Manager for next season

[Toronto Villa]

Curbishley had prem experience and promotion experience. Might be an outside bet

I hope that is as tongue-in-cheek as I suspect it is.

Ex Villa. Proven record for what we want to do....

He's out purely for the reason he can't say Birmingham.

He'd get lost on the way to Villa Park because his GPS wouldn't know where Birminem was.

[Ian.]

Curbishley had prem experience and promotion experience. Might be an outside bet

I hope that is as tongue-in-cheek as I suspect it is.

Ex Villa. Proven record for what we want to do....

He's out purely for the reason he can't say Birmingham.

He'd get lost on the way to Villa Park because his GPS wouldn't know where Birminem was.

Surely it's in our destiny to have him manage us. He could even sign Benni McCarthy as his first signing.

[brian green]

He won't come because if he does he knows I will want my fish back.

[john e]

Curbishley had prem experience and promotion experience. Might be an outside bet

I hope that is as tongue-in-cheek as I suspect it is.

Ex Villa. Proven record for what we want to do....

He's out purely for the reason he can't say Birmingham.

He'd get lost on the way to Villa Park because his GPS wouldn't know where Birminem was.

Surely it's in our destiny to have him manage us. He could even sign Benni McCarthy as his first signing.

And make Carlton Palmer his assistant

[Ian.]

Curbishley had prem experience and promotion experience. Might be an outside bet

I hope that is as tongue-in-cheek as I suspect it is.

Ex Villa. Proven record for what we want to do....

He's out purely for the reason he can't say Birmingham.

He'd get lost on the way to Villa Park because his GPS wouldn't know where Birminem was.

Surely it's in our destiny to have him manage us. He could even sign Benni McCarthy as his first signing.

And make Carlton Palmer his assistant

The Dream Team.

[ASHTONVILLA]

To be fair to Curbishley, we have made far worse appointments in recent years (still would rather we didn't appoint him now though).

[tomd2103]

To be fair to Curbishley, we have made far worse appointments in recent years (still would rather we didn't appoint him now though).

Maybe a few years ago, but he's been out of the game for a long time now. 

[JUAN PABLO]

If not Villa, where do you suspect Moyes will go?

bitters. norwich, palace

everton

[peter w]

Curbishley had prem experience and promotion experience. Might be an outside bet

I hope that is as tongue-in-cheek as I suspect it is.

Ex Villa. Proven record for what we want to do....

He's out purely for the reason he can't say Birmingham.

And because he played for them.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The longer we do not appoint a new manager, the more I reckon it will be Southgate.

I hope not. The Bernstein and Bevington links with the FA are hopefully just that, as former employees, not some crusade to appoint more English managers. The task should be to find somebody, regardless of nationality, that can bring us straight back up. We need a winner, somebody that plays attacking football. I'm not looking for the new Messiah, just a manager that can build a hard working team, get us up and put us in a position to build on. For me, it's a short term managerial project. Southgate may yet prove to be a good club manager but right now he doesn't have the profile we're looking for.

[PaulWinch again]

To be fair to Curbishley, we have made far worse appointments in recent years (still would rather we didn't appoint him now though).

Maybe a few years ago, but he's been out of the game for a long time now. 

Yep and that's the point he's been out too long for his achievements to be relevant.

[TonyD]

Curbishley had prem experience and promotion experience. Might be an outside bet

I hope that is as tongue-in-cheek as I suspect it is.

Ex Villa. Proven record for what we want to do....

He's out purely for the reason he can't say Birmingham.

He'd get lost on the way to Villa Park because his GPS wouldn't know where Birminem was.

Surely it's in our destiny to have him manage us. He could even sign Benni McCarthy as his first signing.

And make Carlton Palmer his assistant

The Dream Team.

...'please don't come...'

[oswald funkletrumpet]

I think the club know they need a 'name' manager. It's a statement of their own intent if nothing else.

Yep, and it has to be Moyes in my opinion.

Also and I keep banging on about this Newcastle and Sunderland will most probably be down there with us with bigger average crowds better squads and big name managers in Rafa and big Sam

It's not going to be easy if that's the case

I'd be amazed if he hadn't got a relegation release clause written into his contract

he has

[ASHTONVILLA]

everton

Was thinking the same today. Heard some Everton fan moaning about Martinez losing the dressing room, and thought it would be no surprise to see Moyes go back there.

I see we are being linked with McCarthy again. Decent enough bloke, but would be a really dull appointment and not say much about our ambitions.

[Ian.]

Why would we employ a manager who has been sacked by both Wolves and Sunderland during the last 10 years?