Who do you want as the next manager? New poll option.

[Louzie0]

Glenn Hoddle. 

[Irish villain]

Benitez, Martinez, Lambert, Villas-Boas, Rodgers, Di Matteo (if he doesn't get the Chelsea job). These would be my top choices. Benitez is the best of them.

Left field choices would be: Ranieri, Hughton, Poyet, Wilkins, Southgate (!),  Laursen (!)

I tell you what, I may over-idolize him as a player, but I'm convinced that within the next ten years Martin Laursen will return to B6 as manager. Currently managing in the Danish second division East if I'm not mistaken.

Martin Laursen just seemed to fit in really well at villa. He was a real leader who threw himself into everything for the cause.  If he ever makes it as a manager I'd love to see him back at the club. I think we'd be the right club for him to manage and he'd come with prior knowledge of our structural deficiencies.

Could be wishful thinking of course.

[Mazrim]

I'd be keen to get him in the coaching set up but he's nowhere near qualified to manage a Premier League club at the moment. Mind you, neither is Ale... ah never mind.

[john e]

Benitez, Martinez, Lambert, Villas-Boas, Rodgers, Di Matteo (if he doesn't get the Chelsea job). These would be my top choices. Benitez is the best of them.

Left field choices would be: Ranieri, Hughton, Poyet, Wilkins, Southgate (!),  Laursen (!)

I tell you what, I may over-idolize him as a player, but I'm convinced that within the next ten years Martin Laursen will return to B6 as manager. Currently managing in the Danish second division East if I'm not mistaken.

Martin Laursen just seemed to fit in really well at villa. He was a real leader who threw himself into everything for the cause.  If he ever makes it as a manager I'd love to see him back at the club. I think we'd be the right club for him to manage and he'd come with prior knowledge of our structural deficiencies.

Could be wishful thinking of course.

nothing wrong with a bit of wishfull thinking, sometimes its all we got.

[mr underhill]

Couldn't agree more with Laursen, a Villa guy and just the sort of left field thinking we need. I suspect the reality is the gingerone will get ten games of next season and a summer of wheeler dealering based on freebies and cash from sales with Randy committing nothing by way of new money.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I don't know why people think an ex defender is going to make a great manager, what experience does he have?

[john e]

I don't know why people think an ex defender is going to make a great manager, what experience does he have?

about the same as Pep Guardiola had when he took over at Barcalona, maybe more actually

[Phil from the upper holte]

I'm pretty sure we need to get him on the coaching first, he may not even want it? So Guardiola had no managment experience whatsoever before he got the Barca job?

[john e]

I'm pretty sure we need to get him on the coaching first, he may not even want it? So Guardiola had no managment experience whatsoever before he got the Barca job?

he looked after the reserves for a year if that counts

[PaulWinch again]

Guardiola, with all due respect to our youngsters, had a whole different calibre of player available.

[john e]

Guardiola, with all due respect to our youngsters, had a whole different calibre of player available.

cause he did,
 i'm not calling for Laursen, just saying that the right man isnt always the one that ticks all the boxes

[Risso]

I've always been against giving the job of manager to a popular ex-player, because it smacks of desperation, and doesn't take into any account their actual ability for the job.  However, McLeish has done such a spectacularly awful job that it's hard to imagine ANYBODY doing a worse job, and at least sombody like Laursen would stand a chance of having everybody unite behind him.

[Irish villain]

Laursen was last of 11 names I mentioned. It was a left field suggestion. Why not?

Personally I'd rather see him rally the troops in the dressing room than Alex McLeish.

[eastie]

Forget laursen- we need someone with managerial experience and paul lambert has impressed me at all 3 clubs hes managed.

[DB]

Guardiola, with all due respect to our youngsters, had a whole different calibre of player available.

cause he did,
 i'm not calling for Laursen, just saying that the right man isnt always the one that ticks all the boxes

What boxes? It's same when the Geordies wanted Shearer in charge. We need a manger based on ability / track record - not an emotional one. As said get him in as coach, for a few years time to be a potential manager.

Woy at Wets Bwom for me.