foreveryoung Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Nathan Baker is like a hair found in the cake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Carlos slim would suit me as the new owner.....and he might like the name, having a latin overtone 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_John_10 Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 He's generous because he lent us a small amount of the money he inherited? Honestly I can't believe some actually praise him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markavfc40 Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 (edited) today marks the 1 year anniversary since he has been at villa park Is this correct? Edited December 28, 2013 by markavfc40 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetrees Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Not a fan but constantly defend him. I am confused. I don't think that he is deserving of some of the vitriol that is poured upon him, and I will be forever grateful to him for dragging our club out of the Ellis mire. Whether he stays or goes, in 5 years time even you will probably look back upon his tenure with a positive slant. I don't get this. We've had three years of relegation battles in a row, something that never happened in the Premier League under Ellis. Lerner also let our finances get into such a state that even though the money is all owed to him, we've had to massively scale back spending, such that even if we do get back on an even keel financially, we'll have lost ground on a huge scale to all those teams around us, assuming that we even manage to stay in the top division. I fear for the future under Lerner. He's a shit businessman, and a shit football club owner, and I wish he'd **** off. Sadly this is true - hes got almost everything wrong. - and today marks the 1 year anniversary since he has been at villa park. He was here a few weeks ago. I would say that he is now a relatively infrequent visitor compared to what he was, but he still makes regular visits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Electric Avenue Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Carlos slim would suit me as the new owner.....and he might like the name, having a latin overtone May even get a signal inside villa park on matchdays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted December 28, 2013 Moderator Share Posted December 28, 2013 If he was generous, he would have given the club the money-He actually loaned us the money & claimed he was doing us a favour by only charging us a low rate of interest. In the meantime, he's hijacked the proceeds of sales from players such as Young & Downing & diverted them into his own bank account. He seems to think that this is the way forward and we are now a club who invest in unknowns in the hope of making huge profits by selling one or two on to ambitious teams You see, this simply isn't true. His family loaned us around £100m, he has since written off the interest on those loans. As well as this, he has also given (that's given) the club around £100m in equity. There's a chance he might get a big chunk of this money back in a sale, but £250m isn't going to be a break even point for him, it's going to be a loss. He's used the money badly, but he's given more of his own money to the club during his time here than we have spent on season tickets. He has no plan to take the club forward, because any plan would need a huge investment which can't be supported by the club generating the income or the clubs sale - every penny he puts in now is money he will never see again. He's in limbo, we're in limbo, it's a bleak picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted December 28, 2013 Administrator Share Posted December 28, 2013 Twelve pages overnight based on absolutely nothing. Please do not post about other posters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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