Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[sickbeggar]

New poster here. Seems a terrible stab in the dark to me if true. A guy who has done a so-so job in a crappish league? Come on now. We need someone with experience of fighting a relegation battle in the Premier league because that's what we're in. At the least someone a bit battle hardened. The whole "he'll get the best out of the french players" gambit is just that. You don't need to be the same nationality as players to get the best out of them. Think we're down if true.

He kept Lyon competitive despite having no transfer money, brought through young players and made them exciting to watch.

totally different style of play needed in the french league and having no transfer money in the french league is not the handicap it is in the PL where even the minnows can outspend half the french league.

To stay up this season is not going to be pretty, and some possibly promising manager attempting to play tippy-tappy football with a lot of inexperienced, low on morale youngsters is a recipe for disaster imo

[TonyD]

The club need to slow, chill and take time to get right man.  This squad under KMac won't go down, so no hasty crap decisions.

[dalians umbrella]

Sorry if this has already been posted:

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[Toronto Villa]

New poster here. Seems a terrible stab in the dark to me if true. A guy who has done a so-so job in a crappish league? Come on now. We need someone with experience of fighting a relegation battle in the Premier league because that's what we're in. At the least someone a bit battle hardened. The whole "he'll get the best out of the french players" gambit is just that. You don't need to be the same nationality as players to get the best out of them. Think we're down if true.

He kept Lyon competitive despite having no transfer money, brought through young players and made them exciting to watch.

totally different style of play needed in the french league and having no transfer money in the french league is not the handicap it is in the PL where even the minnows can outspend half the french league.

To stay up this season is not going to be pretty, and some possibly promising manager attempting to play tippy-tappy football with a lot of inexperienced, low on morale youngsters is a recipe for disaster imo

you're right. Let's get in McLeish or Pulis.

[London Villan]

Is there a manager out there with the perfect CV suited to us? I can't think of one. All of the front runners have big question marks over them:

Moyes - dour and two failed jobs since Everton
Rogers - spent a fortune to turn Liverpool into a solid mid-table team
Garde - no Premier League experience
Pearson - lunatic

[Nastylee]

Bonus is we're are still only a half decent string of results from midtable (see WBA) and Bournemouth and Norwich seem to have shot their load. Problem is we don't look like we can put any sort of run together. Whoever comes in needs to hit the ground running and stop us from conceding and make us difficult to play against. We simply need to stop losing! Whether RG is the man, I don't know, but I do know that sticking with TS would not have addressed any of the above. We need to get to around 20 points ASAP and certainly by Xmas/New Year.

[N'Zimidy]

Is there a manager out there with the perfect CV suited to us? I can't think of one. All of the front runners have big question marks over them:

Moyes - dour and two failed jobs since Everton
Rogers - spent a fortune to turn Liverpool into a solid mid-table team
Garde - no Premier League experience
Pearson - lunatic

No such thing as a perfect CV when you're in our position. The closest you would get is Alan Pardew and he's a twat.

[KevinEaton]

Even if it means going down this year, I'd rather we take someone on that suggests we are building for the future than get a short term appointment in that might keep us up but would mean we remain in this perpetual state of fighting relegation each year. I'm all for the gamble

[Stu]

New poster here. Seems a terrible stab in the dark to me if true. A guy who has done a so-so job in a crappish league? Come on now. We need someone with experience of fighting a relegation battle in the Premier league because that's what we're in. At the least someone a bit battle hardened. The whole "he'll get the best out of the french players" gambit is just that. You don't need to be the same nationality as players to get the best out of them. Think we're down if true.

He kept Lyon competitive despite having no transfer money, brought through young players and made them exciting to watch.

totally different style of play needed in the french league and having no transfer money in the french league is not the handicap it is in the PL where even the minnows can outspend half the french league.

To stay up this season is not going to be pretty, and some possibly promising manager attempting to play tippy-tappy football with a lot of inexperienced, low on morale youngsters is a recipe for disaster imo

Who would you prefer?

[supertom]

I think every single one of the front runners is going to improve on Sherwood. Most definitely. If we still go down, then it's obviously our time and the rebuilding process will need to begin.

[enigma]

New poster here. Seems a terrible stab in the dark to me if true. A guy who has done a so-so job in a crappish league? Come on now. We need someone with experience of fighting a relegation battle in the Premier league because that's what we're in. At the least someone a bit battle hardened. The whole "he'll get the best out of the french players" gambit is just that. You don't need to be the same nationality as players to get the best out of them. Think we're down if true.

He kept Lyon competitive despite having no transfer money, brought through young players and made them exciting to watch.

totally different style of play needed in the french league

You say that as if there's only one way of playing in the French League. Or in England for that matter.

[SamTheMouse]

If we're plundering Ligue 1 for a manager, I'd probably have gone for Claude Puel. I think he's in the last year of his contract at Nice.

But Garde has the advantage of having played in England.

[TheTimVilla]

According to wiki, Remi Garde is Villa manager already! Who the feck wastes their time falsely updating wiki?


[size=78%]The new manager has the nucleus of a side there and I'd go something along the lines of Guzan; Richards, Okore, Clark, Lescott; Adama, Sanchez, Gueye, Amavi; Grealish; Gestede[/size]



Call that a 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1, etc and we can bring Gil, Sinclair, Gardner, etc through. That back four and Rudi should help us at corners!


I'd take Rodgers or Moyes, they've done ok at the next level down, having failed with top four teams. Apart from the obvious (Redknapp and our last few managers), I'd accept pretty much anybody. Thanks, Randy!

[ciggiesnbeer]

New poster here. Seems a terrible stab in the dark to me if true. A guy who has done a so-so job in a crappish league? Come on now. We need someone with experience of fighting a relegation battle in the Premier league because that's what we're in. At the least someone a bit battle hardened. The whole "he'll get the best out of the french players" gambit is just that. You don't need to be the same nationality as players to get the best out of them. Think we're down if true.

He kept Lyon competitive despite having no transfer money, brought through young players and made them exciting to watch.

Why do I have the feeling this is the part of his CV that led Randy to tap the desk next to his picture?

[villadelph]

If we're plundering Ligue 1 for a manager, I'd probably have gone for Claude Puel. I think he's in the last year of his contract at Nice.

But Garde has the advantage of having played in England.

Did Garde replace him at Lyon?