Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[Villafirst]

Who ever it is (hopefully Moyes) please play Clark and Okore as CB'S and move Richards to RB. Amavi at LB or Lescott - who I think is suffering a crisis of confidence in a struggling team. Surely that defence looks more powerful ?

[cdbearsfan]

Richards is our best centre-half. It's a more important position than right back. I'd leave him there, with Clark alongside him. It's crossed my mind before that Okore could work at right back, purely basing this on the fact his lack of height is less likely to be a problem there.

[Dave]

How many French speaking players have we actually got ? CNZ ,  Amavi, vertoute, Ayew ? , Okore ? , any others ?

Okore, Gana, Senderos, Veretout, Ayew, Amavi, N'Zogbia, Gestede, Siegrist/Cissokho (on loan) and Sarkic (under-21s).

I think that's it.

I reckon that Sanchez might have picked up a few words during his six years in Ligue 1.

[silhillvilla]

Agree Richards in no CB

[exigo]

Garde drifting again in the Betfair Exchange. You can get him at 8/13 now.

[Sexual Ealing]

I think Alan Hutton is fluent in French.

Yep, taught himself so he could read Proust in the original. He had a lot of time on his hands under Lambert.

Barry Bannan was running with the Oulipo at the same time but fell out with them over using the letter Y as a vowel function.

[cdbearsfan]

How many French speaking players have we actually got ? CNZ ,  Amavi, vertoute, Ayew ? , Okore ? , any others ?

Okore, Gana, Senderos, Veretout, Ayew, Amavi, N'Zogbia, Gestede, Siegrist/Cissokho (on loan) and Sarkic (under-21s).

I think that's it.

I reckon that Sanchez might have picked up a few words during his six years in Ligue 1.

He clearly didn't learn the French for "hair cut".

[Stirchley Villain]

How many French speaking players have we actually got ? CNZ ,  Amavi, vertoute, Ayew ? , Okore ? , any others ?

Okore, Gana, Senderos, Veretout, Ayew, Amavi, N'Zogbia, Gestede, Siegrist/Cissokho (on loan) and Sarkic (under-21s).

I think that's it.

I reckon that Sanchez might have picked up a few words during his six years in Ligue 1.

He clearly didn't learn the French for "hair cut".

He'll stick with "bouffant."

[Monty]

I think Alan Hutton is fluent in French.

Yep, taught himself so he could read Proust in the original. He had a lot of time on his hands under Lambert.

Barry Bannan was running with the Oulipo at the same time but fell out with them over using the letter Y as a vowel function.

Barry Bannan is the subject of Queneau's sequel 'Exercices en Style Deux', which describes him floating in an innocuous corner with 400 different rhetorical methods.

[Sexual Ealing]

I think Alan Hutton is fluent in French.

Yep, taught himself so he could read Proust in the original. He had a lot of time on his hands under Lambert.

Barry Bannan was running with the Oulipo at the same time but fell out with them over using the letter Y as a vowel function.

Barry Bannan is the subject of Queneau's sequel 'Exercices en Style Deux', which describes him floating in an innocuous corner with 400 different rhetorical methods.

I read it. It was too short.

[Stirchley Villain]

I think Alan Hutton is fluent in French.

Yep, taught himself so he could read Proust in the original. He had a lot of time on his hands under Lambert.

Barry Bannan was running with the Oulipo at the same time but fell out with them over using the letter Y as a vowel function.

Barry Bannan is the subject of Queneau's sequel 'Exercices en Style Deux', which describes him floating in an innocuous corner with 400 different rhetorical methods.

I read it. It was too short.

Nicely Googled one and all.

[CJ]

I see Dwight Yorke has put his hat in the ring. The cheek of the man...

He's never knowingly walked past a ring without putting something in it.

Bravo, sir! Genuinely LOL'd at that

[Sexual Ealing]

I think Alan Hutton is fluent in French.

Yep, taught himself so he could read Proust in the original. He had a lot of time on his hands under Lambert.

Barry Bannan was running with the Oulipo at the same time but fell out with them over using the letter Y as a vowel function.

Barry Bannan is the subject of Queneau's sequel 'Exercices en Style Deux', which describes him floating in an innocuous corner with 400 different rhetorical methods.

I read it. It was too short.

Nicely Googled one and all.

Cheeky git! That's the first time I've ever knowingly used something I learned at university right there.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I think Alan Hutton is fluent in French.

Alain de Hutton

[OCD]

I couldn't remember whether any of our summer recruits had come from Lyon so I looked it up. Our recent signings from them seem to be Carew and Jean Makoun - so bit of a mixed bag.