Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[PeterWithesShin]

Adebayor, Cambiasso, Lennon, Townsend. It's like the start of the Breakfast Club.

You see us as you want to see us, A Pensioner, A basketcase, A has Been, A Never Was.

[Risso]

But I think Sherwood was culpable for the goalscorer sticking all his eggs in a mad man that was too interested in getting 5 million out of Spurs than coming here. That was his fault. A keeper, I agree, and after going for Begovic there should have been a plan B, right back - Hutton has proved that he is adequate for bottom half prem again, Bacuna is back up. Nice to have, but not essential.

I think him washing his hands of the transfers is covering his own arse from his involvement too.

Yep, hanging his hopes on a keeper that was clearly Chelsea-bound was lunacy.  Guzan hasn't been good enough for ages and should have been replaced.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

In my tiny mind, there's no getting away from the net spend though.

Fixed.

Have a look at those successful clubs that have a negative net spend. It's really not that difficult to understand. Were Spurs wrong not to spend more than the Bale money?

[ozzjim]

Villa in Denmark, stop using reasoned argument, you know he won't listen.

[pauliewalnuts]

What I find interesting is that Tony Parkes is staying, but Wilkins, Robson and Brady (fat performance bloke) have gone.

That to me isn't a normal "you're fucking sacked, now let's look for a new bloke" situation, it suggests that the new bloke is making the decisions already.

Also, I read tonight that Garde is fiercely loyal to his physical conditioning bloke who goes wherever he goes. Who is it? Remember this bloke, last seen having a ruck with Collins and Dunne?

[silhillvilla]

Beginning to think McLeish was correct in releasing Guzan.

[ozzjim]

Adebayor, Cambiasso, Lennon, Townsend. It's like the start of the Breakfast Club.

You see us as you want to see us, A Pensioner, A basketcase, A has Been, A Never Was.

Or even -

Adebayor - Sherwood could not convince
Cambiasso - Sherwood spoke to him (he said so himself) and never heard back and we moved on
Lennon - Club looked at the numbers and thought Traore (Who Timmy was very happy with when signed) was a better bet
Townsend - said publicly many times he was not leaving Spurs

So 2 we tried to get for him and he could not close, 1 we got a potentially much better player and 1 was never coming anyway.

[peter w]

Adebayor, Cambiasso, Lennon, Townsend. It's like the start of the Breakfast Club.

You see us as you want to see us, A Pensioner, A basketcase, A has Been, A Never Was.

We definitely wouldn't be bottom if we had those four in.

[dl9]

In case he is too busy I think we should look at either one of Remi's brothers, Right or Life.

[PaulWinch again]

The MOTD2 boys have just nailed it. Net spend £5m . Shocking.

No they didn't. Net spend is a small part of things. We spent a fortune, relatively, on a lot of players. Yes we could have spent more, but we could have bought Lazcette for £30 million to replace Benteke and I bet that under Sherwood we would have had no more than 3 points more. The 'MOTD boys' are looking to give their mate an excuse for his disgraceful performance this season. Sherwood could have had a net spend of £100 million and we'd still be fucked, because he can't or couldn't organise a team.

[PeterWithesShin]

Beginning to think McLeish was correct in releasing Guzan.

Even though he was sacked while Guzan was still a Villa player? Were you saying that when Guzan was almost single handedly trying to keep us up? Or are you just posting for effect as usual?

[pauliewalnuts]

The MOTD2 boys have just nailed it. Net spend £5m . Shocking.

No they didn't. Net spend is a small part of things. We spent a fortune, relatively, on a lot of players. Yes we could have spent more, but we could have bought Lazcette for £30 million to replace Benteke and I bet that under Sherwood we would have had no more than 3 points more. The 'MOTD boys' are looking to give their mate an excuse for his disgraceful performance this season. Sherwood could have had a net spend of £100 million and we'd still be fucked, because he can't or couldn't organise a team.

Now that's what I call nailing it.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Beginning to think McLeish was correct in releasing Guzan.

That's nice.

[Monty]

MOTD just now talking about Sherwood, not a single word about his mistakes, not one.

What's that moist slapping sound? Oh it's nothing, just the punditocracy having another circlejerk.

"We know he wanted to get his own players in - Aaron Lennon, Townsend and Adebayor"

While keeping a straight face, FFS.

Meanwhile every single person watching, who has frequently paid to watch their team, will have been saying "fucking hell".

Fans of teams who've played us will be saying the same thing. Everyone knows that these shined-up human vacuities are only pundits because they didn't have the brains or the balls to make it as managers. There are things only an ex-player can tell you, but when it comes to tactics, strategy etc, most of them know about as much as a cashew knows about making a good chicken pasanda.

[Villa in Denmark]

Villa in Denmark, stop using reasoned argument, you know he won't listen.

Well arguing with silhil is like banging your head against a brick wall.
It feels so good when you stop.