It's not Sherwood!

[Phil from the upper holte]

If for some reason they decide to dispense with Tim Sherwood it would appear we have the choice of the following.

Brendan Rodgers. Dreadful at Reading. In and out at Liverpool. He bought a self obsessed circus act in Balotelli so that sums him up for me.

David Moyes. A couple of years ago yes but has failed in his current post and his previous post, so no.

Nigel Pearson  Highly successful in the latter stages of his Leicester tenure but very grumpy and  dull in speech. Hang on a minute doesnt that describe the greatest manager in the history of Aston Villa. Hmmmmmm!

I really like Nigel Pearson, he's not a bad manager at all (he did a great job as caretaker manager at the stripeyfilth until they binned him for Tony Mowbray, I think).  He did seem to lose the plot a little last season though.

He might be a half decent football manager, but as a human being he's the worst kind of human detritus, and I'd be ashamed to have him anywhere near our club.  He's a bullying turd and an utter scumbag in my opinion, I'd rather have a dream team of Trevor Francis, Tony Pulis and Paul Tait in charge. 

And he's an ostrich

[TimTheVillain]

I can see Rodgers in by the end of the month.

Me too ...

[kippaxvilla2]

In my opinion Moyes didn't fail at Manure, he just wasn't given long enough to turn around a club that had simply the best manager the game has ever seen in charge of it for over 25 years, that was a hell of a task and quite frankly the team that Ferguson won the title with the year before was awful by comparison to its predecessors. In respect of this job, I never ever thought he would be suited to the Spanish game, he just isn't the type, he is kind of well very British.  He would do for us right at this moment as he would sort out the shambolic organisation on the park and at least get us competing again.

[Quiet Lion]

Pearson would be an extremely embarrassing signing, so I fully expect he will be in place after  we lose to Chelsea.

[kippaxvilla2]

There is always the Ginger Mourinho if we were ambitious enough to try and prize him away.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

Can people stop talking about Nigel Pearson please? I'm starting to worry it might actually happen!

[Toronto Villa]

If for some reason they decide to dispense with Tim Sherwood it would appear we have the choice of the following.

Brendan Rodgers. Dreadful at Reading. In and out at Liverpool. He bought a self obsessed circus act in Balotelli so that sums him up for me.

David Moyes. A couple of years ago yes but has failed in his current post and his previous post, so no.

Nigel Pearson  Highly successful in the latter stages of his Leicester tenure but very grumpy and  dull in speech. Hang on a minute doesnt that describe the greatest manager in the history of Aston Villa. Hmmmmmm!

I really like Nigel Pearson, he's not a bad manager at all (he did a great job as caretaker manager at the stripeyfilth until they binned him for Tony Mowbray, I think).  He did seem to lose the plot a little last season though.

He might be a half decent football manager, but as a human being he's the worst kind of human detritus, and I'd be ashamed to have him anywhere near our club.  He's a bullying turd and an utter scumbag in my opinion, I'd rather have a dream team of Trevor Francis, Tony Pulis and Paul Tait in charge. 

Maybe we can get his son and some of his mates to work in community relations in Aston and Handsworth. Heard they worked wonders with the Thai's.

[pauliewalnuts]

Pearson is absolutely hat-stand. No thanks.

Moyes would make more sense. At Man United he was bound to fail, following who he did. Rodgers would be a better option, if given the brief to create a set up like the one he worked with at Swansea.

Although to differing degrees, none of those really grab me. I'd rather we tried something a bit more different and went for someone like Prandelli.

[Dave]

With Rodgers I would be looking for a good assistant and coaching set-up. Remember he left Watford to join Reading and then relegated them. He was lucky at the redscouse having Suarez and Sturridge firing + Gerard still influential.

Something that's brought up a lot with Rodgers over the last few pages is that his tenure is made to look better by having Suarez. Which isn't something that happened completely in isolation - Kenny Dalglish had 18 months of Suarez, in the one full season they had together Liverpool finished eighth and Suarez scored 11 goals.

If it were just Suarez being great and the manager had nothing to do with it, there's no reason that he wouldn't have been doing it the previous season under Dalglish as well.

Not that I'm particularly desperate for Rodgers to become our manager, just something I thought worth mentioning.

