Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[CT]

Gray is clueless. Yorke is a far bigger gamble than Garde.

I may as well sell everything I've ever worked for, pop the family into a B&B and head to Vegas - I'll stick the lot on Black.

That's less of gamble than Dwight Yorke.

...and Andy Gray. FFS.

[Lucky Eddie]

Do we solely have Doug to blame for our distinct lack of loyal ex players?

Platt, Yorke, Bosnich............

This shortage saddens me greatly - What I'd give for a Brian Little figure to be heading our way.

[LTA]

Andy Gray has urged Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner to pick an experienced Premier League boss to succeed Tim Sherwood.

Lerner is reportedly ready to hand Frenchman Remi Garde the reins at Villa Park, but Gray believes it would be a big mistake to appoint someone who has not managed in England.

Villa are sitting bottom of the table, four points adrift of safety, after a run of six successive defeats, and Gray told talkSPORT on Thursday: “In the situation they are in, they need an experienced head, a cool head, someone who knows the league. Someone who can turn things around quickly, who can get things done.

"Aston Villa can definitely not take a gamble now. They are detached already after ten games at the bottom of the league.

“Villa are going to have to win three or four games in a six-game spell to get out of the bottom three. That looks a long way from happening right now.”

Dwight Yorke told talkSPORT earlier this week that he wants to be given the chance transform Villa’s fortunes, despite his complete lack of managerial experience.

“He loves the club, he has got his coaching badges, he is young, he is fresh… but not on his own. 

“Along with an experienced head, then maybe it could be the type of combination that could get Villa out of it".

[godzvilla]

If anything highlights the vacuum of knowledge that pundits have about our club or the game in general, then it's this scenario. It's unreal!

Never were truer words spoken ( written),Ads.  The " vacuum of knowledge " , you mention is beyond pitiful but wholly indicative of today,s so called Media ' experts' especially with regard to our club , and others like us, i.e.those outside the great Metrollops of London & Manchester.................Godzvilla!

[dave.woodhall]

Do we solely have Doug to blame for our distinct lack of loyal ex players?

Platt, Yorke, Bosnich............

This shortage saddens me greatly - What I'd give for a Brian Little figure to be heading our way.

I'd like to, but you can't blame Doug for modern football.

[Des Little]

The quicker the media turn over these antiquated 'experts' the better.  All they seem to do is promote their ilk for jobs that they are clearly a decade (or more) past being suitable for - if at all.  Alan Brazil is the best example of this.  These dinosaurs need another ice age.

[silhillvilla]

Scary how few genuinely good and realistic candidates there seem to be about (or not as the case may be )

[Phil from the upper holte]

Garde has managed Lyon, Yorke has managed no one. Jog on the pair of you

[Lucky Eddie]

Do we solely have Doug to blame for our distinct lack of loyal ex players?

Platt, Yorke, Bosnich............

This shortage saddens me greatly - What I'd give for a Brian Little figure to be heading our way.

I'd like to, but you can't blame Doug for modern football.

Not even a 1/22 part share?

[dave.woodhall]

Do we solely have Doug to blame for our distinct lack of loyal ex players?

Platt, Yorke, Bosnich............

This shortage saddens me greatly - What I'd give for a Brian Little figure to be heading our way.

I'd like to, but you can't blame Doug for modern football.

Not even a 1/22 part share?

Go on then.

[LTA]

It gets better...

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-vacancy-manchester-united-10350890

[olaftab]

Yes go for Yorke-equivalent of telling an alcoholic to leave the pub and go to the brewery!

[Des Little]

It gets better...

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-vacancy-manchester-united-10350890

The Mail never ceases to amaze me.  How is it still going?

[dave.woodhall]

Dwight Yorke's getting a couple of his mates to hint that he'd like to be a manager somewhere. Big wows.

[olaftab]

Yes  interesting however he should realise that Bosko whilst  out player  didn't actually play for us!

"Villa don’t seem equipped to adapt to the “Brendan Rodgers way”, and the evidently eager Dwight Yorke’s credentials boil down to the fact that he used to play for the club. So too did Bosko Balaban. If Villa are to be resuscitated from their current state, they need a long-term vision Putting anyone in charge of such of a task with so few realistic candidates available will always be a risk. Garde may well be one worth taking, with bigger and better offers unlikely to be too far off for the Frenchman."