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Ex-Villa boss Taylor: Lerner ran out of steam

Former Aston Villa boss Graham Taylor is happy to see Randy Lerner sell up.

Lerner, the American entrepreneur who bought the midlands outfit from Ellis in 2006, on Monday declared his intention to put Villa up for sale.

Taylor told the Express & Star: "The change was needed. Randy has been running out of steam.

"I hope on behalf of the club that if the new owners decide not to keep Paul (Lambert), they go about it in the right way.

"I hope they will behave like football people because I am not sure that is always the case when owners come in from overseas now.

"A lot of Premier League owners now are not what I would call football people.

"They are extremely wealthy and very successful business folk in their fields who expect the same results from football and can't understand why that might not happen."

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