Lambert's replacement

[lovejoy]

Kevin McDonald until the end of the season?

[cdbearsfan]

E-I-E-I-No.

[lovejoy]

No, I've got it. Rapha Benitez, will probably leave Napoli in the summer anyway and lives at the training ground with his family still on Merseyside. Win-win.

[onje_villa]

Tim Sherwood does sound like an unimaginative appointment: great on motivation, not so great on tactics. Depressingly, he seems to be the favourite.

Couple of names not mentioned so far: how about Nigel Adkins or Steve Clarke?

I'd like Adkins.

[Monty]

Tim Sherwood does sound like an unimaginative appointment: great on motivation, not so great on tactics. Depressingly, he seems to be the favourite.

I would hope Tom Fox reads this before thinking about Sherwood:
http://www.umaxit.com/index.php/columns/desperate-times-call-for-tim-sherwood

That's really terrifying.

[onje_villa]

Pat Murphy on 5 live
     
"The new Aston Villa manager will be recommended by the chief executive Tom Fox, with the owner Randy Lerner prepared to rubberstamp his decision. Lerner will not be part of the interview process.
     
"Lerner operates out of New York and is hardly ever in Birmingham, as he comes to rely more and more on the advice of his fellow-American whom he appointed as CEO last September. It was Fox who recommended Lambert should be sacked after Tuesday night's defeat at Hull.
     
"Fox will take soundings from Villa's director of recruitment Paddy Reilly and an inner circle of trusted colleagues before moving in on a target. Coaching expertise will be essential - Villa were short in that area during Lambert's tenure - and they won't be put off if their preferred candidate is with another club.
     
"Although time is on Villa's side in that their next Premier League game is not until a week on Saturday when they are at home to Stoke City, Fox will want a swift appointment."

Promising.

[ChicagoLion]

E-I-E-I-No.

I think we should give Bono a go, because we still have not found what we've been looking for

[Walmley_Villa]

Tim Sherwood does sound like an unimaginative appointment: great on motivation, not so great on tactics. Depressingly, he seems to be the favourite.

Couple of names not mentioned so far: how about Nigel Adkins or Steve Clarke?

I'd like Adkins.

Why?

[montague]

Every job that comes up Tim Sherwood is favourite. Why? He has managed about 30 games in his career and took a few tonkings in those. His only recommendation seems to be that he was a bit better than AVB and got more than a half arsed perfomance out of Adebayor. Totally unproven and a huge risk if we take that route. No reason to believe he would be any better than Lambert.

 

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Tim Sherwood does sound like an unimaginative appointment: great on motivation, not so great on tactics. Depressingly, he seems to be the favourite.

I would hope Tom Fox reads this before thinking about Sherwood:
http://www.umaxit.com/index.php/columns/desperate-times-call-for-tim-sherwood

That's really terrifying.

Nasty, isn't it.

[ChicagoLion]

Tim Sherwood does sound like an unimaginative appointment: great on motivation, not so great on tactics. Depressingly, he seems to be the favourite.

Couple of names not mentioned so far: how about Nigel Adkins or Steve Clarke?

I'd like Adkins.

Why?

Great Hair style?

[cdbearsfan]

E-I-E-I-No.

I think we should give Bono a go, because we still have not found what we've been looking for

You've gone too far.

[Pat McMahon]

Since Fox was at Arsenal should he not consider asking David Dein to join and consult on the new manager recruitment?

I was thinking that too - however Dein's reputation is based mainly on recruiting Wenger when hardly anyone had heard of him.  He may have just got lucky with Wenger, who knows? 

It was actually Wenger who turned up at an Arsenal game and met Dein's wife, and she had the intelligence to tell Mr Dein that he may wish to have a proper chat with Wenger.

[PaulWinch again]

Whoever takes over needs to be able to put a suitable coaching staff in place, that is something we've been badly missing for a long time.

Also Adkins? no thanks.

[onje_villa]

Tim Sherwood does sound like an unimaginative appointment: great on motivation, not so great on tactics. Depressingly, he seems to be the favourite.

Couple of names not mentioned so far: how about Nigel Adkins or Steve Clarke?

I'd like Adkins.

Why?

Thought he did well at Southampton.