Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[Jimbo]

If only we'd 'done a Lyon' when Liverpool came a knockin' for Benteke. "No, we absolutely refuse to allow you to speak to us. And likewise, we're refusing to let ourselves listen to you."

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"Not against the Garde idea but my only reservation is that he's only got one job on his CV"

Probably sounds perfect to our non footballing recruitment panel..

[adrenachrome]

If only we'd 'done a Lyon' when Liverpool came a knockin' for Benteke. "No, we absolutely refuse to allow you to speak to us. And likewise, we're refusing to let ourselves listen to you."

Release clause was the devil in the detail of this issue.

[walsall villain]

If only we'd 'done a Lyon' when Liverpool came a knockin' for Benteke. "No, we absolutely refuse to allow you to speak to us. And likewise, we're refusing to let ourselves listen to you."

Don't get us all started on buy out clauses for Gods sake.

[CT]

Are his chosen assistants indentured, or something? Like, chained?

Otherwise, they have contracts which can be bought out.

Exactly. I believe that Dwight Yorke was under contract, and that we weren't keen on losing him, just before he fucked off to Man Utd.

Would you be suggesting that these guys just don't turn up for work (ala Yorke at Everton)?

Probably the best way - I'm sure Alan Evans managed to force his way out of Leicester to be part of the Little / Gregory team. Depends HOW much they actually want to come here.

[LukeJames]

I'm completely in the Garde camp now, I knew very little of him other than he played for Arsenal and managed Lyon but the read ups all sound like hes perfect for our set up.

Don't get your hopes up. If Skysports are correct then it won't happen for the very same reason his move to Newcastle failed, he wants to bring in his assistant but Lyon are refusing to discuss it.

Yeah, we'll be fine.

A Villa fan who hasn't lost his optimism, I hope you are right.

I lost that years ago, I'm just slightly deluded.

[silhillvilla]

Not against the Garde idea but my only reservation is that he's only got one job on his CV.

Agreed. He's still a rookie and we should steer well clear.

This is the fear . We are shopping in the sub-prime market . This decision is massive for the club, arguably the most important in the history of the club.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Not against the Garde idea but my only reservation is that he's only got one job on his CV.

Agreed. He's still a rookie and we should steer well clear.

Are you still lusting for Moyes, S_H? You do realise he's not interested.

[Jimbo]

If only we'd 'done a Lyon' when Liverpool came a knockin' for Benteke. "No, we absolutely refuse to allow you to speak to us. And likewise, we're refusing to let ourselves listen to you."

Don't get us all started on buy out clauses for Gods sake.

"No, we categorically refuse to understand what a release clause is."

[LukeJames]

If only we'd 'done a Lyon' when Liverpool came a knockin' for Benteke. "No, we absolutely refuse to allow you to speak to us. And likewise, we're refusing to let ourselves listen to you."

Don't get us all started on buy out clauses for Gods sake.

If they have buy out clauses we should bid a couple of million above that value just incase Newcastle come back for them......

[Big Dick Edwards]

According to an "exclusive" by SatanSpawnofBaggieBill in The Meaning Evil, Benito Carbone has thrown his hat into the three ring bullshit circus sideshow. Young Gregg is a caution.

He can fuck right off, like he did when the mighty Bradford City lured him away from us as a player.

[adrenachrome]

A damning piece in The Mirror by Dave Kidd concludes:

Garde did a decent but unspectacular job as Lyon manager but his likely appointment is regarded as one designed to best safeguard the positions of Fox, Almstadt and Riley – a compliant ‘head coach’ who could be expected to make the most of Villa’s summer foray into the French market.

Good luck with that.

There’ll be few tears shed for Sherwood, and with a £2million pay-off why should there be?

But while Villa are run by self-interested middle managers, who seem incapable of trusting their own instincts, they are heading towards the Championship. And deservedly so.

Aston Villa have been smothered by a lack of ambition and are mismanaging their way into the Championship

[ciggiesnbeer]

Even if they don't chucking a few quid at Lyon to release the blokes running around with stopwatches and clipboards should hardly be insurmountable. Its not like there is a transfer limit or window for backroom staff. Use up a few hundred thousand of the massive warchest we have committed to garde to get his team.

We HAVE commited a massive warchest to him right Randy, Randy?

[Louzie0]

According to an "exclusive" by SatanSpawnofBaggieBill in The Meaning Evil, Benito Carbone has thrown his hat into the three ring bullshit circus sideshow. Young Gregg is a caution.

He can fuck right off, like he did when the mighty Bradford City lured him away from us as a player.

There seems to be an awful lot of interest in this job at The Villa. How gratifying.

Then again,

Anything to do with the mega financial bonanza hitting the PL at the end of this season?

[ciggiesnbeer]

A damning piece in The Mirror by Dave Kidd concludes:

Garde did a decent but unspectacular job as Lyon manager but his likely appointment is regarded as one designed to best safeguard the positions of Fox, Almstadt and Riley – a compliant ‘head coach’ who could be expected to make the most of Villa’s summer foray into the French market.

Good luck with that.

There’ll be few tears shed for Sherwood, and with a £2million pay-off why should there be?

But while Villa are run by self-interested middle managers, who seem incapable of trusting their own instincts, they are heading towards the Championship. And deservedly so.

Aston Villa have been smothered by a lack of ambition and are mismanaging their way into the Championship

Villa have been through four managers and have finished in the bottom six for each of the past four seasons, winning just 20 of their last 81 home league games.