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I know, imagine if one of the big guys come in for him in the summer, that would be a nightmare!

Not that I believe this guy for one second, but from my experience many Americans don't say "we" when referring to a team they support. Not many Americans are named Dermot, either. Sounds like an Irishman looking for friends in L.A. My American uncle is called Dermott. Even though he is of Irish Descent.

Baffles me why some people go to so much effort to wind people up and talk shite

Just out of pure interest, how were you able to see what it looked like before????

i've been listening to KNX in the background since he said it, not mentioned a single sports related sentence

He's on the wind up, couldn't say it was the same station could he because people are listening now. I just heard it on central Iran radio, exclusive I swear.

If we sign Falcao i'm gonna be so pissed off he's so injury prone these days!!!

Also network gold has been on WM since 6, has anyone actually heard GT on there?

This is another example of people wanting to believe things. Collymore of National radio talksport says no buyer = 'THE MANS A LIAR WITH NO CONTACTS HOW DARE HE LIE!!!!' GT says something about us being sold on local WM = 'GT WOULDN'T LIE DOUG HAS TOLD HIM WE'RE SOLD I JUST KNOW IT'. Obviously i'm exaggerating but that is literally how the two reactions have gone!!!! People want to believe it so they convince themselves

I've just had a though. When all the rumours started circulating in February with Red Bull and that nonesence, PF came out and denied that we were for sale. Then they start up again in April, maybe the club literally just thought 'Bloody hell we've already denied this once, there is absolutely no point in denying it again. We can just reiterate the plans at the end of the season AND refer back to the statements in February' and then they can say they had already told us once? They will have conned us in a way but it would sort of be the truth and it enabled them to stop a revolt at the end of the season because people were expecting a change. For all we know Randy might be really confident that doing more of the same and spending £20m a season can keep us up, he can take the £60m TV money and pocket say £10m a year? Potentially sell Benteke soon and just reinvest the money from the sale of him the year after. Losing faith by the day.

He hasn't though. How can you say he's had to buy this many players when even with injuries some of his signings can't make the bench? That shows he's spent too much on quantity and not quality. Guzan, Baker, Clark, Delph, Agbonlahor, Weimann have all played a good portion, Albrighton has played over 20 games too I believe. I don't think we'd miss Helenius or Tonev had we not signed them, even with all the injuries we had. Our wage bill is around mid-table, as was the amount of money he was given this season. Going into the 37th week of the season and not being safe is a job failed. I have no idea how i forgot Gabby and Weimann but I still stand by my point. But the sad thing is that going into the 37th week safe IS NOT job failed it is job DONE. That's the sad thing about it, there is no ambition apart from staying in the league. In theory Lambert would have succeeded even if we stayed up in the 95th minute on the 38th week. Whether we like it or not that's the reality. I agree this is OT sorry.

That's my point Sunny! Because he had such a small budget he had to take big risks on players and hope they would rapidly develop and turn into complete fully qualified premier league players but it just hasn't happened. kurtsimonw, but he HAS had to buy an entirely new team! Who is there that we had before that has played all season? Delph Baker and Guzan. That's it really. He had to stretch his budget so thinly, if he had gone and signed 3 Holtbys for 7m then we would have half the u17 team in the first squad filling in the gaps. He was given a budget to keep us up. WE don't want to see that level of budget and ambition. BUT neither does Lambert! When we desperately needed a midfield enforcer last january (2013) he was given less that £1m and had to go into the french 2nd division, i don't believe for a second he was even in his top 10 targets!

The thing is, whilst I don't really rate Lambert tactically at all like most others. The budget that he has been given to build an entire squad is most certainly a championship level squad budget. When you're being forced to sign a few players for £1m staying in the league under any measures necessary, although we may not want to think it, is a good achievement. It was almost impossible for him to build a strong team with the money he's been given in my opinion. Tell me, which other clubs signed players for £3m and < that you would love to have at the Villa in the last few seasons. Only two I can think of are Michu and Coleman. So, if Lerner is staying and only going to invest bare minimum again (Which he will do) then why would he get rid of a manager who has proved competent in keeping a very poor team up? As that would be the only requirement. I really do believe if Lerner stays theres no chance he's sacking Lambert.

Lerner stays Lambert stays. Lerner goes Lambert goes. I think we would all agree on that

Perhaps we'll get something similar. Does anyone know how long after this statement the takeover was confirmed?

Not from Birmingham by any chance are you Jareth?

Shall we all meet up and have this out face to face over a good curry? Lye is the place in the Midlands for Currys, can't beat em!

Jareth, I would agree that he probably is a big head and likes the sound of his own voice. Although he is a cricket agent and runs a successful catering (i think) business. I don't know why his money has anything to do with it but he does own a boat. He's definatley got contacts at Villa and has been in the directors section for years untill a few months back.

