and Robin whats his face dealing with their 'boss' It is all down to Lerner I'm afraid

His plea is too late they have been ordered and made