Who do you want the next Villa manager to be?

[rob_bridge]

Your quite right, hindsight is wonderful.

Doesn't alter the fact that if I turn round to my site director and say I want to use £40M on a project to solve a serious problem and 12 months later go back and ask for a further £50M because I got the first design so badly wrong it had to be scrapped, I'd get laughed out of her office, probably with the Danish equivalent of a P45 following me as a paper plane.

I'm just incredulous over a business "investing" 50% of it's annual turnover had no oversight and financial control.

That's football for you. No board has ever been praised by supporters for refusing a manager money, not least one as popular as O'Neill.

Indeed.

[OCD]

Hindsight or not, any business is going to be in trouble where there's not a solid and experienced management team and a clear plan and blueprint for the next 10 years. We appointed a call office manager as CEO who knew little about football and blindly trusted O'Neill to get it right.

[pauliewalnuts]

Hindsight or not, any business is going to be in trouble where there's not a solid and experienced management team and a clear plan and blueprint for the next 10 years. We appointed a call office manager as CEO who knew little about football and blindly trusted O'Neill to get it right.

And ironically, now we actually do have a management team rather than a manager, the media are using it to smack across our arses because we sacked their special friend.

[saint13]

Betfair have now got Christophe Galtier as favourite ahead of Remi Garde....so are we to presume that our new manager has to be French?

[Villa in Denmark]

Betfair have now got Christophe Galtier as favourite ahead of Remi Garde....so are we to presume that our new manager has to be French?

No, but we can presume that the betting companies haven't got a scoobies.

[Toronto Villa]

Betfair have now got Christophe Galtier as favourite ahead of Remi Garde....so are we to presume that our new manager has to be French?

It would be stunning with everything being said by people who are legitimately ITK about goings on at Villa to now go in a completely different direction or simply away from Garde. I expect him to be announced early this week.

[pauliewalnuts]

Betfair have now got Christophe Galtier as favourite ahead of Remi Garde....so are we to presume that our new manager has to be French?

No, but we can presume that the betting companies haven't got a scoobies.

It's the punters who don't have a clue.

[pauliewalnuts]

Looking at the prices on Oddschecker, we have Garde and Gaultier at very very short odds, then a massive gap to 16/1 or so for Moyes, followed by a few names I genuinely have never heard of.

It's at the same time the most clear and most confusing manager search I can remember.

I red hot favourite (who himself came from nowhere last weekend) then one other at low price, then basically, nobody has a clue.

[Villa in Denmark]

Betfair have now got Christophe Galtier as favourite ahead of Remi Garde....so are we to presume that our new manager has to be French?

No, but we can presume that the betting companies haven't got a scoobies.

It's the punters who don't have a clue.

You're right .

[Toronto Villa]

Looking at the prices on Oddschecker, we have Garde and Gaultier at very very short odds, then a massive gap to 16/1 or so for Moyes, followed by a few names I genuinely have never heard of.

It's at the same time the most clear and most confusing manager search I can remember.

I red hot favourite (who himself came from nowhere last weekend) then one other at low price, then basically, nobody has a clue.

For me I've tried to restrict myself to a few voices. Auclair and Laurens who essentially went with the story very early on and have said nothing since to remove themselves from the story. Wenger recently and then Kevin MacDonald the other day pretty much confirming things. After that it's betting sites that don't amount much of anything, your usual made up bollocks like links to Justin Edingurgh and Gus Poyet and a bunch of idiots in the English media touting their mates.

[Diablo]

As many on here I think I am stuck in some sort of football manager appointment time warp! I know in reality it hasn't been that long since TS departure but the voice in my head is continually getting louder "FFS is this not sorted out yet?!!" The voice is loud but I know it is still someway off the maximum of 11 (which is the frightening part - think I'm on a 6). The minutes seem like hours when you cast your eyes at our league position and you're hoping for Newcastle, Sunderland, Bournemouth and Norwich to lose and you're listening to podcasts about French football where the hosts say we're not a big club with the same expectation levels as Newcastle FFS.

[Percy McCarthy]

As many on here I think I am stuck in some sort of football manager appointment time warp! I know in reality it hasn't been that long since TS departure but the voice in my head is continually getting louder "FFS is this not sorted out yet?!!" The voice is loud but I know it is still someway off the maximum of 11 (which is the frightening part - think I'm on a 6). The minutes seem like hours when you cast your eyes at our league position and you're hoping for Newcastle, Sunderland, Bournemouth and Norwich to lose and you're listening to podcasts about French football where the hosts say we're not a big club with the same expectation levels as Newcastle FFS.

Maybe it seems longer to us because most of us thought the recruitment process should have started immediately after the Stoke game. Maybe it did.

[pauliewalnuts]

It really isn't very long so far. It just seems that way as we're so keen to get it sorted and stop burning points.

[Duncan Shaw]

Martin Tyler just said something odd in the Saints game, in advertising MNF.  Something like currently manager less but that might change even before we finish here, keep tuned for the latest.

[holte hero]

I noticed this but thought I'd misheard, as the dog was barking in my other ear!! Somethings happening in B6