Manager for next season

[andyh]

I look at the list on the poll above and I despair.
Really?
For Aston Villa?
Nobody, including DM, really excites me or makes me think, 'If we could only get him...'

I'm sorry, but relegation is not an issue with taking the lead at a club like ours. Aston Villa. Poetic, historical, romantic. Global recognition for a start. Massive presence in the UK. Everything to achieve and to establish, again. Tons of goodwill, huge fan base. With the right person and team, this could be absolutely brilliant.

Just hoping that the new Board don't underestimate the football magic and international pulling power that truly is Aston Villa.



Voted for 'other'.

Thanks, you have put into words precisely my feelings.

[adrenachrome]

It was interesting to compare the large Moyes majority on here with the narrow Pearson lead amongst people I spoke to at the match.

One point which commends the appointment of Pearson is that it would be proof that RL has indeed relinquished control of football decisions. I reckon Pearson is the least likely candidate that RL would sanction.

Most of the fans I spoke to today were in favour of Pearson as well, although I am in P6 and not behind the dugout where one is likely to be told to fuck off and die and possibly even the most brutal method to achieve this directive.

[OzVilla]

A Championship club and an owner with a history of dysfunctional decision making whose no longer investing money and has been looking to get out for years.  Oh and don't forget what a career killer this jobs been for the last 25 years.

We'll get what we deserve and that's why my monies on that nutter Pearson.

[Louzie0]

I realise our standing is somewhat tarnished, Toronto, but that's my point.
It is a fantastic opportunity for a very good manager and team to come in and turn things around.
I'm not interested in just getting a so called Champ 1 specialist. That's thinking too small. I want a renaissance to get us to the CL within a couple of seasons. Maybe three.

[Toronto Villa]

It's only a fantastic opportunity Lou if the candidates looking at the job see it that way. My point is we as fans are looking at how big and great Villa can be again. A manager with no ties to the club or history will look to see if it is a good career move. And all of the romanticism is worth little if the "job" doesn't allow that manager to unlock how great Villa has been and can be.

[andyh]

i do hope the club makes a statement of intent with whoever the new manager ends up being.
I also hope make a verbal statement that says, yes we are going down but we will do everything to ensure to go straight back up, and as champions.
Set ambition and expectation high.

[Matt C]

I'm still refusing to believe they'll appoint Pearson.

[Toronto Villa]

i do hope the club makes a statement of intent with whoever the new manager ends up being.
I also hope make a verbal statement that says, yes we are going down but we will do everything to ensure to go straight back up, and as champions.
Set ambition and expectation high.

Hasn't Bernstein kind of said that, that while relegation isn't good the journey back is ace and something to enjoy? I don't think any of them are planning to spend significant time in the Championship.

[Tayls_7]

i do hope the club makes a statement of intent with whoever the new manager ends up being.
I also hope make a verbal statement that says, yes we are going down but we will do everything to ensure to go straight back up, and as champions.
Set ambition and expectation high.

Hasn't Bernstein kind of said that, that while relegation isn't good the journey back is ace and something to enjoy? I don't think any of them are planning to spend significant time in the Championship.

Oh great, the relief. I was beginning to detect a pattern resulting in the inexorable spiral towards oblivion.

[KevinGage]

There might have been a time when good managers would walk over broken glass to take the Villa job.

Those days are gone, and Moyes or even Pearson will probably hedge their bets and wait to see what else is out there.

There could be three big clubs looking for new managers in the Championship, and far more stable sides than ours in the PL looking for   a new guy. 

[Toronto Villa]

A well run PL Aston Villa is as attractive a job as there is in football.

[Tony Erdington]

ive only read the last couple of posts, today, the next appointment will signal the strength of commitment of the owner and the understanding of the newly formed board.

we appoint a manager who has potential but no English higher league knowledge then the owner is really not interested in recovering his money, or we appoint a manager with a cv that does state higher English league experience, and such a manager will make demands and will guide the owner/board in how you are successful in the football world. Ive stated for some time who I think would be the Best manager. But the criteria here I think will help, those of us, who will have a flutter in the summer where Villa will be playing our football season, 17/18 because I truly believe we get it wrong again, the drop from the championship to the First is very much within our grasp.

[Louzie0]

i do hope the club makes a statement of intent with whoever the new manager ends up being.
I also hope make a verbal statement that says, yes we are going down but we will do everything to ensure to go straight back up, and as champions.
Set ambition and expectation high.

'Set ambition and expectation high'

I agree with these sentiments and hope in this case that they are higher than the names on the list above would suggest.

I know they get into every new manager's first interview. I'm with anyh in hoping that the Board will find and appoint a good'un.

[saunders_heroes]

A well run PL Aston Villa is as attractive a job as there is in football.

Ahhh, those were the days!

[Louzie0]

It's only a fantastic opportunity Lou if the candidates looking at the job see it that way. My point is we as fans are looking at how big and great Villa can be again. A manager with no ties to the club or history will look to see if it is a good career move. And all of the romanticism is worth little if the "job" doesn't allow that manager to unlock how great Villa has been and can be.

Yes, the attractive qualities of the job are mitigated by the potential for real change, I see that.
But if the new Board are up to it, that's their call, as I see it.