Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[SW9-VILLA]

Would be gutted if that tool Pearson got the call. Moyes is probably the best realistic target we have at the moment.

[SoccerHQ]

I don't think Rodgers would come here.

So tell me where would he go now after " failing" at a European second tier club?

Abroad like Moyes? Speaks Spanish anyway.

[pbavfckuwait]

Monty I am not assuming the best way to get points is ugly football, if someone can come in and have us playing Dutch total football, Barcelona free scoring football, I will take that as well, what you have to realise is that sometimes you cant turn a pigs ear into a silk purse, I will settle for it staying a pigs ear as long as it is a pigs ear in the premier league come next season.

[Monty]

Sure, but we don't (in my opinion) have plodders and untalented players at the club - that's just Sherwood's way of avoiding the blame, and his mates in the press have predictably clamoured to agree with him. No, I think there are talented players who, at their best, would play a style of football most people would call 'watchable'. That's what they're suited to, and that's what would get us out of trouble.

[Ron Manager]

I don't think Rodgers would come here.

So tell me where would he go now after " failing" at a European second tier club?

Abroad like Moyes? Speaks Spanish anyway.

Apparently he doesn't.

[Chris Smith]

There is no doubt that Pearson did a very good job in dragging Leicester away from trouble but they were his players. It is a very different ask to him do the same with players he doesn't know and not necessarily suited to how he likes to play.  There is also something about him in that trouble and controversy just seems to follow him around.

[nigel]

Go all out and offer Koeman double his salary.

Has shown he can rebuild a side that has lost its best players.  And a big salary to a competent manager over 3/4 years would still probably work out cheaper than hiring two to three numpties and paying them off during the same period.

Still no guarantee he would take it, but he was interested in the Villa job before. And Villa are bigger than Southampton ever could be.

Agree.
He was my choice before Lambert, too

[dave.woodhall]

If this "Offer him enough money and he'll take the job" idea worked, don't you think everyone would do it?

[Chris Smith]

Sure, but we don't (in my opinion) have plodders and untalented players at the club - that's just Sherwood's way of avoiding the blame, and his mates in the press have predictably clamoured to agree with him. No, I think there are talented players who, at their best, would play a style of football most people would call 'watchable'. That's what they're suited to, and that's what would get us out of trouble.

I agree, Monty. We just do not have a team of battlers and grafters and any manager who tries to do that with this bunch will soon be added to our list of failures. We do have some decent players but we need to be set up in a way that suits their talents not try to shoehorn them into a style that stifles them.

[Ron Manager]

Strictly speaking I think we should go for an Italian. Not Prandelli though. Bruno Tonioli He's the bulls bollocks!

[pbavfckuwait]

Monty, yes we look like we have players who maybe able to play a watchable style of football, what we have to be careful off if for some it is not already to late, that their confidence is shattered, what we do not seem to have and even if Tim goes today, will not have until January 2nd at the earliest, is Leaders, even the one that stands out Micah was not a shining example yesterday and there appears to be no one else, alot of the senior players at this club now have had 5 plus years of this environment and when things go wrong in a match, which they often do, that is where you need leaders on the pitch to keep this maybe talented players on track.

[Monty]

If Micah's our leader then we're in trouble. He's had good or bad points this season, but yesterday when he squared up to Fernandez instead of getting back into position I just thought 'you idiot.' The commentator said 'Villa fans will enjoy that, seeing a player have passion' - I don't know what he saw, but I enjoy seeing Villa players not act like alpha-male morons and do their best for the team, not trying to prove how big a man they are.

[Ron Manager]

If Micah's our leader then we're in trouble. He's had good or bad points this season, but yesterday when he squared up to Fernandez instead of getting back into position I just thought 'you idiot.' The commentator said 'Villa fans will enjoy that, seeing a player have passion' - I don't know what he saw, but I enjoy seeing Villa players not act like alpha-male morons and do their best for the team, not trying to prove how big a man they are.

Im afraid Micah will get a ban for his behaviour yesterday. That will be helpful.

[pbavfckuwait]

But that's what I am stating Monty, no way to back up Dim Tim, but at times players have to accept responsibility too, there seems to be a culture, I would say best highlighted by CNZ, that they just dont give a dam, at least and not using yesterday as a good example Richards seems to care and has the will to win.
A lot of these so called good footballing players we have, have not been able to last 90 minutes for whatever reason and not one of them seems to have the character to say stuff this, there taking the piss lets get into them, we have seen some nice small cameos, but nothing to suggest that the corner of hell we are in is going to be turned around quickly by who ever we get in.

[tomd2103]

How is it an arrogant cliche? I think it's pretty arrogant to call someone like Bielsa a 'punt' or a 'fancy dan' just because you haven't heard of him.

I think someone like Bielsa was the manager we needed when MON left.  We were in a fairly stable position back then and could have afforded the 'risk' and the possible gains someone like that would have brought.  Unfortunately we are not in that position now and the next appointment has to be as close from risk free as we can get.