Keener window-cleaner

Now I obviously don't know what I'm talking about, but can't he list the club publicly on the stock market? Issue 49% of the shares, get in a lot of money and still have control? If I remember correctly we were listed in the latter stages of the Ellis regime.

How the **** can you put the future of our football club at stake by gambling on promotion. It's not just about the historic club and all it's fans, but all employees and their families. It seriously borders that it should be illegal. Why was it so ******* important to go up in one of the first seasons to make you take this risk?? It's the persons responsible of this that should get their assets stripped.

Ok China, I have some issues with you not being a democracy and your human rights violations, but right now what's most important is that you let Tony spend his money.

Who is Howard Hodgson?

With Wyness suspended, who takes care of the day to day business at the club? Can't imagine Tony doing it from China, with the time difference and all.

I don't know UK tax law, but normally countries are quite strict with their laws on taxes, ie if you miss a payment there are severe measures that can be taken, but also if you pay up within a short period of time those measures wont be taken. Hopefully it's just that we by negligence missed a payment and nothing more than that. If it on the other hand is so that we don't have enough cash to pay up, it could be very very bad. We'd need to take emergency loans or urgently sell assets...

I think this is the most worrying part (if true). We have mostly heard about FFP putting restrictions on us, but the limit on capital outflow out of China surly must play a part as well. I guess that's what comes along with having an owner from China, and what I and others had slight concerns about from the begininng. Nothing at all against Tony, but having an owner living in a dictatorship that doesn't respect rule of law will always be risky, because you don't know what new rule will suddenly come up. In a way it shouldn't matter as we should be able to be sustainable by ourselves and not dependent on the owner putting in new money now and then, but when it's needed, it really is needed.

Have we heard anything at all from Wyness? As the CEO I would expect him to communicate something with all the uncertainty the recent days. I wonder if Tony is considering sacking him. If Bruce was Wyness appointment, and by not winning promotion, that must be regarded as a failure that Tony wont be happy with. Wyness previously said that we had plans both for promotion and for staying in the Championship, I understood we had a plan b. NOw after what Tony said, I wonder if we really have a plan b, if we have, the CEO should communicate that. If we put all our eggs in the promotion basket and now are in trouble, I must say Wyness has failed big time. If it is so, then Wyness must surely hang loose. The problem is then, who would we get instead? Who would Tony turn to for advice on who to replace him?

No, the bidding doesn't start at all.

I am afraid Tony will look at it from the perspective of a businessman. Only looking at stats like goals, assists and games played, there is an argument that he has not contributed as much as for example Adomah, Snodgrass and Hourihane. Selling Grealish would give us a huge income that would possibly solve our FFP issues, and could even mean we can reinvest in the team. My view is that he is the most talented player I have ever seen in a Villa shirt, that in combination with the fact that he is one of us, has been at the club since he was a kid and loves the club, the fact that he gives me hope that he can be the player who brings us up to the top of the Premier League, that are for me emotional values that you simply cannot put a price tag on. Seeing him just as an asset and making a business oriented decision diminishes what it's all about for me to love and support a football club. You just don't sell Jack Grealish. I think the best way would be if as many supporters as possible let Tony know how much it means to us to keep Jack. I'd even go as far as threatening with a suitable boycott...

I just love posts like this, when you with more experience share it with us. Hoping for a good early birthday present!

Hmm... like Donald Duck-style with only t-shirt? I like it!!

Hats off, he was very good in the semis. Had a bit of a scare in the first game where he almost scored an own goal but managed to head it over the bar, otherwise very impressive!

He looked very calm and mature and had a very good game, if he managed this game, he can manage any game. I had started thinking that he wasn't good enough and not worth having any high hopes for, but from what I saw yesterday I think he can be a really good player for us.

I enjoyed that video very much. Every goal Aston Villa scores makes me happy, Gabby has scored 86, so he has made me happy many times. I wish I could be at the game today, I wish him a worthy and respectful good bye. All the best to him.

To you Leicester:

Yeah, it was more emotional than rational from my side. I love Jack, I don't love Sterling, so I'd rather have Jack, he's one of us. It's a bit the same way as I love my old car and wouldn't swap it for a new one, even if the new one has better features. Or a bit like with my wife... or, ermm, I'll stop it there.

I love him, a true professional and a role model in the way he goes about his work. He remindes me a bit of Southgate.

I'm not sure if they are comparable, Sterling is more of a direct runner who now is played as a striker and scores goals. Grealish is more of a playmaker who gets the assists. Sterling is of course better in the sense that he is worth far more and performs on a higher level, playing in the Champions League, winning the Premier League, going to the WC with England and scores a lot of goals. Despite all of that, I would rahter have super Jack in our team than Sterling.

Ah I love these companies house links! So who actually owns us, Recon or Tony?

I think it will follow the new trend of leasing, fans can lease the shirt, pay a monthly fee and change it regularly!

I actually wasn't that upset after the Norwich game, I've more or less accepted that this is the way we are. I would like to have seen some more urgency, but on the whole, we didn't really play that much different to most other games. The difference was that we didn't have the little bit of luck to take our chances first. We rely on pressing and high tempo and individual preformances. We don't have a style of play or any patterns in our play, no real tactic. With this tactics we will win some, lose some. Hopefuly Bruce can fire them up to the play-offs so that we put in BFC/Wolves-performances. I think it was wrong of Bruce to give the players that bashing and let them hang out to dry, they more or less did the same as they do in his team with his tactics. Regarding the changes, I don't have much to say against the substitutions, yes he put on a lot of strikers, but Kodjia or at least Grabban played out wide so it wasn't like we sacrificed our midfiled. We gave it a go, had to attack and that left us open for them to punish us, which they did.

I think it's mainly because of our style of play that he doesn't produce for us, but it's clear that his link up play is poor and doesn't connect with the others. In hindsight we could as well just have played Hepburn-Murphy (bar the fact that he has been injured) insted of shelling out X millions on Hogan. Bet RHM can do the running and pressing and scoring now and then to the same extent as Hogan.