The Great Purge of Summer 2011

[richard moore]

For me I could not care less if they all go, most have been an embarassment to our club this season!

Dunne, supposedly stated that a Champions league club were in for him, i hope that is true!

I agree with Paulie's very sensible post on this subject about how many of them can, in reality, be allowed to go but I have to admit to sharing some of your sentiments more generally. Perhaps not quite 'all go' but I have got to the point where they numbed my passion to such an extent that it kinda seems that way...

[Mazrim]

Champions League club in for Dunne = Celtic.

[TimTheVillain]

If / when Hammers go down, we've got to make a beeline for Rob Green.

How about Shay Given ?

[Clampy]

I like what i've seen of Delph, he could be a very good player for us. He's one i definatley would'nt be pushing out the door in the summer.

[Rigadon]

Agree about Delph.  Wonder how much that injury took away from his game though.

[Villa'Zawg]

12 months ago we were completing a season where we had challenged for both domestic cups and come within a couple of wins of qualification for the Champions League. In terms of results and performances against top teams, it was one of our best seasons in 20 years.

We then appointed Paul Faulkner as Chief Executive Officer to run the club. I know whenever this subject is raised people try to downplay Faulkner’s role but CEO isn’t an honorary title. It denotes the person who has legal and operational responsibility for the running of the business, the equivalent of a Managing Director. I’ve never in my life come across a serious American business where the person with the title of CEO is anything other than the person who runs the business and I’ve no doubt whatsoever that Faulkner has been running this club for the last 12 months.

The decision to appoint Faulkner as CEO and his introduction of a strategy to reduce wages and rely on inexperienced youth players has been an unmitigated disaster.

I still don’t understand how Randy Lerner, who had been such a safe pair of hands, decided to appoint an inexperienced 32 year old relationship manager from a credit card company as managing director of Aston Villa. It hasn’t worked and needs to be addressed.

Get rid of Faulkner. Get rid of Houllier/McAllister, whose results have been truly appalling considering the resources at their disposal and put in place a senior team befitting of one of the biggest clubs in Europe.

Let the new senior team decide which players should come and go.

[Rigadon]

Villadawg, not sure you can say that it's Faulkner's fault that our senior pros have let us down this year. It wouldn't have been a 'strategy' that injuries to those players caused us to have to reply on the kids.  The club did good business in the transfer market too.

The failures of this year have been down to high expectation not being satisfied, bad luck, bad management and a playing staff who let themselves and the club down more often than not. 

[Mazrim]

Villadawg, not sure you can say that it's Faulkner's fault that our senior pros have let us down this year. It wouldn't have been a 'strategy' that injuries to those players caused us to have to reply on the kids.  The club did good business in the transfer market too.

The failures of this year have been down to high expectation not being satisfied, bad luck, bad management and a playing staff who let themselves and the club down more often than not. 

Spot on. Saved me the trouble.

[Risso]

12 months ago we were completing a season where we had challenged for both domestic cups and come within a couple of wins of qualification for the Champions League. In terms of results and performances against top teams, it was one of our best seasons in 20 years.

We then appointed Paul Faulkner as Chief Executive Officer to run the club. I know whenever this subject is raised people try to downplay Faulkner’s role but CEO isn’t an honorary title. It denotes the person who has legal and operational responsibility for the running of the business, the equivalent of a Managing Director. I’ve never in my life come across a serious American business where the person with the title of CEO is anything other than the person who runs the business and I’ve no doubt whatsoever that Faulkner has been running this club for the last 12 months.

The decision to appoint Faulkner as CEO and his introduction of a strategy to reduce wages and rely on inexperienced youth players has been an unmitigated disaster.

I still don’t understand how Randy Lerner, who had been such a safe pair of hands, decided to appoint an inexperienced 32 year old relationship manager from a credit card company as managing director of Aston Villa. It hasn’t worked and needs to be addressed.

Get rid of Faulkner. Get rid of Houllier/McAllister, whose results have been truly appalling considering the resources at their disposal and put in place a senior team befitting of one of the biggest clubs in Europe.

Let the new senior team decide which players should come and go.

Agree completely, it's been an utter shambles both on and off the pitch.  There's been no leadership from the top, and that has a lot to do with the choice of CEO, who from where I'm sitting, doesn't seem to have had a lot go right under his watch.

[JUAN PABLO]

I'd ship out

Friedal
Dunne
Collins
Petrov
Heskey
Salifou
L.Young
Beye
Osbourne
Ireland
Warnock
Delpth
Guzan
uncle bob
Osbourne
Delfouneso
NRC
Gary Mac

Harsh but fair.

