mikeyjavfc Posted June 13, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 13, 2016 26 minutes ago, dudevillaisnice said: Another 48 hours, brilliant Just a couple more days now to really milk the season ticket sales before Randy reveals Dr Xia was just a clever ruse. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TRO Posted June 13, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 13, 2016 I refuse to get involved in anything other than football related issues. other clubs like Man City & Chelsea, just accept things and wallow in the glory the money has assisted them with. Do they worry or get hang ups of things outside of football....Hardly. we can't change the world and we shouldn't busy ourselves trying. Lets not talk ourselves out of a golden opportunity by being holier than thou. in my view its about time we became more devilish, I'm all for it. perhaps I have been watching peaky blinders, too much. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Isn't money just 'evil' full stop. I imagine if you follow it's trail, where ever it's found, you'll come across people being exploited and worse. If you were to seriously make a stand against, it you'd probably have to go and live in the wild and survive off the land. And we'll never actually know if the Chinese government are backing Xia, because they or Xiatong will never admit to it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V01 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 We'll find out during the season. If a ref makes a bad decision that costs us a game and then goes missing in the following week week we'll have confirmation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danwichmann Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 11 minutes ago, TRO said: we can't change the world and we shouldn't busy ourselves trying. Many said the same about #outthedoor74 etc. We have a new owner now. The actions of people do cause change. I would go so far as to argue that only the actions of people can cause change, and we absolutely should try. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Just now, Danwichmann said: Many said the same about #outthedoor74 etc. We have a new owner now. The actions of people do cause change. I would go so far as to argue that only the actions of people can cause change, and we absolutely should try. I don't doubt the sentiment of your claim.....and I agree with your profound comments. My point is we are a football team....lets stick to pragmatics of that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted June 13, 2016 Administrator Share Posted June 13, 2016 24 minutes ago, useless said: Isn't money just 'evil' full stop. I imagine if you follow it's trail, where ever it's found, you'll come across people being exploited and worse. If you were to seriously make a stand against, it you'd probably have to go and live in the wild and survive off the land. Money is just a way of keeping score. The game is called capitalism and by its very nature will lead humans to exploit other humans. Capitalism doesn't have to be evil of itself; humans are quite happy to bring that to the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Money I was always told, is just a future claim on goods and services. In of itself it has no value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted June 13, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 13, 2016 5 minutes ago, useless said: Money I was always told, is just a future claim on goods and services. In of itself it has no value. You won't mind giving me all of yours then ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Tony to be announced along with RdM officially and three new signings?? We can dream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post terrytini Posted June 13, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted June 13, 2016 (edited) Our Club will neither change the world for the better, nor be responsible for making it worse. Those who have issues with 'the Chinese' can do what those who have issues with 'the British', or 'the Americans' have been doing. Those who have issues with 'communism' can do the same as those who have issues with 'capitalism' have been doing. Those who have (suddenly in some cases ?) discovered a dislike for the machinations of money men can look back fondly to the many many many years when we have not been remotely clever with money. I have heard more 'secondary school' moralising and theorising in this last thread than I did in my politics classes !! There is a world 'out there' for all that, and threads in here for it. We are just football fans watching a football team. We just want to do well. We are likely to do better the more money we have (with the proviso we have some people who know what they are doing). We seem to have the possibility of that happening. That's a good thing. On a Saturday (or Friday night, or Wednesday, or whenever) for the coming weeks and months we may finally be able to watch our beloved Club play decent football and score some goals. We can enjoy our game. We can forget the world. ALL the rest of the week we can all go off and destroy/create/ indulge/boycott whatever we like. I for one am 100% behind whatever we do, and however we do it, as long as it doesn't break the rules. In fact, as long as the breaking of the rules is done in a carefully considered and risk assessed way, I'm not even too worried about that either. Edited June 13, 2016 by terrytini 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Made In Aston Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 (edited) I go away for a few hours and come back to a load of stoned and pissed geezers philosophising about the perceived evil of money, the pros and cons of capitalism and mafia style hits on referees next season. Where are all the miserable old gits moaning about the state of the club's half time pies?! #wewantoutVTback Edited June 13, 2016 by Made In Aston 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrusr Posted June 14, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 14, 2016 BBC running article that it's compeleted. Says Xia Chairman, Samuelson vice chairman and Wyness CEO. Click here Quote Chinese businessman Dr Tony Xia has completed his £76m takeover of Championship club Aston Villa. The 39-year-old has passed the Premier League and Football League's fit and proper person test and will become the new chairman of the West Midlands side. Dr Xia succeeds American Randy Lerner, who bought Villa for £62.6m in 2006. Villa were relegated from the Premier League for the first time last season, finishing bottom, and have since named Italian Roberto di Matteo as manager. Dr Xia spent six years at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including five months at Oxford University, before returning to China. He made his fortune as the owner of Recon Group, a holding company that has the controlling interest in five publicly listed companies on the Hong Kong and Chinese stock exchanges, employing 35,000 people in 75 countries. His takeover comprises a £52m purchase price and a £24m overdraft. In addition, he will contribute £60m in operating costs. Dr Xia met the Football League's Shaun Harvey in London on Monday for formal confirmation he had passed the owners' and directors' test, after the Premier League had been satisfied in its investigations. The new Villa vice-chairman is Chris Samuelson, an international financier who has been involved in a failed proposed takeover at fellow Championship club Reading and also an attempted financial injection into Premier League Everton more than a decade ago. The new chief executive is Keith Wyness, who filled the same role at Scottish Premiership club Aberdeen, then Everton. Samuelson was instrumental in getting Dr Xia interested in the Villa project and introduced the new owner to Wyness. Dr Xia is expected to inject about £30m into the transfer fund available to former Chelsea boss Di Matteo as he rebuilds a first-team squad that won only three league games last season. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted June 14, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 14, 2016 Go on Tony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meme Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Quote Samuelson was instrumental in getting Dr Xia interested in the Villa project and introduced the new owner to Wyness. Very interesting bit. Whom we thought was the villain, the dark man, turned out to be the man behind the takeover after all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hornso Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Take care of the club please Doctor and lead us back to glory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villan-scott Posted June 14, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted June 14, 2016 Now let's get down to the real business of sorting out the issues on the field. Am I the only one that thinks it strange that the BBC keep breaking news for us and not the OS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 Finally the nightmare of randolph lerner is over. Now welcome Dr X to the club, big rebuild ahead but feeling confident we can have a successful campaign and take us back to where we belong. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 12 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Finally the nightmare of randolph lerner is over. Now welcome Dr X to the club, big rebuild ahead but feeling confident we can have a successful campaign and take us back to where we belong. Ive heard Randy is retaining some villa shares.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted June 14, 2016 Share Posted June 14, 2016 According to BBC WM Twitter, the club have denied that the takeover has been completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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