AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I've just read Doug's quotes where he says Football isn't about management, McLeish is a good manager and it would be foolish to get rid of him. Also he thinks we were upset because he came from Blose and not because he's shit.

You silly, silly old man.

Laughable hypocrisy from Herbert there.

We all know he'd have given him the push long before now.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

If someone is shit, I don't understand why you should have to pay them to leave.

That's contracts for you.

It's the same as chief exec's at large companies like M & S, if they do a shit job they're paid off handsomely.

[Risso]

If someone is shit, I don't understand why you should have to pay them to leave.

I'd love to know the sum Chelsea have laid out in buying out managers' contracts over the time since Mourinho left.

Hasn't Villas Boas cost them £50m alone?  Not just sacking him, but £28m to Porto in compo etc.  Insane.

[remy]

One of our main problems is that we dont have a Chief Executive that acts swiftly or decisively. He is a quiet man behind the scenes unlike Levy of Tottenham for example. To me Faulkner looks out of his depth, neither vocal nor approachable.

I beleive all this support Mcleish bollucks is a smokescreen so when it comes to ending his employment they cant go to a tribunal. The pay off sum is correct and we could have 100,000 fans screaming Mcleish for the exit but he wouldnt leave because he is a "fighter" (or £4m at stake - set for life!!!) Hell, I wouldnt care if 1,000,000 supporters were screaming for me to leave, I want my money!!!

The other reason is Stan and Ollie would be left with egg on their faces admitting a poor decision and crap judgement in bringing Mcleish in the first place. To admit that publically by sacking him would of course go back on their words in August when they appointed him with the "we know the fans will crow, but we dont care ad nauseum" and be made fools of in the process.

Either way the club suffers and the fans suffer. 

[Merv]

Faulkner and Lerner need to realise that they won't be the first people to have made a managerial appointment that didn't work out. It happens. Actually, it happens quite a lot - managers don't work out. This one hasn't, and he's had a full season to show that he's capable, and he's failed on just about every level. He's had longer to prove he's worth the job than some in recent history.

If it's about saving face and pride, etc, then that's wrong. All they would need to do is say it hasn't worked out, and that's that.

[VillaAlways]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/alex-mcleish-fights-on-after-aston-villa-fans-patience-snaps-7679148.html

Good article.Nice to see that the author says we should have been safe well before the injuries hit

[Brian Taylor]

Well it's Villa in crisis time on the front of the Mail and Deadly is backing McLeish to get top 6 next season (the drugs don't work)

http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2012/04/25/birmingham-mail-front-page-today-s-headlines-97319-30840088/

Tommy Doc's famous quote 'I'm here to get the Villa out of the 2nd division'; and we promptly went into the third comes to mind.  It always makes me smile.
This is the villa!! Our villa. Get rid of idiots who only care about balance sheets and get some proper football brains in! NOW! The money will follow success, and the fans that bring the money in!
UTV!!

[Boz]

The Future of Alex McLeish -  as far away from VP as possible, never to return

[john e]

Warnock - 'personaly i feel we are not far of battering a team '

  LOL

[JUAN PABLO]

Not that they should have gave the clown a contract in the first place but at least a  minimum Wage 12 month contract would have been fine .   If you do good alex , we will give you another one , If you do shite  , pack up the haggis and f**k off.
 

[VILLA MOLE]

Warnock - 'personaly i feel we are not far of battering a team '

  LOL

my 5 aside team are not that good maybe we could play them 

[PaulWinch again]

Warnock - 'personaly i feel we are not far of battering a team '

  LOL

Yeah I had to chuckle, I'm not sure what on earth he's basing that on. We barely score any goals.

[not3bad]

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/alex-mcleish-fights-on-after-aston-villa-fans-patience-snaps-7679148.html

Good article.Nice to see that the author says we should have been safe well before the injuries hit

"Whereas his fellow Scot, Steve Kean, has endured such vilification all season at Blackburn, Villa's crowd had resisted openly venting antipathy towards McLeish, apparently willing to suppress their misgivings as long as the team kept a respectable distance between themselves and the bottom three."

Stan Collymore should read this after his "if Villa won 10 in a row the fans would want to know where win No. 11 was coming from" bollocks.

[JUAN PABLO]

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[JUAN PABLO]

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