AVFC statement - McLeish sacked.

[Steve67]

Hopefully the management pool will be brimming with quality when Villa fire the gun at McLeish.  Martinez appears ready to leave Wigan,  AVB is available, I reckon Lambert would jump at the chance to wake the giant too.  Fat Rafa is still out of work, that concerns me a little!!

[brontebilly]

I hope Grant and McLeish are abused to epic proportions at Norwich. McLeish is clearly taking the piss out of the club O'Leary style over the last few weeks.

[Toronto Villa]

Interesting to read in Kendrick's latest article that McLeish has said he won't be scouting players for us at the Euros. That's because Alex you won't have a club to manage.

In fairness I bloody hope no manager of ours would scout players at the Euros. Playing a maximum of 7 games of peak exposure, with inflated prices if they do well. No, it's a good rule of thumb to avoid anyone who's just done well in major tournaments as their price will be massively inflated.

A bit of sweeping statement isn't it? What if you have been watching a player for his club and then followed that up by scouting at the Euros. I'm sure Europe's biggest clubs will have scouts at the competition as should we. And not only the Euros, the African Nations, Copa America, Asian Cup etc

[PaulWinch again]

I think you can pick up players from major championships. However I think the key point is that Mcleish won't be doing it for us, because he won't be here. There is no a single reason to keep him and an absolute avalanche of reasons to get rid.

[Dave Clark Five]

I wonder if this is the warchest meeting.

[PaulWinch again]

I still can't get my head around why you want him to stay DC5, especially given his belittling of the club over the last week or so. Not only has he done a dreadful job on the field, got appalling results combined with dreadful football. He's also now talking us down worse than O'Leary did. Fair enough if you do want him to stay, but I can't see a single reason why.

[Risso]

I still can't get my head around why you want him to stay DC5, especially given his belittling of the club over the last week or so. Not only has he done a dreadful job on the field, got appalling results combined with dreadful football. He's also now talking us down worse than O'Leary did. Fair enough if you do want him to stay, but I can't see a single reason why.

I think he's enjoying the Coopers Injury style notoriety. 

[Monty]

Interesting to read in Kendrick's latest article that McLeish has said he won't be scouting players for us at the Euros. That's because Alex you won't have a club to manage.

In fairness I bloody hope no manager of ours would scout players at the Euros. Playing a maximum of 7 games of peak exposure, with inflated prices if they do well. No, it's a good rule of thumb to avoid anyone who's just done well in major tournaments as their price will be massively inflated.

A bit of sweeping statement isn't it? What if you have been watching a player for his club and then followed that up by scouting at the Euros. I'm sure Europe's biggest clubs will have scouts at the competition as should we. And not only the Euros, the African Nations, Copa America, Asian Cup etc

Okay, more accurately, never sign a player solely on the basis of a major tournament performance. It's just not a big enough sample of games and it's in the environment of international football, so different to club football.

[eastie]

I wonder if this is the warchest meeting.

No its the 'cheerio youre fired alex' meeting.

However please feel free to give him your regards if you see him pruning his roses this august!

[VillaAlways]

I wonder if this is the warchest meeting.

I doubt our board will get a new manager in that quickly They've got to sack McLeish first

[charleeco7]

I think he will stay. Lerner and Faulkner seem daft enough to believe the excuses that will be rolled out in their meeting.

I hope I'm wrong but have a feeling I won't be.

[dicedlam]

If he truly believes that teams below us have better squads then he must think that we've over achieved this season, surely we can get rid of him on mental health grounds?

Excellent.

Never used it before, but a massive lol to that!

'Comical fucking Alex'

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

I expect it to be announced next week when he meets the board.

http://www.itv.com/news/central/update/2012-05-12/mcleish-meets-board/

What day next week ? I would like to know if I'm renewing my season ticket or not.

[PaulWinch again]

There's no way he's staying, I'm going with positive thoughts now. If you just think logically there is no way he can keep his job.

[bertlambshank]

I wonder if this is the warchest meeting.

Your just winding us all up now arn't you?