Who should our new manager be?

[jonzy85]

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.

I agree with you mostly, but if we got Big Sam in, I would be fairly certain we would survive. The prospect of having him the season after would be quite painful though.

[garyshawsknee]

Firstly,the only way we'll see the back of GH is if we get relegated,if we stay up he'll get a stay of execution,only because Randy took a lot of time and thought into appointing him and doesn't want to look like an arse in getting rid of him quickly.

 If and when it happens,id prefer to see a younger manager on the up who has fresh ideas and a different outlook. Di Matteo,O'Driscoll,Lambert,Laudrap,Bilic. Better these than the tired old names who's names are always banded around when a job is on offer

[MadJohnnyC]

Me

[john e]

Big Sam ?

so he keeps us up, wow we,

then when we are playing the most turgid uninspiring boring football in front of home crowds of 22500 for the next couple of years,
 and everyone on here is moaning like hell, it will be the biggest mistake of all times to appoint alardyce
i'd rather go down, and start again

i realise the football on display now is not inspiring , but the managers football style is trying to be a bit more expansive than that longterm.
 whereas Big Sam's is hoof ball and no apoligies, thats it thats what your gona get for the next 2/3 years,

is that what you really want, just to stay in the prem league ?

 years of shit football to watch, just for some mid table premieship saftey,
 how can you take your little kids to VP and say 'look thats Aston Villa out there, playing football !!!'
they'l be of like a shot to Arsenal, Man Utd, saying 'thats proper football Dad, what you watch in your half empty stadium is not the game i want to see, thanks anyway, now where's me red and white bobble hat'

if Houllier goes, i'm a ABA - anyone but Allardyce, [or any other hoof ball merchant]

[koreanmeatballs]

After sleeping on it the man has got to go.

I fear we will do a Newcastle, wait until it is too late and sack the manager then appoint KMac (Shearer) who will not have enough time to save us (I don't want KMac but think he will take over.)

Just seen his interview with Sky, Is this a joke to him?!? The bloke is a cancer at our club. Get rid now before it's too late. He has done fuck all to earn himself time/ transfer funds.

Even if he does bring in players the maximum he will get is probably 3/4 that leaves the same 6/7 who clearly don't want to play football for this inept fool.

FUCK OFF BACK TO YOUR DESK JOB IN FRANCE!

[django]

I'm amazed at how many football purists we have who would rather get relegated than have a solid manager such as Allardyce. He wouldn't be my my dream appointment but some of the snobbery is baffling to me. Was his Bolton team with djorkaeff and okocha really so unbearable to watch? With his statistical analysis and functional football he reminds me of a sir Graham lite.

There seems to be a sense of entitlement among fans, players and management at present that is divorced from reality somewhat.

Houllier must be a capable manager given his record, but seemingly not for our current players, maybe he's just past it. If we are to replace him it needs to be quickly and I imagine cheaply. I would appoint someone who looked on the villa job as a step up, in the same way Coyle did at Bolton.

[john e]

I'm amazed at how many football purists we have who would rather get relegated than have a solid manager such as Allardyce. He wouldn't be my my dream appointment but some of the snobbery is baffling to me. Was his Bolton team with djorkaeff and okocha really so unbearable to watch? With his statistical analysis and functional football he reminds me of a sir Graham lite.

There seems to be a sense of entitlement among fans, players and management at present that is divorced from reality somewhat.

Houllier must be a capable manager given his record, but seemingly not for our current players, maybe he's just past it. If we are to replace him it needs to be quickly and I imagine cheaply. I would appoint someone who looked on the villa job as a step up, in the same way Coyle did at Bolton.

agree with you about Coyle, if Houllier was to go, he would be one appointment that would be great.

regarding the relagation before Allardyce, i would hate to see his style of play at VP, its just not what i want to watch week in week out, premiership or not,
the championship doesnt fill me with a near death experience as it does others,

 i obviously dont want to go down,
 but would rather we were building something progresive and attractive especially with the young players we have in the championship than relying on set plays, throw ins and the big hoof under Sam in the prem

i also realise that in now a days we have all swallowed the sky pill and the prem is the promised land and anything else is a wasteland, but not for me, i've seen Villa in the 3rd Div, and i know we are in totaly different days now, but the threat of Allardyce football is still more worrying to me than Championship football,

you can only post the way you feel, if that makes me a football snob as you say, then i will have to take it on the chin, but thats the way i feel,
i love football and i love Villa in that order,
 the very reason i support Villa is because i love to watch football, i've never been a win at all costs sort of person, and get just as much enjoyment sometimes as watching my lad play in the UCL prem league,

 under Allardyce it would just be to painful to bear for me,
 just being honest

[Oscar Arce]

I don't care about style of play, I want to stay up and if something is'nt done now, we are going down to the Fizzy Pop League.
I will accept the devil himself as manager if that can be attained.
That means Sam Allardyce, who I hate, on a contract to keep us up and organise our team, which this idiot is incapable of, which I said when he was appointed.
The sight of Ashley Young taking free kicks in the right back position and playing as our last man surely has convinced everyone now ?

[CJ]

Just been announced on the Beeb that Houllier has Randy Lerner's full backing and there is no time frame set for him to turn things round.  So looks like we're stuck with him.  And looks like we WILL now go down

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Just been announced on the Beeb that Houllier has Randy Lerner's full backing and there is no time frame set for him to turn things round.  So looks like we're stuck with him.  And looks like we WILL now go down

Heaven help us.
We're fucked.

[VillaAlways]

Just been announced on the Beeb that Houllier has Randy Lerner's full backing and there is no time frame set for him to turn things round.  So looks like we're stuck with him.  And looks like we WILL now go down

Can't find this on BBC Sport website ?

[django]

Fair enough John e, I'm not convinced that our current players would respond to Allardyce, equally im not convinced he'd be a bad appointment, same goes for Jol or other available options.

I think it's a massive gamble whether Randy sacks Houllier or whoever he appoints. Just a shame that it appears there may be two more attractive vacancies becoming available at the same time, I suspect that will make up Randys mind to stick rather than twist.

[WikiVilla]

Just been announced on the Beeb that Houllier has Randy Lerner's full backing and there is no time frame set for him to turn things round.  So looks like we're stuck with him.  And looks like we WILL now go down

Then our fate is sealed
RIP AVFC

[CJ]

Just been announced on the Beeb that Houllier has Randy Lerner's full backing and there is no time frame set for him to turn things round.  So looks like we're stuck with him.  And looks like we WILL now go down

Can't find this on BBC Sport website ?

It was on the last sports update on the BBC News site. They were doing a piece on the 4 PL managers under pressure and said they'd just had that update from 'a senior source at VP' quoting RL

Hopefully it's the dreaded vote of confidence

[Oscar Arce]

Just been announced on the Beeb that Houllier has Randy Lerner's full backing and there is no time frame set for him to turn things round.  So looks like we're stuck with him.  And looks like we WILL now go down

Sleepwalking into oblivion. We are going down.