bringbackbigron

Agree entirely what a load of rubbish "might have turned my ankle" You are getting paid £45,000 a week to play for the club. You could have landed on your head for all I care.

4 minutes ago, Xela said:

Everything Bruce has said in the media so far I like.

 

Totally agree, and felt the same prior to our win last night. He has addressed the issues really well and drawn a line under his management at Blues. Obviously he was pleased when he was a manger there and they were doing well, but he will be delighted when he helps us give them a stuffing on the 30th. He knows now for the first time in his managerial career he is managing a real club that can win things. It's miles away, but with time, support from the board and the fans, we will be back where we belong. 

I would give Big Sam a call, after all he is available and if we had got him last year we might (though unlikely) have stayed up.

I was dissapointed to see us looking like an average championship club at the weekend but god that was dreadful. I've seen us sink to some lows but this might be the worst or close. Same story as last year, Creating nothing and cannot defend, difference last year was that it was against Premier league opposition. Need to seriously get behind the lads in the next two games before the root starts to set in again.

Come on Villa!!!

Thought it was a nice tap in, bet all the champions league managers were wishing they had signed him, shame the second hit the bar.

This optimizes our transfer dealings last year. (Just want to be clear i'm not at all worried about him leaving). But, why buy a potential talent for £9million and have a £7million release clause built into his contract. Seriously how much were those jokers getting paid to negotiate this?

20 hours ago, TRO said:

They don't exactly look that happy do they? Any chance he could open an academy in one of the football superpowers, Germany or Brazil for instance.

Everton are welcome to him, Some of the pundits raved about him at times but I must have fallen asleep when he did anything good. But agree we need to start bringing in some young keen quality players as we aren't going to suddenly going to be world beaters. 

I think the tight kit is better for the team, less shirt pulling, or at least more difficult. I could never work out why rugby jumped on that obvious advantage quicker than football. However when the fans start slipping into these tight numbers we might see why

Seriously though kit looks ok, I like the away one, bit of a change.

See Nigel Pearson already blowing hot air out of his **** about why he didn't take the job. 

Reality is he is getting paid a significant amount a week to play football. Whilst spending the rest of the time practicing how to do the job well, that he is paid for. If he is refusing to do the job he is paid to do the club shouldn't be paying him.

I expect he is hoping he will be in breach of contract so the club release him, so the club who paid all the time he was injured and nursed him back to fitness will get nothing. But he can get a bigger salary as a free agent than if we sold him.

If he is refusing to play then the club shouldn't pay him until he changes his over inflated opinion of himself. Imagine going into work and saying i'm refusing to work today, you would be out on your ear.

Looks like his ducking out of his responsibilities the same way he ducks under crosses.

12 minutes ago, sne said:

Hope any new owners coming has both a short and a long term plan.

Just spunking money on players will not work, as seen by Lerner.

It's must to bring in people used to working in and around the football business from clubs who know what they are doing.

Build up a proper scouting network (I'm not sure how we operate on youth level regarding scouting, but I'd like us to get better at finding those gems in the smaller clubs in the area), form a coherent philosophy around the football so we are not over reliant on managers coming and going. This will also make the transition easier for youth players coming into senior football.

Clear out the waste and bad elements so they can build a more professional culture among staff and players.

Much to do, just money for a few marquee signings will not be enough, but it's a start.

Agree entirely. We are not going to get some mega rich idiot to buy us like Manchester City and pump a load of money into us. We need someone with a good bit of money to spend wisely and build the club from the bottom up. Get King and Bernstein back on board and bring in a good manager proven to deliver. We were winning Youth cups and leagues left right and centre what happened to all those players. 

Forget Moyes, already talking about what a great club Celtic are.

The fact is the only real skill Gabby had was his speed, which was always going to fade anyway as he got older. Adding several pounds and looking like the average Sunday league player shows how concerned Mr Villa is about his career and Villa in general. That should have been identified before giving him a long term contract. He knew by the time he would be 32 he would be pretty much useless so why not milk it until then, see Charles N'zogbia as an example.

Be great if Richard Branson bought the club. He rarely gets it wrong and all the players could run about with "Virgin" on their shirts

4 hours ago, Richard said:

Sorry dont believe this at all.  Not picking on your post but it is just the latest one to proffer that opinion.

See the thing is both of these men are professional experienced individuals in their field who have seen takeover and mergers and acquisitions countless times.  They know the process and they know how it works.  If any sale was on the horizon or "advanced"  they would have known this 4 weeks ago when they joined.  If it was just starting now then similarly it wouldnt be an issue.  Either way they are professionals and would work to the schedule they would know that it could delay it if there is a takeover in the offing.  They would not be so precious to walk over it.  What it could be if not money is that they lined up a takeover and Lerner has turned down the offer

I'm inclined to agree, unless something was agreed with these two (and friends) which "Randy clearly not a Learner" has backed out of.

5 minutes ago, Cliffy Biro said:

Thing that makes Gabbys situation and Grealish to a lesser extent worse is that they are supposed to be local lads and villa supporters instead they are just **** overpaid average leeches that don't give a shit happy to be pictured taking god knows what.

Totally agree there are thousands of fans out there who would love to pull the shirt on and give 100% every week.

3 minutes ago, Razor said:

 

To be fair if this can ruin your life then you have much deeper issues

It's ruined it today

33 minutes ago, sne said:

Nah, he'll appoint his son as manager.

How hard can it be, it's only soccer, a game for little girls.

Maybe he has Donald Trump lined up, He will be looking for a job later in the year.

3 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

It's just so wrong. That one man, who isn't a footballer and spends no time in this country, can have such an effect on this club. 

Agree totally, and ruin so many of the supporters lives.

It's beyond belief. Clearly these guys had an idea of how to start to put things right but Randy "Clearly not a Learner" has screwed things up. How on earth can one individual be allowed to buy a club with our traditions and time after time after time make us into the laughing stock. For god sake sell the club to anyone, it cannot get any worse! It might not mean anything to you but it means alot to us do us.

Sure Moyes will be desperate to sign now. 

It's just one f***up after another.

If Moyes is genuinely interested Get him in. e is the fans preferred option and it would be a good first step to turning the fans around. Alternately we could do it the Villa way and dither about wait for Celtic to offer him the position and then bring in half baked choice that nobody else would touch.

This is a real chance for the new board to show they mean business as opposed to business as usual!

You have to love it, on international week off goes on a bender in Dubai, catches a nasty rash and then needs two weeks off to recover. 

When was the last time you had a week off work and then got another two weeks off paid because you had overdone it on holiday. 

What a joke!