Aston Villa Rumours Archive April 30 2012

30 apr 2012 18:57:21
dublin villa fan.thanx for everything stan,my prayers are with you and yours,i hope all goes well,u always played ur heart out foe villa get well soon m8

30 Apr 2012 07:50:52
Randy Lerner will pay Roberto Martinez, £4.5m per season to be Aston Villa's new manager.

Martinez has also been given the heads up to lure Victor Moses & Mohammed Diame to Villa Park with him.
Funds will be made available (around £30-40m) to rebuild the Villa squad.

With the new style of play,increased stadium capacity & the outlook looking bleak for the Emile Heskey's & Alan Hutton's.
Villa will be looking to re-claim a spot in the top 10.

£4.5 million a year would make him one of the top paid managers in the world, McLeish is rumoured to be on about £2 million a year i can't see them paying the next manager over double!

Norwich fan here, If you do get Martinez it can only be good for the Villa I wish you luck, But you might have a fight on your hands with getting Mosess, are you expecting a new lot fans to warrent seat increase, I have always thought with your position geographically I mean, with all those clubs close to you is it not something of a risk, Where as in our case we only have them at Poorman road, being 40 mile away. so no contest, Not blowing Trumpets but we have yet again sold out of season tickets 22000, and only have 27000 seats and we are planning to expand, hope we can both enjoy a few years of friendly banter,

Feel free to join in the Party on the 13th all pubs around the city welcome all fans, the Riverside complex in seconds away from the ground it is full of restaraunts, pubs burger bars. If you haven't been to Carrow road before you will find us a friendy bunch, as long as you are not an Ips**t fan The Party starts in Wetherspoons.

I must disagree with the Villa fan who thinks that we will pay off McCleish to pay Martinez twice as much and then spend 40m on new players in order to finish 10th! This is real pie in the sky. We have gone through cut backs for a reason, its pointless to make losses in order to achieve nothing. In reference to the Norwich fan we will not be expanding our stadium until we reach certain heights. There are, however, two million people living within just 10 miles or so of Villa park whereas Norwich is quite a small city in a lowly populated county. Norwich are really well supported by their community and always have been (league 1 attendances of around 20k is great). You may well see growing crowds for a while but expectations change and people will be less happy watching Norwich struggle in the Premiership as the years go on.

Realistic views, Villa may sack McCliesh. Will not spend any more than 15m net in the summer which will still be under a period of wage control. Norwich will expand their stadium if they stay up but may find a building project costly when it adds 10 000 empty seats if they (and they really may) get relegated in the next 4 years.

PS - enjoy your party Norwich and lets hope travelling Villa fans can enjoy a drink with you