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I won't be if we win it in 2017

http://www.dcfc.co.uk/news/article/derby-county-appoint-nigel-pearson-as-manager-3128398.aspx 'Derby County Appoint Nigel Pearson As Manager'

This whole time he's actually been having interviews about becoming manager of the Chinese Super League club that Xia's buying, not us!!!!

Incase anybody was really really worried about my logging in issues, I have fixed them (was using wrong email address). So please, don't worry guys. Please.

Thank you

Has anybody else had any problems renewing online?! got a text today that tomorrows the last day for the 9 months interest free so went to do it tonight and it's saying it doesn't recognise my email address? So I made a new account and it won't let me put a reference number in or anything so I can't click on my actual seat as it's obviously blacked out. Anyone else had this issue? I might have used a different email address that I can't remember but does anyone know how I could find it?

Yep, Fischer signed and Praet in 'Advanced talks'

I believe the owners of Leicester actually own most of the shops in Asian airports, that's the business they're in.

Boro signing Viktor Fischer and Praet reality hitting home

I heard him say in one of the interviews that the search had been comprehensive and has been going on for a few months. If that's the case, I find it hard to believe the only people in contention are Pearson, RDM and Moyes?

He did really well at Boro, I'd take him but I imagine they'll sign him.

Actually, looking at Xias companies if they did hold say £10bn. It's very difficult to work out his actual net worth based on the value of his companies. Abramovich owns: Millhouse Capital (72% of the business was worth $13bn in 2005..... so it's probably worth shed loads more now) Evraz ( a steel company with 100,000 employees with a revenue of $8.5bn in 2015. Abramovich owns 31%) Norilsk Nickel ( another 100,000 employee company - Ambramovich owns 7.3%. in 2010 25% of the company was worth around $12bn). And Abramovich himself is worth $8.2bn. So it is fair to say (and I know this is incredibly speculative) that the companies owned by Abramovich would eclipse Xia. Abramovich has a personal net worth of around $8.2bn. So if thats the case based on the companies he owns (obviously not even including Chelsea which would be a massive earner too) you'd imagine it would be unrealistic for Xia to be worth more than $1 or $2 bn? Used info from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millhouse_Capital https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evraz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norilsk_Nickel mainly.

Yes almost certainly Yuan. In excess of 100bn Yuan (although it's obviously assets not cash) would put him around the Abramovich level.

I've just been looking back over old articles on the actual Recon website, an article from mid last year states (and I saw some other similar posts yesterday, but not actually from Recon themselves): ''Joint Rui Kang Group (RECON): is a business around the world the wisdom of Economy and Capital Management Group, the Group comprises a smart city, smart manufacturing and equipment, health agriculture, wisdom, logistics and new energy, transportation, smart tourism and financial investments 6 large complete industrial platform, 22 hundred independent brands and independent operators. By holding China A shares and overseas listed companies and five shares of more than a dozen industry ecosystem-related companies, asset size of over 100 billion, covering 500 Chinese cities and more than one third of the urban population, a total of more than 5,000 large the projects, including town planning and construction of smart city more than 400 cities. While continuing to ideas and technologies and wisdom "Internet +" for the driver thinking to explore new generation of information technology support, the next generation of innovative knowledge society (innovation 2.0) smart city development model form environment. From the overall perception, interconnection to the intelligent integration of applications, and promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, in order to achieve harmonization and sharing of resources. Grasp the enormous opportunities for change in the world economy industry 4.0 times, to build production (workers) industry production to 4.0 times from the wisdom of life wisdom maturing ecosystem, a leading industry wisdom economic development of the new economic enterprises.'' Link: http://www.reconig.com/htm/11.htm

This is a Chinese report from last Friday (but as far as i'm aware nobody has posted it). I thought it was interesting because it has a quote from Xia saying '75 million pounds is NOT a big investment' 'China Scores with Aston Villa Soccer Deal' link http://english.caixin.com/2016-05-20/100946170.html

Chris Houghton signed a 4 year extension at Brighton about 2 weeks ago.....

At the end of the day if there was somebody waiting in the wings incase it fell through do you honestly think they'd no longer want to buy the club because an auditor (Hollis) went with another firm? Makes no difference to them does it really. Doubt very much that is plausible though and due diligence itself takes months so we'd be royally ****.

If we let Calder go that will come back and bite us, potential to be a good player imo.

Hope so, he did well at Man City when the Arabs took over. Would also suggest that there's money imo.

It does sound a little bit convenient though doesn't it.... 'Oh yes we do only own one organisation but we're in the process of buying 4 others' 'Oh yes this might be the biggest acquisition that I've ever done but next week I'm doing one for $3.5bn' I'm not a natural pessimist and I'm not trying to be negative but something is just a bit strange, there is no denying that.

Some more good news: http://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2016/05/24/aston-villa-and-tony-xia-are-looking-like-ac-milan-with-mr-bee/#cd7204065fd9 ' I have serious doubts that the sale of Aston Villa to Tony Xia is going to happen'

£400 is absolutely nowhere near enough.

http://tw.weibo.com/xiajiantong here we go, this is his twitter (sort of) page. It works on this link ' Summer build system Celebrity certification MBeijing Dongcheng District http://tw.weibo.com/xiajiantong Side walk, side thinking. When I passed the fortunes rise and fall of the city's landscape bloom wither'

Has anybody managed to get onto our Tones' Weibo account?? (Chinese Twitter equivalent). I've been trying but it's difficult, weibo.com/xiajiantong is his page and I believe he's active on there.

Absolutely 0000000000000000% chance of Hiddink. He's a top quality manager who always earns a fortune, no chance. Also I read he's staying on at Chelsea and going upstairs.