Takeover speculation - hopefully :)

I just don't know what to think anymore. One minute I think we're close to being sold then a million miles away!! When will it end??  

jvilla wrote:Sounds like someone at VP has fed that information to the telegraph. Mat Kendrick may be right, looks like Lambert will get more power akin to the MON days. Happy to hear more than 10 mil to be spent.

Not much more

Lerner is also believed to have reassessed this summer's transfer budget and may provide further money to strengthen the squad, though it is unlikely to be more than £15 million on fees and wages.

jvilla wrote:

Mardybum72 wrote:

jvilla wrote:Lerner to do Faulkner's job, no takeover close - according to telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/10955310/Aston-Villa-in-turmoil-as-Randy-Lerner-flies-in-to-assure-manager-Paul-Lambert-following-shock-departure.html

Article says nothing of the kind... ever thought of journalism?

Well it says he will be more 'hands on' with Faulkner gone, and it also says no takeover remotely close too...

Club statement puts robin Russell in role temporarily.
Telegraph article is nothing new in my opinion....predictable

Why would we be signing Dross and Bentner if we had money on MON level ?

Mardybum72 wrote:

jvilla wrote:

Mardybum72 wrote:

jvilla wrote:Lerner to do Faulkner's job, no takeover close - according to telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/10955310/Aston-Villa-in-turmoil-as-Randy-Lerner-flies-in-to-assure-manager-Paul-Lambert-following-shock-departure.html

Article says nothing of the kind... ever thought of journalism?

Well it says he will be more 'hands on' with Faulkner gone, and it also says no takeover remotely close too...

Club statement puts robin Russell in role temporarily.
Telegraph article is nothing new in my opinion....predictable

yes they're making a big deal of Lerner /Faulkner friendship but Lerner has known Russell for 20 years !

So we won't even get a new CEO in? Wow

HarryAVFC wrote:So we won't even get a new CEO in? Wow

Course we will...TEMPORARY .... look it up!!!!

Is the meeting still going on at Villa Park?

Mardybum72 wrote:Is the meeting still going on at Villa Park?

have we got someone peeping through the window?

Villarocks666 wrote:

Mardybum72 wrote:Is the meeting still going on at Villa Park?

have we got someone peeping through the window?

who was the lad who called lerners restaurant a few weeks back? get him on the phone to vp!!

So was Faulkner pushed or did he jump? I'm still not clear on that. Hope he was pushed..

Take over not even remotely close, and Randy annoyed by lack of interest . Bentner coming in. Lambert still manager

Worrying

jvilla wrote:Sounds like someone at VP has fed that information to the telegraph. Mat Kendrick may be right, looks like Lambert will get more power akin to the MON days. Happy to hear more than 10 mil to be spent.

Hmmm yes and remember how that turned out, history has habit of repeating itself.

Green Villan wrote:

jvilla wrote:Sounds like someone at VP has fed that information to the telegraph. Mat Kendrick may be right, looks like Lambert will get more power akin to the MON days. Happy to hear more than 10 mil to be spent.

Hmmm yes and remember how that turned out, history has habit of repeating itself.

Maybe not ! they both shop in the bargain basement but Lamberts have potential & the resale value if they don't make it means minimal losses unlike the huge losses MON's saddled the club with

What potential and resale value, what like, Jordan Bowery?

Like I said people were reading too much into Lerner being here. No takeover is close and I can't see one happening before 2014 ends.

Just can't see Faulkner jumping, not a good way to end his beloved football job, plus his relationship with Randy. Randy must have pushed him.

I remember when journalism was about reporting the facts. This is a bunch of rehash and guesswork through browsing …. embarrassing for the telegraph (now with a small t).

James Nursey saying we can't even offer new deals To Vlaar and Delph now ( fuck Gabby) teams will be wanting Vlaar. What can we offer him?

jvilla wrote:

Mardybum72 wrote:

jvilla wrote:Lerner to do Faulkner's job, no takeover close - according to telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/aston-villa/10955310/Aston-Villa-in-turmoil-as-Randy-Lerner-flies-in-to-assure-manager-Paul-Lambert-following-shock-departure.html

Article says nothing of the kind... ever thought of journalism?

Well it says he will be more 'hands on' with Faulkner gone, and it also says no takeover remotely close too...

Must be true then.

HarryAVFC wrote:James Nursey saying we can't even offer new deals To Vlaar and Delph now ( fuck Gabby) teams will be wanting Vlaar. What can we offer him?

there are new contracts for Vlaar & Delph . And Lambert has stated the club will say no to offers for Vlaar !

Green Villan wrote:What potential and resale value, what like, Jordan Bowery?

apart from wages did we make a loss on Bowery ?

cgale wrote:

Green Villan wrote:What potential and resale value, what like, Jordan Bowery?

apart from wages did we make a loss on Bowery ?

yes, we brought him for 500k and sold him for 200k

villan4life wrote:

cgale wrote:

Green Villan wrote:What potential and resale value, what like, Jordan Bowery?

apart from wages did we make a loss on Bowery ?

yes, we brought him for 500k and sold him for 200k

depends on which version you read , and in any case it was peanuts to what we lost on the likes of Beye

Maybe a deal IS close - not signed off on, but close - and Lerner had shoe - horned Faulkner into a new role somewhere. Faulkner tells Lerner that he also wants to keep his FA role going which will require him to have some form of role at Villa. Lerner refuses with Faulkner telling him he owes him after looking after the Villa in his absence and a huge row ensues.

If Randy made promises to PF in that NY restaurant that he can't (or no longer wishes) to keep then PF would be rightly pissed off

The question now is, were the discussions about PF's next role something that would be effective almost immediately (takeover looming) or were those discussions looking at a position 3, 4, 5 months down the track when the club may be sold?

If it was that longer term option then why would PF throw his toys when he has a few months of work with both the Villa and the FA and maybe change Lerner's mind?

It says to me that we are weeks away from announcing a deal.