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For most football fans, seeing their club run by season ticket holding die-hards is a fantasy.

But one Aston Villa fan dares to dream.

Amid the rumours of Chinese billionaire bids and Mervyn King's winks and nods, the Villain took to Reddit to pitch the idea.

The light-hearted suggestion - which included roping in Hollywood star and confirmed Villa supporter Tom Hanks - sparked a passionate debate.

Under a post headed 'let's buy the club' Greenguys5815 wrote: "Can we all pool our money together and come up with the money to buy the club?

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"We can find 10,000 people to invest $10,000 I have no doubt about that. That's $100 million right there.

"Someone call Tom Hanks, he'll pitch in."

"Does the Premiership allow this type of structure?"

One user ForSherwood suggested supporter groups could raise around £7,000 between them for a share of the club and a vote in how it is run.

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As one fan pointed out the scheme might fail as the club would struggle to find the tens of thousands of investors required to make it happen.

But the proposer defended the idea and suggested teaming up with former players.

poll loading Would you invest to buy the Villa? 0+ VOTES SO FAR Yes - we can do it No - it sounds daft Don't know Would if I could afford it

They added: "No public listing is needed! You can sell shares of your company internally all day long.

"Lerner wants to sell, so we'd need to find the person that would be the new majority owner.

"The idea is that our group would be offering a new buyer a $100 million loan, debt free, in return for something. That something is a world class player to pump goals into the net on the reg.

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"We'd have an Executive Team/Advisory Board that we would vote on who would represent us, mostly of former players and supporters with our best interest (ticket prices, players, etc.)."