sharkyvilla Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 25 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: Leicester found Mahrez for under a mil yet we spent 20m on gana and veretout. Sackable offence alone for that Leicester also spent £9m on Kramaric, it's silly comparing everything to the Mahrez deal. I don't think it was £20m for those two and I don't think they have been disasters either. Plus don't forget we could only sign players because we found Benteke in the first place and could sell him at 3 or 4 times what we paid, to which Reilly deserves some credit. Even the likes of Ayew and Amavi this summer we could probably make a profit if we sold them. Like I say, I don't think Reilly himself has done that badly, it's a whole mixture of things wrong culturally at the club that has led to our downfall which won't change until we are sold. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Hasn't done much in his time here. Few things he has done he has got wrong. Seems like a complete bullshiter - hope he goes shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Field Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 (edited) 10 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said: Leicester also spent £9m on Kramaric, it's silly comparing everything to the Mahrez deal. I don't think it was £20m for those two and I don't think they have been disasters either. Plus don't forget we could only sign players because we found Benteke in the first place and could sell him at 3 or 4 times what we paid, to which Reilly deserves some credit. Even the likes of Ayew and Amavi this summer we could probably make a profit if we sold them. Like I say, I don't think Reilly himself has done that badly, it's a whole mixture of things wrong culturally at the club that has led to our downfall which won't change until we are sold. I agree, Mahrez is a one in a million. But was is not Reilly that was at Liverpool too ? where he wasted tons and tons of money and then got fired ? he has a terrible track record, whenyou buy as many players as he has, one or two have to turn out good (Benteke is his good one), it's just impossible that all of them turn out badly. I do also feel that the money has been totally wasted this summer. One of the worst transfer window any premier league club has ever had. Edited March 3, 2016 by Chicken Field Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KHV Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 29 minutes ago, sharkyvilla said: I don't think it was £20m for those two and I don't think they have been disasters either. It actually isn't far off £20m that we paid for Veretout and Gueye, and they are crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwj Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 I actually think we should go for Gerald Houllier as chief executive Lol. Do you have any idea what a CEO of a company actually does? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 You do know Tom Fox isn't Australian, right? Um, yes. You also know that "Limey" is a term commonly used by Americans to refer to English people, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
briny_ear Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 I actually think we should go for Gerald Houllier as chief executive If Houllier came anywhere near our club again, that really would be the end of my lifelong allegiance to Villa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Is Gerard Houllier CEO material? I think we need to be careful what we wish for, what if Tom Fox is the only person standing between Randy Lerner and selling off the family jewels? These are very worrying times. I will NOT be pacified by a change of CEO. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwj Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Leicester found Mahrez for under a mil yet we spent 20m on gana and veretout. Sackable offence alone for that Yes every transfer should be an Premier League player of the year for £1m from some European second division. Clown We will make a profit on both veretout and gana it will just take a few years. That's how it works when you buy potential not end product. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-Reacho Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 14 minutes ago, KHV said: It actually isn't far off £20m that we paid for Veretout and Gueye, and they are crap. It's more the context in which they were signed that was the problem IMHO. To immediately become the heart of our team they were totally inappropriate signings. If they'd gone to the likes of Everton, Liverpool or even Spurs and developed alongside top premier league midfielders they would both develop into top class midfielders themselves IMHO. Likewise if we'd bought Delle Alli last summer he'd now be every bit as crap as the rest of our team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted March 3, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted March 3, 2016 19 minutes ago, briny_ear said: If Houllier came anywhere near our club again, that really would be the end of my lifelong allegiance to Villa. As it looks likely we won't be playing Liverpool next season, I doubt Houllier would want to join us anyway knowing in advance he wouldn't be able to do his lap of honour around Anfield. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RimmyJimmer Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 4 hours ago, El-Reacho said: Pretty sure Lambert offered his resignation to Randy the summer before (after his second season), which would've been before Fox had joined the club. Yes he did...but lambert had still offered his resignation whether fox was there or not. He still gave a new contract to a manager who was obviously unhappy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 1 hour ago, mwj said: Lol. Do you have any idea what a CEO of a company actually does? In Fox's case he helps relegate famous football clubs. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romavillan Posted March 3, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted March 3, 2016 1 hour ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: Is Gerard Houllier CEO material? I think we need to be careful what we wish for, what if Tom Fox is the only person standing between Randy Lerner and selling off the family jewels? These are very worrying times. I will NOT be pacified by a change of CEO. CEO no way! Director of Football yes please, well maybe yes please when he got better after the end of that first season. We wouldn't be in the shit we are now. Possibly a bit old now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 whilst Reilly and almstadt can leave for being totally inept at what they do, fox is just another of lerners perfect fools imo, he's made a complete balls up of it true but he should never have been given the green light to do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAL Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 reason this season is so bad is A we didnt spend enough cash sherwood didnt have a clue and was pissed off he didnt get the players we wanted pretty much the entire blame for the situation we are in lands at lerners feet most the players we have brought arent actually that bad the only truely bad one is gestude and thats only because we dont have wingers :I if fox or anyone gets fired its to try and keep the blame from lerner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 On 2 March 2016 at 23:26, HanoiVillan said: It's alright though, Hollis has already carefully established that the secret to better player recruitment is spending less money, so we've got that to look forward to. In our case, it might be true.....because with money, we have royally ****** up. 50 million on junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 (edited) On 3 March 2016 at 18:43, HAL said: reason this season is so bad is A we didnt spend enough cash sherwood didnt have a clue and was pissed off he didnt get the players we wanted pretty much the entire blame for the situation we are in lands at lerners feet most the players we have brought arent actually that bad the only truely bad one is gestude and thats only because we dont have wingers :I if fox or anyone gets fired its to try and keep the blame from lerner So we didn't spend enough cash?.....can you tell me what you think we should have spent? Blues could be coming up.....and we are going down. do you think they are awash with money? this money thing needs to be properly explained....otherwise it just seems to be a bandwagon styled statement. Edited March 4, 2016 by TRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 On 3 March 2016 at 15:59, KHV said: It actually isn't far off £20m that we paid for Veretout and Gueye, and they are crap. And who is going to keep funding that? no one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAL Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 decent striker was needed new goal keeper and since we brought rudy for some reason two wingers it tbh I can see why they didnt want to spend more in the summer but not spending any in the winter was shocking so many points loss due to not having someone to convert the few chances we get Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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