O'Neill Rejects west ham interest!

[Tony]

If he takes this job he's an almighty hypocrite, he knows how their owners operate, they're full of it. I lost a lot of respect for him when he resigned, not that he resigned, but when he resigned, until then I'd been an unapolegtic supporter of him, to take the West Ham job would be the ultimate slap in the face.

[TheSandman]

we made an offer for him, whether we agreed to pay him 90k a week is another thing. i'd imagine lerner would be hesistant in back tracking on his policy re wages

I have the feeling that policy was as much to do with the players not playing as it was the size of the wages. Could be wrong.

[Greg N'Ash]

still 90k a week for bridge. basically top top wages for anyone outside of Citeh seems a step too far to me. i mean he was a bit part player at chelsea, likewise citeh. you'd have to be insane.

[Stu]

The first shit-eating article about how O'Neill is aces and we were lucky to have him because really we're crap:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/jan/16/west-ham-martin-oneill

[dave.woodhall]

O'Neill departed Villa physically only after Lerner did spiritually

What the fuck does that mean?

[Stu]

O'Neill departed Villa physically only after Lerner did spiritually

What the fuck does that mean?

I know, right. I take it Hayward is suggesting MON only left after it was clear Lerner no longer wanted to spend money. Which is obviously bollocks.

[JJ-AV]

It frustrates me so much.

A wage to income percentage similar to that of Portsmouth 2 years ago.

£30million's worth of players stuck on long, very expensive contracts.

A manager who was asked to shift them before he was able to add to the squad as if the wage bill got any worse we'd be in serious trouble, not willing to do so. Before trying to force the board into buying more of his shit.

How can they put the blame on Randy ffs?

[TheSandman]

Put that on the comments on his blog.

I just cannot believe the uninformed shit a lot of journalists are coming out with.

[JJ-AV]

I've not even clicked the link, can't be arsed to read it.

[Nelly]

And I was under the impression that the Guardian was good for reporting football? Blimey.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Given the choice between MON or DOL, with the same money, it's DOL every time. MON can keep referring to his Cloughie links, it's the only thing that gets him an interview. The man is a joke. He got found out but managed to jump ship without being found out but most know he belongs with the dinosaurs. The only club that deserves his worth are the Rags. West Ham, even with the scum they have on their board, deserve better. Well, at least their fans do. He may have his strengths but his weaknesses far outstrip them. He should have retired from management a long time ago. He's an embarrassment to modern day English football but a great example to everything that is wrong about the game in England. The fact that his name is still mentioned with PL clubs says it all.

What a twat! Thank god he's no longer our problem.

[Simba]

"What a twat! Thank god he's no longer our problem"

Mark, that's the point, with the players and wages ratio he left us with -  he IS still our problem.

[Chris Smith]

Seems a pretty fair article but as usual one or two phrases are picked on to discredit the whole thing. Despite all the revisionism that we read on here on a daily basis MON had built a decent side at Villa that we knew had a chance in every single game. It's also a fact that Lerner put a break on spending last year, there might have been financial reasons why but no football ones; standing still in this league means going backwards.

It appears that Randy wants is a manger who looks after the whole club compared to MON who, as Hayward says, only cares about the first team. If that is the case he should have just sacked him but I guess he didn't want the reputation he would have earned for sacking a manger who had just had finished sixth again with a cup final thrown in.

[Jimbo]

Have to agree with Mr Kelly to a certain degree. DOL was an unctuous tick, but he was nowhere near the dick that MON was. I don't think DOL would have committed the atrocity at Moscow (or Hamburg, by the way, which I wasted hundreds of pounds on, though the lapskause was nice), and neither would he have walked out the way MON did, leaving us in the shit. DOL had a geriatric Ellis to contend with, while MON had Randy's millions and all the freedom that came with it (until his policy of leaving millions on the bench began to snag). I would say that MON edges it in the charisma and intelligence stakes, but his vindictive, churlish and arrogant nature takes him above DOL in the all time top ten of Villa twats. 

[Chris Smith]

I've seen it all now. You really know people have lost all sense of reality when they're comparing DOL favourably to MON. Yes he dropped us in it but you're making yourselves look a little silly by the rewriting of history. In case you hadn't noticed before MON arrived we were a bit shit.