There hasn’t been enough interest to buy Aston Villa over the past few weeks and it’s reported by the Mirror and the Birmingham Mail that Randy Lerner has slashed his asking price by £50 million. That means that Lerner is now looking to sell the club at roughly £150 million. Lerner has also decided to widen the scope of his sale and it’s believed he will also be looking at interest from the Middle East.
The reduction of price may appeal to many potential owners, especially in the Middle East. Paul Lambert will unlikely be given any money to spend in the summer by Lerner. It’s in the clubs best interest to sell the club as soon as possible.
The price reduction means that Aston Villa can be sold for £150 million. That’s cheap, especially for a sports team. Recently a NBA team was sold for roughly $2 billion. While a Formula 1 is believed to be on sale for roughly $350 million. Aston Villa have a good fan base, and are located in the second biggest city in England. I’m a little surprised and upset that there hasn’t been much interest in the club. If the club doesn’t get sold during the summer, Lambert may have to work with the squad he currently has.
Remember Laursen had his best years of his career late on at Villa.Senderos could do to utv
I’m hearing we have been sold to Khaled al Baltan
Don’t know whether true or not
Who’s he???
Who!!!
That was rumoured on VT yesterday just another rumour
Apparantly rumour is that keane is the Irish connection to Tata motors or something like that
I guess a lot of Saudi-based people on twitter are claiming he’ll be our new owner soon. Worth 3 billion, spent over 500 million in 8 years.
Queue people claiming that’s not enough, and expected someone filthy rich just to randomly come in and start splashing millions upon millions… Because that was really gonna happen under any new owner.
your right its not enough
I get the feeling that if we signed Ronaldo some would be still moaning that we should have signed Messi instead !
True but if we signed Messi I’d be saying we should have signed Ronaldo!
He’s played for arsenal and Valencia and will make a decent squad player no more.
I’m not defeatist just realistic given the current situation. Beggars can’t be choosers and due to the mismanagement of our club the past three years we are definitely beggars. What would really worry me is that if the team had a real purple patch start of the season and all seemed rosie down villa park would Lerner have second thoughts about selling like what Ashley done at Newcastle. In saying that I do believe we will be sold but not before summer. If I was to buy villa from Lerner I would wait till transfer window was closed. It would then buy a few months to settle in new regime before evaluating squad and management.
I think we can safely rule out any purple patches with this manager and squad. It’ll be the same old 1 flukey win every 2 months surrounded by weeks of utter shit and we go again comments.I’ll be giving it a miss from day one