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

[dave.woodhall]

Seeing as I'm not permitted to post a new thread on my opinions:

Could you not come up with something a bit more original?

Dave gets very tetchy if you mention the resistance to free speech on HandV.

Which doesn't exist, but you've made your clever little point so well done.

[Tom Sawyer]

Seeing as I'm not permitted to post a new thread on my opinions:

Could you not come up with something a bit more original?

Dave gets very tetchy if you mention the resistance to free speech on HandV.

Which doesn't exists, but you've made your clever little point so well done.

Told ya.

[Mazrim]

Behave will you. This is one of the most relaxed sites you could wish to post on.
A bit of housekeeping is necessary from time to time. Otherwise it would be a nightmare.

[itbrvilla]

Try posting on VillaTalk if you thing it's bad here. You wouldn't last 5 minutes.

[Dave]

Seeing as I'm not permitted to post a new thread on my opinions:

Could you not come up with something a bit more original?

Dave gets very tetchy if you mention the resistance to free speech on HandV.

Which doesn't exists, but you've made your clever little point so well done.

Told ya.

Would you care to offer any examples of when your free speech has been curtailed in the four or so weeks that you've been registered as a member on this site?

[Matt C]

Yup, he's a thinking man's MON.

Agreed, minus the pomp and circumstance and with added humility.

[rutski]

Great performance by Norwich today. Stick me in the Lambert camp. His team went for it, and could very easily have won this. Lovely, lovely football.

i am at camp lambert also!
i also agree that mcleish is a dead man walking. i think the man has been informed and i think all the excuses will come out. we have seen the last couple of weeks that the relationship between aston villa and alex mcleish has broken down.

[pelty]

Moyes would not come if AM were fired. He has been approached MANY times and has refused each approach. I suppose things might change, but no reason to think they would...

[ozzjim]

Moyes would not come if AM were fired. He has been approached MANY times and has refused each approach. I suppose things might change, but no reason to think they would...

He has just got himself a forward too, I think he might believe Everton can go well next season from the start.

Who would you go for Pelty?

[KRS]

Above all else, I would expect to Mr Lerner to at least attempt to get David Moyes as the next Villa manager.

Mr Moyes is a proven Premier League manager with record of running a team on a very limited budget for a long time now. Is it possible that Moyes has had enough of having no money to work with after ten years at Everton?

The cost of relegation from the Premier League would probably be at least £40M. The cost of paying off the current manager, plus four years wages for Moyes (assuming the thought of substantially increasing his current wage appealed to him), plus the cost of compensation to Everton would be substantially less than the cost of relegation.

With various high earners probably leaving the club in the summer (Heskey, Cuellar) there's the probability that Mr Lerner would be willing to bankroll, to a small extent, some spending in the transfer market - a possible further inducement for Moyes to come to B6.

With all this in mind, do you think Moyes would be a sensible appointment?

This club needs to regain its pride. It is a founder member of the football league, but when the masses dismiss us as a small club it really hurts.

I honestly think that David Moyes, together with a sensible budget, could help Aston Villa regain at least a bit of its pride.

Highlighted the bit where the case for Moyes fails...why leave a club with limited budget to move to another club with limited budget...it would be a sideways step, if not a backward step given our current plight on and off the pitch.

Dont expect Randy to be splashing big any time soon either...most of any transfer budget will now be allocated to management (still fingers crossed that AM is shown the door).

[Chris Harte]

Above all else, I would expect to Mr Lerner to at least attempt to get David Moyes as the next Villa manager.

Mr Moyes is a proven Premier League manager with record of running a team on a very limited budget for a long time now. Is it possible that Moyes has had enough of having no money to work with after ten years at Everton?

The cost of relegation from the Premier League would probably be at least £40M. The cost of paying off the current manager, plus four years wages for Moyes (assuming the thought of substantially increasing his current wage appealed to him), plus the cost of compensation to Everton would be substantially less than the cost of relegation.

With various high earners probably leaving the club in the summer (Heskey, Cuellar) there's the probability that Mr Lerner would be willing to bankroll, to a small extent, some spending in the transfer market - a possible further inducement for Moyes to come to B6.

With all this in mind, do you think Moyes would be a sensible appointment?

This club needs to regain its pride. It is a founder member of the football league, but when the masses dismiss us as a small club it really hurts.

I honestly think that David Moyes, together with a sensible budget, could help Aston Villa regain at least a bit of its pride.

Highlighted the bit where the case for Moyes fails...why leave a club with limited budget to move to another club with limited budget...it would be a sideways step, if not a backward step given our current plight on and off the pitch.

Dont expect Randy to be splashing big any time soon either...most of any transfer budget will now be allocated to management (still fingers crossed that AM is shown the door).

The 4th paragraph counters that KRS, although I admit it is speculative at best. I just have hope seeing as Mr Lerner sold us the Bright Future thing.

Still, its all about opinions.

Edit, And Pelty had pointed out that Moyes has been approached many times. So this does make it less likely to happen, perhaps.

[Rigadon]

That we've approached Moyes 'many times' suggests to me that we're not so naive as I thought when going for a manager.  Puzzling though, all that due process and interviews and doing things the right way?  What was that all about if we have been approaching other club's managers at the same time?  Unless of course we went to Everton and they said no, but why would we keep going back?

Anyway, I called this thread completely wrong.  89 pages later and still no merge  

I'd still say Rodgers would be the only realistically gettable candidate unless we have an injection of proper funds. 

[asgpaul]

Would love Moyes, think he'd be swapping like for like by joining us, but what a lift it would be if indeed he walked into B6. 

[Eigentor]

Yup, he's a thinking man's MON.

MON could have been a great manager if he had used his brains (which he admittedly has) to study the game and the art of coaching to add to his bag of tricks, instead of stubbornly sticking to his set ways. If Lambert is going to be what MON could have been, then that is probably as good a manager that we can hope for.

[pauliewalnuts]

I think the range of managers people would be happy to accept will be gigantic compared to this time last year, having had a year of McLeish's brand of "football".