Manager for next season

[saunders_heroes]

You get a lift when you read Moyes wants the job then you wake up to stories linking us to Dyche and Pearson and are brought straight back down to earth with a bump again.

[Dave P]

The Telegraph and The Mirror state that Dyche and Pearson are the two preferred candidates according to Newsnow.

and it says
New board member David Bernstein and ex-Villa manager Brian Little, who is now acting as an advisor for the club, will lead the process and the pair are understood to favour a British manager who has a promotion to the Premier League on their CV

so that rules Moyes out then

If that's the criteria Colin Wanker should be on the list. And there was me thinking things couldn't get worse

Or Malky Mackay.  He's out of work too.

[Villa in Denmark]

You get a lift when you read Moyes wants the job then you wake up to stories linking us to Dyche and Pearson and are brought straight back down to earth with a bump again.

And none of it means anything as long as it's know nothing journalists guessing / shit stirring / desperately trying to fill column inches over an Easter weekend deprived of 2 lots of 19 PL games and 21 championship games to write about.

After the international match reports, our demise is the biggest story out there on a weekend without league football in the top two flights and in the absence of anything new or definite to write about, writing the exact opposite of what was printed 3 days ago is the easiest money they'll "earn" this season.

Where we are stinks and is shit. Don't let a couple of journalists that would barely know the difference between 442 and 532 make it worse.       

[Toronto Villa]

You get a lift when you read Moyes wants the job then you wake up to stories linking us to Dyche and Pearson and are brought straight back down to earth with a bump again.

and as ever with stories none of us knows what is true. It's as easy for a paper to shove "and it is understood Villa have placed promotional specialist Neil Warnock high on their list of candidates" into an article and let the masses collapse in rage, laughter and anger. I think if Fox/Randy were in charge then opting for what might be "a safe pair of hands" at Championship level this time around would be guaranteed. Hopefully Little and Bernstein are being allowed to conduct a proper search looking for the right man for the circumstances and that we all trust their judgement.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I have a very hard time believing Bernstein would limit his choices that way if he was looking for a Garde replacement. God knows getting promoted will be hard enough let alone trying to do it by recruiting with one hand behind your back.

[clash city rocker]

I would imagine the papers know as much about our manager for next season as we do. Little and Bernstein will make their recommendations on what is best for the club but ultimately they may not get their preferred choice down to budgetary restraints place on a future manager who may decide he can't work with whatever is on offer. Someone will be managing the team next season but whether he was our first choice or not we will never get to know.

[OCD]

Presumably Quique Flores, Eddie Howe and Alex Neil hadn't had experience of getting a team promoted into the Premier League before? (Just to use this season's promoted teams' managers as examples).

[Des Little]

I'm pretty sure McLeish and Lambert got their teams promoted too. The fact is there are no rules other than being the best fit for the club right now.

[Dave]

Presumably Quique Flores, Eddie Howe and Alex Neil hadn't had experience of getting a team promoted into the Premier League before? (Just to use this season's promoted teams' managers as examples).

Flores still hasn't.

[Risso]

I'm pretty sure McLeish and Lambert got their teams promoted too. The fact is there are no rules other than being the best fit for the club right now.

Indeed. And there's no way that Garde was the right fit, either when he was appointed or now.

[claretandblue barmy]

Seems Dyche is as popular as Donald Trump .. Why ?   He got Burnley promoted previously & could well do it again this year ...surely thats the 'type' of manager we require ? 

[saunders_heroes]

Seems Dyche is as popular as Donald Trump .. Why ?   He got Burnley promoted previously & could well do it again this year ...surely thats the 'type' of manager we require ? 

Both McLeish and Lambert got teams promoted as well but I wouldn't want their type here again.

[SheffieldVillain]

Seems Dyche is as popular as Donald Trump .. Why ?   He got Burnley promoted previously & could well do it again this year ...surely thats the 'type' of manager we require ? 

As previously stated, if you're looking at multiple promotions, McLeish and Warnock both have these. That has nothing to do with the 'type' of manager.

[claretandblue barmy]

Seems Dyche is as popular as Donald Trump .. Why ?   He got Burnley promoted previously & could well do it again this year ...surely thats the 'type' of manager we require ? 

Both McLeish and Lambert got teams promoted as well but I wouldn't want their type here again.

I hear you, but whats your problem with Dyche?

[OCD]

Presumably Quique Flores, Eddie Howe and Alex Neil hadn't had experience of getting a team promoted into the Premier League before? (Just to use this season's promoted teams' managers as examples).

Flores still hasn't.

Good point though I wouldn't mind giving him a chance at it. With how much messing around with managers Watford have done, it really goes to show how important getting the structure of a club right is. Then its a case of getting someone who has a good fit with that structure and by looking at managers on an individual basis without understanding the structure, we're probably barking up the wrong tree.