Manager for next season

[dave.woodhall]

Simon Grayson, anyone?

[in exile]

Dave - if we are looking for ex Villa men, then yes...I'd rather have him than Dean Saunders!

[DeKuip]

i dreamt that bbc 6 music dj steve lamacq was appointed as villa manager last night...

i don't think he could do any worse.

Why on earth would he give up following Colchester home and away to manage us? And he's on air until 6pm so night matches would be a bit of a rush.

[DeKuip]

Simon Grayson, anyone?

Only if every other team in the league has to comply with this rule of having a former player as manager. And he'd have to stay in the job a long time too.

[RussellC]

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

If Pearson is coming, I'm going. Fucking shambles and for me would show the 'new' board are as bad as the old. As another couple posters said, be very afraid.

Yep, I'm amazed that anyone would want Pearson. He seemed like a man of the verge of a breakdown towards the end of his time at Leicester. I would also have thought that Leicester's meteoric rise this season would have diminished any credit that he'd gained for simply keeping them up last season. Granted, they've signed a couple of new players, but to go from just surviving under Pearson to the verge of winning the league under Ranieri sounds a bit of an alarm bell for me!!

[mr underhill]

I think we've gone beyond experimental left field choices. I want SAF out of retirement now. He's soon sort these fuckwits out

[RussellC]

Simon Grayson, anyone?

If Brian Litttle's involved in the decision making, he's almost guaranteed to be a name under consideration I would have thought.

[murgsy]

I don't want Pearson. Most of the reasons have already been covered in the other posts. Moyes would be great - but if he would go to a Championship club next year - he would probably chose the Barcodes. Sean Dyche would be second option - but Burnley will go up for sure. How about Simon Grayson? Foreign managers with English football experience - Di Matteo?

[kippaxvilla2]

I want a dream ticket of Dwight Yorke and Kevin McDonald.

[kippaxvilla2]

The concern I have with Pearson is for a large part of his career he was a coach supporting a manager, then he went into management and did a good job at Leicester, however, he seemed to lose the plot more and more each week once he was in the fish bowl media frenzy that is the Premier League.  Now, this was at a club like Leicester.  Imagine how much worse he would potentially be at a club like ours which let's face it gets more negative column inches than I've had hot dinners.  I think he might actually self combust under the pressure.

[Tony Erdington]

simon grayson, er NO, Pearson er NO that would be like appointing Donald Trump.

We cant fuck about, Again.

Steve Bruce (for the fuckwits yes he did manage small heath)

[AV89]

Simon Grayson, anyone?

Doing well at Preston and has had good records at other clubs he's managed.

Let's face it, there won't be shortage of managers interested in coming here.

[Des Little]

I want a dream ticket of Dwight Yorke and Kevin McDonald.

I'm not sure I want to experience too many of your dreams, Kippax

[Bottom Right 89]

I'll stick with Bruce as first choice, Gary Monk as outsider.

There is nothing in the rules to say our manager has to be an ex Villa player however I think if you're an outsider you just don't get us and how to manage our expectations - see David O'Leary/Gerard Houllier. Occasionally we get people who become Villa men, Graham Taylor/Martin O'Neill but these are few and far between.

Steve Bruce knows midlands football and appreciates what Aston Villa are about. He's a seasoned Championship veteran and decent players sign for him. Can see Curtis Davies coming is as Captain if this happens, Eric Black is his ready made assistant and I would like to see Nigel Spink return as Goalkeeping Coach (although to be honest I'd put him in nets for the rest of this season). Bruce just needs need to sort out his differences with Lee Hendrie and its a done deal for me.

I liked Gary Monk at Swansea, he always came across very positive in his approach which I don't get from Remi but he's a gamble and unfortunately our days of throwing 6 darts for a speedboat are over, maybe one for the shortlist next time.

[ozzjim]

Swansea are a basket case now too. I wonder whether Monk got a decent first season or so on the back of being a player and captain, but then could not sustain it. Their fans reading the report and comments at the time thought he was miles out of his depth. If we went young, I would sooner give Robinson a shot from MK Dons.