22 Jun 2015 21:03:18
lads just a qwick 1 i was out with Steve staunton last night great night really top guy he's heard there's defo a takeover going to happen an benteke defo won't be here man utd the likely people.
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22 Jun 2015 21:47:22
Read chelski are also interested in tekkers, agent said he wants cl or europa no one wants to pay the 32 mill buy out clause so he might aswell stay n be in europa with the villa!!!
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22 Jun 2015 18:37:49
New links today. Jordan Rhodes, Andrew Robertson, Michael Dawson and Glenn Johnson.
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22 Jun 2015 19:38:04
I hope we do get a billionaire but we shouldn't get our hopes up
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23 Jun 2015 09:11:34
AVFCAgent you called the Borini and Walker rumour 2 days before anyone else, so credit for that.
crokey 1991 I posted the new owners were Howard Hodgson and Ian Taylor backed by China Equity Group (worth 7 billion) ten days ago!
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23 Jun 2015 09:22:29
Just to add the takeover should be completed early July. The only thing I'm not sure of is if the Chinese group are going to be hands on or just sit back as silent investors as I'm not privy to that info.
The rumour I've heard is that when they were approached 6 months ago it was to be only as investors but they've since changed and decided it's more beneficial to grow Aston Villa as a brand in Asia.
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23 Jun 2015 21:16:30
growing Aston Villa as a brand in Asia will take serious money and I'm not sure he current FFP rules will allow that. But that doesn't mean we can't spread the spending over a few seasons rather than in one or two transfer windows. problem is where would we be able to try and maximise the name of the club? China? Premier League Football isn't widely followed so can't see that being much use for us. Liverpool and the usual suspects have got the Hing Kong-Singapore market sewn up, and given that knock off shirts are ten a penny, and good quality, in South-East Asia it begs the question whether 1) This is true and 2) Whether trying to grow us as a brand is going to take more time and money than these (Chinese) owners would possibly care to spend on us.
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22 Jun 2015 17:56:10
We should not talk about this takeover until it happens stop with all the rumours cause no 1 actually knows who it is
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{Ed007's Note - You want people to stop talking about rumours on a rumours site?}
22 Jun 2015 18:35:25
Can we stop all this 'Villa' chat too please?
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22 Jun 2015 19:36:23
I'm not sayin don't talk about it but we don't even kno if it's a Chinese group or anytink it could all jus be paper talk with people sayin we gna have dis no ey and gna get dis player I think we will b in the same position nxt season
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22 Jun 2015 21:14:18
But you just did ?
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22 Jun 2015 23:06:53
What a strange statement
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