Grasshopper Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 very concise, but interesting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 1 hour ago, Lord Willard said: Not sure if posted. Good video Sums it up nicely. Amazing to see just how much money Lerner lost, truly eye-watering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheStagMan Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 3 minutes ago, villa89 said: Sums it up nicely. Amazing to see just how much money Lerner lost, truly eye-watering. Agreed, truly shocking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 That video is brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Wow, so over 10 years, spent £300m to increase the price of the club by £10m, or decrease it by £14m if you count the overdraft repayment as separate from the sale price. That is a spectacular disaster and, although I knew those figures, the video focuses the facts in a very painful way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TrentVilla Posted November 15, 2016 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted November 15, 2016 Spent years and years saying it, you don't have to be smart to inherit a fortune but you have to be dumb to blow one. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villakram Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Just use non-GAAP accounting, simples... where's my prize? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 I don't think you could do a shittier job if you tried. I hope the last thought before he goes to bed is "£250m. I am a tool." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 I knew Lerner was an idiot the day he appointed mcleish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Shouldn't be amazed, but I still am when I think back at how that idiot ran this club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted November 15, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 15, 2016 (edited) 4 hours ago, Demitri_C said: I knew Lerner was an idiot the day he appointed mcleish I heard an interview with Paul Faulkner after Mcleish had been sacked. The explanation that he gave was that they genuinely thought he was a top manager because he won the League Cup with the scum. I knew then that he was a total fraud. Edited November 15, 2016 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NottingVilla Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 Just goes to show, if you are going to try and do it with money, you can't do it half arsed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted November 15, 2016 Share Posted November 15, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, sidcow said: I heard an interview with Paul Faulkner after Mcleish had been sacked. The explanation that he gave was that they genuinely though he was a top manager because he won the League Cup with the scum of. I knew then that he was a total fraud. That was the major start of the decline for me and one of the most idiotic in all my time if being a villa Fan Edited November 15, 2016 by Demitri_C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avfc96 Posted November 15, 2016 Author Share Posted November 15, 2016 1 hour ago, Demitri_C said: That was the major start of the decline for me and one of the most idiotic in all my time if being a villa Fan The start of our decline begin in the summer of 2009 imo. City had all the money on earth, Chelsea had just appointed Ancelotti, United had the greatest manager of all time, Spurs had the crook who got the best of what they had and well Arse had Wenger and we should all know they don't finish outside of the top four despite how rubbish their squad. Our signings that summer were: Collins Dunne Beye Delph Warnock Downing No-where near good enough for a club that was challenging for the CL at the time. (Yes I know our cup form was fantastic but our league form capitulated in the same way it had done the previous season). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted November 16, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted November 16, 2016 1 hour ago, Avfc96 said: The start of our decline begin in the summer of 2009 imo. City had all the money on earth, Chelsea had just appointed Ancelotti, United had the greatest manager of all time, Spurs had the crook who got the best of what they had and well Arse had Wenger and we should all know they don't finish outside of the top four despite how rubbish their squad. Our signings that summer were: Collins Dunne Beye Delph Warnock Downing No-where near good enough for a club that was challenging for the CL at the time. (Yes I know our cup form was fantastic but our league form capitulated in the same way it had done the previous season). And if I remember correctly Collins, Warnock & Beye were signed at the last minute about 4 weeks into the season. Dunne dragged on and on also. Why did O'Neil always wait so long so he never had a pre-season? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG_Villa_Fan Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 7 hours ago, Avfc96 said: The start of our decline begin in the summer of 2009 imo. City had all the money on earth, Chelsea had just appointed Ancelotti, United had the greatest manager of all time, Spurs had the crook who got the best of what they had and well Arse had Wenger and we should all know they don't finish outside of the top four despite how rubbish their squad. Our signings that summer were: Collins Dunne Beye Delph Warnock Downing No-where near good enough for a club that was challenging for the CL at the time. (Yes I know our cup form was fantastic but our league form capitulated in the same way it had done the previous season). Signed 4 defenders and proceeded to have the best defensive season in ages. Also 2 players that were sold for a profit. The problem was that in that summer Man City spent 3-4 times as much, signing the likes of Tevez, Adebayor, Barry, etc. Villa could never compete with that realistically. It wasn't the players bought because we were never in for the expensive and better players the other clubs got, it was the investment that was lacking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 8 hours ago, Avfc96 said: The start of our decline begin in the summer of 2009 imo. City had all the money on earth, Chelsea had just appointed Ancelotti, United had the greatest manager of all time, Spurs had the crook who got the best of what they had and well Arse had Wenger and we should all know they don't finish outside of the top four despite how rubbish their squad. Our signings that summer were: Collins Dunne Beye Delph Warnock Downing No-where near good enough for a club that was challenging for the CL at the time. (Yes I know our cup form was fantastic but our league form capitulated in the same way it had done the previous season). Thats more O'Neill though than Lerner to be fair 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 Awww poor Randy Lerner, his heart was in the right place, good bloke really, spent a fortune on us. He really did try, it's everyone else wot let him down. We should name a stand after him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 He'd have been better off putting his inherited fortune in to a savings account than trying to play businessman. His father would be proud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntrimBlack Posted November 17, 2016 Share Posted November 17, 2016 On 15/11/2016 at 15:59, TrentVilla said: Spent years and years saying it, you don't have to be smart to inherit a fortune but you have to be dumb to blow one. Very true. In my time in business (now happily retired ) I worked with 2 separate clients where the sons blew the fathers fortunes. It is easier to spend money than it is to earn it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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