Poll - Sherwood - got rid

[KevinGage]

I'd have Rogers in a heartbeat, but perhaps Huw Jenkins or a Chief Exec of similar calibre should be a far bigger priority.

[David_Nab]

How about Jimmy Floyd Hasselbank , took over Burton from Rowett got them promoted as champions  and now top of League 1.

Obviously untested at Prem level but think he will go on to bigger things than Burton

[Archie]

Without offence mates, but after MON, AML, PL and TS I would take a break with the British managers. In Italy are without contract at the moment three excellent managers, that are either "maestri" in tactics and able to make their teams to play an entertaining, passing, attacking football: Roberto Donadoni, Francesco Guidolin and Vincenzo Montella.
I'd go with one of these, surely nobody of them  would  have spent 16 millions £ for the likes of Gestede & the brother of Ayew, nor would play with 5 defenders at home with Stoke, nor would play center back in PL a right back that (even in his role) was reserve in my local team in the Italian Serie B (Crespo).

[Dante Lavelli]

I'd have Rogers in a heartbeat, but perhaps Huw Jenkins or a Chief Exec of similar calibre should be a far bigger priority.

Isn't Fox our Huw Jenkins?  Neither are 'football' people so no reason why Fox could not replicate what Jenkins has done.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

Montella would be really good. Lucien Favre too.

[Villa in Denmark]

I can certainly appreciate the sentiment Archie, and if you look past the list of up and coming or promising (ie. done bugger all at a level that would justify giving them the job) then it's pretty slim pickings.

Other than Alardyce who's been discussed to death it's pretty slim pickings of who's likely to be either available or gettable unless you'd take Brendan Rodgers.

I'd much rather get a coach who's proven at a high level from the continent.

My choice when Lambert was finally put out of all our miseries was Cesare Prandeli who I believe is still available.  I didn't realise Dondadoni and Montella were both out of work.  From memory, Donadoni in particular tended to put out very attack minded teams (or at least by the Italian late 80's / early 90's standards I grew up with )

Alternatives to me would be

Frank de Boer at Ajax is reportedly looking for new challenges after winning the league 4 years on the trot and looking like having a fifth sown up by Christmas

Dieter Hecking at Wolfsburg has probably done as much there as he can especially if VW stop the financial support.
Roger Schmidt at Leverkusen, but he might be a bit of challenge to get whilst they're still in European competition.

Claude Puel at Nice has a decent track record of getting teams to overperform and has the added bonus of having pissed off Fergie and Giggs in a CL game.  Into the last year of his contract and Nice look like having a bit of "mid-table obscurity kind of season."

[RichardBatchelor]

How you can put O'Neill in the same breath as McDull, Lambert and Timbo is beyond me. He had his foibles but for christsakes!

[TonyD]

The presenter on MOTD2 had a Broad St haircut. 

[Archie]

How you can put O'Neill in the same breath as McDull, Lambert and Timbo is beyond me. He had his foibles but for christsakes!

Too many players overpaid, too much money wasted, and Randy lost his enthusiasm. Our freefall began with MON imo.

[KevinGage]

I'd have Rogers in a heartbeat, but perhaps Huw Jenkins or a Chief Exec of similar calibre should be a far bigger priority.

Isn't Fox our Huw Jenkins?  Neither are 'football' people so no reason why Fox could not replicate what Jenkins has done.

Didn't Jenkins play football for Swansea?   

So hardly a non footballing appointment.

The Villa is too big a club for a manager or a chief exec to cut his teeth. We sign players based on what they have done at other clubs, so earmarking chief execs with proven record of success at other clubs seems a logical progression.

Fox might have more experience than Faulkner - but then seeing as the bulk of the  latter's management experience came in a middle management role at a call centre, that's not hard.

[Risso]

I'd love to see Sir Brian back Peter, but it's nearly 20 since he left, and football has moved on I'm afraid.  I'd hate to sully his memory by him coming back and being pants, like Graham Taylor was. 

SGT had a footballing philosophy that was very much an 80s throwback whereas Brian Little played a brand of football that is still of vogue today. I think he'd definitely fit.

Yep, you're right actually.  That's me sold!

[ROBBO]

The size of our club and the expectations it brings could be part of the problem for most managers. Everyone knows the potential of the club but to an inexperienced manager it could quickly overwhelm them. We ned someone with the experience of Houllier someone who has had success and won't be overawed. Who fits that bill?

[Dave]

How you can put O'Neill in the same breath as McDull, Lambert and Timbo is beyond me. He had his foibles but for christsakes!

None of McLeish, Lambert or Sherwood are up to the task of being Aston Villa manager, but I don't think that any of them ever had anything but the club's interests at heart through their stay (up to now), however badly they interpreted those interests.

O'Neill fails on not being good enough as our manager, and a vindictive c*nt as well.

[Villa in Denmark]

How you can put O'Neill in the same breath as McDull, Lambert and Timbo is beyond me. He had his foibles but for christsakes!

By foibles, do you mean spending a fortune on mostly mediocre players on contracts that made it impossible to give them away so we ended up paying the likes of Habib Beye £40-50K per week for 4 years for the "privilege" of turning up at Bodymore Heath for 20 hours per week that precipitated the financial armageddon we've been living with for the past 5 years?

[RichardBatchelor]

The size of our club and the expectations it brings could be part of the problem for most managers. Everyone knows the potential of the club but to an inexperienced manager it could quickly overwhelm them. We ned someone with the experience of Houllier someone who has had success and won't be overawed. Who fits that bill?

Could we cheekily lure Ferguson out of retirement on a six month contract? Unlikely, but you know the people running Villa are too unimaginative to try. Seriously though, not being overawed is a good point and despite the dross he'd serve up Allardyce does fit that bill.