Rumours are spreading fast that Randy Lerner will most likely sell Aston Villa at the end of the season and has already lined up two American investors. Lerner is looking to sell the club for a price of £200-£250million and rumours suggest that Aston Villa maybe sold to either a pair of Americans or a Russian Billionaire. Take over talks have been productive but ultimately, Aston Villa will only be bought if they successfully avoid relegation this season.
Aston Villa have been in decline ever since Martin O’Neill left the club in 2010 and since then Aston Villa have had financial issues linked with high player wages. Paul Lambert was brought in by Lerner to balance the books and since then Aston Villa have been buying cheap players for low wages in a hope that they will quickly adapt to the Premier League and make an impact.
In regards to the take over, it’s believed that these two potential American Investors hope to replicate Liverpool’s recent revival. Aston Villa may take up a new transfer policy of buying quality players but always younger than 25.
More information will surface about potential buyers and the take over itself. But the most important thing is for Aston Villa to avoid relegation, otherwise no one will be interested in buying our club.
wot a load of baloney
every time i hear this sort of stuff i can’t help to chuckle. times are shit and we need a glimmer of a dream, to keep us happy. i spoke with these buyers and they said they will spend like city have lmao DREAM on guys
its possible some mug wants buy villa and also possible lerner wants out, but its rare as rocking horse shit, some rich guy wants 2 blow his cash on a football club and want nothing back.
So if we are relegated he won’t sell?even though he’ll be losing loads of revenue.he’s either selling or he ain’t.
Giddy wake up mate, the new investors won’t buy if we are relegated, not that Lerner won’t sell.
If, any of this is true.
Mate maybe it came over wrong I’m looking at the if he’s selling or not?not these so called rusky or yanks is he selling up full stop?I think it’s the usual there’s light on the horizon bollox by the way I’m wide wake. 😉
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when theres nothing of interest 2 talk about. then these story about russian or american lifelong villa trillionaires, wanting to be our sugar daddies
lerner i think will want to take the sky money for a few years to come to recoup his money before he sells us for less than he paid and wasted in costs
I’d say there is more truth in this than you think.
Lerner is at risk of relegating us and being stuck with a white elephant, i’d say he’s looking to get rid now.
so i can’t celebrate or panic on iffs and maybes, commenting on this subject is sorry a waste of time, facts there are none speculations chinese whispers, i think every villa fans realizes lerner wants out. but he hasn’t become a billionaire by walking away from projects with huge losses. he will drive a good price for him or carry on taking the sky money while running us in the ground
Couldn’t care less what you can celebrate or panic on to be honest mate, am just stating an opinion and that is that i can see Lerner looking to get rid.
His 5 year plan didn’t work, he’s only going to have to pump a lot more cash in to even get us to mid-table, makes total sense that he wants to sell, plus if he’s selling at £250m say, which i doubt he’d get, he’d recover most of his losses if not all anyway.
By playing the ‘avoid relegation’ game he is risking losing everything.
my point is this topic is pointless like u
iffs,maybes, all speculations ~ lerner sells great, lerner doesn’t too bad. theres 5games coming up. way before anybody takes over anything, or you think somebody would buy a club, without knowing which leagues they are going to be in.
There are no pointless topics on a forum, that’s the point of a forum.
If you are going to insult me at least capitalise, and perhaps use the space bar.
It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that we could be sounded out as potential target for a takeover, of course a lot depends on what happens at the end of the season, that is a given.
iam not insulting anybody by expressing my views, which is until the final game has been played, nothing will be released to joe public. further more lerner would hope 2 recoup all or most of his outlaying. which puts villa a dear club outside london, figures would be close to 300 million if he got all his dough back.
if villa do get relegated, lerner wouldn’t a chance in hell, to get his dollars back, even if we stayed up, he would have to take a massive loss to sell us,
What’s your point?
my point IS theirs no point discussing, SOMETHING that may, may not HAPPEN.
av you heard the tree falling in the woods making a sound or not or maybe HOW long was the piece of string, i would rather comment on this
I read an article about taxation after divorce based on Lerner. I am no accountant but the gist was he needed to sell the Browns and Villa. Please do not ask me to elaborate
Please elaborate! Morgan, why is Guest being such a dick?
because some ppl don’t believe this tripe 🙂 drummed up by some spin doctors, trying to get everyone singing from the same hymn sheet. thats all this is. take everyone focus away from 4 defeats on a bounce, suspension of two coaches.
I agree Nath a smokescreen imo
Lol, i think he/she is playing devils advocate and amusing themselves at the same time
If its 200-250 mil with guaranteed Premier footballl what are they worth now. Now that’s what you call a punt.
I believe this as much as I did the rumour at the start of the week, that Lerner was going to spend all the sky money on transfers!! Deary me, slow news week!!
yeah its a slow news week,two senior members of staff are suspended undergoing an internal investigation, which we can only speculate on. well how about this if there is a takeover the two members could expect there p45s any day soon so why not leak the proposed takeover to try and derail the negotiations, these rumors have came from someone in the club for the national press to pick up on them
Lads.. Falcao or Diego Costa.. take your pick 😀
Pep from Bayern as manager too!
the rumors have been there all week, we have had two days of media frenzy the silence from the club is deafening, not sure what is going on, but something is is happening behind closed doors methinks.
I think you right takeover talk all over the media and Villa have not released statement to deny. Something is happening.
