Moyes?

[Monty]

Andre Villas Boas - finished champions and runners up the last 2 seasons, and has said he wants out of Zenit at the end of the season. PL experience, fluent English speaker. Young, ambitious, yep there's no chance he will come to us.
Great fit though Aston Villas Boas.

Considering Tim's last media campaign was to undermine and usurp AVB's position, if he succeeded Sherwood here and kept us up that would be hilarious. I'm not sure about him, to be honest, but he does have more experience now so maybe he's ironed-out those rough edges.

[mr underhill]

does he still go through the entire game crouched down like a pensive cat? Such posture can't be good for the trousers.

[peter w]

Klopp, Jose et al are in a different league to some of names being forwarded here.

Probably, but not by a million miles. Lucien Favre finished higher than Klopp's Dortmund last season on a fraction of the budget that Dortmund have. He's available and has a very solid track record across his fifteen years of football management with very few blips.

A guaranteed success with us? Obviously not. More of a risk than sticking with somebody who literally has nothing to back up why he should be managing a Premier League football team? I think not.

Flavor Favre could well be on the radar of Augsburg by the weekend according to a few reports in Germany. They finished 5th last season but are now bottom of the league after 9 games. Favre is everything Sherwood isn't, that's for sure.

Haven't really been much of a fan of his work post Public Enemy.

[Toronto Villa]

My issue with AVB is that his voice gets lower and lower and less and less audible the worse things get. To the point the only thing that can make out what he is saying is a certain breed of Portugese hunting dog. Can you imagine a party with him and Avram Grant, Sherwood and Lambert? Miserable conversation along with two blokes looking like they slept with raccoons the night before.

[mr underhill]

AVB is brilliant at getting under barriers though thanks to the permanent crouch

[robbo1874]

this is all total supposition though ; there isn't one iota of evidence to suggest Tim is going anywhere. I honestly believe they have no appetite to fire and hire again this season unless it's become Stevie Wonder obvious that we really are in the shit.  Much as I don't think now he is fit for purpose I can't see any action until  Christmas.

Which is exactly what people were saying until the day McLeish got fired and exactly what people were saying about Lambert last season.  Our board are generally very patient with people but they have acted and so far every time it has been soon enough for us to not go down despite repeated cries of us being doomed for most of the season.

I suspect they have some targets in mind and when it's clear those won't be met he'll be on his bike, just because we don't know what they are we shouldn't assume they can't exist.

this is what I think should and probably will happen. He's clearly out of his depth, but give him a realistic target and if he can't deliver, then cheerio Tim.

[ciggiesnbeer]

AVB is brilliant at getting under barriers though thanks to the permanent crouch

You have to worry for the bloke though. Hemorrhoids wise.

[mr underhill]

yes, but I think he gets progressively lower and then just rubs along the ground for relief

[tomd2103]

this is all total supposition though ; there isn't one iota of evidence to suggest Tim is going anywhere. I honestly believe they have no appetite to fire and hire again this season unless it's become Stevie Wonder obvious that we really are in the shit.  Much as I don't think now he is fit for purpose I can't see any action until  Christmas.

Which is exactly what people were saying until the day McLeish got fired and exactly what people were saying about Lambert last season.  Our board are generally very patient with people but they have acted and so far every time it has been soon enough for us to not go down despite repeated cries of us being doomed for most of the season.

I suspect they have some targets in mind and when it's clear those won't be met he'll be on his bike, just because we don't know what they are we shouldn't assume they can't exist.

this is what I think should and probably will happen. He's clearly out of his depth, but give him a realistic target and if he can't deliver, then cheerio Tim.

According to the man himself he has been given a target - finishing 17th.  I'm not sure there can be a more realistic target than that, yet all the signs so far suggest that he is not even going to be able to achieve that.     

[N'ZMAV]

Then why did he say Villa would never be in this situation again? now it seems we are in that situation he's rolling out hat 17th is the target - clearly a man struggling and facing the sack.

[AVH87]

Then why did he say Villa would never be in this situation again? now it seems we are in that situation he's rolling out hat 17th is the target - clearly a man struggling and facing the sack.

Maybe he meant never in the situation of finishing 17th and avoiding relegation again, he knew under him we'd go down.

[mr underhill]

even in our reduced state I refuse to believe that our expectation is to avoid relegation by one place and consider it a triumph. If so, we'd have saved ourselves a lot of money by simply hanging on to TSM

[Damo70]

I can't believe any club would or should have 17th place as a target. Even a newly promoted club like Bournemouth. Surely you have to aim higher from day one even if you would obviously take 17th place if you eventually ended up in a relegation battle.

[mr underhill]

well Dave, lets hope cameras spot you in the ground tomorrow and then later on, regardless of the result, you're being interviewed as the new manager of our great club

[saunders_heroes]

Come on David, you know you want the job! 🙏