Manager for next season

[Dave]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/04/11/newcastle-would-have-to-pay-jonjo-shelvey-80000-a-week-in-the-ch/

Sweet baby jesus and the orphans.

Seems no matter how badly we're run, Newcastle are always worse.

A leaked story from Newcastle to make his life uncomfortable, even if it does make them look daft?

I reckon his life will be pretty comfortable.

[Villa in Denmark]

I was told earlier that Pearson's already got the job and we're waiting until the end of the season to announce it as he doesn't want a relegation on his CV. Just passing on what I've heard.

Why would it be "on his CV" if the club announced now "Nigel Pearson will be Aston Villa manager from June 2016"?

and by extension he still wouldn't be the manager if all he did was watch Villa games from the stands for the balance of the season.

I definitely prefer the story about him being the next Forest manager.

[Chris Jameson]

The Pearson for Forest campaign starts here.

[Toronto Villa]

I was told earlier that Pearson's already got the job and we're waiting until the end of the season to announce it as he doesn't want a relegation on his CV. Just passing on what I've heard.

Why would it be "on his CV" if the club announced now "Nigel Pearson will be Aston Villa manager from June 2016"?

and by extension he still wouldn't be the manager if all he did was watch Villa games from the stands for the balance of the season.

I definitely prefer the story about him being the next Forest manager.

If it means we are getting some one better then I am all for it.

[b23]

The biggest worry for me where Newcastle are concerned is the thought of Steven Taylor playing for Villa.

[Villa in Denmark]

The Pearson for Forest campaign starts here.

That's the theme for the banners against Southampton sorted.

[tomd2103]

Sorry if its old news but according to the commentator on the Sky game between Nottingham Forest & Brighton, Forest are wanting Nigel Pearson to take over and he is at the game this evening

I want that as well.

I think Pearson would be great for Forest, always said it. Match made in heaven.

He's from Nottingham I think, so there might be a link there.

[andyh]

Ahem......

Strike one off the list ??

http://Http://www.nottinghampost.com/Nottingham-Forest-manager-target-Nigel-Pearson/story-29091513-detail/story.html

[brian green]

If Pearson goes to Forest I fancy a small investment on them finishing above us next year.  Not because I favour Pearson as our manager but because Forest would hit the ground running in August.  I have serious reservations that the problems at Villa Park can be sorted out in the next four months, especially so since we seem to have fallen into let's-not-be-hasty mode and the problems are so institutionalised.

I have the horrible feeling that the discussions going on around the boardroom table about a new manager are very similar to the discussions that went on in January about bringing in new players. Debate and counter debate that actually goes nowhere.  Is it an Arabic proverb about the mountain gestating and bringing forth a mouse?

[cheltenhamlion]

Pearson to Forest? Bring it on. I guess the key factor in who we appoint for me is in whether we will clear the decks of the senior players. If so, a couple of years of someone like Hughton is fine (as long they are ruthless further down the line like Southampton binning Adkins for Pochettino).

If the bulk of the wastrels will still be here then you need a name big enough that they actually respect him.

[brian green]

Spot on Chelts.  Remi Garde could not crack the dressing room hardcore malingerers.  That will be the first task of a new manager.  Bit like asking a concert pianist to get his own piano on stage before the music can actually begin.

[cheltenhamlion]

You see they might fall in line under "a name" like Moyes. Throw Sean Dyche in and they will be even worse.

[Malandro]

Get the manager in now. It's imperative that he gets the chance to assess the players before they disappear over the summer.

First job is ditching the two captains.

[brian green]

In another similar context my son Damon summed it up when he said Ferguson's big advantage over less successful managers was that if he said he would punch you in the nose he would punch you in the nose.

[mr underhill]

I think we could certainly count on Nigel doing that; I'm just not sure I  want a Villa manager behaving in such a fashion, at least not literally.