and then who?

[Dante Lavelli]

I know he tends to splash the cash around like the stuff grows in trees, but at QPR this season he seems to be cutting his cloth to suit the circumstances a little more. And their squad looks better than ours.

Everyone, rightly, went mad when we appointed a manager with two relegations on his CV, you want to appoint a bloke with three?

Redknapp's a dinosaur, a vile human being and, quite possibly, a crook. He should be filed next to Hoddle on the "Fuck Right Off" list.

What makes you think Rednapp's 'a vile human being'. Do you know him personally?

Probably not.  But the media persona he has created is not a nice bloke.  Add in the court cases and the way he operates transfers and I do not think it is a huge leap to think that he's of less than perfect character.

[Holte L2]

Marcelo Bielsa or Ronald Koeman would by preferred two front runners. These two would bring imagination,excitement and forward thinking to Villa Park.

[cdbearsfan]

I know he tends to splash the cash around like the stuff grows in trees, but at QPR this season he seems to be cutting his cloth to suit the circumstances a little more. And their squad looks better than ours.

Everyone, rightly, went mad when we appointed a manager with two relegations on his CV, you want to appoint a bloke with three?

Redknapp's a dinosaur, a vile human being and, quite possibly, a crook. He should be filed next to Hoddle on the "Fuck Right Off" list.

What makes you think Rednapp's 'a vile human being'. Do you know him personally?

I don't know any managers personally. His post-match interviews, general manner and attitude and the various allegations about him make me think he may not be very nice. Plus he's already slagged off Villa fans for having the temerity to swear at games.

He's also a media whore who will spend all of transfer deadline day leaning out of a car window but will then throw his toys out of the pram if someone dares to call him "a wheeler-dealer". He's a bell-end.

[Dante Lavelli]

Marcelo Bielsa or Ronald Koeman would by preferred two front runners. These two would bring imagination,excitement and forward thinking to Villa Park.

If they were available and keen then it'd be goodbye Lambert from me.  Especially Bielsa.

[eric woolban woolban]

Co-erce fergie out of retirement for six months.  Give time to draw up a plan b.

[Holte L2]

Marcelo Bielsa or Ronald Koeman would by preferred two front runners. These two would bring imagination,excitement and forward thinking to Villa Park.

If they were available and keen then it'd be goodbye Lambert from me.  Especially Bielsa.

Same. Koeman was heavily linked with the job, post Houllier as far as I can recall. Think his agent through his hat in the ring. Beisla, did a magnificent job at Bilbao. Especially when you consider that you can only buy players from the Basque region. I'd like to think both would come.

[Ron Manager]

As Randy(and I have seriously forgotten what he looks like) has no intention(as far as we know) of getting rid of this Scottish manager this thread seems a bit pointless. But miracles do happen and this is why we shouldnt employ.

1. Hoddle. Some of you seem to forget the mess he made at Wolves. Didnt want to communicate with either the fans or the media or the players apart from matchdays and his occasional appearances at Compton. As a player very good but as a manager not suited to the job.

2. Rednapp. Can spot a player, of that there is no doubt. But would come with so much baggage the Easyjet from Bournemouth would stay rooted to the ground in protest. In any case Arry has no intention of moving from the south coast where he is happily situated. We would of course be on Sky every day and in our present predicament miss the goals his wife Sandra would tuck away...but no!

3. Vilas Boas. Schoolmaster type, players didnt like him so reports suggest. Poor track record in this country..nice name though!

Who we should employ.

1. Malky Mackay. Has carried himself well in his dealings at the club. Has dignity in the face of naffness from the owner. And has done a very good job..Hang on a minute though! Isnt he a Scottish person?....Oh dear, thats him crossed off the list then.

2. OGS  The baby faced assassin. Popular with some, an improvement on what we currently have. But I would go for

3 Steve Clarke. Badly treated by the Baggies but extremely well thought of in the game by players and club staff alike. Would work to a tight budget but fell down badly with Anelka. Mind you he is Scottish...blast!

4. A Foreign Manager. The last three have been foreign it doesnt work!

But I expect we shall be stuck with TSM2 until Randy decides to sell the club....to the Bhatti brothers!

[danlanza]

Hoddle ? Seriously ?
If he was to become Villa manager i would lock my shirts in the wardrobe and refuse to watch another game until he had gone.
Anybody who sees this bloke as manager would do well to have a word with Wolves fans and players at the time who had to suffer his non stop ego trips.
No thanks.
Koeman would be a dream, as would Bielsa, but there is as much chance of them coming to B6 as there is of a stalk delivering a real life baby.
At the moment we are not an attractive option for any manager.
OGS would just get bullied by those higher up, Hoddle, no thanks, never, never, ego to big for the whole of Birmingham.
We are in the shite, we know this. Lambert will have to do something really extraordinary to get sacked. Even relegation would not get him sacked.
He is following his orders to the letter, why would he be sacked.?
It's not about entertaining fans, it's simply about the Premier League cash.
We do not matter anymore. Just keep buying the merchandise, buying your match tickets, turn up and spend cash on shit food and drink, sit down and do as you are told, standing is dangerous you know, god forbid we get any atmosphere inside the ground.
What a load of old shite, from top to bottom.
Piss of Lerner. You ruined the Cleveland Browns, you are doing the same to us.
Get out.

