Now I don’t know for a fact that this is true, but a couple of readers are saying that the headline is something Graham Taylor has said on BBC WM.
Or at least he says “all his sources” are telling him so.
I know I’ve said previously that I don’t believe anything I’ve heard or read regarding any takeover, but Graham Taylor is probably the only person I would believe in this sort of situation.
I’ve never even met the bloke, but I personally know a couple of people who live close to him and actually converse with him occasionally.
They both say he’s a thoroughly decent bloke who has the Villa in his heart.
So why would he come out with this, if he isn’t totally convinced?
If what he’s supposedly said is true, that’s good enough for me and I look forward to the announcement of our new owner(s) shortly.
If it’s not true, well, don’t shoot the messenger, eh?
EDIT:
Actual words, according to the Evening Mail are;
Taylor said: “The feeling is that the club will be up for sale, it is only tittle tattle but I had heard that the club had been sold on the basis that it had retained a Premier League place, if it didn’t, it wasn’t sold.
“We all hear stories but I heard that from what I would call a good source and I think that just fits in with a lot.
“Randy Lerner has spent a lot of money on the club, when you are not coming to watch the games it gives the wrong impression to the supporters.”
Hmm, hardly what I posted originally.
Apologies for that, but I’m sure that if there’s anything happening you’d want to hear it ASAP, from whatever source.
Perhaps I shouldn’t be so hasty?
Comments on that would be appreciated.
Comments
74 responses to “Graham Taylor; The sale is a “done deal””
Graham Taylor knows no more than anyone else. FFS I am fed up of the likes of him and Collymore trying to bandwagon jump this.
Howard Hodgson and I were convinced as I posted here then that when I saw what happened in terms of the shares we were up for sale.
I am not surprised at all at what has happened and GT holds no more truth than anyone else.
PS. send me the URL to post something, I have lost it !!
Course we have been sold … Lambert is gone, Box renewals are on hold, and the debt cancellation all shows it. I am more shocked at why so many people refused to believe it and it all depended on safety.
I’ve mailed the addy Ian.
You really should be more careful 🙂
Agreed GT knows no more than anyone else, but he’s more reliable than 99.9%, including SVC, I’d suggest!
Well that is true for sure !! I think he has said 5 different things in this week !
I would like to see GT back at Villa in some capacity.
But who’s buying?
Me and Badger are buying the club Tom. Wev saved up a couple of hundred pounds each as we think that will get better quality players than we have now. First thing we will do is sack lamberk and after much scouting around and a meeting late last night me and Badger have decided to get Langord in with helenius as his assistant manager. Ian Robbo will be our new DOF. We know that fans will be over the moon with this appointment and we look forward to a new dawn with Aston Villa who will once again challange for top honours. This is all hush hush for now but we will do a formal announcement when spurs have scored their 8th goal past us at 3.30 tomorrow!!
Thats great news oohah…it means that Lambert will be staying after all! 🙂
No your the manager Langford. Me and Badger can only afford to pay you £100k a week though. Hope that’s ok. If you get champions league it will be £200k next season 🙂
I will do it for nowt….can I have a security guard for my office fridge in case Faulkner eats all my pies?
We’ll be fine…go again…can I have giddy as my head barman?
Fuck off Langford, the Villa is OURS
Lol we will be singing that next season fuck off Langford the villa is ours!! Lol
That all sounded good until you mentioned the 8th goal.
Have a little faith, Oohah 😉
Lol ok we will announce it after their second at 3.20 🙂
That, nobody knows, Tom.
well two people do, Randy and the buyer !
Looks like those boys from TBAR were right all along
in what way ?? they claimed some texans who then denied it, They said a sale is close, well look at this blog and that was said back in December. Do I get ITK acclaim, jeez ….
Does ITK stand for Ian’s Total Knowledge 🙂
No. Ian’s Tiny Knob!
lol
What you posted was common knowledge with no substance whereas they actually put meat on the flesh!
When a takeover is imminent don’t share prices take a dip?? Or is it the piss doing things to my thought pattern?????
There is no share price re the Villa as it’s a private company mate.
I’ve added an edit to the original article, as it seems the words are somewhat out of context.
