Would you be happy with Ole Gunnar Solskjær? Now with added poll.

[Caiphus]

Wells, I ams keepings my news names as its is.  Buts Is wills be gettings Dr Rockzos tos comforts mes.

[Louzie0]

Doug must be having a quiet chuckle tonight. It smells of indecision and incompetence.

Yes, because Doug always got the manager he wanted.

And we have no idea who turned him down or who was favourite because the only source of gossip was the Evening Mail, every 24 hours.  Which was probably way off or way on but the point is, we just wouldn't have known either way!

[NorthYvillan]

OK if some people want to comfort themselves  that he put his family first fine. I don't buy it. It's a PR spin agreed by both parties.

Spot on.

oh for f***s sake..............

[silhillvilla]

Gregory said he wants it, did he?

If he's the only one that does...

I'd be happy with a JGMkII type situation
He's villa through & through

[Lamb_Stockmix]

I just wish to clarify something:

IT TURNS OUT THAT ALL THESE 'ITKs' ON HERE AND VILLATALK SAYING OGS WAS A DEAD CERT ACTUALLY KNOW FUCK ALL.

cheers.

Aren't you the clever one, eh?

Certainly cleverer for not spouting bollocks on internet forums about done deals.

[PeterWithesShin]

Family reasons sounds strange, though.

Surely they'd have been there the whole time and not just surfaced after a meal with Rokke?

Pleased you see it like this as well.

How long would you expect your wife and 3 kids would take to make the decision to move to another country?

[Somniloquism]

I applaud the brave decision to go for him but surely you do enough behind the scenes work that you know he will say yes. Martinez debacle of last year? I'm sure Dave would say that wasn't Lerners/Faulkners fault either.

Last year we asked several out of work managers and a couple of in work managers (through their clubs) for interviews, similar to what we are doing this year. Only Martinez, (via Dave Whelan) came out in the papers and said he wasn't interested in interviewing. That is similar to what Rodgers has done to Liverpool. He never turned down the job, just the interview request. OGS has ruled himself out after the interview but before any actual job offer.

[boboonthecorner]

Gutted like most, still think Ian holloway would do a good job. If as some folks on here are saying randy ain't gonna spend big holloway would get every single player in a villa shirt up for each game ready to give their all.

No way to Ian Holloway. Things are bad but they aren't so bad that we go crawling to somebody who A isn't all he thinks he is and B had the cheek to slag off a club of our standing.

A club of our standing? Take a step back and look at the bigger picture we ain't the massive club we once was. Our situation over the last couple of seasons has changed we need to get real and accept that we can't attract the best managers or players. What we can do is get a manager in who will work with what we've got and get them playing as a team and add a couple of half decent signings.

I did bring this up the other day, it does make me cringe sometimes the way people go on about a club of our size. You don't hear Everton go on despite the fact they've won a lot more than us recently??

[dave.woodhall]

I just wish to clarify something:

IT TURNS OUT THAT ALL THESE 'ITKs' ON HERE AND VILLATALK SAYING OGS WAS A DEAD CERT ACTUALLY KNOW FUCK ALL.

cheers.

Aren't you the clever one, eh?

Certainly cleverer for not spouting bollocks on internet forums about done deals.

And who on here said such a thing?

[bob]

Gregory said he wants it, did he?

If he's the only one that does...

I'd be happy with a JGMkII type situation
He's villa through & through

I wouldn't. I loved him at the time but you should never go back.

In hindsight he probably wasn't as great as I thought he was.

Being Villa through and through isn't enough.

[hartman_1982]

OGS gone from 28/1 to 3/1 with Skybet

[Malandro]

I'm not sure why I'm more disappointed, the bets I placed; or that I could see entertaining football coming.

Please Randy, pick somebody who will entertain us

[Des Little]

FWIW Jan Aage Fjortoft has just tweeted that he's 110% certain OGS would accept the job if he was offered it, still.  Make of that what you will.

Don't shoot the messenger (ducks for cover)

[danlanza]

Doug must be having a quiet chuckle tonight. It smells of indecision and incompetence.

Yes, because Doug always got the manager he wanted.

And we have no idea who turned him down or who was favourite because the only source of gossip was the Evening Mail, every 24 hours.  Which was probably way off or way on but the point is, we just wouldn't have known either way!

One of the best comments of the night with the media frenzy thats going on. Spot on.

[john e]

2/1 now on Sky Bet