O'Neill Rejects west ham interest!

[Chris Smith]

For fucks sake Gregory, grow up will you.

[Greg N'Ash]

For fucks sake Gregory, grow up will you.

No offence meant chris. Just concerned for you.

[Percy McCarthy]

Great news. Good luck in the semi-final Mart.

[garyshawsknee]

Good luck to him and West Ham if its true,but as others have said i can't believe he'd get involved with those clowns,especially while they have a manager in charge,doesn't seem his style.

[maidstonevillain]

Rumours that it is a 6 month contract with a massive bonus for surviving relegation and not walking out like a scolded child.

That would make sense for both Parties. No opportunity for MON to get involved in contracts and signing players. Just being brought in to organise and motivate the players he has, which is what he is good at. They stay up - MoN is a hero, they go down - he did the best he could with players and the time he had. No lose situation for MON, and leaves him free to pursue other jobs in the Summer with his reputation reinstated if not enhanced.

In the meantime the Brady bunch improve their chances of Premiership survival, and if not are at least guaranteed 5 months in the limelight and a hours of Sky coverage from the MON mediafest.

The only problem for MON is that he might come to be seen as the managerial equivalent of the "supersub". The modern day Terry Venables. Only employed for for 5 months of the year by mediocre clubs in the s**t.

[Witton Warrior]

Good luck to him and West Ham if its true,but as others have said i can't believe he'd get involved with those clowns,especially while they have a manager in charge,doesn't seem his style.

MoN showing poor judgement? Surely not...

[Greg N'Ash]

Good luck to him and West Ham if its true,but as others have said i can't believe he'd get involved with those clowns,especially while they have a manager in charge,doesn't seem his style.

i'm guessing he's furious that this has come out before grant's been disposed of. not much good for the image especially as there's an unspoken rule that you don't dump on another manager.

[TimTheVillain]

It will be a short term contract if the reports are correct.

I can't see O'Neill working with the porn kings and Brady for too long, far too many egos.

[UK Redsox]

Radio 5 presenter seemed to think that MON to WH was a done deal.

However, Pat Murphy was less sure for three reasons:-

1) Pat says that MON likes to take his time and weigh everything up; whereas WH will want a quick decision.

2) Managing a club to relegation would harm MON's reputation even more than his abandoning Villa.

3) MON won't take kindly to the interference of Sullivan/Gold or the newspaper witterings of Karren

[eastie]

I'd be more surprised if he went on a 4 month contract- I would expect him to look for his usual year rolling deal- football focus have said grant was told on thurs night and Steve walford apparently very happy at going back to west ham- I'm sure o neill will not like the way this has come out , but clearly he has agreed the deal behind grants back , would probably be him who put the block on the sidwell deal.

[Greg N'Ash]

jonathon pearce said on the tv that they've been talking to MON for weeks and grant was given the push thursday

[KevinGage]

If we were only having a 'normal' or average season. I'd love this.

But as it stands, he's quite capable of giving a short term lift to a new club. Could be at our expense the way things are going.

[WikiVilla]

Perhaps now we can have some closure around MON, players, officials and fans
Time to move on and start racking the points up

[Villa'Zawg]

One of the things I loved about MON (prior to his departure of course) was his integrity, I'm really surprised that he is getting mixed up with that lot down there, it will all end in tears, if it ever starts.

his integrity was all spin. you'd have to be pretty low to take over another manager's job before he's been sacked

Grant completed his pay off negotiations on Thursday.

[spangley1812]

One of the things I loved about MON (prior to his departure of course) was his integrity, I'm really surprised that he is getting mixed up with that lot down there, it will all end in tears, if it ever starts.

his integrity was all spin. you'd have to be pretty low to take over another manager's job before he's been sacked

Grant completed his pay off negotiations on Thursday.

So who will be in charge tonight