Manager for next season

[DB]

You'd hope the new members of the board would get the new bloke in and Old Randy would leave them to it.

[ozzjim]

Whoever it is we can't repeat the mistakes of appointing someone that does not not have back room team ready to come in with them

[Toronto Villa]

Yes in hindsight dropping Garde into the jungle without his trusted lieutenants in place really compromised his ability to establish his authority. And RR was simply a back up and wasn't enough especially with cocks like Kmac still hanging around the place.

[Ormy Droid]

Mark Warburton would be number 3 on the list. I think he is gettable too if offered the right structure.

I expect that having been sacked by Brentford and now managing in the Scottish second division he would crawl on his hands and knees to be Villa manager.

He wasn't sacked, but refused to renew his contract under the conditions the club were insisting on (taking away his veto on incoming transfers - sound familiar?).
Warburton's no fool, he used to work in the city when he was out of football and would want a lot of assurances before taking over our shitstorm. Personally, I don't think he'll leave Rangers. They'll be promoted this season and his long term assistant is Rangers legend David Weir. I haven't seen much of Rangers obviously, but Brentford played some cracking football under him, we'd be lucky to have him.

[Toronto Villa]

What I'm happy about is that Brian Little will be involved in the next manager search and not Paul Faulkner or Tom Fox. Whoever it is I am happy to trust his judgment.

[eddiemunster]

I think that the board have to start offloading the useless feckers who have got us in the mess we're in, before talking of keeping or replacing Garde.

Unfortunately, as I and other posters have said, there are too many NOT out of contract at the end of the season.

So RL and the board aren't going to spend money to shift them.

So any new manager will have to put up with what's left, after certain RATS have jumped ship.

And if Hollis follows the thinking of RL, re making the club something he doesn't have to finance any more, then all of the reserve and youth players who are out of contract, won't have the one year options taken up.

And if that happens,what is likely to be left, doesn't exactly fill me with confidence for next season.

So can somebody tell me who the miracle working manager is going to be???

[Tony Erdington]

WITH whats out there, I'm going with Fat Ed, he knows the championship and has premiership experience, I reckon if his given a budget , hell come.

But that is the question, is there going to be a budget.

[Boz]

I think that the board have to start offloading the useless feckers who have got us in the mess we're in, before talking of keeping or replacing Garde.

Unfortunately, as I and other posters have said, there are too many NOT out of contract at the end of the season.

So RL and the board aren't going to spend money to shift them.

So any new manager will have to put up with what's left, after certain RATS have jumped ship.

And if Hollis follows the thinking of RL, re making the club something he doesn't have to finance any more, then all of the reserve and youth players who are out of contract, won't have the one year options taken up.

And if that happens,what is likely to be left, doesn't exactly fill me with confidence for next season.

So can somebody tell me who the miracle working manager is going to be???

Jorge Jesus perhaps 

[Le Lapin]

If Moyes wanted to come to us and get stuck into the Villa project then I would take him in a heartbeat.  This is a long term project and we are starting from scratch so we need someone that knows what they are doing,  someone that can build something in the Championship and will have the experience of Premiership management.  We don't need another gamble, they don't work out for us. A safe pair of hands that will be given time and authority to build a team to take us up and then give us a platform to stay there. Moyes or maybe Rodgers.

What is the project exactly?  I have been wondering over the past few days just what Villa currently ( and since 2010 ) stand for.  It's not trophies, it's not glory, it is merely all about the Lerner family getting their money back.  It's a rotten, hollow, culture to attempt to build a club around.

The project is to build this great club back up again. Wrong managerial appointments , wrong hierarchical appointments and the crowd of players left behind because of this have left the club hollow and without substance. You right that our definition of  project might differ from Lerner's. But if he continues his mismanagement of his asset, and keeps letting  it fall into disrepair, he is going to be left with having to take a huge loss on it to get it off his hands. He seems to be seeing sense with his board appointments and they seem to be a step in the right direction.  If we really nail our next managerial appointment, get the right guy in and bounce back into the Premiership and build from that, then Lerner might have something he can sell to get himself out of this bind. Another gamble on a manager will keep us on the cycle we've been on.

[DB]

Other. Karanka or Warbuton.

[Monty]

Moyes would be a sensational appointment for a Championship side. Rodgers or Monk might be good too, because they both know how Swansea got their solid base. Pearson could get an organised team together, but it would be a bit like hiring Holloway or Redknapp: yes they might do a good job, but at what cost to the dignity of the club?

Mind you, I'm not sure we have any more dignity to play with.

[Tony Erdington]

I think that the board have to start offloading the useless feckers who have got us in the mess we're in, before talking of keeping or replacing Garde.

Unfortunately, as I and other posters have said, there are too many NOT out of contract at the end of the season.

So RL and the board aren't going to spend money to shift them.

So any new manager will have to put up with what's left, after certain RATS have jumped ship.

And if Hollis follows the thinking of RL, re making the club something he doesn't have to finance any more, then all of the reserve and youth players who are out of contract, won't have the one year options taken up.

And if that happens,what is likely to be left, doesn't exactly fill me with confidence for next season.

So can somebody tell me who the miracle working manager is going to be???

Jorge Jesus perhaps 

oh this is depressing, so Division 1 here we come.

Randy is obviously a cock, but ffs is he that fick to not see the errors of his "cut the costs" policy, appoint wannabe managers, appoint mates, alienate the fans.

[Ger Regan]

Other. Karanka or Warbuton.

Karanka is not a bad bet actually.

[eddiemunster]

[quote author=Tony Erdington link=topic=55660.msg3039120#msg3039120 date=145848104

oh this is depressing, so Division 1 here we come.

Randy is obviously a cock, but ffs is he that fick to not see the errors of his "cut the costs" policy, appoint wannabe managers, appoint mates, alienate the fans.
[/quote]

Well Tony, he's had a fair old time to see the errors, but he keeps on making them!!!!!

[Tony Erdington]

Moyes would be a sensational appointment for a Championship side. Rodgers or Monk might be good too, because they both know how Swansea got their solid base. Pearson could get an organised team together, but it would be a bit like hiring Holloway or Redknapp: yes they might do a good job, but at what cost to the dignity of the club?

Mind you, I'm not sure we have any more dignity to play with.

yes Moyes was definitely right for us, before we appointed garde, but cheap cheap randy through the dice and guese what, we klost again. I think moyes is now to high profile for us, he will have much better options, I'm getting aboard the "FAT ED BUS"

he has lots of experience will get us out of the championship (I think) at the first time of asking.