Manager for next season

[john e]

I am getting this sinking feeling that I am going to have to find a way of accepting that Pearson is our manager. Then within months a video will appear showing him singing Nazi songs dressed as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz while biting the heads off live chickens.

You could at least interpret that as an anti-homophobia gesture.

And as a tribute to one of Aston's most famous sons...

very good

[Steve kirk]

I have posted before that I dont think Pearson is right for us but will obviously back him if he gets the Job, nearly all my Blues/Albion work colleagues dont want us to get him, they all think he would do a good job for us which makes me feel slightly better should he be appointed.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Pearson could blow up in our faces and this could be just the latest in that line. However, I doubt it. More because of the people doing the recruiting this time and the due diligence that has gone into it.

I'm really hoping our Boys from the FA really know what they are doing with their restricted search of our new manager. Looking at the managers that are likely to be working in the PL next season, it's like reading a Who's Who of World Football. There are currently seven British managers in the PL from which either 2 or 3 will be relegated and at least another two are very likely to be replaced in the summer. Realistically, only Mark Hughes and Eddie Howe look certain to keep their jobs. Who will England turn to should Roy Hodgson step down after the Euros?

The Championship is full of British managers and as Pearson commented in an interview I heard recently, getting promoted is pretty much the only way an English manager can get a job in the PL. Somebody has to keep the torch burning for English managers, I just hope our selection process is solely based on the interests of Aston Villa and not with half an eye on developing English managers.

[Lastfootstamper]

I have 3 big concerns re. Pearson:

1) His bizarre and aggressive personality, as seen last season on several occasions, will the players take to him?
2) Shakespeare and Walsh, his 2 long-time assistants, are still at Leicester
3) If he was that good, why hasn't any other team in the mire over the last 9 months decided to employ him?

You've touched on something with your third point which has struck me about this revisited debate ever since Lambert went; why do so many of us feel that we'll be fishing in a pond of the recently sacked and the long-term unemployed? I'd love to see us nick someone else's, only this time from somewhere more salubrious than the sty or carrow road. Klopp'll do. Or Koeman.

[Nastylee]

It seems that Pearson is being judged on the back of an 7 or 8 game run at the end of the season. What about the other 30 games? Can't say I am impressed if this is confirmed.

[VinnieChase84]

It seems that Pearson is being judged on the back of an 7 or 8 game run at the end of the season. What about the other 30 games? Can't say I am impressed if this is confirmed.

I'm more bothered about our potential new managers record and ability to get us flying in the championship than worrying about how we will cope back in the PL.
We need to build a whole new team spirit and direction which will give us a solid foundation when we return to the PL.

[DaveD]

Just saw Dyche do a press conference on Sky Sports News - not seen much of him in that setting before. He spoke very well, measured and thoughtful. He wouldn't be my first choice, but I'm more inclined to consider him than I was.

[nigel]

I've a feeling Bernstein and Co will pull a surprise out of the hat.
Someone mentioned earlier when Arry Rednapp was nailed on for the England job out of nowhere came Woy.
Bernstein was at the FA then, I just wonder.

[Mister E]

I've a feeling Bernstein and Co will pull a surprise out of the hat.
Someone mentioned earlier when Arry Rednapp was nailed on for the England job out of nowhere came Woy.
Bernstein was at the FA then, I just wonder.

Please don't wonder along those lines!
Wouldn't be my choice  ...

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Gary Rowett with Olaf Mellberg as Assistant and Paul Clement as First Team Coach?

[RussellC]

Gary Rowett with Olaf Melberg as Assistant and Paul Clement as First Team Coach?

Best suggestion I've seen yet!

[Ormy Droid]

Watching the Pearson - Pat Murphy interview, the one conclusion I came to was that Murphy is a disingenuous, pompous twat, who used his 'defending a fellow colleague' line, so he could pontificate about Pearson's 'charge sheet' in an obvious attempt to goad another reaction out of someone who was obviously on the back foot. After some of the things people have said, I was half expecting to see Pearson swing for Murphy at the end, but no, he kept his cool under some heavy provocation.

As for whether he should be our next manager, what I would like to see next season is a team who in the mould of an Atletico Madrid, who may not be as good as Barcelona or Real Madrid, but give 100% every game, and want to play for each other. Diego Simeone is a bit nuts as well, if Pearson can get us to become more than the sum of our parts, a la Atleti, then he'll quickly have the majority of our support behind him, whether he's good with the media or not.

[VancouverLion]

The mandate is to get us promoted back to the Premier League and quick, for that reason the more I think about it the more I think he's the best man for the job.
His Leicester were unstoppable in their promotion season, they walked it.

[SheffieldVillain]

The mandate is to get us promoted back to the Premier League and quick, for that reason the more I think about it the more I think he's the best man for the job.
His Leicester were unstoppable in their promotion season, they walked it.

What about all the other seasons he managed in the Championship and didn't get near it? Do they count?

[jwarry]

Watching the Pearson - Pat Murphy interview, the one conclusion I came to was that Murphy is a disingenuous, pompous twat, who used his 'defending a fellow colleague' line, so he could pontificate about Pearson's 'charge sheet' in an obvious attempt to goad another reaction out of someone who was obviously on the back foot. After some of the things people have said, I was half expecting to see Pearson swing for Murphy at the end, but no, he kept his cool under some heavy provocation.

As for whether he should be our next manager, what I would like to see next season is a team who in the mould of an Atletico Madrid, who may not be as good as Barcelona or Real Madrid, but give 100% every game, and want to play for each other. Diego Simeone is a bit nuts as well, if Pearson can get us to become more than the sum of our parts, a la Atleti, then he'll quickly have the majority of our support behind him, whether he's good with the media or not.

Must admit after watching it that's exactly how I saw it. Murphy is an arrogant arsehole and always has been. Don't understand why journalists can't be journalists instead of trying to make the news themselves