Villa NOT Up For Sale

if he is getting £900 million odd for the browns, there would beno real harm in chuking us £30-40 would there? please!

Surely he could part with a little sum of that money to bring us in a marquee signing, so we'd have more chance of doing better in general and, uh, make him more money?

I agree with Stephen Jay, Randy should invest in Villa if he really does care and want the best for this club really, Lambert needs more financial support than he has got already if he is to really be a success here IMO and a couple of big name signings would go a long way in helping achieve this, Randy has chosen a manager that has galvanised this club together agin and caught the imagination but Lambert is only human and needs backing, although its up to Randy what he spends i just hope he realises fans will not turn on Lambert if things go wrong again if money has not been made available for him or not very much, but lets wait and see and hope we get a big name or two to add some much neede quality UTV!

Why is it such a crime that people make money? Depending on it being an investment or an outright sale of the Browns randy stands to make anwhere between 600m and 950m UDS whi9ch means that no one can then accuse him of trying to strip the Villa to recoup losses, why would he need to when his father's investment has just about doubled. In addition it will hopefully mean that Randy is able to dedicate more of his time to Villa, in particular to show his support at matches, which in reallity is what is important as he has well qualified people to handle the business side of things. He needs to step up and fill the vacant leadership possition at the top of teh club (althogh PL seems to be doing a decent job of that where it's his remit) and now that opportunity looks to be coming.

KEFKAT What actually amazes me is do you actually realise how few experianced players Villa has? Also what happand when Dunne Bent Gabby etc got injured last season? Its all well saying FFP rules this and FFP rules that but please understand m8 we need players lol if the new FFP rules stop us buying players even though we have one of the smallest squads and a drastically reduced wage bill and still reducing wahe bill then we really are in the poo. Randy is ok to back Lambert as we need experianced and quality players now a few bargain buys is great but Quality is required also otherwise don't start moaning if we struggle again as Lambert can only do so much.

Clive, we may lack experience but we don't have a small squad. Remember that manyo fthese so called youngsters are now over 21 and as such are either part of the senior squad or may as well leave. Each player over 21 takes up one of teh allocated places.

Villa have been here before under DD. Whatever his aaleged faults he ran a tight ship financially. Managers like J. Gregory or Benitez will always argue ' a few more players and we'll make a breakthrough'. a good manager uses the tools at his disposal. Fergie and Wenger haven't got astounding squads. take RVP out of Arsenal and Giggs, Scholes and Rooney out of Manure and those teams would probably finish much lower down the EPL. Clive, Villa have got a fairly small squad that has been exposed through injuries. (Like last season). However, I can't see how PL and RL can do anything other than what they're doing. We don't know how many players they are planning to sign/offload. Agree, with SJH that a 'marquee' signing at Villa would be a 'Cisse' like player not a 'Neymar'.

I don't know Avbornandbred, I said "apparently", all of the signings so far have been between £3m and £4m, so we presume Lambert is bargain hunting on the budget he has and doesn't want to pay over the odds for a player and rightly so. But Cresswell is supposed to be a very good player and as he's a left-back, very much needed. If it was the case that Lambert really wanted him, but needed to spread the money over a couple of players, I just hope that Randy would make it happen by providing him with a couple of extra million.

Whilst i am a happy Villan at the moment like 99.9% are right now, i just worry as others have said like myself as soon as the suspensions injuries to key players like Bent Vlaar etc happan which they will Villa go on a bad run and play poor, as for saying our kids have grown now im all for playing them but chucking them in is one thing and gradually easing them in is another, just look at what happand when we had to play them last season thats all im saying i do noot expect £20million players but just for Randy to back Lambert more so than just a few bargain players, we need experance now and a few quality players unless Lambert gets the backing to do this it wouldbe miracle to expect anything other than finishing above the relegation places mid table at best, Lambert i worry wll get moaned abou as soon as the injuries start and we have no experianced players to fill in, this is all my point is. UTV!

He has almost no choice but to sell the Browns or sell a stake their fans dont like him and he's always voted as the worst franchise owner in the NFL... Which I find funny because he's probably one of the best Owners in the EPL despite the ECK fiasco...

VWRA i amall for our youngsters being given the chance i really am, i rate Albrighton and still believe he can our right winger, Clark should be partnered alongside Vlaar, Baanan is ok in a five man midfield Weimann and Delfounseo can make there mark this season but if we take a look at Manuire Fergie adds quality alongside the youngsters to aid them and learn them on the field and off the field, also we have already seen playing too many all together youngsters does not work as it happand last season and the season before under GH when we had injuries, im not saying spend silly money we aint got that but just some experianced quality which unfortunetley costs money if not transfer fee's it does on wages these days, i dunno we will see what happans i have full faih in Lambert and am excited but still think we need that bit of quality to help the kids out.

Clive -- We are both singing from the same hymn sheet. Vlaar and El Ahmadi both qualify as 'experienced' and 'quality' in my book. In which case PL has done what we would both like him to do. Agreed, that Villa need more of the same during the close season. Also, agreed that injuries exposed a threadbare squad last year as did absence of seasoned campaigners (Young, Milner). 444, again we both seem to feel that more players are needed. My general point is that some Villans seem to want a 'surprise' or 'marquee' signing to inject the proverbial 'feel good factor' into the club. Toon and Spuds have done OK without big name signings. Modric, Bale and Cisse earned their 'big name' reputation on the pitch. Some Arsenal supporters --or fans -- are forever slating Wenger for a percieved lack of big money signings despite continuous Champs League football. At least Villa are in good company. RL might have lent the money to Villa and his first two managerial appointments have been, respectively, bad and awful, but as CDX has pointed out, he's still one of the best owners in the EPL.

UTV!!!

Sorry guys, where do you get your figures! Someone said 900m for the sale!!!! That is more than Randy's entire assets! His share in Cleveland is estimate at 50m pounds. Be happy if 2m came our way.

Do not have anything to complain about so far so good so we arent paying multi millions for players so what ? how much good did it do liverpool last season? Rather see some honest players trying 100% than jumped up gits who only worry about their wage packets. Dont expect Lambert to turn us into top 6 material overnight but if he is selling the likes of Hutton then he is doing little wrong in my eyes . And Randy has restored my faith in him with the change in management so UTV