JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Aston Villa: Dr Tony Xia set to axe Paddy Riley when takeover deal is confirmed Chinese billionaire Xia has big plans for Aston Villa, and they won't include the current director of recruitment and scouting Paddy Riley is expected to be axed by Aston Villa’s owner-in-waiting Dr Tony Xia if his takeover plans are approved, the Birmingham Mail understands. The claret and blues’ talent-spotter will be moved aside by the Chinese businessman with a sporting director likely to replace him. Xia and his team of advisors have discussed a future without Riley at the forefront of recruitment and scouting but they need the Premier League and Football League to ratify the proposed buy-out before pressing ahead with changes. At present, departing chairman Steve Hollis is making the decisions on the behalf of Xia, and will officially appoint a manager if a preferred candidate is selected before the £60m deal is completed. Riley’s future was always likely to come under threat once Randy Lerner departed. And after the fatal Premier League campaign, which saw a number of his recommended players fail to perform, Xia has already come to the conclusion that the ex-Liverpool man will not be involved in the new-look set-up Since re-joining Villa from the Reds in November 2014, Riley has seen three managers, two CEO’s and the club’s first-ever sporting director all depart. He has become a target for frustrated fans in recent times as he was heavily involved in a £55m spending spree last summer. More than half of the 12 arrivals were specifically targeted by Riley, leaving Tim Sherwood, the manager at the time, furious at missing out on players he was desperate to recruit. Former boss Remi Garde was also fuming after the January transfer window when he didn’t receive a single penny to strengthen a team that still had a chance of avoiding the drop. Xia plans to change the set-up at Villa providing he passes the Owners and Directors’ Test. He will call on deputy chairman Chris Samuelson and CEO Keith Wyness, both of whom also need to be approved, as the men to provide much-needed football experience. Whether they decide to appoint a sporting director is not yet clear but they want to make the football department as strong as possible to give Villa the best chance of making an immediate return to the Premier League. Xia has already admitted that he will let the manager get on with the task at hand and will not interfere as he knows the importance of getting out of the Championship at the first attempt. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-dr-tony-xia-11375963? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Ah, maybe Bernstein and King will return lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Tried sending a post from my phone but it went tits up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 On 5/23/2016 at 10:40, dont_do_it_doug. said: I've met @Robbie09 and I can vouch that he is both scrupulous and incredibly handsome. Use that information as you wish. .......easy tiger. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted May 24, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 24, 2016 He gone yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Supervillan78 Posted May 24, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted May 24, 2016 11 hours ago, briny_ear said: Tried sending a post from my phone but it went tits up. So did Lescott. lol 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Bye bye paddy Reilly good news your getting sacked. You deserve to lose your job as much as fox and almstrad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Quote Since re-joining Villa from the Reds in November 2014, Riley has seen three managers, two CEO’s and the club’s first-ever sporting director all depart. 1/4 of the way to his 12 days of Christmas, hopefully its 4 defenders leaving next 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairy In Boots Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Icog on Twitter who seems to be more often correct than wrong tweeted he's been given the Spanish archer! Thank god 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Bye bye loser. Another scumbag that cost us dearly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Toast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omariqy Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 IncogAVFC is some kid. That's not the old incognito page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 1 hour ago, Demitri_C said: Bye bye loser. Another scumbag that cost us dearly scumbag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 6 hours ago, Zatman said: scumbag? Yep all of them fox, Reilly, almstradt and Lerner all are for destroying my club. Funny your rolling your eyes when you have been a fierce critic all season as well. Glad they have all left our great club. the only person left at the club that deserves credit is Hollis. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 59 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Yep all of them fox, Reilly, almstradt and Lerner all are for destroying my club. Funny your rolling your eyes when you have been a fierce critic all season as well. Glad they have all left our great club. the only person left at the club that deserves credit is Hollis. 'Scumbag' is a very strong word to be fair. He didn't assault a child, he was just not very good at his job. Let's keep things in a bit of perspective. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 4 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: 'Scumbag' is a very strong word to be fair. He didn't assault a child, he was just not very good at his job. Let's keep things in a bit of perspective. ok knob head then 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlwaysAVFC Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 I'm one of the minority group that thinks he gets a bit too stick (well possibly, depending on circumstances). Some will disagree and it's hard to defend with how bad we were but the players we got in the summer aren't actually that bad and would look better amongst a new group of players. The big question is how much was down to him in relation to deciding what players we needed, and if he is thought we had been successful, because clearly we we missing 2-3 certain types players in the squad which we needed massively. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 Well if speculation is to be believed, his signings weren't the problem - Sherwood's were. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
praisedmambo Posted June 3, 2016 Share Posted June 3, 2016 17 minutes ago, AlwaysAVFC said: I'm one of the minority group that thinks he gets a bit too stick (well possibly, depending on circumstances). Some will disagree and it's hard to defend with how bad we were but the players we got in the summer aren't actually that bad and would look better amongst a new group of players. The big question is how much was down to him in relation to deciding what players we needed, and if he is thought we had been successful, because clearly we we missing 2-3 certain types players in the squad which we needed massively. Surely his job was to recruit a team worthy of staying in the premier league? It's been a spectacularly depressing failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted June 3, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 3, 2016 I don't buy this most of the players were actually OK really. The plainly weren't. With or without Richards and Lescott we were the third worst PL team ever. You don't get that just because of a couple of bad eggs, the team from back to front left to right was totally dysfunctional under two different managers. Riley was responsible for this. He was the main man. He put together a set of utterly atrocious / incompatible players making us a total shambles. It's almost impossible to see how anyone could have made a worse job of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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