[Dante Lavelli]

3 Steve Clarke. Badly treated by the Baggies but extremely well thought of in the game by players and club staff alike. Would work to a tight budget but fell down badly with Anelka.

Steve Clarke is essentially a coach.  It's noticeable that the quality and diversity of WBA's signings decreased when their DoF buggered off to England.  Villa do not currently have a DoF structure so whilst a good coach I'm not sure he's suited to the current Villa Structure.

[Ron Manager]

3 Steve Clarke. Badly treated by the Baggies but extremely well thought of in the game by players and club staff alike. Would work to a tight budget but fell down badly with Anelka.

Steve Clarke is essentially a coach.  It's noticeable that the quality and diversity of WBA's signings decreased when their DoF buggered off to England.  Villa do not currently have a DoF structure so whilst a good coach I'm not sure he's suited to the current Villa Structure.

Yes that is true and something I hadnt considered. Perhaps we need a DOF. Perhaps Gerard Houllier would consider it?

[Holte L2]

Hoddle ? Seriously ?
If he was to become Villa manager i would lock my shirts in the wardrobe and refuse to watch another game until he had gone.
Anybody who sees this bloke as manager would do well to have a word with Wolves fans and players at the time who had to suffer his non stop ego trips.
No thanks.
Koeman would be a dream, as would Bielsa, but there is as much chance of them coming to B6 as there is of a stalk delivering a real life baby.
At the moment we are not an attractive option for any manager.
OGS would just get bullied by those higher up, Hoddle, no thanks, never, never, ego to big for the whole of Birmingham.
We are in the shite, we know this. Lambert will have to do something really extraordinary to get sacked. Even relegation would not get him sacked.
He is following his orders to the letter, why would he be sacked.?
It's not about entertaining fans, it's simply about the Premier League cash.
We do not matter anymore. Just keep buying the merchandise, buying your match tickets, turn up and spend cash on shit food and drink, sit down and do as you are told, standing is dangerous you know, god forbid we get any atmosphere inside the ground.
What a load of old shite, from top to bottom.
Piss of Lerner. You ruined the Cleveland Browns, you are doing the same to us.
Get out.

Koeman fancied it three years ago: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1304062/Ronald-Koeman-tells-Aston-Villa-I-want-boss.html

He's currently at Feyenoord. I think he'd still jump at the job.

[ez]

I just logged on and saw the Lambert Out thread had been locked and this one still going and thought blimey, he's gone. Only he hasn't 

[JUAN PABLO]

Hoddle

raring to go - gagging for a job - Villa be great name for him and possible to get

12 month contract - sort this mess out and then we will talk again .

good bloody coach , which we havent got now ,

yes there is so many others I would want , but they are not going to come Villa

Neville talks alot of sense .   He can bring Beckham as well

[aj2k77]

Hoddle ? Seriously ?
If he was to become Villa manager i would lock my shirts in the wardrobe and refuse to watch another game until he had gone.
Anybody who sees this bloke as manager would do well to have a word with Wolves fans and players at the time who had to suffer his non stop ego trips.
No thanks.
Koeman would be a dream, as would Bielsa, but there is as much chance of them coming to B6 as there is of a stalk delivering a real life baby.
At the moment we are not an attractive option for any manager.
OGS would just get bullied by those higher up, Hoddle, no thanks, never, never, ego to big for the whole of Birmingham.
We are in the shite, we know this. Lambert will have to do something really extraordinary to get sacked. Even relegation would not get him sacked.
He is following his orders to the letter, why would he be sacked.?
It's not about entertaining fans, it's simply about the Premier League cash.
We do not matter anymore. Just keep buying the merchandise, buying your match tickets, turn up and spend cash on shit food and drink, sit down and do as you are told, standing is dangerous you know, god forbid we get any atmosphere inside the ground.
What a load of old shite, from top to bottom.
Piss of Lerner. You ruined the Cleveland Browns, you are doing the same to us.
Get out.

Good post. Agree with it all except for us no being an attractive proposition. We can all agree that we've been by and large shit for 4 years now and to the youngsters we are turning into a nothing club, a fixture that the big 6 come along and glean some goals from. But to the up and coming managers in their late 30's and early 40's they will remember the good times we've had, when we were important and in their heads they hold us still in esteem.

Look at how even Carragher and Neville talk about the Villa. Anyone with any experience in football during the last 25 years will not look down on us. I still firmly believe that a manager can make a name for himself at this club and go down in our history and move on to even bigger things.

[rob_bridge]

3 Steve Clarke. Badly treated by the Baggies but extremely well thought of in the game by players and club staff alike. Would work to a tight budget but fell down badly with Anelka.

Steve Clarke is essentially a coach.  It's noticeable that the quality and diversity of WBA's signings decreased when their DoF buggered off to England.  Villa do not currently have a DoF structure so whilst a good coach I'm not sure he's suited to the current Villa Structure.

Agree - we have no-one in a senior position who could be a go to person for him. I like him but not what we need currently.