Well the news has spread very quickly today and a few people made cash.
The latest news comes from @robhenrix on twitter
Randy Lerner’s private jet landed in Kristiansund to fly Ole Solskjaer to Birmingham tomorrow! #AVFC #MUFC
That is the airport ‘TheTrees’ mentioned on Vilaltalk and is Ole’s home town and an easy pickup for the plane. I fully expect Ole to be our new manager soon enough maybe tomorrow or most certainly by Monday.
‘TheTrees’ has confirmed that this plane is the ONE that was at BHX. No question that this is Randy’s plane.
As posted in the comments THIS IS HIS PLANE – LINK
I am very excited by him being our new manager. It is a new departure for the club and for the club and Ole his support team as in the assistant manager will be vital. Of course Steve Clarke is now available and people think of Martin Laursen but Ole will need help and if only we could get Clarke ?
I can understand some concerns over Ole but for once we will be seeing something exciting. Who cares if Fergie likes him and liked the former manager, that is irrelevant. Ole has the football style and contacts to impress us all.
EDIT 20:54
NORWAY PAPER has the story and a picture, The Molde chairman declines to comment and they say Villa in talks
OGS is obviously a risk and not sure it’s worth taking but could prove to be a shrewd move. Better than going in for some has been surely?
well he did bring molde their first league title in 100 years in his FIRST year this brings great hope for us
http://www.tk.no/sporten/article6065042.ece
Haven’t translated it yet, but the key elements are there and plain to see.
this may sound stupid or naive but why didnt lerner just fly straight to norway?
Thats not randy lerners plane, the reg on lerners jet ends in RL
http://bhxflightguide.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/sunday-22-april-2012.html
As u obviously missed it earlier plus the story from the Norwegian newspaper above is proof enough to me.
Randy doesn’t own a plane, that particular jet was built in 201 and cost $65m and $18m a year to run, they just charter it as a family regularly.
*2011
I told my chauffeur not to use my plane without my permission!!!
That is the Falcon 7x owned by Exile Transportation Co LLC, and it is sat at Birmingham Airport as of now and not in Norway. I do personal security driving from UK airports and it took one call with the registration number to find out. So its either rumors or it gone and come back in an afternoon which is highly unlikely.
…. It is the plane Lerner uses though by the way.
Except it hasn’t been at BHX at all today friend, so your contact may be winding you up…..
sorry mate you are just wrong, your mate has something wrong about the plane, that Plane is randy’s see the jetdirect link
I don’t think so Ian, check the FAA registry, quite simple.
Most owners have companies that ‘own’ their aircraft. Randy Lerner is no different.
The clue is in the address.
Well you must know more than me, but feel free to call Penauille Serviair, 2nd floor main terminal for some info.
http://jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?regsearch=N85DN
check this out, the reg IS RANDY’s plane
No its not, it’s one he uses …. http://www.regosearch.com/aircraft/us/85DN
I trust THETREES 100% on this, if he says that is Randy’s IT IS and for me no DEBATE
sorry
So the FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) is wrong ???? Wow that’s a good one mate…………. Lerner or his family ain’t rich enough to own and run a heavy jet like that mate.
So you have your crystal ball out ian is this deffo our new man??
It’s the one the Lerner family use but they don’t own it.
So it is still possible that he may have “used” it to go to Norway??
I think he’s sent it to Norway …. lol
http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/05/17/sport/fotball/premier_league/ole_gunnar_solskjer/21645445/?utm_source=Dagbladet.no
This is the second biggest newspaper i Norway (where I live). The plane is indeed in Kristiansund (Norway). The boss at the airport has confirmed that the plane is registered in Lerners name. Lerner is not on the plane, but the plane plans to take Solskjaer from Norway to Birmingham tomorrow morning. Im excited!
thanks mate and love the namecheck for THETREES
ha ha ha
Why would a company that handles airline traffic in the main terminal know anything about executive traffic on the Elmdon Apron? Somebody’s yanking your chain. mate
They handle Executive and Charter flight refuelling and servicing on all private flights not major airlines.
Well Signature handle Randy Lerner’s aircraft, and they despatched it just after 7 o’clock on Wednesday evening. It went to Luton, where it left at 1540 this afternoon for Bergen (to clear immigration/customs) and then on to Kristiansund.
It is planned back to Birmingham (from Kristiansund) tomorrow morning, when Signature will handle it again.
I don’t think that I have missed anything.
Signature are flight planners yes, but they don’t do handling, hangerage or servicing of jets ….. I’m in and out of Elmdon at least once week to collect passengers.
