Fuse

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If he who doesnt exist now is to be understood then the buyer is the two Texan guys who were the ones originally linked a few weeks ago. If it is them then so be it, but I think it will not promise anything too different from what we have, perhaps with some initial investment to take us from being perennial relegation fodder to mid-table mediocrity. It is s shame but without massive money we will not have much more to aspire to.

Are they? I looked and could only see they were worth around $1.6B

If true then that is a big disappointment as they arent worth much more than Lerner and I think they might keep Lambert as manager :-(((

My summary of Randy Lerner's time at Villa. Good Invested heavily in transfer fees and backed all the managers Bodymoor Heath refurb Improved faciltiies for fans and improved customer service Raised profile of club with marketing deals - Nike, Genting Gave us some pride bakc in the club after years of stagnation Infrastructire of club is far better than it ever was under Doug Bad Employing Paul Faulkner as CEO - completely out of his depth Non-communication with fans - never publicly addressed fans or stated ambiton, strategy Pulled the plug on MON investment at wrong time - should have done it earlier Should have paid the £7m compensation needed for David Moyes when he had the chance after MON left NEVER EVER should have appointed McLeish Never ever listen to purple nose Ferguson! Players recruited - god we have bought soem shite! Indifferent Selling Young, Milner and Downing - all wanted to leave but were not replaced properly - again down to bad management choices Cutting the Wage Bill too quickly Macron Shirt Deal - the kit is shit IMO Still don;t know what his ambitions are and if he is here for the long haul - uncertainty I think he will back Lambert in January and if we dont spend properly I think it will be down to an arrogant, complacent Manager rather than Lerner not giving him the funds needed.

Not sure it says anything but i know Randy was not at the game on Saturday. Now I would have expected for Lambert's first home game fo r the owener to turn up but there you go. One thing I will say baout Randy is that he is in danger of repeatign the mistakes made by Ellis in the years after we won the European Cup. It started with shedding of the high earning experienced playrs who had won us all our trophies, followed by an over empahsis on youth players who ended up being not upto the task and low and behold we went down. I hope we aren't in a similar cycle.

With the squad we have I am very, very worried. I feel PL is a good guy but no miracle worker and despite the feel good factor, we still look likely to let in loads at the back and very weak squadwise that a couple of key injuries will kill us. 17th is my prediction unless we change our attitude and buy the 3 experienced players needed to shore up the squad. 4th round in both cups.

Great car but insurance plus wear an tear and you won't get much change out of £5k per year and that's before you put fuel inside!

When I saw his first post about funding my first thought was QIA. Obviously could be well wide of the mark but... Can't see it happening. Would Randy being Jewish make it unlikely that business would be done with Muslims?

To be honest fuse these were my gripes, but as usual we are stuck with it so we will have to back him. I really thought we would have been smart enough to get a manager with some vibe to him who could bring that feel good factor back and have some creativity with transfers. We've gone the safe and boring route as usual, as I suspect this manager will. :? Your both what I hate about some Villa fans, never happy, never satisfied, part of the poisonous band of miserable gits that linger around Villa Park. Instantly on the clubs back. It makes no difference that football people, with knowledge and experience, rate him as one of the best young managers around. No, lets be upset at the fact he doesn't tell jokes at his press conferences, and he's not from Brazil and called Paulinio Lamberto. Everyones has a right to an opinion, but there's a bunch at Villa that just need to do one. Oh, I'm sorry. So because I am not cartwheeling down the road at the appt of Lambert as I wanted us to be more ambitious and progressive and this is different to your opinion, I should do one? Why don't you stop being such a self righteous clearing in the woods and do one yourself? I think realistically Lambert is as 'progressive' as we should be. Going completely left-field is more likely to end in disaster than it would do in success - and that's not to say Lambert isn't a bit of a coup in itself after our last season! I really don't understand the apparent progressive and more importantly realistically good options there were out there? Personally I'd have preferred Martinez. I will get behind Lambert and tbh it says more about the board in picking him that they have definitely chosen to listen to the fans opinions on this, which I accept is almost universally positive.

To be honest fuse these were my gripes, but as usual we are stuck with it so we will have to back him. I really thought we would have been smart enough to get a manager with some vibe to him who could bring that feel good factor back and have some creativity with transfers. We've gone the safe and boring route as usual, as I suspect this manager will. :? Turns out Micky Quinn is right Fuse is Micky Quinn........... Pot and kettles Slim! :-)

To be honest fuse these were my gripes, but as usual we are stuck with it so we will have to back him. I really thought we would have been smart enough to get a manager with some vibe to him who could bring that feel good factor back and have some creativity with transfers. We've gone the safe and boring route as usual, as I suspect this manager will. :? Your both what I hate about some Villa fans, never happy, never satisfied, part of the poisonous band of miserable gits that linger around Villa Park. Instantly on the clubs back. It makes no difference that football people, with knowledge and experience, rate him as one of the best young managers around. No, lets be upset at the fact he doesn't tell jokes at his press conferences, and he's not from Brazil and called Paulinio Lamberto. Everyones has a right to an opinion, but there's a bunch at Villa that just need to do one. Oh, I'm sorry. So because I am not cartwheeling down the road at the appt of Lambert as I wanted us to be more ambitious and progressive and this is different to your opinion, I should do one? Why don't you stop being such a self righteous clearing in the woods and do one yourself?

Says an awful lot about how bad things have got at Villa that so many are cumming in their pants at news we are appointing a manager who has one year top flight experience, is hardly likely to attract players other than Grant bloody Holt and importantly for me shows how unambitious and lacking in vision our board are. We needed revolution, not another bloody dour, miserable, media unfriendly appt.

Nail on head. If we appoint Lambert expect mid table mediocrity at best watching long ball football

Whilst all roads point to Martinez I have a feeling it might not be him. This is a Villa manager search and we have never gone for the obvious choice yet...