O'Neill walks out on Villa???

[Vermilion]

Not all of them.

Pray tell....are you happy ?

[Kenneth]

Apparently the same rumour went round yesterday.

[spud_gun]

Lerner wanted to trim the squad...what planet is he on. Showing his true colours now maybe...and his lack of ambition for the club.

Villa fans will be devasted. hehe. sorry.

I read something a while back about Lerners true investment in Villa and it amounts to $0 of his own money.

[Vermilion]

Apparently the same rumour went round yesterday.

Maybe, but it's now made it onto Est's boards, so must be some truth/credibility in it..

[dww]

Lerner wanted to trim the squad...what planet is he on. Showing his true colours now maybe...and his lack of ambition for the club.

Villa fans will be devasted. hehe. sorry.

Yep. I mean...this of course could be complete bull but for a while Lerner has looked a bit of a dream owner thus far. Perhaps it was too good to be true.

He said last season he wanted to reduce the level of investment in players. There were rumours that O'Neill was unhappy then. It was clear almost from day one that he wasn't the sort of dream owner that some people seem to believe that we need/deserve.

To be honest I think nearly every chairman must be thinking about doing that - I would expect Chelsea, Arsenal, United and City are the only ones not under considerable pressure to balance the books with transfer dealings. In a lot of ways in the current financial climate anything else is probably a mistake for any well run club.

[Vermilion]

I read something a while back about Lerners true investment in Villa and it amounts to $0 of his own money.

What about debt on the club...any ?

[MrsB]

Pray tell....are you happy ?

Nah, I don't care. I'm not MON's biggest fan, but it's not important to me who's Villa's manager.

[PTP]

hmm - didn't talksport do something similar with rafa - turned out to be just a big attention seeking pr excercise?

that said - listening to it last night collymore to be fair to him was goin nuts at villa fans calling for o'neils head

[MrsB]

I think it's bull**** btw.

[red g]

oh the irony.

How many pundits and commentators have applauded the job lerner is doing there.....how a yank should run a club

[Vermilion]

He said last season he wanted to reduce the level of investment in players. There were rumours that O'Neill was unhappy then. It was clear almost from day one that he wasn't the sort of dream owner that some people seem to believe that we need/deserve.

To be honest I think nearly every chairman must be thinking about doing that - I would expect Chelsea, Arsenal, United and City are the only ones not under considerable pressure to balance the books with transfer dealings. In a lot of ways in the current financial climate anything else is probably a mistake for any well run club.

I realise this, i doubt anyone thought he'd spend stupidly...he never made any promises of signing 'willy nilly' if the manager wanted him.(snoogy doogy still available though) so i didn't think he was a dream owner.

But the talk was that he was a good owner, which is why if this is true about MON, i don't understand what would make him walk out over it, are Lerners proposals that radical to make mon do this.

[Chazza]

hmm - didn't talksport do something similar with rafa - turned out to be just a big attention seeking pr excercise?

that said - listening to it last night collymore to be fair to him was goin nuts at villa fans calling for o'neils head

Mick Quinn's 'Sources' have twice said that Rafa was going to walk

Villa have come out and denied the rumours, shortest non story ever!

What sort of idiot starts these threads

[spud_gun]

What about debt on the club...any ?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/david-conn-inside-sport-blog/2010/jan/27/aston-villa-randy-lerner

Think that's the article.

Lerner's other companies have loaned Villa lots and lots of money.

[BillobShaisley]

Learner has done well there, Villa have spent some decent money and probably wages too. If he's been subsidising the club for 2-3 years then an adjustment isn't so outrageous.

Could all be more blustering to help keep prices down in the summer and avoid the Chelsea/Man City syndrome of having to pay over the odds.

[PTP]

The truth be told, he's spent a ****e load of money on crap for a club there size

Or it could be anothet elborate scheme by talkCrap for you to use one of there betting sponsors

that was it! - yeah paddy power leaked some info on rafa, loads of people went and put money down and betting was suspended - just totally random.