It was last nights log when it was there and it did indeed leave for Luton last night, my appologies mate.
Signature Flight Support is one of the world’s biggest handlers of private jets-Google it.
They do handling at Birmingham, but don’t have hangarage there. There is no servicing of Dassault aircraft at BHX, but they don’t need checks after a single transatlantic journey anyway, despite your earlier comment.
And Signature handle Randy Lerner’s aircraft.
I think Aston is not aware of who you are, ha ha ha
Ian, it doesn’t matter who’s who, I did get the wrong end of the convo with the guy I spoke to. It did indeed leave for Luton last night.
As much as i like this appointment i have to ask. our squad will need major shake up to play the way he does that’s going to need investment.. now surely at some point red nose has been asked by ogs himself or villa. now only two weeks ago eck said sir Alex said did not matter who managed us would still have us down there.. the team will need major in and outs ie back four for one. he likes to play 433 which with right players 451 4411 442. is adaptable at any point in game but most of our players will not be able to play his style.. but i think makoun could be back. i am excited with young
Manager expansive football and maybe randy sanctioning buys and releasing the deadwood now that’s transition.. exciting times on the pitch could be soon
ive translated it somewhat it says”villa bosses private jet lands in kevernberget 17 in Kristiansund”That aston villa will fly the soccer star to birmingham for talks on a transition as early as friday.The chairman at molde will not comment on the claim.The rest goes on to say about lerner coming to bham on wednesday to look for a succesor to AM.
The theorists and the conspiracy bods will be cussing you Astonmilan. They were getting rather excited about this non-story.
I appreciate you setting the record straight.
Ive just translated it mate.
I just stated a fact, it could’ve fetched him over this afternoon, nut I find that highly unlikely, after 3500 odd mile flight it would need a heavy jet cat 1 check before it flew again and that takes 2 hrs.
Having given this a great deal of thought I have concluded that it is either Randy’s plane…………..or it isn’t.
I thank you.
Are you ITK?
No, I am, and so’s my wife!
i concur with Jonah….and will add that Ole G Solskjaer will be our manager…or won’t.
Steve Clarke as assistant … Crap at west ham with Zola and at Liverpool
Well it looks to be true after all ….. Sky Sports have just confirmed a plane is there to bring him back to B’Ham tomorrow. If true would be a good appointment I think.
http://www.vg.no/
http://www.dagbladet.no/
This is the frontpage og norways largest and second largest papers right now. Suppose you can all understand what its about although its norwegian
As a professor of Norwegian……I translated this as… Ole wil be new Villa manager……Or not
I don’t care what anyone thinks, this for me is the most exciting and potentially time changing decision. Get him signed up ASAP, give him some money and we shall support him!!!! Come on ole!
A bit left field but I have a good feeling about this one. I appreciate good players don’t always make good managers, but he has the contacts and has played a majority of his career with the mancs who have always played an attacking style of football. Also to manage your current club to their first title in a hundred years (whatever the league) …….can’t be bad
this will be a superb appointment! I really hope this happens, it obviously has it’s risks but there is no doubt he is a young up and coming manager a much better choice than lambert IMO – Will fully support him, and cant wait for the summer!
OGS was one of the most intelligent,intuitive strikers I ve ever seen………If he s half as good a manager he will be great.
I believe he ll be our man by this evening…..Hope so anyway…..UTV
Welcome to Villa Park Ole i will have a morrisons steak pie waiting for you lol for me to be giving you one of my pies is an honour, but i am both honoued and excited at your appointment.
This appointment is always going to be a risk but i give him my full support…im very excited about this possibility and hopefully lerner invests in OGS and his ideas on building a squad. I remember years ago hearing an interview about solskjaer when he was playing for man utd, they spoke about how he is always used as a sub and how he was always such a succesful substitute…the reason he was so succesful being brought on the pitch later was because he used to really study the opposition…instead of wasting his time whilst sitting on the bench…..and then when being brought on, he knew exactly where to hurt the opposition and the weaknesses they showed him…that to me, shows me he knows how to spot weaknesses in other teams and how to play against them, he will hopefully bring that same intelligence to aston villa and influence our team. Get that signature lerner!!
I don’t care what anyone thinks, this for me is the most exciting and potentially time changing decision. Get him signed up ASAP, give him some money and we shall support him!!!! Come on ole!
Astonmilan, how much of a cock end must you feel knowing that your aviation skills are soo bad, that even the daily star reported that this was his jet went to norway. read all the papers. you are a cock enf .Thats a fact…!!