Lambert's replacement

[garyfouroaks]

How about this as a possible scenario

With Sherwood attending a couple of games recently I think he was definitely up for the DoF role.  We are not looking at the traditional DoF role more looking after the academy & scouting which was what he did well at Spurs.

Maybe they've said to him we still want you for that job but how about seeing if you can dig us out of a hole by taking over until the summer and we go out and get someone else when we'll be in a better position. Here's £3m if you keep us up and the DoF role is yours. 

I can see no basis whatsoever for him being offered a DOF role anywhere.

[Rudy65]

http://www.glory-glory.co.uk/community/threads/tim-sherwood.6708/page-15

Sounds promising.....

Oh, indeed. QPR get the brains whilst we get the arse.

Depends who we bring in as number 2 doesn't it. The team around Sherwood will be more important than Sherwood himself.

It doesn't hide the fact Sherwood is an arse and probably the biggest chancer in football. Tactically clueless, gobshite, rode on the coat tails of Ramsey and tried to steal the glory. I could go on but what's the point.

Where did all that information come from?

I agree with the gobshite comment and thats why I don't like him much.

Just dont see how after 20 odd games he is good enough to manage our great club

[Tony Erdington]

I know it seems silly to say this but if we are just going to take a gamble on someone like Sherwood then we might as well have kept Lambert around to the end of the season.  A bit of fresh blood is the only postive I can see from bringing Sherwood in.  I will reserve judgement of course, but IMO it is totally the wrong apointment and even if he kept us up we would likely be right back in the same position next year.

I agree.

If we go down, at least we will know what type of manager we will need.

What about Guus Hiddink till the end of the season? He could win the Cup too!



agree, spurs didnt look that good

[pauliewalnuts]

The gobshite bit was there to see in most of his press conferences.

The last thing we need now is a clown. It was annoying having our manager constantly make himself an arse when it was Houllier. At least he had a record to point at and a reason to be arrogant.

[Gregorys Boy]

If Fernandes would not meet Sherwoods terms at QPR, nor Peace at WBA, Lerner is hardly going to roll over, is he?

You wouldn't think so no?  But then maybe Sherwood eager to prove himself would come on the cheap I don't know.  All I know is that his appoitment would be a far bigger gamble for us than for him.  And your point about him not having the credentials to bring us back up is spot on and I just what I was thinking.

I would think its PR from sherwoods people to spin that way about not agreeing terms.
Also lets just see how well Ramsey does at QPR without Timmy ! Sherwood is no mug despite what people think.

Not doubting that Sherwood has things to offer or that he couldn't do something in the future.  But right now he is completely wrong for our job.  People have got carried away because of his six months at Spurs where he did a solid job but under very different conditions.  The best fit for him right now would be a club like Forest, his last name is SHERWOOD after all! Boom tish!

[footyskillz]

Some back ground-Sherwood earnt his Uefa coaching badges and he joined the likes of Marcel Desailly, Jens Lehmann and Dietmar Hamann in having undertaken the FAW’s course(wales) to gain the mandatory qualifications to manage at the highest level course. This is the same course taken by Roberto martinez and Tony Pulis. Sherwood is cavalier which is going to get fans on side but can coach. He ll give everyone a lift by going at it.

[hilts_coolerking]

I have been saying all along that sacking a manager is the easy part and that finding a better replacement is where it becomes difficult but that was always waived away with the argument that anyone would be better than Lambert. Now that we are in that position for real suddenly the potential candidates do not seem so attractive.

Which is exactly why we should ignore the obvious candidates and look further afield.  You're right that sacking Lambert was the easy part but finding someone better is only marginally less easy.  As is finding someone better than Sherwood, Southgate, Hoddle, etc etc.

[clash city rocker]

All we do know is that the likely appointment of Sherwood is purely press speculation at the moment.Villa do play their cards close to their chest and I am fairly sure a number of managers and their agents , from here and abroad will have made contact with Villa to register their interest.

[Gregorys Boy]

Some back ground-Sherwood earnt his Uefa coaching badges and he joined the likes of Marcel Desailly, Jens Lehmann and Dietmar Hamann in having undertaken the FAW’s course(wales) to gain the mandatory qualifications to manage at the highest level course. This is the same course taken by Roberto martinez and Tony Pulis. Sherwood is cavalier which is going to get fans on side but can coach. He ll give everyone a lift by going at it.

But lots of people have taken their badges doesn't make them prime for a bottom of the table scrap least of all in the top flight.  It has nothing to do with rather Sherwood is or could become a good manager it is to do with him not being the right manager for us, and right now we have no grace period to experiment with such a appointment.

[Risso]

I'm not a big fan of Sherwood, but I think he has qualities that might be useful, and I'm certain he'll get the squad playing better than Lambert managed.

[ez]

I wonder if Diego's still interested.

[garyfouroaks]

Some back ground-Sherwood earnt his Uefa coaching badges and he joined the likes of Marcel Desailly, Jens Lehmann and Dietmar Hamann in having undertaken the FAW’s course(wales) to gain the mandatory qualifications to manage at the highest level course. This is the same course taken by Roberto martinez and Tony Pulis. Sherwood is cavalier which is going to get fans on side but can coach. He ll give everyone a lift by going at it.

I don't doubt Sherwood's qualifications. I do doubt his experience.

I also doubt that " He ll give everyone a lift by going at it." That is what Stuart Pearce offered at Forest- it isn't enough.

[hilts_coolerking]

I am genuinely bewildered by the possibility of Sherwood becoming our manager.  Or that he is even being considered.  The man has 28 games' worth of management experience.  Maybe he has talent, maybe he doesn't but for fuck's sake let him go and prove that somewhere else for now.  On what basis can be said to have anything like the required ability to manage the Villa?

[garyfouroaks]

I'm not a big fan of Sherwood, but I think he has qualities that might be useful,

What qualities are those?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I'm not a big fan of Sherwood, but I think he has qualities that might be useful, and I'm certain he'll get the squad playing better than Lambert managed.

We all knew Lambert was tactically inept but he never tried to pass the buck. Sherwood is also tactically inept but blamed the players when they lost and praised himself when they won. The man is an arse.