Well, I’m certainly not going to say “I told you so” and I’m not counting my chickens, but I’m highly encouraged by what I’m reading.
Which is that Villa, or more specifically Tony Xia, is in talks with a Middle eastern outfit.
The good news is that these are supposedly advanced talks, that have discussed various levels of investment, with a view to a total takeover, as a second stage.
I just knew there was something going on behind the scenes, as if the club is so desperate that we wouldn’t be able to pay a tax bill (due tomorrow, I believe), then Xia would have been selling players at any price.
Although the taxman will try to accomodate a company as best he can, he won’t accept many excuses.
But being in the middle of a sale is definitely one of them.
Of course, with Villa’s recent run of luck, there’s still plenty of scope for something to go wrong.
But as I’ve said previously, I still like to think that Xia does have the club’s interests at heart.
It’s all about honour with the Chinese, isn’t it? (no bad thing).
And yes, he’s looking after his own interests too, but he (or his backers) have put serious money in, at the end of the day.
So, it’s still a case of fingers crossed, but it seems a deal could be done quite quickly.
God, let’s hope this happens.
Which then leads to us asking who has invested?
Knowing our luck, it’ll probably be an Iranian outfit, which would just cap it all.
No, perish the thought.
My money’s on a Quatari outfit.
Fits with the next WC and all that.
And whew, they’re minted.
Here’s hoping.
UTV!
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41 responses to “Possible Middle East takeover? Interesting”
Finally can all the press and media print positivity about our club. They have all enjoyed their time in printing about our fall from grace. And as for Spuds and Levy tell them they can have McCormack and Richards instead, because Jack is not for sale! Unfortunately I think it will be Jack himself who wants the move so he will probably go to get premier league football. However we can be sure it’s not on the cheap anymore. As for Chester and Kodja though, definitely tell whoever comes knocking to do one.
Of course it’s brilliant news that the club is financially stable. Forgive me for being cautious – so many false dawns
Tell you what Hitch, so much for the papers saying Xia wouldn’t sell to the Yanks, got that wrong.but boy am I relieved. It’s all over the news now so can sit back and get behind our beloved club.
It’s nice to have some positivity. We can at least look forward to this season with some optimism. i wonder what the new owners will be thinking regarding the manager. I suspect they will stick with Bruce for the first half of the season at least.
If they do give B the boot, at least he knows what brand it will be.
There was talk above about asking the media to be more positive about us. Well, there are now a few reports about Thierry Henry being rumoured as our potential next manager. Ok, so it is more than likely just the usual empty speculation, but on the good side Henry is a legend and well respected in football and so I take it as a positive sign of our new upturn that he would be linked with the Villa by the media, even if in reality it is just paper talk.
Also, I wonder what odds I would get on adidas being our kit sponsor next season?