Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[Pat McMahon]

I want somebody with experience who has been through good and bad times. I think an issue with Lambert was that he had never dealt with a rough ride and couldn't cope. Sherwood had hardly any experience, good or bad, so was just clueless when it came to trying to stop a decline. Neither  had good coaches either.

My issue with Garde is that he only has 3-4 years in management. French mates reckon he is ok, but Lyon were not  the force of old under him. They are not sure he would be right for the premier league - they compare French managers who come here with Wenger and Houllier ( the Liverpool version ).

We should have offered Sherwood a contract to keep us up last season with a subsequent pay off and then brought in somebody who could prepare for this season.

[PeterWithesShin]

"We should still love MON" brought to you by the bloke that said we had no chance of beating Liverpool and found it laughable that anyone thought we could.

MON is a ****** and I hope to fuck he is never employed by this club again the fucking wanker.

[rob_bridge]

"We should still love MON" brought to you by the bloke that said we had no chance of beating Liverpool and found it laughable that anyone thought we could.

MON is a c*** and I hope to fuck he is never employed by this club again the fucking wanker.

Yep.

[Villa in Denmark]

Silhil I'm still waiting for an answer.
Or are you going to run chicken shit like you are with Chris Jameson on another thread?

Do you ever engage your brain before posting?

Why do you even ask that question as you know the answer!

Its VD remember, special needs 

And what the fuck is that supposed to mean?

[Phil from the upper holte]

I reckon Poyet is 2ND favorite because sky said he's in the race so money goes on him. Nothing more. If he does come I'm totally finished with the lot of em

[David_Nab]

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?

As for MON ..a man who gave Habibe Beye 40 odd grand a week only to play a centre back at right back ..no thanks that asshole left us in the shit then proceeded to do the same to Sunderland.A man whose fabled man management skills seemingly consisted of purchasing average players giving them huge wages and telling them they were world beaters.

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

They must learn to compete with the top flight’s well-run smaller clubs such as Southampton, Swansea, Stoke, Crystal Palace and even Leicester – all of whom are light years ahead in terms of management structure and recruitment policy.

Stoke - Adama
Leicester -Veratout

We did follow those smaller clubs and brought players they wanted !

[dave.woodhall]

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

It might be damning if it wasn't full of inaccuracies. For example:

"The word inside Villa is that Sherwood felt compelled to play his new recruits at the start of the season but quickly became convinced that many were not up to Premier League standard."

Even though we got most of our points at the start, when they were playing. I see it's also open season on Jordan Veretout. 

[Ian.]

Jordan Veretout was a player a lot of people got very excited about and really wanted to sign. He was starting to look good until he  recently disappeared from the squad. I hope whoever takes over lets this guy get a good run in the side. I feel the same with Ayew, a good run in the team in the right position and we have two very good players.

[aj2k77]

Veretout who was very slowly introduced, looked decent against Stoke (arguably our best player) but then completely out of the squad by the time the next home game hit.

I firmly believe Sherwood knew he was a goner and was trying to make a point with him returning to the old guard of Premiership has beens for the final match. Surprised he didn't go the whole hog and drop Gueye for Westwood or would that have been to obvious? Maybe I'm just thinking up conspiracy theories, but none of his decisions the last couple of weeks made any sense to me.

[ozzjim]

Veretout who Leicester were desperate to get and gutted they didn't and who most french pundits agreed was a coup for us to sign as he was above our level. I grant you he has not been anywhere close to that yet, but he was near on our best player in the ill devised 3-5-2 against Stoke, should have had a penalty, and has been left out the last 2 squads. I think a change of manager who is not going to be so petty about who signed who is a start. Quite clearly Amavi, Veretout, Ayew, Gana and Traore are all very talented, just need some bloody tactical plan!

[PeterWithesShin]

Veretout may not be good be enough, I think he will be fine for what it's worth, but the stick he is getting is ridiculous. He's 22 and started 3 games in a new league in a new country. He'll hardly be the first player to take a bit of time to get up to speed.

[adrenachrome]

Of course, the meejah are piling in and making the most of our predicament, exploiting every angle. At least there is no talk of sheets, banners and marches on Vila Park.

I note with interest that this snippet from Lambo's 5 Live interview is circulating in the Twittersphere.

I spoke to Lukaku, Bony and Eriksen. I tried to bring them in but we couldn't it do due to the way things were.

What annoys me about this is he would say very similar things, if less explicitly, directly after categorically denying there was a wages cap or anything like it.

[old man villa fan]

Veretout may not be good be enough, I think he will be fine for what it's worth, but the stick he is getting is ridiculous. He's 22 and started 3 games in a new league in a new country. He'll hardly be the first player to take a bit of time to get up to speed.

Wasn't given a chance by Sherwood. I am not saying he should have started him every game but should have been on the bench and brought on to get him up to speed.

I tend to agree with a previous poster in that I think Sherwood had an agenda not to play the new players. Which when you take into account rubbishing most of the squad after the cup final, shows that he is not cut out to be a club manager.

[OCD]

Talking about never being given a chance...Ilori has had no involvement whatsoever. Crespo's barely been given a look and when he did, he changed the shape of the side and the defence twice - before the game and again at half time.

[old man villa fan]

For the wages without doubt. No resale value the vast majority and stupid contacts. He was the man that pushed the first domino over

Good analogy.

Lerner has made some poor decisions but without keeping on putting more money in post-MON, we could have done a Leeds or Portsmouth.