Isa Posted April 20, 2015 Share Posted April 20, 2015 A few weeks ago the Mirror said UK-based group. The front company could be officially British based if not the ownership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 eventually, when whatever happens happens, the papers will be able to trawl back through all their shit and fantasy, pull out the relevant piece and say 'see, we knew it!' 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyAnty Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 James Nursey and it's The Mirror.. but i'll post it anyway Aston Villa takeover: Chinese consortium plan purchase just HOURS after FA Cup final Aston Villa are being targeted by a wealthy Chinese consortium who want to complete a takeover immediately after the FA Cup final. Tim Sherwood’s side stunned Liverpool on Sunday to set up a showdown against Arsenal on May 30. And Villa could lift the Cup then be in new hands within hours as the Chinese are determined to buy a Premier League club. The group have also held talks with neighbouring West Brom as a back-up plan as the move for Villa would depend on them avoiding relegation. MirrorSport understands the consortium already have representatives in England and are doing due diligence ahead of completing a Villa deal in early June. http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/aston-villa-takeover-chinese-consortium-5555974 In fairness to Nursery he would seem to be privy to more information Villa related than most jorns out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejoker Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Could be a very good time to get Chinese owners if it's true. I was listening to TalkSport a few weeks back and they were commenting on how China are currently investing billions of pounds building football pitches/facilities all over the country in order to challenge for the World Cup in 20 years time. It would be amazing to get the majority of the Chinese public to follow Villa. The income would be incredible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted April 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 21, 2015 I'm a little uneasy about a takeover from someone just wanting to buy any premier league club. Doesn't suggest much of a genuine interest. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan4Life Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Wonder if this so called Chinese Consortium is anything to do with Wang Jianlin? Personal worth $13.2billion.. Although he put a 20% stake in Atletico Madrid a few months back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 eventually, when whatever happens happens, the papers will be able to trawl back through all their shit and fantasy, pull out the relevant piece and say 'see, we knew it!' The stan collymore school of journalism... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condimentalist Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 I'm OK with the current Lerner/Fox/Sherwood regime you know. I'm not saying things couldn't be better, but they could be a lot worse. In reality if Lerner sells there's a good chance Fox and Sherwood follow him out and there's no guarantee (at all) that we'd be in a better place as a result. I'm open to a takeover but I hope that Lerner realises how important it is for him to get the sale right. He can't just wash his hands of us to anyone who will cough up the fee. The idea of Chinese owners makes me nervous tbh. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post troon_villan Posted April 21, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted April 21, 2015 Wonder if this so called Chinese Consortium is anything to do with Wang Jianlin? Personal worth $13.2billion.. Although he put a 20% stake in Atletico Madrid a few months back. Wang lol 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 As long as they don't name us Birmingham Villa, change our shirt colours to pink and change our club crest to a duck billed platypus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted April 21, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted April 21, 2015 The idea of new owners is incredibly exciting but also incredibly worrying. I'm not a huge fan of FFP but at least it greatly reduces the risk of a new owner completely ballsing things up for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikantcpell Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Could be a very good time to get Chinese owners if it's true. I was listening to TalkSport a few weeks back and they were commenting on how China are currently investing billions of pounds building football pitches/facilities all over the country in order to challenge for the World Cup in 20 years time. It would be amazing to get the majority of the Chinese public to follow Villa. The income would be incredible. It could be a huge income for the club, Yao Ming is chinas best basketball player and plays for the Houston Rockets in the NBA, Evry time houston rockets play there are 300 million chinese watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG_Villa_Fan Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 (edited) Could be a very good time to get Chinese owners if it's true. I was listening to TalkSport a few weeks back and they were commenting on how China are currently investing billions of pounds building football pitches/facilities all over the country in order to challenge for the World Cup in 20 years time. It would be amazing to get the majority of the Chinese public to follow