CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Sounds dodgy. No thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 The BBC claim Tony Adams will only be used to work on "football matters" Aston Villa are the subject of a takeover bid by a group of investors led by former Chelsea business director Paul Smith. The bid is believed to be in the region of £150m. It is understood that ex-Arsenal player Tony Adams would be brought in to work on football matters should the takeover be successful. Smith is known to current Villa owner Randy Lerner, who put the club up for sale last May. More to follow. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32627445 Seems Paul Smith is the one pushing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 The fact they don't even have enough money to buy the club is bad enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penguin Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Yeah it doesn't make any sense, can't see it happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 The question is, are Gilan Holdings involved? How many billionaire friends does Tony Adams have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 No thanks, rather keep Lerner if that is the only option. Bringing in Tony Adams to work on football matters and they don't have enough money to buy us. Yeah please **** off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 The BBC claim Tony Adams will only be used to work on "football matters" Aston Villa are the subject of a takeover bid by a group of investors led by former Chelsea business director Paul Smith. The bid is believed to be in the region of £150m. It is understood that ex-Arsenal player Tony Adams would be brought in to work on football matters should the takeover be successful. Smith is known to current Villa owner Randy Lerner, who put the club up for sale last May. More to follow. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32627445 Seems Paul Smith is the one pushing this. LOL, well I'm dead against that, he's a **** idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GENTLEMAN Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Yeah it doesn't make any sense, can't see it happening. It has Lerner written all over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 No thanks, rather keep Lerner if that is the only option. Bringing in Tony Adams to work on football matters and they don't have enough money to buy us. Yeah please **** off.Yes what would that mean to Sherwood's position. Better the devil you know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 I'd rather be relegated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villan81 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 please god no.just when my confidence was high about Villa i read this rubbish.hope the chinese put a bid in quick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberman Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 We need to a) get safe in the league and ideally win the cup, then we can get some proper offers coming out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Paddywhack Posted May 7, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 7, 2015 I've just googled imaged 'Paul Smith Chelsea'. I think he is a pair of shoes. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 I'd rather be relegated Good point seriously I would too if it meant not having Smith and Adams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wezbid Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Can't Villa Talk go head to head with this bid? We don't have enough to buy the club, neither do they, we've got a chance here guys. In all seriousness, if they need to lend money to actually purchase the club, how are they planning to fund transfers? Any deal that puts the club in debt just in order to be purchased is bat shit crazy. Lerner wouldn't go for that, even if he does want out. He's spent so long sorting out the finances, chucking the club back into the red for no good reason would be madness. If they have raised £75 million why don't they take-over a club where they could buy them for say £25 million and then build them up. None of it makes any sense, they would have to chuck £75 million of debt on to Villa to fund it and also want to get involved with Inter Milan, Sporting Lisbon and a few other clubs at the same time? Nothing adds up at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeyAnty Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Can't Villa Talk go head to head with this bid? We don't have enough to buy the club, neither do they, we've got a chance here guys. In all seriousness, if they need to lend money to actually purchase the club, how are they planning to fund transfers? Any deal that puts the club in debt just in order to be purchased is bat shit crazy. Lerner wouldn't go for that, even if he does want out. He's spent so long sorting out the finances, chucking the club back into the red for no good reason would be madness. If they have raised £75 million why don't they take-over a club where they could buy them for say £25 million and then build them up. None of it makes any sense, they would have to chuck £75 million of debt on to Villa to fund it and also want to get involved with Inter Milan, Sporting Lisbon and a few other clubs at the same time? Nothing adds up at all. Glaziers done exactly this with Man Utd. You dont need money to buy things these days as long as you have a nice suit and good at talking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob182 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 I'd rather be relegated Good point seriously I would too if it meant not having Smith and AdamsRidiculous. People have been crying morning and night about getting relegated for the past few months, and now, people would be happy to be relegated if it meant we didn't have Paul Smith, a group of investors and Tony Adams taking us over. What a daft overreaction, if serious. The initial reports sound like a load of shit, but that's all they are... newspaper reports. If the papers said 'Paul Smith is looking for wealthy investors to join a consortium and put their own money in'... then people would be fine. It's just the fact that Tony Adams has been mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberman Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 (edited) It's how the Glazer's bought Utd and spent the next 10 years servicing the debt by increasing prices everywhere. ^^ What HeyAnty said. Edited May 7, 2015 by rubberman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dn1982 Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Can't Villa Talk go head to head with this bid? We don't have enough to buy the club, neither do they, we've got a chance here guys. In all seriousness, if they need to lend money to actually purchase the club, how are they planning to fund transfers? Any deal that puts the club in debt just in order to be purchased is bat shit crazy. Lerner wouldn't go for that, even if he does want out. He's spent so long sorting out the finances, chucking the club back into the red for no good reason would be madness. If they have raised £75 million why don't they take-over a club where they could buy them for say £25 million and then build them up. None of it makes any sense, they would have to chuck £75 million of debt on to Villa to fund it and also want to get involved with Inter Milan, Sporting Lisbon and a few other clubs at the same time? Nothing adds up at all. Glaziers done exactly this with Man Utd. You dont need money to buy things these days as long as you have a nice suit and good at talking. Difference being the Glazers had enough money to pay it off if it went tits up by the sound of it we wouldn't be! Crap consortium with seemingly no money to invest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skarroki Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Sounds like they're looking to buy sleeping giants throughout Europe and get them all up and running again. Which is all well and good and sounds great if it works. It's whether they want all those clubs performing well and spreading profits and earnings equally to keep them all going, or whether they want one team to be performing well, and the others to be feeder clubs to hold the biggest up. And unfortunately I'd say the biggest would have to be Inter, as they are also most likely to be able to push back up to the top of the league with investment. Unlike ourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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