I’d appreciate people’s thoughts on if we should go gung ho in trying to get the news to you all ASAP, even though it may be incorrect, or hold back to post facts only.
Cheers.
Post everything. It’s more fun than the last four years football!
agreed, post it as you hear it, just provide the source and the context and its fine. its only when people state this is definite, and its a known fact etc .. .that it opens the post up to ridicule,
Bloody hell what a mare, anyone else been getting the domain expired error today.
Looks like I had an old link on my favorites to ‘astonvilla-views.com’ which was linking me to here, seems now you have to put ‘https://www.astonvillanewsandviews.co.uk/’
If regualrs have been missing today there pobably having the same issue
Mate my only issue today is it’s taking ages to load, very slow indeed.
ah yes, Badger I did forward the renewal notice to you for that but it expired today will need to renew or forget …
Cheers Ian
I posted you a new one this is the link https://www.astonvillanewsandviews.co.uk
If you type Aston villa news and views into google it will come up anyway.
nice one oohah, yeh, I just went directly through google in the end and it worked, I was using a link from my favorites which is the domain that has expired;
If it’s useful any the dud link also says it needs to renewed soon or it will gone for good.
Thanks mate no worries il look into it. Cheers
I think he too is basing his opinion on various rumours badger, so nowt new there imo mate.
Seems like Graham is trying to get himself in the papers. Anyone of us could put together all the recent articles, say we know a reliable source and say a deal has been done. I refuse to believe any of these rumours till I see it.
In saying that, somehting is definitely going on behind the scenes. Why would Lerner, our normally out of sight and media shy owner say anything int he first place!
Has anyone else seen the rumours that a US radio station has said that Larry Ellison will become the new Villa owner?
Don’t shoot the messenger, just passing on what I’ve read!!!
most have just said some attention seeking twat ….
So the new owner is Katy Price then!!!!!!?
ha ha that is great !! we need a like button mods !!
Peter Andre, mate!
Sorry guys but I’ve heard we’re getting another American attention seeker. The greatest living rapper and poet I believe. Kanye West. He’s going to make a point if stopping games in the 50th minute to tell us how great fans we are but beyonce is just better.
Fuck it had enough I’m buying the club to shut up crap info, some twat will say Katy Price bought our club, give it a rest lads wait till tomorrow and see how many had it wrong.
Bill, cool yr jets, put yr feet up and watch a bit of Eurovision to take yr mind off things!
Erm…has everything gone mental? Reports from the usa saying we’ve got a massive bid in for Fabregas and have met with his agent already. And that the Ellison deal is 100% done…all over the us media if you know where to look…!!!!!! Fuck me!!!!
Bum bum . Where is the link ? Nothing but twitter speculation.
Usa version of newsnow…hang on…
http://inagist.com
Fabregas stuff was tosh by the sound of it. Lots of Elluson stuff though…Is it april 1st or 25th December tomorrow???
The link just goes to someone called dermott speculating on twitter.
There were lots of other links mike, but now I’ve lost the ruddy page…
Just heard Trevor Francis and Alex Mcleish have formed a consortium to buy the club done deal. Consortium consists of real pedigree too, Lee Clark, Paul Faulkner, Kenny Burns David o Leary and Jasper Carrott. As a show of intent they are making a world class signing by getting Kevin Phillips to come out of retirement for one season by paying him £100k per week. Also world class players already at Villa Park have secured long term contracts, Tonev, Lowton, Baker, Bennet and Sylla have all agreed long term deals. I’m really excited everyone at last we can be proud of our club!!!
Any chance Paul McGrath might be playing Oohah, buy the way, don’t I get a job at Villa Park I did use to run the place in the 70-80s even won the European cup.
Of course bill you can be our kit man 🙂 £59k a week ok?
Kit man ? Shit that’s too menial for me, I want to put the players through their paces, got to be tough job, two hours sleep the rest training, I’d have them fit as fuck mate’ 100k week.
Trainer it is bill. Lol
Bum bum even that Eurovision is fix ,another load of crap, talking to Elvis Presley he’s thought of buying the club, I will believe it when it comes should it happen , for all we know a change in direction might be on the cards, wouldn’t we look fools if Lerner still owns Villa. Only hours to go and it will be all over.
From what I’ve read.
Aston Villa has been sold for £220 million.
