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

[VILLA MOLE]

fuck it,  off to bed to dream of a new manager in a non sexual way

[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??

When was that?

Since we won the league, 2 league titles, 1 Cup Winners Cup, 2 FA Cups and a league cup.

[olaftab]

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?

I guess like all of us He knows his wife and his kids views very well. So why did he come over last week when he knew where the job was? Why did he string us along after that for 4/5 days? And if it was family he didn't need a dinner meeting with Rokke to make that decision. And this another country is not so strange. This is where the kids have lived mst of their life. They were probably born here.

[PeterWithesShin]

If lambert turns us down we really are on stoney ground unless they go for a *gasp* manager in a half good foreign league. The problem is finding one who's known in this country, someone who perhaps played well for an english during his career, so Villa fans can rate him highly on no evidence at all.....

Which leagues are acceptable to you Greg? Only asking as you never actually seem to have a clue who you want apart from someone foreign. Only when we go for someone foreign you don't want them.

[Jockey Randall]

Betfair seems to suggest this isn't over. Odds seem to be tumbling back down again. Reminds of when Redknapp said there was no way he would go back to Pompey from Southampton but after a brief hike, his price on betfair suggested otherwise as he quickly went back into odds on favourite.

[john e]

Betfair seems to suggest this isn't over. Odds seem to be tumbling back down again. Reminds of when Redknapp said there was no way he would go back to Pompey from Southampton but after a brief hike, his price on betfair suggested otherwise as he quickly went back into odds on favourite.

sky bet have him joint favourite with Lambert

[Ad@m]

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.

You're not exactly proving your point by calling yourself 'cleverer'.

[danlanza]

Well, it's been emotional but I'm off to bed
Can't take anymore tonight

Me to mate. This shite makes me so tired.

[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.

And who on here said such a thing?

Christ too many to name. I'm not prepared to trawl through hundreds of pages.

I think it's safe to say a lot of people were claiming to be ITK on some kind of level and had heard OGS was coming.

In other words, nobody.

Yeah you're correct. Absolutely no ITKs have been on here. No one on here has been mentioning MM or TheTrees or Tim Abraham or Gazton or Kendrick.

[hartman_1982]

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

His odds are coming back in ?
Why ?

now 2/1

[pauliewalnuts]

Yeah you're correct. Absolutely no ITKs have been on here. No one on here has been mentioning MM or TheTrees or Tim Abraham or Gazton or Kendrick.

Tim Abraham and Kendrick are journalists. it is their job to talk about these things.

TheTrees, MM and Gazton all post on VillaTalk exclusively, not on here.

So you might want to do a bit of research before losing your rag about it.

[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.

You're not exactly proving your point by calling yourself 'cleverer'.

Tongue firmly lodged within my cheek.

[Des Little]

I'm off to the scratcher.  When I awake, I'd like to hear that this has been a wind up and OGS is boarding the11C from Oslo to B6. 

[Thatcher at Downing St]

I'm already sick of the idea of hearing "Aston Villa manager and former Manchester United striker, Ole Gunnar Solksjaer..." and I haven't heard it yet.

Not sure why there's a massive love in with him. Seems to me that there'll be MASSIVE expectation of him, and having to wait while he bombs arseholes like Dunne and Collins out of the club and get the team playing attractive football is something a lot of people won't have patience for.

At least with Rodgers or Lambert the expectation is that they build there teams gradually and purposefully and this would be the expectation. OGS is coming across on here as the grand solution to everything.

I very much doubt he will be. I WANT him to be. If he comes, I hope he is. But I just don't think it's going to work out that way.

[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?

I guess like all of us He knows his wife and his kids views very well. So why did he come over last week when he knew where the job was? Why did he string us along after that for 4/5 days? And if it was family he didn't need a dinner meeting with Rokke to make that decision. And this another country is not so strange. This is where the kids have lived mst of their life. They were probably born here.

Again, I know a few people who were offered jobs abroad and even went for interviews but turned them down after their families decided they didn't want to move. They went for the interview so as they had the option as to what to do with their lives. They then spent X amount of time talking to their families abut what they wanted. All of them took a lot longer than 4 or 5 days to come to their decisions. Including the folks I know who did move abroad.
Quite why the general assumption is footballers and managers will move without a second thought for their families is beyond me.

And now they are in their home country, with their family and a much nicer lifestyle than they'd have in Brum. It's not really a stretch of the imagination to assume they'd like to stay there now.