Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[ozzjim]

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?

Thats the fella I mentioned earlier that was here with GH. Sure enough the last few weeks of the season we did look much fitter too.

Parks seems a good bloke, but I am concerned he has done bugger all to improve Guzan.

Another coach, beginning with B was mentioned on twitter but he is in work and may take some prising away

[sickbeggar]

Manager in "signing players he knows" shocker. None of TS Spurs rejects would have filled me with joy but at least he would have known their capabilities and what he hoped to get out of them. .If the next manager has some Lerner appointed knobs deciding what players he works with, I don't seen things improving much somehow

[andym]

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

Did they mention the complete lack of having any clue how he wanted us to play? Five at the back vs Stoke? Playing Gestede with no wingers? Or any of the other multitude of failings he showed this season?

No they focused on the loss of all our best players, the inexperienced ones who have come in and said sherwood couldn't sign his choice of players eg. Cambiasso, Lennon, Townsend and Adebayour . Then they mentioned a net spend of £5m and all shook their heads i

Tim Sherwood on 28th August:

"I have the final say whether we bring someone into the club or not. If they are a success they are down to me - and if they are a failure they are also down to me."

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Adebayor - Sherwood could not convince

To be fair to Sherwood, neither could God.

[silhillvilla]

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.

Think about it though, we needed a top keeper, not Bunn so add say £8m to get that.
We needed a Charlie Austin type aswell as possibly Ayew so add about £8m there
Still think we needed a RB (you could argue we got him in Richards who should be playing at RB) so we needed a centre half so add say £4m . Lescott I was happy with at the time but he's been woeful .

[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.

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

The first 2 I agree, the second two I don't think would have made much difference. And the first 2 Sherwood had his chance to get. He should carry the fall for that.

[pauliewalnuts]

Manager in "signing players he knows" shocker. None of TS Spurs rejects would have filled me with joy but at least he would have known their capabilities and what he hoped to get out of them. .

Like that's any more comforting.

He wanted to spend 14m on Andros Townsend. 14m. He wanted to sign Adebayor, a man who later said he didn't come because he didn't get a sign from god that it was the right move. And Aaron Lennon, who is basically a slightly faster Charles N'Zogbia.

[PeterWithesShin]

Adebayor would have been like Sherwood, be useful early on before turning into a disaster.

[pauliewalnuts]

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.

The first 2 I agree, the second two I don't think would have made much difference. And the first 2 Sherwood had his chance to get. He should carry the fall for that.

I think the main reason Cambiasso didn't come was to do with him wanting to play in Greece, rather than some refusal of the board to get him in.

[ozzjim]

But Sherwood spoke to him and the club backed him with the signing, he chose to go elsewhere. My point is that his mates sitting on their pundit arses spouting complete bollocks are blaming the club for something they are not even at fault for.

[dl9]

Rooted to the bottom or routed to the bottom, I think both suffice.

I'm going off to watch some Swedish porn now so I too can be rooted to the....knockers.

Ladbrokes have just slashed the odds on Trevor Francis making a return to management with
The keyboard player from 70's hit band Sparks as his number 2.

Outta here.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I'll put my *ahem* reputation on the line and say I'd be happy (that alone is unusual) with Remi Garde.  I remember reading about him when he was being linked with the Newcastle job and being jealous that seemed to have such imagination and we were in Lambersherwoodwonderland.

There's going to be a lot of jealously if we get him. So called experts will probably dismiss him because he chose us only later to sing his praises and claim he's ideal to replace Wenger or manage the French national team.

[PeterWithesShin]

How great would it be if he came in, turned it round and showed up Sherwood, and all his media mates, for being the shithouse he really is as we tear up the league with the same "net spend" squad.

[VillaAlways]

My gut feeling is Garde is a done deal.I think he'll be in for the Spurs game

[paul_e]

There's no getting away from the net spend though.

This is true, there's no chance you or s_h will let that happen.

Can one discussion about the state of the team/manager/recruitment please not be about net fucking spend as if that's the only possible thing that matters.  No other country has this bullshit outside the top 2 or 3 sides who are spending the CL money and are effectively already operating in a european super league so why does everything in English football have to come back to spending huge fucking sums in every window, it's a nonsense and there are at least 3-4 clubs in the league right now who are proof that it's bullshit but still people refuse to think before they spout the tabloid inspired bullshit that losing vast sums of money every year is desirable.