Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[Quiet Lion]

Psycho sez Dyche.

Villa are searching for a new boss to lead them out of an ongoing relegation battle, and Stuart Pearce has told talkSPORT that the Midlands side should look to hire Sean Dyche of Burnley, who he calls the best manager outside of the Premier League.

Pearce said: “If I was Aston Villa, I would go and get Sean Dyche. He is the best manager outside the Premier League at this moment in time. Danny Ings, Kieran Trippier and Jason Shackell all left in the summer and Dyche has still managed to maintain Burnley.”

Another one of England's lads and managerial recruitment guru speaks. Thanks Stuart. I imagine you roared your opinion with fist clenched. 

Time will tell, but he is highly rated.  I'm struggling to remember exactly what I have read but the opinion coming out of St Georges Park (or whatever it is called) is that he's been their best graduate.  They also said that he's continued to go there to study and teach the current students.  I would not want him as our manager but the guy seems to be doing it correctly (studiously?) which is not something I typically associate with british managers.

I do quite like him (voice aside).

Watching his teams they look like they have been coached, they look organised and appear to have a coherent way of playing. Something we haven't seen in 5 years.

[glasses]

Has Justin Edinburgh not been added to the poll yet?

Big move in the betting markets apparently.

Baggies fan (who follows a lot of football at all levels) at work said last week before Sherwood was sacked, and before he himself went on his jollies that Edinburgh is considered by many as the best manager outside the Prem at the moment. Supposedly got Gillingham doing well. Fucked if I know

[mr underhill]

thank fuck! Poyet is off to AEK Athens

[postal]

I don't know if I heard the radio correctly this morning as I got into the car, but I heard speculation about Nigel Clough being our new manager?

As there is no actual news, there is only speculation.

Some of it seems reasonable - Nigel Clough wouldnt be completely terrible, and then you get the pointless of Rednapp ruling himself out when no-one was going to suggest him, and the ridicious of Rio (seriously?) saying it should be Dwight Yorke.

Rio is a terrible pointless pundit ( who only was on the BBC's Brazil WC team because of his name), but thats another topic.

[mr underhill]

I'm already looking  forward to Garde's  touchline celebrations when Ayew & Co smack them into the onion bag

[darren woolley]

I wouldn't mind having David Moyes or Michael Laudrup any one of those two would be good.

[in exile]

thank fuck! Poyet is off to AEK Athens

I hope you are right.
On a similar note, I'm hoping Di Canio is happy in full time employment somewhere

[damon loves JT]

I don't know if I heard the radio correctly this morning as I got into the car, but I heard speculation about Nigel Clough being our new manager?

Well I was listening to the radio this morning and all I heard was Bette Midler singing 'the wind beneath my wings', and she didn't mention Clough.

[Toronto Villa]

Yes give it couple of days and Paul Jewell, Phil Brown, Gary Megson, Brian Marwood, Gordon Strachan, Terry Butcher and Ian Holloway will all be linked with the job.

[villasjf]

I don't know if I heard the radio correctly this morning as I got into the car, but I heard speculation about Nigel Clough being our new manager?

It was suggested that he could take over at Forest if Doug Freeman got the sack.

[old man villa fan]

I wouldn't have thought any employee is tied to an employer as wouldn't that be slavery. A contract can be broken and recourse is compensation.

Where it is a bit different in football is where governing bodies e.g. FIFA control registrations and prevent breaking of contracts. This applies to players but I do not think it would extend to coaches.

It will come down to whether the AM gets a better offer to stay at Lyon.

I would not have thought we would have got as far as reported with Garde if he hadn't checked out his backroom team beforehand or he has alternatives.

These things take time and a new team was not going to walk in the door as Sherwood walked out the door unless it had been set up beforehand. Perhaps it has and Sherwood seemingly giving up was due to this.

There is a news void between one manager leaving and another coming in and the media have to fill it.

As with our signings in the summer, very little came out of the club until the players turned up in Birmingham.

[olaftab]

Has Trippier played for Spurs yet at all?

Curbishley and Hoddle have not been linked yet. Disappointing.

or Avram Grant...

UTV
The Doc

Avram is usually at  Bliss massage parlour in Hagley Road on Thursday mornings so I will see him tomorrow. If you good people have some  leading questions I should ask him please let me know?

[olaftab]

I wouldn't mind having David Moyes or Michael Laudrup any one of those two would be good.

How about both Darren working as home and away managers?

[olaftab]

Yes give it couple of days and Paul Jewell, Phil Brown, Gary Megson, Brian Marwood, Gordon Strachan, Terry Butcher and Ian Holloway will all be linked with the job.

And how about Jimmy Jewell, Bobby Brown, Michaela Strachan, Pat Butcher?

[wozwebs]

He's back - @whispers_avfc: i welcome remi garde.