Who Should be Aston Villa Manager ? Now with new, revised poll

[maidstonevillain]

I've said for the last two days that despite Whelan being on the face of it all magnanimous saying nice things about us, he's is an absolute ruthless businessman, who knew EXACTLY what he was doing.  He's come out of this smelling of roses, we've come out of it looking like chumps.  Ellis wouldn't have let that happen to him.  Lerner hasn't got the remotest clue how to conduct football business or manage the media.

Agree, he's never faced the media as such. We need strong leadership at this stage, but it's just not there. The communication from the club is abysmal to say the least. We just don't have a PR Department.

So when did you last see the Chelsea chairman, the Arsenal Chairman, the Man U chairman, the Liverpool chairman, etc face the media. The only chairmen you see regularly in the media are those of the small clubs. Who need the publicity.

[Nev]

We seem to be casting a net amongst the potential candiadates and waiting for a bite rather than identifying specific targets.

Whether it was talks, the job or a meal with Randy, RM said no. So what is it about the bait that is putting people off, or is it who?

[Risso]

I've said for the last two days that despite Whelan being on the face of it all magnanimous saying nice things about us, he's is an absolute ruthless businessman, who knew EXACTLY what he was doing.  He's come out of this smelling of roses, we've come out of it looking like chumps.  Ellis wouldn't have let that happen to him.  Lerner hasn't got the remotest clue how to conduct football business or manage the media.

Agree, he's never faced the media as such. We need strong leadership at this stage, but it's just not there. The communication from the club is abysmal to say the least. We just don't have a PR Department.

So when did you last see the Chelsea chairman, the Arsenal Chairman, the Man U chairman, the Liverpool chairman, etc face the media. The only chairmen you see regularly in the media are those of the small clubs. Who need the publicity.

Arsenal and Man U have long standing managers who are the public face of their clubs, so their owners/chairmen have no need.  At the moment we have no manager, and our only public announcements are from the General on various messageboards which invariably end up in the tabloids as he drops bollock after bollock.  Aston Villa's idea of public relations is to drip feed people like Mysteryman bits of gossip to try and keep the people on message boards interested.

[MoetVillan]

I personally think they are just getting on with it.  Asking permission properly to speak to Managers currently in jobs and its down to them whether they think they could take on the position.  Martinez probably said no for a number of reasons, but it was a no to taking an interview, not turning down the job.  I think the club are handling it impeccably, and will do us good in the future if we deal with clubs re. players.  Its not the clubs fault that the media are braying for any story and will go with any sniff of anything, adding 2s up and getting 7.  Go Villa, go get the man you want.

[eastie]

Glad its not martinez but we are looking a bit foolish the way we seem to go about things-lets go for benitez or hughes who are both proven at this level.

[eastie]

Sorry double post.

[Skorpio]

Whelan was very cocky about RM staying at Wigan even though Villa are bigger club. Obviously already knew RM decision at the time of going public.  RL had courage to look at an up and coming manager, RM had no courage in discussing the opportunity.  Thats my spin regardless of the media. 

I'm sure RL is looking at all potential candidates and not just RM

[Quiet Lion]

Maybe we should get Gold and Sullivan in as chairman, they are happy to face the public ?

[villa for life]

Relieved it's not going to be Martinez. Sticky situation though, as anyone who's currently employed is going to look a "lesser" man by breaking contract, now that Martinez has "honoured" his! Still, no McClaren and no Martinez, things are definitely looking up!

[Mazrim]

I dont give a flying fuck what the media say. Just get a good a manager and do our business in actions, not words.
Shouldn't have been sniffing after Martinez anyway.
But Whelan can have his 15 minutes at our expense if he wants, silly old dodger.

[maidstonevillain]

Relieved it's not going to be Martinez. Sticky situation though, as anyone who's currently employed is going to look a "lesser" man by breaking contract, now that Martinez has "honoured" his! Still, no McClaren and no Martinez, things are definitely looking up!

For all we know all the "lesser" men have already been contacted and interviewed.

[Concrete John]

Here's a quick question; after all this do you actually expect it to be a 'better' manager than Martinez?  I know the term is subjective, so lets go with managers the likes of Hughes, Benitez, etc.?

I think it will be!   

[dutchvilla]

one name that has not come up much is Simon Grayson? We could do worse.

[pauliewalnuts]

A bullet well and truly dodged.

Unfortunate that it had to be done in such embarassing circumstances, but what the fuck, at least we've been preventing from walking into that mistake.

I reckon it'll be Hughes now

[AsTallAsLions]

Time for Randy to do the hard thing and offer Moyes a massive budget to take the job. Perhaps the reason he was reluctant to do so for Benitez was the man's history of poor spending. With more faith in Moyes, he'd be willing to offer him more funds.

Would of course require paying big money to Everton also, however.