Villa. The income would be incredible. It could be a huge income for the club, Yao Ming is chinas best basketball player and plays for the Houston Rockets in the NBA, Evry time houston rockets play there are 300 million chinese watching. Is it 2010 again? Edit : On a more serious note, the NBA is different, as there's genuine revenue sharing, so a single team can hardly make a fortune out of a specific market. Might be different in football, but fwiw Houston Rockets' earnings from Chinese sponsors during Yao's time were estimated at about $1mil per year. ~7 out of ~85 team sponsors were Chinese and that was good for about 5% of the total annual sponsorship income and less than 1% of their total revenue. Jeremy Lin's acquisition was rumoured to be worth close to $10 mil per year for the Rockets, but that's probably highly exaggerated, as they swiftly got rid of him. Edited April 21, 2015 by BG_Villa_Fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikantcpell Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 Could be a very good time to get Chinese owners if it's true. I was listening to TalkSport a few weeks back and they were commenting on how China are currently investing billions of pounds building football pitches/facilities all over the country in order to challenge for the World Cup in 20 years time. It would be amazing to get the majority of the Chinese public to follow Villa. The income would be incredible. It could be a huge income for the club, Yao Ming is chinas best basketball player and plays for the Houston Rockets in the NBA, Evry time houston rockets play there are 300 million chinese watching. Is it 2010 again? I mean when he played for the rockets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirdle Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 As long as they don't name us Birmingham Villa, change our shirt colours to pink and change our club crest to a duck billed platypus. We originally played in pink (with black hoops) -honest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jackbauer24 Posted April 21, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted April 21, 2015 General racial profiling when it comes to potential takeover individuals/parties: British - Know's the game, isn't rich and can't invest well enough. American - Has no idea about 'soccer' and surrounds themselves with yes men. Puts club in debt. Russian - Loaded, probably has dodgy connections but invests plenty. Egyptian/ Arabian (or anyone who wears a thawb for simplicity) - rich, probably royalty, likes to use club to promote own wealth/standing. Indian/Chinese (anyone Asian falls under this category for those lacking geography skills) - dodgy trading, will change the colours of your team and alienate the fans. European - trying to use us a feeder club for their other club. Mixed nationality consortium - just in it for the money and are heartless money men who will sponsor everything. Right, are we all clear? Let's move on.... (please sense sarcastic tone before being offended!) 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 General racial profiling when it comes to potential takeover individuals/parties: British - Know's the game, isn't rich and can't invest well enough. American - Has no idea about 'soccer' and surrounds themselves with yes men. Puts club in debt. Russian - Loaded, probably has dodgy connections but invests plenty. Egyptian/ Arabian (or anyone who wears a thawb for simplicity) - rich, probably royalty, likes to use club to promote own wealth/standing. Indian/Chinese (anyone Asian falls under this category for those lacking geography skills) - dodgy trading, will change the colours of your team and alienate the fans. European - trying to use us a feeder club for their other club. Mixed nationality consortium - just in it for the money and are heartless money men who will sponsor everything. Right, are we all clear? Let's move on....(please sense sarcastic tone before being offended!) Having considered jack's post carefully, its Russian's or nothing for me ☺ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova26 Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 They need to think about extending the ground because we are going to be left behind by West Ham, Spurs and Liverpool with their new grounds. I know we don't fill it at the moment but the term "build it and they will come" comes to mind. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srsmithusa Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 To highlight: These Chinese are interested in us or Albion. They are interested in us IF we stay up. i.e. Premier League Morons to take Albion over us. Also no common sense or taste. Not interested in plonking millions of pounds on the greatest club on earth regardless of current status in the sure knowledge we shall rise to prominence. Pass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Simon Posted April 21, 2015 Share Posted April 21, 2015 They need to think about extending the ground because we are going to be left behind by West Ham, Spurs and Liverpool with their new grounds. I know we don't fill it at the moment but the term "build it and they will come" comes to mind. Build the team and they will come. Extending Villa Park in our current malaise / situation would be absolute business suicide. (Although business suicide sounds right up Randy's street, so I'm surprised we're not playing in a 200,000 seater pantheon). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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