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He f'kin huge, look he just sat on a ballboy and didn't even wince! Actually I think he's a big arsehole.

Pete Colley live on SSN now saying still not signed yet. Will be confirmed tomorrow.

Don't worry it will be confirmed in the next 48hrs

It's tweets like this that makes me wish twitter wasn't so full of shite World Transfers– ‏@WorIdTransfers Brighton have had a bid accepted for #avfc striker Gabby Agbonlahor, believed to be a record fee according to the player's agent. #bhafc 10:10 a.m. - 27 May 2016

Starting for U21's today. K.O 4:15pm

Got these stats from a guardian article published just after he was fired by Chelsea Matches played (all competitions) 42 (21 last season, 21 this season), won 24, drawn 9, lost 9. Premier League played 23, won 12, drawn 6, lost 5. Champions League played 11, won six, drawn three (2012 final drawn 1-1 after normal time and extra time, Chelsea winning penalty shoot-out), lost two. FA Cup played four, won four. Capital One Cup played two, won two. Super Cup lost 4-1 to Atlético Madrid. Community Shield lost 3-2 to Manchester City.

Not bad eh?

Lombardo was with him at Schalke but has recently joined someone else's coaching team.

Possibly Eddie Newton from Chelsea on the coaching staff ? He's worked with Di Matteo before. Not sure if Conte is bringing in his own team.

Welcome RDM, get us up by any means possible!

How about David Gold or David Sullivan?

What if that "English bloke" was Doug Ellis?

Preece ‏@thisispreece 2h2 hours ago I just saw Adama Traore in the bull ring, I asked if he was staying at Villa, he said " I hope so" #avfc 9 retweets30 likes Reply Retweet 9 Like 30 More

Just seen Moyes in Tesco, he said he was not coming to Villa until VT had finished investigation into how much cash Dr X really has.

You might be right, but I was thinking more along the lines of a Phil Scolari, Sven Goran Ericsson type appointment.

Definitely a strong possibility I think. Maybe a big name who has been out of the limelight for a while?

Anniversary today of our most triumphant victory, winning the European Cup. Would be a great time to announce a new manager !!

Nah Giggs - prick Neville - prick Yorke - prick

Pretty sure it's fake, but looks pretty good.

