People are always looking for value for money, especially these days when people work very hard for their possessions; also, we don’t like to be ripped off when selling something. Just the other month I wanted to sell my guitar that was very expensive when I first bought it 5 or 6 years ago. This guitar of mine in the last few years has hardly been out of its hardback case, it’s in perfect condition! So when I put it up for sale on eBay, I had a price in mind due to the make and condition. I needn’t tell you some of the ridiculous offers that were made to me, so it hasn’t been sold.
Now, Aston Villa Football Club is reportedly up for sale at £145m, just think about that for a moment, £145m!!! Well I don’t know about you, but I think that’s way too cheap for a club the size of Aston Villa, we’re not a two bob club like West Bromwich Albion for crying out loud!!! But there was one person who came close to my asking price, but I still didn’t sell my guitar. I haven’t got a clue what Randy Lerner wants for Aston Villa, but if I was close to him and the reported sale price are correct in the press, I’d say don’t sell it, it’s worth a lot more than that!!!
Like Randy, I wanted to sell my guitar, I didn’t need the money and I’m pretty sure that Mr Lerner isn’t that destitute to wanting to give away one of his prized assets. If he still wants to sell Aston Villa, and more than likely he does, please don’t give us away Randy because I hate seeing people being robbed! My valuation of Aston Villa football club would be considerably more than that of Fulham’s reported £200m final sale. So unless someone doesn’t offer you something in the region of £300m to £350m, tell them to Naff Off Randy!!! UTV
I don’t really see your point. If Randy sells us off “cheap”, and 150 million still represents over double what he paid, the new incumbent has more to spend on the stadium and the quality of player in the team
Surely, that is a good thing ?
I agree with Glen,and like the guitar analogy – why give it away, it just devalues the club. Although £145 – £150 million represents a profit on what RL paid for AVFC, if its right that Fulham were sold for double what does that make us? A smaller, less valuable club than Fulham? Don’t forget that he has put in (according to various estimates) another £150 – £200 million of his own money. RL owns AVFC and he can sell AVFC for whatever sum of money he wants, but I cannot help thinking of that old adage – a fool know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
I also think RL deserves a lot of praise for how he has gone about his attempts to sell the club and the amount of money he is freeing up in this window. (still not sure about Sherwood and his choice of transfer targets though).
Er, Randy hasn’t really freed up any money in this window, up to now, has he?
But yes, I agree with the sentiment of the article.
If Fulham are worth £200 mill, we’re worth a lot more, the London thing aside.
whatever you think of randy he has left us in good shape with everything in place to build for the future
villa need stability for the next few years,,, and need to keep top half of table buying and selling until we can peak around top 6
My point is I don’t give a monkey’s what he sell it for
I’m more interested in who he sells to and what they intend to do with the club.
Getting hung up on the price not being high enough out of some sense of misplaced pride seems foolish
If someone was stupid enough to buy Fulham for 200 million; more fool them.
If somebody buys us on the Cheap, they possibly would not want to invest in AVFC and are only buying us cheaply because they want to strip it out, sell the lands it owns training ground the naming rights to Villa Park. But then some fans do not think at all, you can tell who those are from the replies. As RL has said he promised Deafly he was the custodian of the Villa not the owner, and it needs to be brought by another custodian. SO AVFC lives on. We fans need to also be custodians and make sure the club is there for the future fans
David, I don’t see your logic at all???
Surely someone who buys a club on the cheap is more likely to invest?
Which is exactly what Lerner did when he bought the club for a ridiculously cheap £67(?) mill (BCFC £82 mill iirc?).
Much more likely that an asset stripper/crook will pay a bit more to make his offer look better, imo.
As for promises, while I don’t think much of Lerner, I do think he has the interests of the club at heart, which is why I think any previous talks have fallen through.
We Finished lowest of any of the Midlands teams
We have had to sell our best players due to lack of ambition
Trying to rebuild our team on a limited budget
Gambling our premership survival on untested french players
I hope it come off
But Lerners Tenure has been a complete disater
There are million flowing into football and lerner has sqanderd it all, on Agents players along with paying up useless managers and ceo
£65M should be our price as we are in a far worse state then when he arrived
So, following David’s logic. Any prospective owner would need to pay more than Lerner wants in order to prove that he’s not a potential asset stripper ?
This of course would leave us, as well as having a reduced transfer budget, with an idiot in charge
In case you hadn’t noticed, there are not exactly a multitude of oil rich Arab sheiks lining up to purchase us
I just hope you are not allowed out to the shops on your own