Who should our new manager be?

[ozzjim]

Yep. All 3 have bollocks. Strangely only Heskey appears to have grown a pair for us!

[JUAN PABLO]

well wasnt Curbishley interviewed twice , the same time has Houlier.   expect Curbs then  ;-@

[villa for life]

that's the frustrating thing...we could have waited and gone on with Kmac...How much worse could it have been?

If it had gone badly, at least the mood around villa park would haven't been as bad because it could have been viewed as just a temporary appointment...and if it had gone well, he could have kept on going till Randy had found the RIGHT person rather than the panic compromise candidate that we ended up with.

[KRS]

How long is GH contract and how much will it cost to pay him off if he's sacked?

[eamonn]

Get Ancelotti in and soon we'll be playing Carlito's way.

[petegoldring]

I don't think anybody is going to want to come to Villa at this point - not with the current position and situation. We can't keep falling into the Championship with GH. So, only option as far as I see it is to hope KMac would be willing to take them on to the end of the season - keep us up on pure fight and guts - and then make a more measured appointment in the summer.

[The Man With A Stick]

How long is GH contract and how much will it cost to pay him off if he's sacked?

Only two years wasn't it?  It'll cost less than a year in the n-power Championship anyway.

[NeilH]

He ain't getting sacked, the club have been pretty damn clear on stating that this is the case. They have made two catastrophic mistakes, firstly in giving MON too much control and secondly in thinking that Houllier could come back into the premiership and pick up where he left off. I honestly think that the view now is ''we have to save face here by sticking with the man we choose.''
I think the only pertinent question now is what kind of backing will be given over the next few weeks to buy players, does Randy chuck the cheque book at GH in a desperate attempt to keep us up, or does he refuse to sanction any new blood and run the risk of us going down?
Put yourself in Randy's shoes right now as a pure businessman and ask yourself what you would do. Close the book and we might stay up and even if we go down we have a core of youngsters to bring us back, or say to hell with it and fight tooth and nail to preserve our unblemished stay in the Premiership?

[Greg N'Ash]

Wellanew manager would have precious little time to bring new players in so it will have to be someone who can revert to the limited style that the existing players can cope with, and make us hard to beat. Anyone with a bit of style in the way they want to play would just be pointless. Hate to say it but Big Sam is the only free manager at the moment that fits that criteria

[cdbearsfan]

Would have to be someone who has been in the game and would have a ready made list of potential signings to get them in as soon as possible, but not fucking Allardyce. I would go for Ancelotti, Hodgson or, at a push, Hughes or Grant. They would need to get sacked pretty quickly though first. Wouldn't mind Eriksson. He has had success at every club he's ever managed, except Man City and most Man City fans thought he deserved more time.

[WikiVilla]

How long is GH contract and how much will it cost to pay him off if he's sacked?

Surely there must be some performance related clauses in the contract
ie. if you're not performing as manager, you can be dismissed without a huge payout

[SteveN]

Whatever I might want to happen I don't think Houllier will be sacked the only way he will go is if he resigns.

Houllier was a bad appointment, but if he goes now then the Board has to make sure he is not followed by another bad appointment.  I wouldn't want to see Jol, Curbishly, Southgate or Allardyce here and think we should be approaching managers in work - which suggests they are not bad at what they do.  Realistically Hughes, Moyes or Coyle could all be persuaded that long term the grass will be greener here  All three should have enough about them to keep us up with what we have even if they can’t buy in January.  Then we rebuild in the summer.

If Houllier remains then RL has to take the risk of whether to trust him with the cash to add his players to the squad. Based on Houllier’s performance to date here is no guarantee that he will keep up even with a few additions.  We are in a freefall of our own making

Only the Villa can f***k up your life like this. How have we got so bad so quickly?  I hate football. 

[Dave P]

I'm sure this observation has been made before but I think Villa's and Liverpool's fortunes would be improved if we swapped managers.

[cdbearsfan]

Swap Ireland for Gerrard too.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Wellanew manager would have precious little time to bring new players in so it will have to be someone who can revert to the limited style that the existing players can cope with, and make us hard to beat. Anyone with a bit of style in the way they want to play would just be pointless. Hate to say it but Big Sam is the only free manager at the moment that fits that criteria

I'd rather DOL and GH combined than that fat bastard Allardyce. I wouldn't renew my season ticket next season that's for sure. The football would be consistently worse than MON and we wouldn't finish anywhere near as high as with MON.