[ozzjim]

Moyes has been the one Randy wanted on a few occasions if he were available i could see the logic. I also think he would be very good here and make us solid and reliable. Rodgers is better than Sherwood but i do worry that after Saurez they struggled to score goals. Tough one but if you are protecting your investment and Moyes would come as an owner it's a no brainer.

Pearson can have a night out with his son.

[pauliewalnuts]

With Rodgers I would be looking for a good assistant and coaching set-up. Remember he left Watford to join Reading and then relegated them. He was lucky at the redscouse having Suarez and Sturridge firing + Gerard still influential.

Something that's brought up a lot with Rodgers over the last few pages is that his tenure is made to look better by having Suarez. Which isn't something that happened completely in isolation - Kenny Dalglish had 18 months of Suarez, in the one full season they had together Liverpool finished eighth and Suarez scored 11 goals.

If it were just Suarez being great and the manager had nothing to do with it, there's no reason that he wouldn't have been doing it the previous season under Dalglish as well.

Player taking a season to settle in the English game, maybe? /devils_advocate

[aev]

With Rodgers I would be looking for a good assistant and coaching set-up. Remember he left Watford to join Reading and then relegated them. He was lucky at the redscouse having Suarez and Sturridge firing + Gerard still influential.

Something that's brought up a lot with Rodgers over the last few pages is that his tenure is made to look better by having Suarez. Which isn't something that happened completely in isolation - Kenny Dalglish had 18 months of Suarez, in the one full season they had together Liverpool finished eighth and Suarez scored 11 goals.

If it were just Suarez being great and the manager had nothing to do with it, there's no reason that he wouldn't have been doing it the previous season under Dalglish as well.

Player taking a season to settle in the English game, maybe? /devils_advocate

Yeah, we have about 8 of them at present.

[Chris Smith]

Pearson is absolutely hat-stand. No thanks.

Moyes would make more sense. At Man United he was bound to fail, following who he did. Rodgers would be a better option, if given the brief to create a set up like the one he worked with at Swansea.

Although to differing degrees, none of those really grab me. I'd rather we tried something a bit more different and went for someone like Prandelli.

I agree with all of that until the last bit. I think we are too fragile at the moment to take that sort of gamble.

[NeilH]

With Rodgers I would be looking for a good assistant and coaching set-up. Remember he left Watford to join Reading and then relegated them. He was lucky at the redscouse having Suarez and Sturridge firing + Gerard still influential.

Something that's brought up a lot with Rodgers over the last few pages is that his tenure is made to look better by having Suarez. Which isn't something that happened completely in isolation - Kenny Dalglish had 18 months of Suarez, in the one full season they had together Liverpool finished eighth and Suarez scored 11 goals.

If it were just Suarez being great and the manager had nothing to do with it, there's no reason that he wouldn't have been doing it the previous season under Dalglish as well.

Player taking a season to settle in the English game, maybe? /devils_advocate

I think most players who move from the Eredivisie to the Premier League take quite some time to settle; you’ve only got to look at Depay at Manure to see how it goes.
You do wonder how much Randy’s head will get turned by all of this. As a long-time admirer of Moyes you have to wonder if he would not grab an opportunity to get him with open arms and given the choice of him or Rodgers I see Moyes as a safer pair hands given our current plight.

[pauliewalnuts]

With Rodgers I would be looking for a good assistant and coaching set-up. Remember he left Watford to join Reading and then relegated them. He was lucky at the redscouse having Suarez and Sturridge firing + Gerard still influential.

Something that's brought up a lot with Rodgers over the last few pages is that his tenure is made to look better by having Suarez. Which isn't something that happened completely in isolation - Kenny Dalglish had 18 months of Suarez, in the one full season they had together Liverpool finished eighth and Suarez scored 11 goals.

If it were just Suarez being great and the manager had nothing to do with it, there's no reason that he wouldn't have been doing it the previous season under Dalglish as well.

Player taking a season to settle in the English game, maybe? /devils_advocate

I think most players who move from the Eredivisie to the Premier League take quite some time to settle; you’ve only got to look at Depay at Manure to see how it goes.
You do wonder how much Randy’s head will get turned by all of this. As a long-time admirer of Moyes you have to wonder if he would not grab an opportunity to get him with open arms and given the choice of him or Rodgers I see Moyes as a safer pair hands given our current plight.

I think he'd jump at the chance to get Moyes, I really do.