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Tony Xia of the Recon Group estimated worth 350 billion.
Who is Dr Tony Xia?
He is the owner of Recon Group, a holding company that has the controlling interest in five publicly listed companies on the Hong Kong and Chinese stock exchanges, employing 35,000 people in 75 countries.
Xia played football until he finished at college and the sport has remained his passion. He became a Villa fan "many years ago", according to the club's statement, and is "delighted" to become its owner.
What are his objectives?
His first target is to return Villa to the Premier League. After that, he intends to lead the club into the top six, bringing European football back to Villa Park.
He also plans to make Villa the most famous football club in China with a huge fanbase.
Make hay whilst it lasts Man City, Arsenal etc. These guys are SERIOUS.
Who is Dr Tony Xia?
He is the owner of Recon Group, a holding company that has the controlling interest in five publicly listed companies on the Hong Kong and Chinese stock exchanges, employing 35,000 people in 75 countries.
Xia played football until he finished at college and the sport has remained his passion. He became a Villa fan "many years ago", according to the club's statement, and is "delighted" to become its owner.
What are his objectives?
His first target is to return Villa to the Premier League. After that, he intends to lead the club into the top six, bringing European football back to Villa Park.
He also plans to make Villa the most famous football club in China with a huge fanbase.
Make hay whilst it lasts Man City, Arsenal etc. These guys are SERIOUS.
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Became a villa fan years ago lol
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why the 10 bob teams play out another goaless draw ,this fella and ashley can have million pound turnovers in the boardroom, LOL
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Basically we are the richest club in the world owner wise.
 How the hell does that sound?? |
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buy the Villa back 4 and get
some free prawn crackers. |
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feeder club for chinese league
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Tony is THE man in China.. If Wang Jianlin is THE man to know if you're into hotels and shopping malls. Tony Xia is THE man to know for everything else including space programs
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He'll own a club in the 2nd best league in the world
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VILLA WILL BOUNCE BACK TO SAVE THE EPL FROM EMBARRASSING SCENES LIKE TONIGHT !!
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VILLA WILL BOUNCE BACK TO SAVE THE EPL FROM EMBARRASSING SCENES LIKE TONIGHT !!
indeed, the chance of them getting to a final to be humiliated is zero so you are quite correct |
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Sounds like when the Blues were taken over, that ended well didn't it?
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Tony has paid less than 2x the amount Villa got for Benteke.
Potentially has a wage bill (and therefore cash drain) to fund, but £60m looks a bargain if they can bounce back. If not, he has acquired prime real estate to build a mosque other two. |
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That's very Ken Livingstone of you Sol
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Basically it's Man City part 2, minus the plastic fans hopefully.
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Facts are facts, Dan.
What else would you build in Brum? |
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did he ask his staff to buy him a villa in europe where he could go for a laugh?
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He's not worth 350 billion, that would make him worth more than the 5 richest people in the world put together.
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I think it's about time Roman fxxked off...........we want someone rich
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I wish our Saudi Prince "supporter" wud bite the bullet and buy us as a toy - the FCB was worth around 1 billion when he grabbed hold of us and then his wealth went upto around 3 billion did it not and look where it got us
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Cliff Richard to be played at all Villa matches.
It's so funny .... how we don't score anymore . |
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Chinese guys are normally crazy,dont be surprised if he says who are these Ronaldos and Messis ,here is 2 billion go get one of each,and here is another 3 billion to get a few more good players .but seriously they are not mean with their money expect a top class NEW VILLA.
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I bet he's looking forward to the local derbies next season.....at burton albion and walsall
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daily service from aston villa airport to china airport announced. in a further announcement, the airport will be expanded to include a prospective managers lounge with smoked glass windows and smoked salmon canopies.
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He's worth less than city's owners ffs.
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He's worth £27bn. It's about time Villa got the financial backing that the most historically important club in the world deserves.
Watching Chelsea, historically as small and unsuccessful as West Bromwich Albion win trophies, has been hard to take. |
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he intends bringing European football back to Villa Park, seems like they are hoping we will be ground sharing with them in a couple of seasons
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How are villa historically important??
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its about 9.5 Chinese Yuan to the Pound , 350 billion Chinese Yuan is about 36.5 billion Pound - buying villa is an odd choice.
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He's worth less than city's owners ffs.
Works differently in China they are state run...the guy has access to as much money as he wants that much is clear....and the last time I checked China is a considerably richer country than the UAE. Chairman Steve Hollis met the press at Villa Park earlier today to discuss the sale of the club to Recon Group, owned by Dr Tony Xia. Have a read below. On confirmation of the sale of the club… It is no secret we have been running a process and we've had a number of interested buyers from all parts of the world. We wanted someone who is going to really take this so seriously they are determined to deliver and achieve the ultimate accolades in football for Aston Villa. The one thing that really helped us in getting behind the Tony Xia bid is the scale of the ambition he has. If you look at Tony Xia's business career in China, he has been instrumental in the regeneration and the building of over 60 of the new cities and relocating 500 million people into the urban areas. He has shared with us his ambition in football, his ambition for Aston Villa Football Club, his ambition for the Aston area as a part of the city of Birmingham - frankly it is inspirational. If he delivers on what he shared with us, it is going to be a great journey over the next few years. |
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its about 9.5 Chinese Yuan to the Pound , 350 billion Chinese Yuan is about 36.5 billion Pound - buying villa is an odd choice.
----------------- I think he was told he would be buying an expensive villa and not a football club . Lost in translation . |
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no prepared comment
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oh how I would love to meet the obnoxious Doug Ellis again. He came to Burton back in 1996 with Andy Townsend and the League Cup, and we were celebrating our local FA's centenary. When I was looking at the trophy he asked me who I supported, he was taken aback because it was not one of the big clubs and he started with snide remarks about I would probably never see a real trophy again. Well Deadly it looks like we may meet again after all
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