Official - Houllier leaves by mutual consent (p.28)

[usav]

Good luck to Gerard Houllier, I liked him. I liked his personality and I liked what he tried to achieve here in extremely hard circumstances. It did not work out and we will never see if his long term plans would have been successful. He made errors, don't we all? Especially when new to a job.

All the best to him and his family.

100% agree with this.

[Wilfred the Hairy]

I do hope that whoever takes over continues the groundwork that Houllier has begun - of course that will be more likely if GH stays on in some capacity.

And I hope that whoever takes over speaks English as well as he does. I've never heard better grammar from a Villa manager.

[TheSandman]

Would like to reiterate the points of others wishing Gerard all the best.

Good health and a happy retirement.

[PaulTheVillan]

Good luck to Gerard Houllier, I liked him. I liked his personality and I liked what he tried to achieve here in extremely hard circumstances. It did not work out and we will never see if his long term plans would have been successful. He made errors, don't we all? Especially when new to a job.

All the best to him and his family.

100% agree with this.

Yep, and me.

[RodtheVillan]

Good health to Gerard and all the best to him and his family.

[N'ZMAV]

Good luck to Gerard Houllier, I liked him. I liked his personality and I liked what he tried to achieve here in extremely hard circumstances. It did not work out and we will never see if his long term plans would have been successful. He made errors, don't we all? Especially when new to a job.

All the best to him and his family.

100% agree with this.

Yep, and me.

Me and all...

[IRISHPHIL]

assuming ged does leave , not expecting any transfers in until after players return for pre season traing as new mananger will want to see what players he has available

[Concrete John]

I do hope that whoever takes over continues the groundwork that Houllier has begun - of course that will be more likely if GH stays on in some capacity.

No I don't want to turn this into a Gezza bashing thread, but what good work has he done?  OK, results may have been better without the injuries, but he's been in charge for a very poor season performance wise and his new methods have either not taken effect yet or have and have failed.  His transfer dealings were the only real plus I can see.

Still, what's past is past and let's hopr the guy has a long and happy retirement.

[Risso]

I think that other than the signing of Bent, the reign of Houllier has been an unmitigated disaster.  Rubbish football, rubbish PR, rubbish results, rubbish defending and all sorts of baffling player decisions.  Again other than Bent, (and possibley Walker) I think all of his transfers have been crap as well.

[kippaxvilla2]

I think that other than the signing of Bent, the reign of Houllier has been an unmitigated disaster.  Rubbish football, rubbish PR, rubbish results, rubbish defending and all sorts of baffling player decisions.  Again other than Bent, (and possibley Walker) I think all of his transfers have been crap as well.

Except Robert (Kinsella) Pires.

[Salsa Party Animal]

So apart from

getting rid of high earners Carew and co and cut wages bill.
upsetting Villa fans for Liverpool Away, and FA Cup selection against Man City
Bring in two coaching staff and a chief scout (Who left after couple of months) and promote Sid.
Signing two good players Bent and Jean Makoun permanetly and Bradley and Walker on loans
Carry on developing young players

Is there anything we don't know about ie changes in training ground, methods, recruitment, etc.

[Malandro]

RIP

[maidstonevillain]

I see the neighbours are slating us for our poor treatment of GH (in a non-obsessed fashion of course).....
http://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,542454
.....which I find a little hypocritical as they're doing their best to hound out their most successful manager ever.

Clowns

To be fair, there is nothing on there that has not already been said on these boards. Some reasonably well balanced comments. Must be one of the more erudite blues boards. Erudite blues board-is that an oxymoron.

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

I see the neighbours are slating us for our poor treatment of GH (in a non-obsessed fashion of course).....
http://www.that lot.com/read.php?1,542454
.....which I find a little hypocritical as they're doing their best to hound out their most successful manager ever.

Clowns

Christ, they are really are thick as pigshit.

Some of the comments they make would not look out of place on a forum from a psychiatric institution. I have realised i dont hate them anymore. They are just mentally ill ......

[Damo70]

It's for the best all round. Better for his health and better for the club. He had lost a lot of the fans (mainly due to the fact that a fair number were against him from the start) and a couple of bad results next season would have stirred it up again. Now we have sorted it out early we can appoint a new manager quickly and we have more options than last September. Also the new manager has a wage bill cleared of Shorey, Davies, Sidwell, Reo-coker and Carew and a number of decent youngsters who gained important experience last season.