I would be interested to know what Aston Villa fans are thinking after hearing the announcement last night that the club has been sold for 60 plus million,to chinese investors? obviously they are a far bigger club than we are , with a richer past of success , but surely every clubs available for a price, so Mr Duchatelet why are you blindly sticking to your guns, do the right thing and sell up please , and make a lot of people in south East London , and around the globe a lot happier.
If Aston Villa can be sold , surely so can we, the potential at this club with the fanbase behind is huge.
http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11677/10287003/aston-villa-sold-to-chinese-company-owned-by-dr-tony-xia 
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Roland did qualify that by saying that yes he was foreign too but he doesn't count as he's Belguim.
And Katy talks about Racism in football.
Learner realised he's better off out of it and needed to cut his loses and sell for the sake of the club.
Roland has no interest in Charlton, just proving his mad experiment right.
And as he doesn't do failure he won't admit that his best option would be to sell now and limit his losses.
So he'll carry on with an underfunded squad and a new manager who will be undermined by Roland and his incompetent CEO.
He will fail again, Katrien will tell us "we underestimated League one but we've learnt from our mistakes" and then and only then will he think of selling.
Too late and the damage done will take 5 to 10 years to repair but he will sell eventually.
We're now TWO divisions from the pot of gold. We'd be far more attractive to potential buyers as a Championship club
Going forward though, for a club that size, and with parachute money, they really ought to be able to bounce straight back IF they buy the right players.
As someone who grew up in Coventry they will always be the Vile to me.
£60m if there is no debt to pay off does look like a bargain. You may have to spunk £200m for a couple of years but then if that works and you are back in the premiership Villa can be a good side.
I HOPE relegation has given them the kick up the arse their obvious ignorance and inexperience deserves, for the good of our club I hope I'm right.
Magnate- it's when!
But Roly is an alien sent from space solely to piss off Charlton fans.
Congratulations!
I think it's worth noting that ever since Martin O'Neill was at the club, they've struggled to balance their budget. O'Neill signed players on high wages and/or for decent transfer fees, and then discarded them. McLeish and Lambert also made very underwhelming signings, but there was a lengthy struggle to get some of O'Neill's players off the wage bill. For me, it's a cautionary tale against the traditional British manager role in football. It's clear that the Villa execs at the time didn't really understand what all was going on, and when O'Neill left, most of the footballing knowledge in the business left with him. Lerner did try to restructure things earlier this season, but by then it was re-arranging deck chairs on the titanic.
As for the price difference, I imagine Villa have some huge debts. They were apparently losing around 1m pounds a week at times this year. Remember the flat sale price quoted in the media is rarely the full encapsulation of costs.
Asked what he would he would say to Villa fans perturbed at being ten points adrift at the bottom of the league, he actually said:
"I would urge them to look at the whole picture, the fact that our merchandise sales are up YOY, and that due to a staff restructure our operating costs have been reduced significantly - we are a much leaner organisation, than 12 month's ago."
This made me both laugh out loud and cringe, as I can well imagine a couple of beered up Brummie's in the Holt End tearing into the team, only to be pulled up by some nearby fans, who urge them to quell their tempers, and point out to them that operating costs are down at the club, and sales of Villa car stickers are at an all time high.
The comment above is exactly the sort of bullshine that Katrien would come out with - in fact at the conference the other day didn't she say something like 'but we have the most affordable season tickets and we do community work'. Apart from the inaccuracies in that statement, it just shows that they really don't understand that all of that stuff is secondary to ambition and success on the pitch. It's why we're all there at the end of the day, why any of this exists.