Smetrov, Howard Hodgson is the person i trust most and he seems convinced. Who knows ay

Whomever was tweeting as Incognito at the beginning is not the same individual managing the account now IMO. I think the account is a genuine AVFC account drip feeding selected info on behalf of the club. The writing style has definitely changed since 2012, but the info has always been sparing, and solid. But alot of that proved correct. ...and last summer he said to expect a lot business over the next 7 days - and we signed about 3 players. I rate that account as an ITK - Problem with the latest tweets ...they don't tell us much... Is saying we're going to have a busy last 7 days of a transfer window really ITK thought? I'm making a claim now that the last 10 days of August will be busy for us this year, does that make me ITK?

This isn't correct, someone put on about a next door neighbour being best mates with the Bodymoore heath gardener who knows that lambert addressed and told the players 3 weeks ago. Somebody then took the piss and said that Admins source must be a player then. Not a proper link

Whomever was tweeting as Incognito at the beginning is not the same individual managing the account now IMO. I think the account is a genuine AVFC account drip feeding selected info on behalf of the club. The writing style has definitely changed since 2012, but the info has always been sparing, and solid. I accept your point but for me it's simply a telling sign that it is defiantly not genuine. The guy who tweets on it probably didn't expect so much exposure and people to believe the account so much, when people were speculating that it could be coming from the top he though 'hang on a minute, i'll start tweeting in a more professional manner then'. Chances are he was 16 when it started and now he is a slightly more educated 18 year old. Call me a skeptic but i'd put money on it.

I'm not dismissing Collymore because he's being negative, I'm dismissing Collymore because in the years he's been at TalkSport, I've never once heard him break an exclusive. He says whatever he thinks will get people to call up, it's how he justifies his paycheck. If it were someone who had any credibility in the game rather than someone who runs his mouth about any shit that trends on Twitter, I might pay attention. Collymore knows shit. Stan regularly announces the correct England line up before it is officially announced. He has credible contacts as do many at Talksport. IIRC they announced early that McLeish was set to be the new Villa Manager but most Villa fans out of incredulity &/or despair totally ignored them. Does this enlighten anyone in any way or is it still the status quo of people putting 2 & 2 together to make 5? You decide. Exactly, out of everyone who has spoken he is the most likely to know. Even when you think about how close he is to Sam Matterface, who has worked for Sky and has contacts all over the game. He would surely have heard something if it were happening. I am in no doubt now that Randy will say 'selling, no buyer found'. Additionally the whole culture around this Admin guy is getting my back up, people thank him for writing comments ffs, he's probably a normal guy like me and you working for royal mail. He's acting as if he's a cult leader. What respectable genuine person who would have contact at a premier league football team would go and put a picture of GOD as there profile picture anyway. I'm very sorry for ranting btw, but this shit is so annoying. I want it to happen as much as the next guy.

I just think it's funny how if someone comes up with a username and tells us what they have heard, aslong as it's positive people get behind it and try to think about the liklihood. Then when someone well connected in the game (whether you like him or not, he works for the biggest sport station in the country and is an ex pro) says something negative we all say he doesn't know shit! You really think people like that attention seeker 'Admin' have more contacts than Collymore? No chance! It's not even just Collymore people who he works with will be well connected too.

For anybody who thinks incognito is someone at the club or PF, would they seriously post this: INCOGNITO AVFC ‏@INCOGNITOAVFC 29 May 2012 PAUL LAMBERT WILL BE INTERVIEWED FOR VILLA POST THIS WEEK. #AVFC or INCOGNITO AVFC ‏@INCOGNITOAVFC 31 May 2012 Wow. Wait a minute. Just got a call. Norwich were not as forthcoming as first thought. Lambert is now taking control. May well resign. #avfc or INCOGNITO AVFC ‏@INCOGNITOAVFC 31 May 2012 ''You granted me permission & now you have withdrawn from our agreement.You cannot surrender ur word. Let us talk or I walk.' #avfc. Also he goes from suggesting he is outside the club and saying things such as : INCOGNITO AVFC ‏@INCOGNITOAVFC 31 May 2012 Communication coming from Villa is that they will hold off on announcement until tomorrow out of respect to Norwich FC. #AVFC to then making it sound as if he is PART OF THE CLUB by saying things like this and using the word 'we'. INCOGNITO AVFC ‏@INCOGNITOAVFC 28 Jun 2012 We are very happy with progress. Plenty of work taking place. Stay patient. Nothing to worry about. #avfc Complete bullshit lads there is no way this guy is part of the club, it BAFFLES me as to why people would get any pleasure from making stories up so that people will think they are 'ITK' when you never even know who is behind the account anyway! Fed up