If Lambert doesn't get the bullet at the end of the season, I genuinely don't know what he'd need to do to get sacked. Since when did the stated remit for the club become merely 'survival'?
When the board decided that being a new version of Wigan was acceptable. Balancing the books is now all that matters, the playing squad, style of play, attendances & everything else is just a side show. They want the premier league TV money to balance the books and mere survival ticks the box they want. Ambition does not even now enter their thinking.
He is the perfect manager for them thus far, sold off most of the higher earners and replaced with players on low wages who we could probably sell without losing money on most of them.
Is this acceptable for a club like Villa or the fans of this great club? No chance.
Does the owner care enough any more to be bothered about the above? No does not feel that way. We are his club and he does what he wants.
Why oh why, do we never land on our feet and get lucky with managers, the 3 year cycle is about to begin again.