Good write up here on the current situation I think: http://avillafan.com/site/22495/panic-on-the-streets-of-birmingham/ Panic on the streets of Birmingham 0 BY ALEX OTHON ON MAY 24, 2016GENERAL VILLA Aston Villa everywhere fans rejoiced last week when the news broke that the club had finally been sold. Tony Xia and his Recon Group had negotiated the purchase of one of football’s grandest names for a sum of money which will eventually total approximately £100 million. The outpouring of joy was almost tangible. The ill-fated Randy Lerner era was over. The shackles that had restricted the club for the last five years or so were finally removed. A new dawn could commence. Our new owner went straight to work in appeasing the fans by outlining his plans: promotion as soon as possible, hopefully at the first attempt; getting Aston Villa back into the top six of the Premier League within five years; offering the new manager up to £50 million to spend this summer and being one of the top three clubs in the world within ten years. The last objective is absolutely ridiculous of course. Nonetheless, the rest of his targets were exactly the sort of things we needed to hear as supporters starved for so long of anything to get excited about. Personally, I was quite happy just to enjoy this moment. Whether I believed it all or not, at this point in time I literally didn’t care: finally, there was something to give us a bit of hope and something to get us excited ahead of plying our trade in the Championship. However, almost instantaneously, the celebrations on social media were infiltrated with negativity. Thoughts turned to questioning how much our new owner was worth. Was he even a billionaire? What did he actually own? Bank balances ranging from £200 million to £27 billion surfaced. Suddenly, Villa fans in their hundreds became private investigators, digging around on the internet for any scrap of information they could find. Did Xia actually own as many companies as was stated? Who is behind the Recon Group? I have been shocked to see the levels of effort people have been going to in an attempt to try and uncover some sort of truth about Xia. People do not even know what they are trying to uncover but are hell-bent on discovering some as yet undiscovered corruption linked to our new owner. Many of the comments have bordered on racism and have certainly been xenophobic. I have even seen a labelling of all Chinese businesses as being corrupt and people citing Carson Yeung and Vincent Tan as examples of shady Chinese businessmen, despite them being from Hong Kong and Malaysia respectively. Xia, in an attempt to be transparent and alleviate any fears that fans may have, has even provided a reporter with a bank statement, which shows an account with the equivalent of £430 million in it, which apparently came from the sale of a company called Teamax. Xia also went as far as to say that this was money being held in a separate account literally waiting to be spent. Whilst this was quite the gesture from our new owner, the cynical amongst us merely took it as an invitation to snoop further and dig around on the internet for the credentials of this company. When people couldn’t find the answers they were looking for, they ran wild with the fraudster accusations ran. People even took it upon themselves to begin magnifying the statement, looking for signs of doctoring and trying to ‘prove’ that it was a fake. Even writing this seems absolutely absurd. What have we become? I completely understand a feeling of apprehension regarding a new owner, especially an unknown such as Xia is, but it is not the job of the supporters to try and dig so vigorously in matters that they do not understand. It has become an embarrassment. Suddenly, everyone is an expert in business and finance. The fact is that nobody knows how these companies are set up. Nobody knows in whose names they may be. Business isn’t as straightforward as owning something outright under one name: there are holding companies, partner companies and subsidiaries of firms. A business can be privately owned rather than publicly listed and therefore virtually untraceable. It’s absolutely ridiculous to do a bit of googling and expect to uncover some sort of super villain empire. A piece in ‘The Financial Times’ perhaps kicked things off with its somewhat negative look at Xia’s business interests last Thursday, which created some waves of worry. There followed a revelation that the Recon Group in fact only has one listed company under its umbrella rather than the five stated previously. ‘The Telegraph’ added to the mad mix yesterday with suggestions that Xia has fabricated his academic record and provided false information to gain a certificate for one of his companies. To me, the article serves little purpose other than to scaremonger. In fact, the basis of the allegation of a falsified academic document cannot, by the reporter’s own admission, even be verified. The article lazily ends with the comparison to Carson Yeung. It’s pretty shameful to be honest. There seems to be a desperation to catch Xia out but there is no evidence that any wrongdoing has occurred. The fans supposedly made a huge impression on Xia at the last home game of the season against Newcastle United. I can only imagine what his thoughts about the claret and army would be now and he is probably even less enamoured with the English press. The man himself has already expressed that he didn’t expect such levels of attention. Why should he have done? Chinese investment in European football has occurred at Manchester City already, with a consortium owning 13% of the club. Atletico Madrid is part owned by Wang Jianlin, China’s richest man. Yet these investments have been welcomed. They are not controlling stakes, but I have not seen or heard, or been able to find, any carcass picking regarding those deals. Xia has done nothing to warrant such negative scrutiny. One name that has come into play which does create cause for concern. Chris Samuelson was previously at Reading and involved in an unsavoury period in the Royals’ recent history during Anton Zingarevich’s ownership of the club. By all accounts, Samuelson was on the board during a perilous and somewhat dodgy stint which left Reading Football Club in serious financial trouble. Accusations range from being responsible for bringing in Zingarevich in the first place to trying, when the Russian disappeared, to broker new takeover deals that involved agreements which would see him remain on the board. Rumours also suggest that his Switzerland-based company, Mutal Trust International, would also receive a monthly £40,000 windfall on a consultancy basis. Reading fans have nothing positive to say about him and the words ‘crook’, ‘conman’ and ‘snake’ appear frequently in posts involving his name. It’s a big worry. Fans are absolutely correct to question the wisdom of allowing people such as Samuelson, with such chequered histories, into the club. I am concerned about his involvement, certainly. The reality, however, is that there was always a real risk of someone involved in this deal having a past which was either unsuccessful or questionable. The business world is full of people of this nature. Indeed, it can be argued it is the very nature of business itself. Obviously if we had a choice then we wouldn’t risk a guy with a dubious reputation being on the board. But we don’t have a choice. It isn’t a democracy. Trying to expose people like we’re Roger Cooks (kids, ask your parents…) serves little purpose. For Xia, the mere fact that he is unknown is not cause for the reactions that we have seen over the last six days. The man has been seemingly open so far, admitting that one of his firms, Lotus Health Group, is currently loss making, another point which many fans made a big deal out of. There is a sense of our fans never being happy. As a friend of mine said, we now have more dough than Hovis. Until something begins to go wrong or there is a reason to show cause for concern over our new owner then let’s try to be positive and enjoy the thought of Xia spending a lot of money this summer without having to sell a bunch of players first, financial fair play allowing. There is an element of the unknown and there are no guarantees that any new owner will do his best by the club but we must remember that owners and investors can only make money if Aston Villa is a successful club. We need to realise that Aston Villa may simply be a vehicle to make money for the new man. Success in cups and the leagues will merely be a by-product of that. That’s modern football, unfortunately. After such a depressing season and desperate longing for new, mega-rich owners for several years, we should just see what happens first before we wallow in any further negativity.

Didn't Percy say that Moyes was NOT offered the job. He ruled himself out of the running. RDM was interviewed, Pearson and Moyes. Why are there reports Pearson will pull out as he's not first choice? You go for a job interview, several people are interviewed, the boss takes some time to make a decision on the best candidate and in the meantime 1 of the candidates pulls out. Still a 2 horse race imo

hahaha good one wills. You're messing around again right?......... Right?

The derogatory comment is not