Tony Xia (no longer involved with AVFC)

[Neil]

19 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

Xia is a lot better than Lerner, therefore we should sit down, and shut the **** up, basically? 

Ok, I'm done here.

Fixed.

[Ingram85]

I'll trust the self made multi billionaire's judgement on how to handle things over any of us lot 

[terrytini]

47 minutes ago, Jareth said:

Tony has rescued the villa, but folks seize upon anything to have a go. He bleeds villa, because that is the club he is going with. Just because you were born in Birmingham gives you no extra ownership over our club that our Tony doesn't have. His twitter strategy is based on good intention yet lots fail to see that too. I only hope he sees villa forums for what they are, a bunch of bored, isolated men who's partners do not listen. 

I resent that.

And having nothing better to do I thought I'd say so. And my wife would object to what you said about her too, if I could get her attention before she goes out.

[TRO]

1 hour ago, omariqy said:

Honestly Villa fans piss me off sometimes. 

Only some.

[Ingram85]

Why is Joe Bennetts opinion so sought after all of a sudden? **** what Joe Bennett thinks. 

 

[TRO]

I'm worried the players will get pissed off and not want to play for us.....particularly in the second half....is it called "work to rule"

[TRO]

After watching years and years of games that feature "surrender".....I feel its reassuring that we have an owner who is as angry as we are about it.

[TRO]

9 minutes ago, Ingram85 said:

Why is Joe Bennetts opinion so sought after all of a sudden? **** what Joe Bennett thinks. 

 

So joe is peeved.

was he so peeved when he and Sheffield Wednesday were happy for for Aston Villa to pay part of his wages.....Do they think we are some kind of punch bag.

They can well and truly **** ***

[Grasshopper]

1 hour ago, Jareth said:

........I only hope he sees villa forums for what they are, a bunch of bored, isolated men who's partners do not listen. 

I have to admit being too creative to be bored.

My job keeps me far from isolated.

As for my partner, she was as surprised as I was when Grealish put us 0-1 up, then went on to say "I hope we dont go on to lose 3-1"

Oh, how right she was

[Chindie]

17 minutes ago, Ingram85 said:

I'll trust the self made multi billionaire's judgement on how to handle things over any of us lot 

Xia might be a billionaire but I don't think that makes him an untouchable genius at anything he turns his hand to.

He's quite easily and justifiably criticised. His Twitter posting too often strays from refreshing honesty into unprofessional and potentially damaging. He simply shouldn't be so openly and clearly discussing players, and certainly not individuals so obviously. At best it potentially fosters friction and image problems (already the story of who is actually calling the shots at Villa Park is pretty much written for any journalist who wants it in a few months if the wheels really fall off the campaign, and would you as a player prefer to go to the club where nobody knows who the owner is or the one where next week you having a bad day has the owner openly criticising you to the world? Etc), at worst its going to cause genuine problems if managers don't like his vocalness or he says the wrong thing at the wrong time.

He needs to wind down his posting, if not stop wholesale and revert to official releases that are vetted and have been past a few wiser heads. It might be fun for some now but soon enough it's going to go south.

And that's without taking into account the other areas I wouldn't give the 'self made billionaire' a carte blanche on running a club successfully - it's fairly difficult to significantly **** up in a couple of months, but a few years? We'll see. We might be in excellent health. Or we might be Portsmouth. Who knows.

I'm quite happy to see some cautious criticism and skepticism of the latest custodian.

[GodsBarkeep]

3 hours ago, Pilchard said:

 

I'm calling bullsh*t on this tweet

[briny_ear]

3 hours ago, Jareth said:

I only hope he sees villa forums for what they are, a bunch of bored, isolated men who's partners do not listen. 

This is probably just a bizarre, isolated obsession of mine but I always think, if you are going to come on to a forum like this spraying offensive nonsense around, at least don't show yourself up by displaying poor grasp of the English language. 

Thst would be "bored, isolated men whose partners do not listen." for future reference.

[HanoiVillan]

3 hours ago, CastleBromVilla said:

Admittedly, that's not very helpful.

I don't find myself overly bothered though, we've spent far too long pussy footing around players that don't earn their money.

He is right aswell though. Gollini seems to talk a good game off the field, not short on confidence (based on stuff I've seen on social media) but the opposite on it, needs to start doing his job!

Yeah, we've spent way too long pussy-footing around this 21 year old goalkeeper who joined the club a whole six weeks ago. 

Can't believe we've allowed his reign of terror to go unchecked for so long.

[Richard]

2 hours ago, GodsBarkeep said:

I'm calling bullsh*t on this tweet

Go to Xias Twitter account, click on the LIKES tab ,. You'll aee the first one that appears is this one he has liked so you'd be wrong to call bullshit I think

[KSV]

Yeah not cool about current players.. especially new signings.. young bloke. Its bad enough if the lad logs on to VT! Let alone from the club owner.

[peterms]

This twitter behaviour is impetuous, shows poor judgement, suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of his role, and appears unaware of the likely impact on players and the club.  It makes me wonder, if these are the things we can see, what is he likely to be doing that we can't yet see?

[dudevillaisnice]

8 minutes ago, peterms said:

It makes me wonder, if these are the things we can see, what is he likely to be doing that we can't yet see?

Hmm.. Has anyone seen Gabby recently 

[KSV]

32 minutes ago, peterms said:

This twitter behaviour is impetuous, shows poor judgement, suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of his role, and appears unaware of the likely impact on players and the club.  It makes me wonder, if these are the things we can see, what is he likely to be doing that we can't yet see?

Does make you wonder. Di Matteo doesnt seem the type that will take it though... He seems to have a good relationship with him. So who knows. There is no perfect owner out there.. too quiet.. too loud.. not involved enough.. too involved.. theres always something. As long as he is backing the manager and shows interest.. thats all i care about. I am sure if he is telling people on twitter.. he and RDM may have already had a conversation with Gollini that we may be bringing in a new keeper. Either that or he didnt realise his phone was in his pocket and accidentally liked it. 

[blandy]

25 minutes ago, peterms said:

This twitter behaviour is impetuous, shows poor judgement, suggests a fundamental misunderstanding of his role, and appears unaware of the likely impact on players and the club.  It makes me wonder, if these are the things we can see, what is he likely to be doing that we can't yet see?

I'm less sure about that. It's certainly different and against the normal way football clubs operate, but the twittering seems entirely harmless to me. If a goalkeeper is undermined because Tony liked a supporters tweet saying that we need to strengthen with an extra keeper, then I wonder what the manager and coaches telling him he needs to improve, or supporters groaning and shouting at games, or being dropped might do to the poor delicate flower.

Where there is IMO a slight cause for concern would be if in his enthusiasm he was being too hands on and trying to pick the team, or select players, or tell the manager how to do his job.

We don't know if he is and I'd suspect that RDM would quickly lay down some boundaries if he did try.

Dr X seems to be keen, engaged, hard working and driven, with an openness to supporters. He does also seem unfamiliar with "the way things are done round here" but dealing with media, with fans differently isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I think players and staff will probably treat the twittering with the appropriate level of importance.

[Villarocker]

8 hours ago, TRO said:

I'm worried the players will get pissed off and not want to play for us.....particularly in the second half....is it called "work to rule"

Didn't Dr Xia's Recon group have something to do with the re-homing of folks in order to build the Beijing Olympics? Think I read that somewhere. If so, do you really think he's going to allow players, that he pays a lot of money to, to rule him? He'll get Recon in and knock down their fancy fanny-magnet pads and have them in a Labour camp if they try that shite with the Villa now.