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Let's hope we can get him fit Asap and maybe he could be our version of Eric Dier going on the descriptions of him.

Cheeky bid for bony

Ok fair enough, I don't know too much about him other than he turned down Chelsea and that big Italian teams and Valencia want him. Just thought he might have something about him.

How about trying to get Andrej Kramaric (on loan?) from Leicester ? Turned down Chelsea for 1st team football but has only played 4 games this season. A different option upfront. Struggling to think of realistic targets for January given our position.

Peter Crouch ????? WTF

Glad to see he is being given another run out rather than being benched as I'm my view it's the only way he will adjust (or not) to the league and build confidence. Only after an extended run of games can a measured judgement of his ability be made.

Also it is not as if he is 28 and banished to train with the kids he is only 20 so is going back to train with his peer group whom most won't even make it at the club, hopefully he will see how lucky he is. If Remi thinks he has gotten a bit too ahead of himself and needs to go back and train with his peers to sort his attitude out I'm in complete agreement.

Lerner set the budgets based on what we can spend due to income vs losses. Yes he is culpable but I really don't understand how people can't grasp how it needed to be done, we couldn't sustain our losses. WBA wages to income ratio is the worst in the league just like ours was. Like him or hate Fox with his commercial background will have a proper grip on our finances so that should never happen again. And we will be in a healthier position moving forward. We have a fickle fan base who rightly or wrongly started to desert us when things got ropey. Due to poor signings by managers the product wasn't entertaining and good enough = reduced Tv money due to our league placings. Crowds dwindled. And If peeps decide to buy the top from sports direct rather than the club they lose out and Mike Ashley gains. Randy is to blame for appointing the wrong mananger(s) and rightly or wrongly leaving them to sign whom they saw fit. But we just had to cutback our spending due to the FFP and EFP (?) rules he voted against and correct past mistakes. Just for the record I would like him to sell us and am not defending all that he has done wrong which is plenty. But I see what needed to be done to stay solvent.

I see benteke has become the new Milner

Shhhh don't let the facts get in the way of people's opinons/agendas

Randy really missed a trick by not creating say for example a Cleveland villains MLS franchise all those years ago. Things could of been so much different if he had.

See FFP and the premier league version of it. Also look st the accounts which are freely available to view. Proves he has been putting money in. No sympathy towards him or grace just cold facts. We couldn't sustain our losses without him covering them. It is a whole seperste debate about Lerner having caused our losses by trusting his managers (badly) and appointing the wrong ones. And I agree with most of the criticism towards him btw.

Met dunne in nice airport in the summer a lot smaller than I imagined him to be up close. Very nice chap and had a lot of good things to say about us. Any ways we do need a pairing like dunne & Collins were that season. Perfect foils for each other.

Gareth Barry fitting as I'm 5 days older than him

If we were only ones to show the cash and weren't already miles adrift he might consider it. He hates there chairman. Didn't someone on here in the summer say they had asked him about joining us and he said he would be up for it. Could be making that up though. but it ain't gunna happen I know. Just let me dream for a while longer

I'm sure if we weren't cut adrift by January stumped up the cash and offered Clark Berahino could be an interesting option. Surely with the austerity measures and our small net spend we could push the boat out and spend 20-30 million to safeguard our future. Pipe dreams I know !

I'm sure cowans would love to have Collins back. Senderos over Collins for me.

Breel embolo Or something more sensible like. Michael Keane Cashley Cole a proper consistent DM and Austin or some other shit hot striker.

James Collins you smoking rotterdams finest. a back 4 including Collins was shit 5 season ago don't you remember. Ki has a very high opinion of him self when it comes to wages. And why would long leave Southampton.

Net spend vs losses xFFP=money available. Read the above report.? Not defending him but to say he has been bleeding us dry is just wrong. I agree though we are where we are because he slammed the brakes on. However we didn't have a lot of choice due to FFP and could sustain losses like we were season upon season

No he hasn't ! A very good read about our finances but disproves the myth peddled by some Lerner has been bleeding us dry to cover his losses. Still don't let the facts get in the way of your opinion/own agenda http://swissramble.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/aston-villa-lost-in-supermarket.html?m=1 "dismal performance off the pitch with the club bleeding money through some hefty losses, financed by the American owner Randy Lerner pumping vast sums of money into Aston Villa"

Nice bit of (typical) revisionist history when referring to Petrov. He was shockingly bad and ineffectual at times in his first season and couldn't last more than 60 mins. He also had some cracking moments. Took him time to adapt.

Errmmm don't think he was. Let's not rewrite history just because of his unfortunate illness. Take a look through the early pages of his thread. Petrov was a marmite player, you either rated him or not until his illness then he became a legend.

Seen a few posts mention the club is rotten to the core and needs over hauling. Do they include (Job for life) Cowans in their assumptions or does he get a pass ? Not a loaded question or dig at anyone just genuinely interested. I like him but he has been part of the set up during these arduous years and maybe it's time to really shake up the whole back room staff and get rid of him and McDonald ? Tin hat ready (PS: VillaChris not sure how/why I'm quoting you, it's unintentional! whatever I do it won't go away.)