The Mess

[hawkeye]

Looking at the squad GH has inherited and  MON left, the rebuilding programme looks daunting.
Over the next 18 months he needs to replace based on form and age regular first team players
Carew Dunne Petrov Friedel Sidwell Warnock L Young
He is likely to lose because of thier contract situation NRC A Young
He has maybe youth players Albrighton Bannan Delf Clarke Gardener Hogg
And first teamers that are likely to hang around Gabby Collins Downing Heskey Cuellar Heskey
The jury still out on Fonz Davies Lichaj Herd

I doubt that many top 10 PL squads face a bigger chalenge than the one facing our manager. We are in deep shit

[sfx412]

Isn't that always the situation when Mon quits a club ?

Others get over it in time, even with shite managers

[curiousorange]

I'm sure from the outside looking in we seem in a much healthier position. But we're at a crossroads as to how to do this, you're right. We can do it the Spurs way, which is by spunking every penny we've got on loads of players and hoping a coherent team comes out the other side, or we can do it the Arsenal way, which is to ship out the older players gradually, replacing them with proven mid-priced alternatives with the odd glamour purchase, and augmenting them with the young'uns, and hoping they stick around long enough to see the plan through.

But knowing Villa, they'll buy a load of tat, run out of money by week three in January and all we'll have to show for it will be a loss to Sheffield United in the cup.

[villajoy]

Houlier has no clue. Prefer MON but will not forgive for when he left!

[JUAN PABLO]

Heskeys that good, you have named him twice