Grasshopper Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 2 hours ago, sparrow1988 said: Conversely, we could have been better run for the previous ten years and never be in this situation but that's been mentioned and discussed once or twice on here I think. when? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Hi Tony are you coming to the game on saturday? We'd love to meet you best wishes Grasshopper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Rather than come to the game I think I'd prefer he just wound the Club up then I could look forward to my weekend. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted February 24, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2017 On 23/02/2017 at 09:28, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said: I knew this would happen, we always screw up our chances. Hemce why I said it's like us being close to champions league and signing Harewood, then Man City getting taken over, all over again. This was the year we needed to go up. For every Tony there is SHA owner - but saints are a good investment, nice and steady and bringing in the premier league bucks. Not that we have tasted ANY success yet, but I do like his ambition - plus he said recently that he doesn't expect to make any money from Villa, if ever any sentence confirms Tony has his head screwed on then that would be it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAMAICAN-VILLAN Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 25 minutes ago, Jareth said: For every Tony there is SHA owner - but saints are a good investment, nice and steady and bringing in the premier league bucks. Not that we have tasted ANY success yet, but I do like his ambition - plus he said recently that he doesn't expect to make any money from Villa, if ever any sentence confirms Tony has his head screwed on then that would be it. Wasn't a dig at Tony at all mate. Just pointing out how increasingly hard it could become to make any headway towards his "ambitions". That CTIC who are apparently looking into Saints are the largest investment bank in China, and also have shares in Man City. Southampton are definitely a good investment though. Look at what they have achieved just by being well run! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Platt Posted February 24, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted February 24, 2017 Thing with Southampton is it took them to go down to Division 2 to sort out all the rubbish the previous regimes did. I know things are not looking good on the pitch but off it we seem to moving in the right direction. Tony has only been here a few months so I am sure we all agree to cut him some slack. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Tony Xia was looking to buy Southamption days before completing Villa purchase. One of many clubs apparantly. Feel less special now! Anyway article goes on to say that Tony is close to getting a controlling stake in a prestigious french club. Post the article later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brommy Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 1 hour ago, KSV said: Tony Xia was looking to buy Southamption days before completing Villa purchase. One of many clubs apparantly. Feel less special now! Tony looked at buying other clubs but chose us. Shouldn't that make us feel more 'special', not less? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KSV Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 6 hours ago, brommy said: Tony looked at buying other clubs but chose us. Shouldn't that make us feel more 'special', not less? I was just kidding. I'm just glad he's here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntrimBlack Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 7 hours ago, brommy said: Tony looked at buying other clubs but chose us. Shouldn't that make us feel more 'special', not less? Always look on the bright side - I like that, Brommy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 34 minutes ago, KSV said: I was just kidding. I'm just glad he's here. I'll never accept him because he didn't get a Villa tattoo in his youth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 (edited) 9 hours ago, KSV said: Anyway article goes on to say that Tony is close to getting a controlling stake in a prestigious french club. Post the article later. I thought you're not allowed to have a controlling stake in 2 European clubs? Edited March 2, 2017 by ender4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 it might not be his name above the door with the controlling stake lyon and marseille already have chinese owners / investors so its not them, iirc its taken ages for those deals to go through too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, ender4 said: I thought you're not allowed to have a controlling stake in 2 European clubs? Didn't the Watford owner also own Udinese and Granada? Hence the mass loans and frees between the clubs. As V4E says, some things in football are fairly easy to bypass by using your sons or wife's name or something. Edited March 2, 2017 by kurtsimonw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 Red Bull own both Salzburg and Leipzig. Only thing is that it's not currently clear if both will be allowed to play in next years CL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smg Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 I think I read somewhere that they won't both be allowed to play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 2, 2017 VT Supporter Share Posted March 2, 2017 12 hours ago, Dr_Pangloss said: I'll never accept him because he didn't get a Villa tattoo in his youth. Not seen him in a half and half scarf either. Just a plastic fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 11 hours ago, smg said: I think I read somewhere that they won't both be allowed to play This is correct, and is the source of an accusation that Chelsea hobbled Vitesse when they were in danger of qualifying for the Champions League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 11 hours ago, sne said: Red Bull own both Salzburg and Leipzig. Only thing is that it's not currently clear if both will be allowed to play in next years CL ENIC used to own shares in a few clubs around Europe and had sell most of shares as werent allowed enter more than one team into Europe. They sold everything up and kept only majority share in Spurs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted March 2, 2017 Share Posted March 2, 2017 11 hours ago, kurtsimonw said: Didn't the Watford owner also own Udinese and Granada? Hence the mass loans and frees between the clubs. As V4E says, some things in football are fairly easy to bypass by using your sons or wife's name or something. Good shout, I'm sure it's the dad who officially owns udinese and then the sons who own the others Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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