Premier league and FA have already rubber stamped deal.
Lambert has lost his job after tomorrow.
There are three candidates for managers job. Managers in running for job is Moyes, Klinnsman and Villas Boas.
£80 million will be spent on players.
North Stand development will be undertaken within the next two years.
Larry Ellison is the new man with the majority interest.
Rumours are so much fun.
Although Villas Boas is now at Zenit… So it’s unlikely.
And isn’t AVB doing exceptionally well there too???
Haven’t lost since he’s been there. Won every game bar their last one which they drew. He’s really a great manager for the most part, if he gets what he wants. Would be perfect without a DoF kinda guy. Chelsea went for whoever they want as per usual and Baldini really screwed up their transfers. At least he finally got his Hulk.
£80m would get us midtable pointless
Not really. 80m under the right manager could give us a shot at the likes of Everton and Tottenham.
JUST POSTED REVIEW OF TODAYS GAME
Its bullshit, Ellison was meant to be at Villa Park last week…he wasn’t, he was in the US fighting his court case….unless he came over in economy, in fancy dress..People like ellison can’t just slip in and out of the UK/Villa Park…. Lerner and Lamberk will still be here next season, Lerner hasn’t even told his Manager what he is up to…thats because he is so egotistical he doesn’t give a shit !
I can’t believe that Lamberk doesn’t know what’s going on with Lerner. He must have told him. The sad truth is nothing’s going on probably. Another year of lamberk’s race to 38 points and pranging that there are three worse teams.
*praying*
Cud be tight but if so fans won’t bother going next year. I couldn’t stomach another season of these two in charge
Weird. Just posted a comment that hasn’t come up so will try to repeat it. Sorry if it comes up twice.
Taylor’s comment adds nothing new. We will find out soon enough what is happening.
I just want to voice a comment about Lerner. Personally, I think he is a decent man who doesn’t deserve the level of abuse he has had on this site. He has made mistakes and can certainly be criticised for them. The reality though is that he is probably simply incapable of giving fans the success that they crave.
There have been plenty of comments about how failure to deliver success at the Cleveland Browns meant the same was inevitable here. Failed business man, dads money etc. Take a look at the recent article on MOMS site about the chaos at the Browns since the new owner came in. A new owner is just as likely to bring that as they are success. The problem with filthy rich people is that they are used to getting their own way, and they are often crooked.
I still have no idea whether we have been sold. Unlike the general mood on here it doesn’t excite me. Whilst I am as depressed as the next fan about our current plight I am pretty scared at the possible outcome. Change isn’t always good. Lots of us thought anyone must be better than McLeish. The same is true over Lerner. Only time will tell if it is for the better (if it happens). Fingers and everything else crossed!
DS, I’m quite sure anyone who reads sites like this takes individual comments with a pinch of salt, however would get the general gist that all is far from well. The footballing authorities should be more diligent in their checks, but ain’t because money talks, no matter where it came from. It is a bit worrying to see someone like Spuds who already had a decent squad, spend over £100m in one summer, to end up sixth!!!!…or maybe even seventh if the results go against them today.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/newcastle-transfer-news-aston-villa-3525371 We really don’t need to be selling these two.
What a load if rubbish it says weimann has had a good season too. Total bollocks
It also says they’d buy them for 15m together, and Weimann’s rated around 9m… That means they think Villa rate Delph at a grand total of 6m. 1. Lerner might be one thing, but if he stays, he’d be asking 15m for Delph… Alone. 2. They’d go for a bigger club than Newcastle if either left. Especially as both claimed they’re incredibly grateful to the club, especially Weimann as of late.
delph cost about 7m years ago hes got to be worth double that at least.
Exactly. 1. He’s English and we clearly sell our best English players for high prices. 2. He’s been our best player, and we sell our best players for high prices. 3. Again, it’s Lerner. Despite everything that’s said, when he sells our best players, he gets ridiculous fees for them and again, Newcastle aren’t a step up in any sense. Weimann I can only see going abroad if sold, or to Liverpool/Tottenham, but I don’t see it, and Delph would make a bigger step up if sold. They’d probably cost what… 25, 30m together knowing Lerner?
True but if new owner dosnt deliver most fans will vote with their feet