Nothing Harsh about that


I would keep Delph thou

[WikiVilla]

If they all go, can we field a side ??

[VillaZogmariner]

12 months ago we were completing a season where we had challenged for both domestic cups and come within a couple of wins of qualification for the Champions League. In terms of results and performances against top teams, it was one of our best seasons in 20 years.

We then appointed Paul Faulkner as Chief Executive Officer to run the club. I know whenever this subject is raised people try to downplay Faulkner’s role but CEO isn’t an honorary title. It denotes the person who has legal and operational responsibility for the running of the business, the equivalent of a Managing Director. I’ve never in my life come across a serious American business where the person with the title of CEO is anything other than the person who runs the business and I’ve no doubt whatsoever that Faulkner has been running this club for the last 12 months.

The decision to appoint Faulkner as CEO and his introduction of a strategy to reduce wages and rely on inexperienced youth players has been an unmitigated disaster.

I still don’t understand how Randy Lerner, who had been such a safe pair of hands, decided to appoint an inexperienced 32 year old relationship manager from a credit card company as managing director of Aston Villa. It hasn’t worked and needs to be addressed.

Get rid of Faulkner. Get rid of Houllier/McAllister, whose results have been truly appalling considering the resources at their disposal and put in place a senior team befitting of one of the biggest clubs in Europe.

Let the new senior team decide which players should come and go.

Because paying the likes of Beye, Shorey, Davies, Sidwell, etc to do fuck all but take money out of the club was a good idea wasn't it.

[dave.woodhall]

12 months ago we were completing a season where we had challenged for both domestic cups and come within a couple of wins of qualification for the Champions League. In terms of results and performances against top teams, it was one of our best seasons in 20 years.

We then appointed Paul Faulkner as Chief Executive Officer to run the club. I know whenever this subject is raised people try to downplay Faulkner’s role but CEO isn’t an honorary title. It denotes the person who has legal and operational responsibility for the running of the business, the equivalent of a Managing Director. I’ve never in my life come across a serious American business where the person with the title of CEO is anything other than the person who runs the business and I’ve no doubt whatsoever that Faulkner has been running this club for the last 12 months.

The decision to appoint Faulkner as CEO and his introduction of a strategy to reduce wages and rely on inexperienced youth players has been an unmitigated disaster.

I still don’t understand how Randy Lerner, who had been such a safe pair of hands, decided to appoint an inexperienced 32 year old relationship manager from a credit card company as managing director of Aston Villa. It hasn’t worked and needs to be addressed.

Get rid of Faulkner. Get rid of Houllier/McAllister, whose results have been truly appalling considering the resources at their disposal and put in place a senior team befitting of one of the biggest clubs in Europe.

Let the new senior team decide which players should come and go.

Are facts still sacred even when they're only speculation?

[WikiVilla]

Well, for a business losing about 100k per day, something needs to change

[Villa'Zawg]

12 months ago we were completing a season where we had challenged for both domestic cups and come within a couple of wins of qualification for the Champions League. In terms of results and performances against top teams, it was one of our best seasons in 20 years.

We then appointed Paul Faulkner as Chief Executive Officer to run the club. I know whenever this subject is raised people try to downplay Faulkner’s role but CEO isn’t an honorary title. It denotes the person who has legal and operational responsibility for the running of the business, the equivalent of a Managing Director. I’ve never in my life come across a serious American business where the person with the title of CEO is anything other than the person who runs the business and I’ve no doubt whatsoever that Faulkner has been running this club for the last 12 months.

The decision to appoint Faulkner as CEO and his introduction of a strategy to reduce wages and rely on inexperienced youth players has been an unmitigated disaster.

I still don’t understand how Randy Lerner, who had been such a safe pair of hands, decided to appoint an inexperienced 32 year old relationship manager from a credit card company as managing director of Aston Villa. It hasn’t worked and needs to be addressed.

Get rid of Faulkner. Get rid of Houllier/McAllister, whose results have been truly appalling considering the resources at their disposal and put in place a senior team befitting of one of the biggest clubs in Europe.

Let the new senior team decide which players should come and go.

Because paying the likes of Beye, Shorey, Davies, Sidwell, etc to do fuck all but take money out of the club was a good idea wasn't it.

What's the alternative? Get the PFA to agree that your squad players are not paid when they aren't in the first team and the players to agree to join on that basis? Don't have senior well-paid squad players in reserve?

Having expensive squad players who aren't getting in the 1st team is a fact of life in the Premier League.

Those 4 players have made 174 appearances for Villa, I bet every club in the top 6 has similarly well paid experienced players who have played as few or fewer games.