Manager for next season

[ciggiesnbeer]

I saw Pearson's Leicester in the Champsionship several times. Very well drilled, tactically smart. I still dont want a British manager but he is a decent choice if we must. He is insane mind, but then again so is Rodgers, who is also decent.

[Marlon From Bearwood]

As has been said, why go for any manager who cannot bring his own backroom staff? We've already been bitten on the arse by this with both Sherwood and Garde.

[rob_bridge]

The Leicester fan mentions scouting and value for money. Not sure what they have in common with O'Neill!

To be fair, and I am loathed to be to MON, who in my mind is a bit of a lazy fucker, I think at Leicester he did get value for money signings that he brought in.

[Dave]

The Leicester fan mentions scouting and value for money. Not sure what they have in common with O'Neill!

Cast your mind back to O'Neill's first couple of seasons - when the main complaint was that he was "spending the money like it was his own" and the General was pretty clear that the board wanted him to spend more than he was.

[boozey182]

I couldn't support a team managed by Pearson. Regardless of what he might be able to get out of our players, having someone that left his last job following a racist sex tape (not to mention having pinned down an opposition player by the throat, threatening journalists and all the other aggressive 'banter' from him last season) in charge of the Villa genuinely makes me think it's not worth it. I've always loved Villa because, no matter how crap we are on the pitch, we tend to do the right thing off it. If we go down the route of employing people like Pearson, any success would be so hollow. That's assuming there would be any, which is a completely different debate.

This probably sounds very 'holier than thou' and I can fully understand people thinking me incredibly pretentious for this, but how the club conducts itself has always meant more to me than results. Pearson is a nasty piece of work that should not be even considered for any job at the club. I'd rather watch us in the conference.

And it will be a cold day in hell when I take the advice of a Leicester fan about anything other than where to buy ridiculous clappy plastic pieces of shit.

[cumbriavilla]

Pearson managed my first love CUFC (Villa are my glory team )

For me its the other way around Carlisle are my glory team!

[tricky59]

I couldn't support a team managed by Pearson. Regardless of what he might be able to get out of our players, having someone that left his last job following a racist sex tape (not to mention having pinned down an opposition player by the throat, threatening journalists and all the other aggressive 'banter' from him last season) in charge of the Villa genuinely makes me think it's not worth it. I've always loved Villa because, no matter how crap we are on the pitch, we tend to do the right thing off it. If we go down the route of employing people like Pearson, any success would be so hollow. That's assuming there would be any, which is a completely different debate.

This probably sounds very 'holier than thou' and I can fully understand people thinking me incredibly pretentious for this, but how the club conducts itself has always meant more to me than results. Pearson is a nasty piece of work that should not be even considered for any job at the club. I'd rather watch us in the conference.

And it will be a cold day in hell when I take the advice of a Leicester fan about anything other than where to buy ridiculous clappy plastic pieces of shit.

Apart from the last paragraph this is pretty much how I feel.  Villa have been my team ever since I can remember, but the thought of Pearson is difficult for me to accept.  My son saw boozey's comment and thought I had posted it.

[montague]

Maybe we should enquire whether Eddie Howe feels he has taken Bournemouth as far as he can

[Des Little]

Pearson isn't my choice - far from it.  However, I'm sick of seeing Garde's sad face on the bench when we are getting beaten with a look of resigned defeat and utter helplessness written across it.  This lot have broken him.  I want to see a manager whose face alone will strike fear into these overpaid, jumped up arseholes so that they come back for the second half under no illusion about the consequences of taking the piss out of him and us. 

If it takes sacrificing some idealogies about our manager to cleanse this rotten club of its cancer then sign me up to it, because make no mistake the Championship is no place for nice guys.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I couldn't support a team managed by Pearson. Regardless of what he might be able to get out of our players, having someone that left his last job following a racist sex tape (not to mention having pinned down an opposition player by the throat, threatening journalists and all the other aggressive 'banter' from him last season) in charge of the Villa genuinely makes me think it's not worth it. I've always loved Villa because, no matter how crap we are on the pitch, we tend to do the right thing off it. If we go down the route of employing people like Pearson, any success would be so hollow. That's assuming there would be any, which is a completely different debate.

Sex tapes and racism.  Yorkie and Bosnich in drag, secretly filming the 4 women they shagged and Bosnich giving a Nazi salute to Spurs fans at White Hart Lane. It would have been a brave Villa fan calling for them or their manager to be sacked at the time.

[Jimbo]

I want to see a manager whose face alone will strike fear into these overpaid, jumped up arseholes so that they come back for the second half under no illusion about the consequences of taking the piss out of him and us.

Is Iain Dowie available though?

[Dave]

I couldn't support a team managed by Pearson. Regardless of what he might be able to get out of our players, having someone that left his last job following a racist sex tape (not to mention having pinned down an opposition player by the throat, threatening journalists and all the other aggressive 'banter' from him last season) in charge of the Villa genuinely makes me think it's not worth it. I've always loved Villa because, no matter how crap we are on the pitch, we tend to do the right thing off it. If we go down the route of employing people like Pearson, any success would be so hollow. That's assuming there would be any, which is a completely different debate.

Sex tapes and racism.  Yorkie and Bosnich in drag, secretly filming the 4 women they shagged and Bosnich giving a Nazi salute to Spurs fans at White Hart Lane. It would have been a brave Villa fan calling for them or their manager to be sacked at the time.

I also think it's a little unfair to blame Pearson for the tape, when it didn't really have anything to do with him personally.

[brian green]

Boozey you express my views exactly.  Aston Villa FC are the bricks and mortar of football history not a concrete gnome with a fishing rod in the garden of the game.    I am proud to be a Villa fan and that pride runs deeper than my shame at the performances of the players.

[brontebilly]

A futile debate I think.

Unless we get rid of the useless, half arsed, self serving dildos who masquerade as professional footballers who is manager is immaterial.

By my reckoning we have 4 definitely worth keeping + 2 punts in the league below

Bye bye

Guzan
Bunn
Hutton
Bacuna
Richards
Richardson
Gabby
Lescott
Westwood
Clark
Baker

need to be binned. Probably missed one or two

Contracts up this season - Nzogbia, Richardson, both are likely to retire imo

Good luck trying to shift the rest of the crew

http://astonvillacentral.com/squad/contracts/

[SamTheMouse]

If Pearson is coming, I kind of hope they bring him in straight away, just to troll the squad.