Manager for next season

[rob_bridge]

I guarantee, this time next year, there won't be any Pearson detractors

And what leads you to that conclusion?

[fbriai]

Our reputation is shite at the moment. I care about results and would back nearly anybody who can deliver them.

I have been swayed by some of the things I've read from Leicester fans and I think if he ended up at Newcastle then I'd be concerned they'd finish above us. Automatic promotion has to be the only expectation and beyond Moyes, I think he'd deliver it.

Not for the first time, I agree entirely with Ads.

I initially wanted Moyes and only Moyes, but I've gradually come round to thinking that Pearson might actually be better for us.

[Jimbo]

Integrity? There's not much of that about the place at the moment. We need to start showing some desire to compete before any integrity is restored. If we have to get nasty to do that, so be it. I really don't buy into this decent, respectable club rubbish. We're losers, and this game is all about winning. We've been too nice and too shit for too long.

[berneboy]

You don't have to like him

No, but if he acts like he did at Leicester whilst managing us he will tarnish our reputation.  I do care about that.
We'll almost certainly never be the best team in my lifetime so the integrity of the club is vitally important  to me.

I too desire to be proud of our club. Villa is part of who I am. I value integrity, decency, honesty and truth. Hard work, desire and wisdom matter too.

We had better ask Remi Garde back ...

[berneboy]

Integrity? There's not much of that about the place at the moment. We need to start showing some desire to compete before any integrity is restored. If we have to get nasty to do that, so be it. I really don't buy into this decent, respectable club rubbish. We're losers, and this game is all about winning. We've been too nice and too shit for too long.

It's not all about winning for me, Jimbo. But we do need a revolution away from the foolishness, selfishness and drift of our current dreadful situation.

[fbriai]

You don't have to like him

No, but if he acts like he did at Leicester whilst managing us he will tarnish our reputation.  I do care about that.
We'll almost certainly never be the best team in my lifetime so the integrity of the club is vitally important  to me.

There's a flaw in this thinking though, surely, in that with hindsight it is difficult to say that Leicester's reputation has been tarnished as a result of him being there.

[dave shelley]

There are enough c**t's sucking money out of the Villa without adding to them.  I'm very, very disappointed if this is true.

[The_ads]

We are lower than a snakes belly at the moment reputation wise. There is a story every day whether that's Gabby, Richards, Lescott, 4 managers in 12 months, Tom Fox,
Club crest, Randy Lerner, protests, getting stuffed every week, poor recruitment etc We are a subject on Monday Night Football club on 5 live every week, we've got Adrian Durham et al sticking the boot in, we've got Paddy Power accounts on Twitter taking the piss at every opportunity. Pearson coming in isn't going to make that reputation any worse than it is already

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

We are lower than a snakes belly at the moment reputation wise. There is a story every day whether that's Gabby, Richards, Lescott, 4 managers in 12 months, Tom Fox,
Club crest, Randy Lerner, protests, getting stuffed every week, poor recruitment etc We are a subject on Monday Night Football club on 5 live every week, we've got Adrian Durham et al sticking the boot in, we've got Paddy Power accounts on Twitter taking the piss at every opportunity. Pearson coming in isn't going to make that reputation any worse than it is already

And my living room isn't going to be any less messy if I tip a bucket of manure on the carpet, but that's no reason to do it.

[ozzjim]

Which is a fair comment.  Is he any more of a bully than Fergie or even Mourinho.... maybe not but he is also not great enough a manager to accept the shit that comes with him.

[The_ads]

49% win rate in his two spells at Leicester City, a chance to shake up the utter morons we have poisoning the club, and a rugged no nonsense "I'll drag this club kicking and screaming back to where it belongs" are all attributes good enough for me

[badluckeric(gates)]

Integrity? There's not much of that about the place at the moment. We need to start showing some desire to compete before any integrity is restored. If we have to get nasty to do that, so be it. I really don't buy into this decent, respectable club rubbish. We're losers, and this game is all about winning. We've been too nice and too shit for too long.

Spot on! Pearson for  me,I wouldn't want to be in the after match dressing room if I hadn't given 100%.

[Jimbo]

Integrity? There's not much of that about the place at the moment. We need to start showing some desire to compete before any integrity is restored. If we have to get nasty to do that, so be it. I really don't buy into this decent, respectable club rubbish. We're losers, and this game is all about winning. We've been too nice and too shit for too long.

It's not all about winning for me, Jimbo. But we do need a revolution away from the foolishness, selfishness and drift of our current dreadful situation.

I can understand that, but the game certainly isn't all about losing. If it were, we'd be the undisputed champions of the universe. At some point we're going to have to elevate the value of winning, even if it means we get a little bit nasty.

One thing I've said about all the ridicule and vitriol poured upon this club, is that I hope it engenders a kind of siege mentality. Us against the world. Because we need to find something the whole club can rally against. Anger is an energy, to quote PiL. 

[The_ads]

....and what would you prefer? A nice comfortable clean cut manager like Southgate who will nod and smile and say the nice things and charm the press or someone who actually has experience of turning round the fortunes of football clubs? Albeit by upsetting Pat Murphy

[Dave P]

I don't really want Pearson and that isn't a "delusions of grandeur" Villa fan opinion.  I just don't think he is the right man for the job, especially as his trusted back room staff wont be joining him.  Didn't we learn that lesson with Garde?

Moyes is obviously the outstanding candidate but, the more I think of it, I would really like Simon Grayson.  Any football reasons for wanting Rowett, Pearson, Bruce etc must surely apply to Grayson.  Look at the league table, they are 3 points behind small heath who, up until a few weeks ago, were chasing the play offs.

As someone said earlier, any appointment that is isn't Moyes would split the fans.