Supposed life-long Aston Villa fan Michelle Neville is, according to the Sunday Mercury, about to make a renewed bid for Aston Villa plc.

I'm getting pretty annoyed by this Neville fella; he isn't making a bid for anything! He's put proposals forward to people with the money and he's looking for backers. If he had backers he wouldn't be talking to the press telling them he's about to make an offer as it can potentially increase the share price which costs 'his backers' more when it comes to making a firm offer.

He's told the Sunday Mercury "It is true to say that I have accelerated my efforts to make a bid for Aston Villa. I believe I have backers but cannot reveal any more than that. The timescale is short. If anything is going to happen, it would have to happen soon."

I'm not going to say it. Yes I am; you either have the backers or you don't! What does 'I believe I have backers' mean? It means he doesn't have them and if he was close to having them when they read what he's saying in the press they'll leave him quicker than you'd leave a bar full of men dressed as the Village People.

Neville went on: "Villa fans must be fed up with hearing my name associated with a takeover - but if I can't make it work this time, then I can't make it work at all.

"This is an exciting prospect, the result of a year's work for me and I say that I have the best interests of Aston Villa at heart."

Well he's right. We are sick to death of hearing his name and wish the Birmingham press would just leave him alone. Neville is a salesman putting together a deal and the deal isn't going to work. If there were parties interested in buying Aston Villa why would they go through Michelle Neville?

Neville, shut up or put up. We all know it's an exciting prospect but it can't be that exciting if Rothschild can't even find a buyer and that's what they do, professionally.