Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[Monty]

I think this is all distraction and guff before the inevitable appointment of Garde.

[Yossarian]

SSN just saying they've spoken to a "Senior source at Aston Villa" in the last 10 minutes.

This source said a number of quality managers had contacted the club regarding the job and that process was now underway.

In other news eating lots of bacon might be bad for you.

[rob_bridge]

SSN just saying they've spoken to a "Senior source at Aston Villa" in the last 10 minutes.

This source said a number of quality managers had contacted the club regarding the job and that process was now underway.

Fantastic. Club without Manager looking to recruit manager.

[Tony Erdington]

oil $49 a barrel

[mr underhill]

Elvis isn't dead, I've just seen him in the chip shop

[CT]

The best bit was that "the Club are looking to appoint a permanent manager".

That was good to know.

[Duncan Shaw]

Elvis isn't dead, I've just seen him in the chip shop

The bloke that works there?

[olaftab]

Right so Dwight Yorke thinks he is the man for the job :/ wow.

Yes quite and I am waiting for Mark Tosspot Bosnich to throw his hat in the ring.

[Clark W Griswold]

Right so Dwight Yorke thinks he is the man for the job :/ wow.

Yes quite and I am waiting for Mark Tosspot Bosnich to throw his hat in the ring.

Huh, more appli-****** than applicant. Same for Gus.

[Eckybloke]

If Poyet is on the list then I should be in with a shout of the position, My Saturday team won 6 nil FFS 

I've also managed Southampton to the premier league title in Football Manager...it's only fair I'm "given a chance" at a top job

Well I was head hunted by Real Madrid and I've won La Liga six seasons in a row (2021 - 2026) after having taken Villa to two Premier titles and a Champions League victory.  I think I'm  a better candidate personally. 

[Drummond]

Right so Dwight Yorke thinks he is the man for the job :/ wow.

Yes quite and I am waiting for Mark Tosspot Bosnich to throw his hat in the ring.

He was interviewed on Talkshite this morning and made no reference to applying but he did laugh when Yorkie was mentioned.

[ClaretAndBlueBlood]

If Poyet is on the list then I should be in with a shout of the position, My Saturday team won 6 nil FFS 

I've also managed Southampton to the premier league title in Football Manager...it's only fair I'm "given a chance" at a top job

Well I was head hunted by Real Madrid and I've won La Liga six seasons in a row (2021 - 2026) after having taken Villa to two Premier titles and a Champions League victory.  I think I'm  a better candidate personally. 

you can apply in 2027 then, we've got another 12 - 15 managers to get through before then

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Some French bit of fluff, Jocelyn Gourvennec, has been added to the list of potential managers. 4th favourite with the bookies and her record in France is pretty impressive with little Guingamp.

[Ron Manager]

The scorer of the greatest goal in the history of world football usually expresses an interest
in this vacant position. Doesnt look as if he is bothering this time.

[Musicmaan]

The foreign vs not-foreign argument distilled nicely:

Harry Redknapp has perfected his ‘white noise for hire’ schtick – getting paid twice for essentially saying the same things to the Evening Standard and the Daily Telegraph in the last few days – namely that British bosses do not get a chance in English football. Boo-hoo.

‘Another week in the Premier League, another managerial casualty and further proof of how hard it has become for British coaches to get a top job in England,’ begins his column.

We will stop you there (for the first of many times): Tim Sherwood’s sacking is proof only that Tim Sherwood was sh*t at his job. Carry on…

‘Tim is someone I have a lot of time for. He is enthusiastic and has strong opinions.’

Which of course is exactly what you need to thrive as a Premier League manager; a keen and arsey Mediawatch expects to get a call about the Villa job this week.

‘For the vast majority of British managers, the only way to manage at a Premier League club is to get promoted and, even then, it is very difficult to progress further.’

Delicious lack of irony there while talking about the sacking of a manager who somehow got two Premier League jobs with no previous managerial experience. As pointed out before by Mediawatch, Steve McClaren and Garry Monk also have Premier League jobs without ever being promoted into the Premier League.

‘There are only seven clubs that at the start of the season you would say were stabilised in the league and not at threat of relegation: Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester City, Liverpool, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. How many have a British manager? None.’

Which sounds like a very good case for foreign managers to Mediawatch.

‘I would like to see some far more British boys get an opportunity to manage a big club and see what they can do.’

Like David Moyes at Manchester United, Brendan Rodgers at Liverpool and Tim Sherwood at Tottenham? We saw exactly what they could do, Harry.

‘Tony Pulis would never have managed in the Premier League unless he had got promoted with Stoke City.’

He’s absolutely right; Pulis would not have been a Premier League manager unless he was successful as a manager.

‘Rémi Garde is now looking massive favourite for the Aston Villa job but, with the greatest respect, why? What’s he done?’

Won the French cup, reached the last 16 of the Champions League and the quarter-finals of the Europa League. You’re welcome.

‘How often do British managers get an opportunity to manage in Italy, Germany or France?’

How often do British managers learn another language and apply for jobs in other countries?

‘All the other clubs, on a bad season, can drop into it as we have seen this season at Villa, Sunderland and Newcastle. As a manager that obviously puts you at risk.’

Or they can thrive like West Ham (who replaced a British manager with a foreign) and Leicester City (who replaced a British manager with a foreign).

‘Not many British managers have had a chance at those top seven clubs but, of those that have, I think we have more than held our own. Sir Alex Ferguson is obviously a one-off but look also at the job Moyes did at Everton.’

And definitely don’t look at the job Moyes did at Manchester United.

Can't argue with any of that. Nicely written.