Lambert's replacement

[Damo70]

You know you're in trouble when the fans call for ex players to take over the management team. :-(

Given that you don't attend Villa Park,whats your option :-(

We are in trouble. My choices would be (based on the interview with him on the website a couple of years back and him still being hard as f**k), Ron Saunders or Mark Bosnich with his contacts book to get hold of some Columbian marching powder to get the players arses into gear.

[barossavilla]

Josep Gombau..... and yes he is a seriously good coach. His team plays attractive attacking football , think what he could do stepping up to the next level....pull this Villa dross out of the mire!!!

[Drummond]

Given that this is all hypothetical, I'd bring in SrAlex as DoF with McLaren as Manager and Brian Kidd as 1st team coach.

[Tom_Mc9?]

Laudrup?

[silhillvilla]

Laudrup?

Good shout.

Or De Bouer

[Duncan Shaw]

Seeing Pulis interviewed on MOTD, and I can't believe I'm saying his, I wish we'd have bought him in.  I think he may have sorted us out properly to set some foundations and think he'll do a good job at the Boggies.

[brian green]

As Drum says this is highly hypothetical. Lambert will not walk because he has every indication of screwing every last penny out of the club. Lerner could have one of two mind sets. One, he does not care what is happening and has shipped so much financial damage more damage is neither here nor there or two, he has had enough and will tell his agents to find any buyer they can. Therefore I think Lambert's replacement could come from any part of the competence spectrum from Benitez to Curbishley depending on who takes Lerner's place.
Lerner's departure is less unlikely than Lambert's.

[N'ZMAV]

Laudrup?

He's not available. He is managing in Qatar.

[ozzjim]

My worry is that its January. Sack now we have to appoint by next weekend to have any chance of the new guy getting players in place. So i would go Sherwood on an 18 month deal with a director of football to come.

[Monty]

Frankly, Sherwood's a fool as well. He's quite open about his own cluelessness. He's a 4-4-2-mongerer, and not of a progressive kind. He's clearly a nice guy, but we've had enough incompetent nice guys.

[villasjf]

Young and hungry?                        Simon Grayson

Fancies a PL return?                       Benitez or Klinsmann

Back to the (short term) future?      Sir Graham or Sir Brian

The classic Red Adair appointment? Albion beat us to it

The 'might not be universally popular to say the least' choice? Steve Bruce

The light the blue touchpaper and run away choice? "How long before The Republic Of Ireland play again and would their manager be interested?"

I think Bruce might be available soon looking at the league table so no thanks. I have no idea I wanted Lambert and his idea of we will score more than them attitude his attitude now is don't lose like TSM.

[villasjf]

No idea. If I had to say then I'd go for McLaren. He won't leave Derby right now though.

I'd have given Pulis an 18 month deal if he'd have been available. He'd be ideal until we're taken over.

He'd never have accepted that.

He took 2.5 years at both Palace and the Baggies. I'd be happy to give him that as well, just to stabalise things.

He did the MON walk though so no.

[Monty]

We don't just want to 'save' Villa from relegation trouble though, do we? Even muddling along as we are the football is unacceptable. Would Pulis improve this? I just think wishing for a manager like him kind of misses the point.

[villasjf]

I think just getting rid of Lambert would give the whole club a lift right now so we could make do with a caretaker (Sid?) then reevaluate in the summer when there should be more options.

Sid wont work he cant get his squad winning and it would destroy his legend status when he failed.

[PaulWinch again]

This thread is desperately sad, because we have seen it doesn't matter how pathetic performances and results are he won't be going.