Aston Villa Sack Manager Ads

[Brian Taylor]

Club Statement: "Following the point on Saturday at Villa Park, there have been stories about my selling the Club. On a personal level, I had hoped the emphasis would have been on the amazing effort on the part of our next manager and his current players to separate after a very difficult season. Injuries to Nemanja and Ashley, compounded with the early loss of Luis and the difficult rehab of Darren have no doubt left David with far less to work with than is fair. Still, David Moyes has done nothing but work to show that he wants to leave Manchester United and take over at Aston Villa within the parameters I've set, put his next Club first and continue to distrust Fergie's players. As regards my personal role at the Club and the steady rumours of a sale, I will address these after the season. David Moyes, Paul Faulkner and I speak daily and remain committed to the immediate job of limiting distraction and confusion in order that Villa have the best chance possible of finishing on a strong note, so that David does not join Spurs."

- Randy Lerner, Aston Villa Chairman

Many a true word...!!

[silhillvilla]

Klopp rules himself out to takeover.

[curiousorange]

Klopp rules himself out to takeover.

A journalist asked him and he pissed himself laughing.

[mr underhill]

yes but tat was in reply to him taking over from Lambert

[Clark W Griswold]

It seems harsh to me.  Reputation great and one bad season/spell under difficult circumstances and he is seen as a laughing stock like McLaren and SGT were.

Yeah but with McLaren it was that ridiculous dutch accent he put on when being interviewed which made it hard to ever take him seriously again. That would have been true in any walk of life.

[onje_villa]

NO, NO, NO please not. Another effort over quality grafter.

[olaftab]

How many of us wanted Moyes before the arrival of Lambert?

Has Moyes become an awful manager inside a season?

No not bad but limited. He has proven that by taking a team that won the League by 11 points to mid table mediocrity. This shows that given all the resources available, remember he spent nearly £65m on two players, he was not able to meet his target of CL qualification.
Clearly he could do a good job here but that's all nothing more. And he has not won a cup despite having a good squad at Everton and even better one at Manu.

[Billy Walker]

How many of us wanted Moyes before the arrival of Lambert?

Has Moyes become an awful manager inside a season?

Really surprised by this as surely the Man U board knew after Ferguson it was going to be a major rebuilding job and if they wanted a big name manager why didn't they go for Mourinho at the outset?

I suppose there is indeed some parity with Moyes at Man U and our very own Lambert. Both tasked with rebuilding a team and both ultimately failing to appease the expectancy of the fans and for one club that has been enough to sack the manager while the other is momentarily kept in his job because his remit was to run us on the cheap irrespective of results which look like being good enough to keep us in the Premiership by the skin of our teeth.

I suppose if the mooted rumours are correct then it was Ferguson who chose his successor and it was on the recommendation of Ferguson that Mcleish came to our club. For such a brilliant manager his choice of manager has stunk the Premiership out and maybe just maybe his aura this morning has now dimmed slightly.

I would still like to see Moyes as our new manager. Reasons being that I still feel he is a very good manager who really hasn't been given a fair crack of the whip at Man U because the expectancy has been so high and it was always going to be an impossible job to follow Ferguson especially with an ageing squad to revamp yet somehow still achieve CL qualification. The expectancy level at our club wouldn't be as high and given time with increased funding from the mooted take over in the summer Moyes could again build another Everton dynasty here which let's face it is a darn sight better than we all have had to endure over the past several seasons.

Have you seen Moyes' record for his first few seasons at Everton?  I'd argue Lambert is doing a much better job in a comparable situation.

[Astral Weeks]

Been listening to the United fans on Radio 5 Live phone-in. It's truly remarkable how many of them don't know how to pronounce the name of their club's owners.

Terry Christian was talking a lot of sense. Wow, there's a sentence I never thought I'd type. He had a fairly heated argument with Robbie Savage, and made a valid point when he asked where would United have finished last season if RVP had missed half of it?

[Chris Smith]

Been listening to the United fans on Radio 5 Live phone-in. It's truly remarkable how many of them don't know how to pronounce the name of their club's owners.

Terry Christian was talking a lot of sense. Wow, there's a sentence I never thought I'd type. He had a good argument with Robbie Savage, and made a valid point when he said where would United have finished last season if RVP had missed half of it.

I heard Allardyce say something similar at the weekend in respect of us and Benteke. Without their main striker for long periods any team will suffer.

[SW9-VILLA]

nah Martinez is the man

With all due respect, coming to Villa would be a step sideways or even backwards at the moment tbh. He wouldn't come even when he was the boss at Wigan!

[silhillvilla]

They've just said it's a year to the day since they won the league following a 3-0 win over us. What they failed to mention was that all 3 goals were offside !

[Slaphead]

For me I think Moyes was doomed to fail, he took over a poor squad. The fact that they won the league last season is a testament to Fergie's skill as a manager and how well the players knew his system. No manager could have taken over that squad and repeated Fergie's success, poor players that just happened to be perfected at Fergie's style of play.

Now my problem with Moyes was his inability to identify how poor the squad he was talking over was and failed to protect himself in regards to replacing them; or at least making a condition of his appointment that he has money to spend and freedom to do what he has to do.

Why was he buying Fellani when he should have been looking at their long term future and signing Barkley who would possibly have been cheaper.

[rob_bridge]

How many of us wanted Moyes before the arrival of Lambert?

Has Moyes become an awful manager inside a season?

Really surprised by this as surely the Man U board knew after Ferguson it was going to be a major rebuilding job and if they wanted a big name manager why didn't they go for Mourinho at the outset?

I suppose there is indeed some parity with Moyes at Man U and our very own Lambert. Both tasked with rebuilding a team and both ultimately failing to appease the expectancy of the fans and for one club that has been enough to sack the manager while the other is momentarily kept in his job because his remit was to run us on the cheap irrespective of results which look like being good enough to keep us in the Premiership by the skin of our teeth.

I suppose if the mooted rumours are correct then it was Ferguson who chose his successor and it was on the recommendation of Ferguson that Mcleish came to our club. For such a brilliant manager his choice of manager has stunk the Premiership out and maybe just maybe his aura this morning has now dimmed slightly.

I would still like to see Moyes as our new manager. Reasons being that I still feel he is a very good manager who really hasn't been given a fair crack of the whip at Man U because the expectancy has been so high and it was always going to be an impossible job to follow Ferguson especially with an ageing squad to revamp yet somehow still achieve CL qualification. The expectancy level at our club wouldn't be as high and given time with increased funding from the mooted take over in the summer Moyes could again build another Everton dynasty here which let's face it is a darn sight better than we all have had to endure over the past several seasons.

Have you seen Moyes' record for his first few seasons at Everton?  I'd argue Lambert is doing a much better job in a comparable situation.

Two manager of the years and CL qualification is his 3rd season. One scrape with relegation.

Plus he took over a similar shambles.

[unclefabio]

I think Moyes needs a good, long holiday before coming back to management. I've never seen a man age as quickly.