Why would they deny it. It suits them for fans to believe it whether true or not it deflects attention away from lamberk and the supporters will be more determined than ever to get behind the team to avoid relegation. People will also rush to buy season tickets as well. The club can then deny at a later date as they can say they were just media rumours.
if i was to buy a season ticket i think i would wait to see who bought it don’t you think, also if this is smoke and mirrors from the club then i don’t think fleet street would forgive very easily
The real deal god I hope so
couldn’t tom hanks take over, it could be like that film moneyPIT 😛
What do people think the team will be tom, first time this season. Will Tonev start?
if Robinson features then i think Lambert is only a figurehead until the end of the season
The part that makes me think this is horseshit is the threat that we have to stay up. If I was buying for a long term investment and the club went down, I’d simply deduct the money lost from tv revenue from the sale price, then aim to rebuild and get back up. It’s not as though we’ve loads of highly paid players anymore…
I think this is a ploy to shut fans up so Lerner can have another Premier league season on the cheap.
Spot on bum bum. Exactly what I think a smokescreen by the club to sell STs and get supporters behind the team instead of having a go at lamberk. Then they will just say rumours are bullshit but won’t care as people have committed to STs and Lerner has another season on the cheap.
You started believing it was a smokescreen as soon as the Daily Fail posted the article Lambert wants money (which was actually running months ago in other papers) and would believe anything bad about the club no matter how poor the source and how old it is.
It’s that old adage Andrew if something sounds too good to be true it usually is!
Right right, nothing good happens to Villa or Villa fans. We should start a “poor us” club.
I think it’s absolutely wrong to be honest. On a different note I have been very with Ian Robathan’s efforts to raise money for his daughter be a bike ride and other means. I have never been able to ride a bike properly and I also had a very unpleasant stressful learner driving experience last year with someone who was sexist and slagged me off for being unemployed, I also have an invisible neurological condition which is extremely difficult to raise money for
I think it’s safe to say we all have our own opinions on this. For me everywhere I’m reading is saying either this american duo will buy the club and give us some serious cash to splash.. or Lambert is gonna get extra cash this summer to buy targets he’s had “his eye on for a while” that cost “a bit more” than what we’ve got over the past few summers. So for me personally it’s a win win 😀 Either we get new billionaire owners or we’re gonna be paying more serious money than what we have of late 😀 now we just need to take our final games one at a time.
Why would Lerner release more funds when he dosnt need to. His sole aim is to stay up. So will spend 10-15m tops
do you know i think you would be really dissapointed if Lerner sells up
Would love him to sell as long as it’s to someone that has more ambition than just staying up. A lot of my mates are holding fire now on STs if we sell they will renew no matter who the buyer is they will get behind him.
I’ve heard the team will be:
Guzan
Bacuna Baker Vlaar Bertrand
Delph Westwood El Ahmadi
Albrighton Weimann
Agbonlahor
i doubt thats the team
i think he’ll go 4 this
guzan
lowton baker vlaar bertrand
delph westwood el ahmadi
bacuna
agbonlahor holt
My future is irrelevant, that is not an issue
Lambert said this yesterday and could be equally applicable to Lerner, Lambert defo off … think Lerner is, as when I said on here with the first news of debt/equity swap and many decried me …
even a busted watch is right twice daily
Jones academy director announces retirement , whether we are sold or not. This summer is going to see massive overall changes at Villa.
indeed that is true … you wonder if the timing of this is with some pre knowledge of events to come
Would make sense, as well as Jones has done with the academy, if we get new owners, it truly shows they might know what they’re doing in revamping the academy to match a new manager and the style they want.
Have seen rumours that the new owners are looking for a lower league club in Belgium and a club in the MLS, whether this is true i dont know
Like the Man City owners brought a club in Australia, need I tell you how much I hate that ?
You mean the fact City has conquered Australia’s youth market and any youth players who are going there? City won’t loan players to them because Australia’s a bit far and different and they can use European clubs, but they not only saved a club who were rock bottom and terrible and have made them so much better, but they get to use their academy to develop players, give fans something to cheer for.
Belgium is the best place to do it. They have a great young group of Belgians already, will continue to develop them, and they also have a few great young African/South American youth that could be developed in Europe.
MLS is a bit more interesting. The US youth teams are actually pretty good, not great, but good and if they can get 2-3 of them in a said academy, then can only be better.
But all rumours obviously.
yes all that. every true football fan should hate clubs being owned by the same person (see charlton) as it only makes the leagues more and more uncompetitive.
Udinese, Watford and Granada are all owned by the same owners. Last time I’ve read, Spanish fans like Granada and their unique set of players they bring in, Watford make the Championship more fun and Udinese are definitely a great team to watch.
“I read an article about taxation after divorce based on Lerner. I am no accountant but the gist was he needed to sell the Browns and Villa. Please do not ask me to elaborate”
Lerner apparently needed to sell one or the other.
He chose the Browns, which got him nigh on a billion dollars.
A nice fat profit, although I suspect his dad (who made the money in the first place and was the real brains behind the outfit, as Randy has achieved nothing himself) wouldn’t have liked it.
That’s what happens when you’re down to a paltry £3-400 million, I guess.
the other impact at the same time was the disaster slide in Bank of America shares on which the family fortune was based after selling MBNA.
at the same time the money then became cut …
you make your own call on it …
The article which i cannot post a link to because i cannot suss out the tablet i am working refers to high taxation due to estate tax in the US. Would this mean that the transfer of debt to the Lerner trust was to protect his family from paying massive tax bill on Villa should he die tomorrow. If he was to sell half of Villa the half he sold would be inhis name and not the Lerner trust. No accountant but i would say that was some clever juggling.
The article i read mentioned if he was to die and now that he is divorced. The value of the Browns and villa could leave his children with a massive tax bill. Even if he did not leave them any real money.
wasn’t the browns and villa owned by RLT which is a trust fund with his mother and sister who by all accounts were not impressed with the purchase of Aston villa
Yep and still the case, I think.
Randy probably has the calling shot, but has to listen to the family.
Who probably can’t be arsed with Randy’s flirtation with the Villa.
its all bull….there will be no take over,it is just to try and settle us down.