Manager for next season

[cdward]

. The man they're targeting is already in a job,

Is there any evidence to this or is it because Tim Sherwood said so on MOTD2

[Chris Jameson]

 Making Pat Murphy hate us even more as a club than he already does 

Why do people consistently trot this line out? I've heard him speak very fondly of the CLUB many times, he obviously doesn't like the owner but then who does?

[onje_villa]

It doesn't matter how much stick a fan is giving you - that is part of the game - you can not turn around and shout at them to "fuck off and die".

It's really that simple.

What about the other people sat around who would have heard that?

The bloke has no self control, he's a proven timebomb waiting to go off.

I think it's pathetic that grown adults turn up to games and are allowed to rant vile abuse at managers. Some of the things I have heard over the years are disgusting and extremely personal. In an ideal world he doesn't react but it doesn't put me off. People are forgetting some of the best managers have had extremely spiky personalities (and probably needed them).

[Monty]

I just think the last thing we need is someone with a personality like wet lithium. The club itself is unstable enough without that.

[HolmesyVilla]

Get Pearson I'm sick of having a pussy as Aston Villa manager

[old man villa fan]

Other than managers at the top of the tree, who has actually gone to another club and replicated the good things they are 'recognised' for at a previous club?

[robbo1874]

All said and done, there's any number of managers out there with the potential to get us promoted. They just need the backing of the board to clear out the shit and build a side, largely from what's leftover. I'll say again, we should be able to cobble together a decent squad capable of challenging, with the addition of one or two dedicated, experienced, half-talented pros to lead the way.

I think that when Sherwood spoke about the losing culture at the club, he was really having a dig at the 'couldn't give a fuck, go through the motions half arsedly, take the 30k a week ta very much' culture at the club. And in that, he was spot on, as has been proved.

[in exile]

All said and done, there's any number of managers out there with the potential to get us promoted...

Name names. Don't forget we are not in a position to pay other clubs compensation for their manager

[SheffieldVillain]

All said and done, there's any number of managers out there with the potential to get us promoted...

Name names. Don't forget we are not in a position to pay other clubs compensation for their manager

The newspapers at the weekend seemed to think we were willing to pay for Bruce. I don't think  compensation would be a problem.

[old man villa fan]

With the players that most are in agreement about getting rid off and the type of players left (more skillful type and young), we will need a manager that believes in good football and is good at coaching. That rules out a significant number of the usual suspects.

[in exile]

All said and done, there's any number of managers out there with the potential to get us promoted...

Name names. Don't forget we are not in a position to pay other clubs compensation for their manager

The newspapers at the weekend seemed to think we were willing to pay for Bruce. I don't think  compensation would be a problem.

Well that's it then, unveil him now.
We won't pay compensation

[Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle]

I really hate lack of passion in football and I really don't understand it coming from a manager of a football team.
I'd like to see a manager who at least can make a post match interview interesting - O'Neill did, Sherwood did, Big Ron did. Lambert and McLeish just mumbled their way through with inanities, O'Leary annoyed to extreme and Black seems to have inherited this cocksocketness.
I know it's not the key criteria of the job but if you can't motivate fans at home watching on the box, I don't believe you have a cat in hells chance with a squad of dispassionate football players.

[SheffieldVillain]

All said and done, there's any number of managers out there with the potential to get us promoted...

Name names. Don't forget we are not in a position to pay other clubs compensation for their manager

The newspapers at the weekend seemed to think we were willing to pay for Bruce. I don't think  compensation would be a problem.

Well that's it then, unveil him now.
We won't pay compensation

Fair enough, we'll see I guess.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

And then there's all the other Pearson baggage - and for what? A manager with an entirely underwhelming record.

If Pearson's record is "underwelming", I'd love to hear what you think of everybody else we've been linked with. I get you don't like him but to dismiss his record as underwelming is extremely misinformed. I'd have loved a bit of that level of underwelming at Villa Park over the last few years.

[SheffieldVillain]

And then there's all the other Pearson baggage - and for what? A manager with an entirely underwhelming record.

If Pearson's record is "underwelming", I'd love to hear what you think of everybody else we've been linked with. I get you don't like him but to dismiss his record as underwelming is extremely misinformed. I'd have loved a bit of that level of underwelming at Villa Park over the last few years.

I must be misinformed too then, because I've looked at his record and find it underwhelming too. Not terrible obviously, but nothing that fills me with any great excitement. 

To be fair though, very few of the candidates mentioned so far fill me with any great excitement.