Manager for next season

[VillaAlways]

It's all gone very quiet. Well more quiet. I can only assume that

a)They have their man and are just waiting for the formalities of  finishing the season and letting Black leave with a bit of grace.
b)They're still waiting to see who loses their job in the summer before deciding
c)They scrubbed the list Bernstein gave them, and are now running around like headless chickens trying to find managers who will do exactly what they tell them for less money than our previous ones.
d)Lerner with his long running man U fixation is waiting for Mourinho to get the job so we can have Giggs

I hope its a) or b), but its more likely to be c) and d)

Or e) Were about to be taken over and the new owners know exactly who they want and it will be announced when the takeover is complete ( Praying it's not Pulis as reported in the Sun)

[Richard E]

If Pulis was appointed the meltdown on the site would burn down to the earth's core.

[Hookeysmith]

Add me to the list of people who would never go again to watch a Pulis team.
And I get paid to watch them!
I have been bored by how we play for 5 years
I may top myself I I had to endure that twat.

[VillaAlways]

If Pulis were sacked by Albion. He would only have to wait a few months to be employed by the first desperate side fighting relegation in the Premier, I very much doubt he would drop to the Championship Why would he ? He may be boring but he keeps teams up with ease.

[Steve67]

Pulis would get us back up, and stabilise us. Before we all fell asleep again. Two years and nothing more. Moyes or Rodgers for me.  I could cope with Pearson or Martinez though.

[sickbeggar]

Anyone at Villa with a vague finger on the pulse of Villa's fans opinions would say appointing an ex-WBA manager with a style of play that would make Bobby Gould shudder, is probably not the best way to ensure everyone is united behind the team next season. In fact it will provoke the exact opposite.




It's going to happen isn't it?

[QuintonVilla]

Please not Pulis. He'd probably get us back up, but in the worst way imaginable and our crowds would be low because the football would be crap. My Wife and her family, and a lot of my mates are Albion and they can't stand him. Well some of them like him as a bloke and how he conducts himself, but hate his style of play. Once he got us back up you know the highest he'd get us is mid table by playing worse football than McLeish.

[Bottom Right 89]

If its Pulis it wont be beach balls thrown from the stands it will be people sacrificing themselves.

[mr underhill]

right now, I'd settle for anyone - Pulis included - who could get us back up first time of asking and then mid table.

[nigel]

Here's an  outside the box thought:
Arsen Wenger leaves Arsenal at the end of the season.
Could our new owners tempt him to build a team?

[PaulWinch again]

Pulis would be an absolutely diabolical appointment. That better be idle paper gossip.

[The Man With A Stick]

Not for me, thanks all the same.  It's the next logical step given his overwhelming obsession with all things Villa though.

[supertom]

I think Big Sam gets a bad rap about his football sometimes. When his squad isn't set out to do so, he's not a hoofball merchant. Sunderland have played some reasonable stuff in the last few weeks. Bolton played some okay stuff. I thought he got treated a little harshly by West Ham too, they'd played some decent stuff in the first half of last season but the fans still couldn't wait to get him out.
But Tiny Penis? Well he's an abomination. I would have taken him at the beginning of the season because he would have kept us up. His football is horrendous but he grinds out results no matter how shit his players are. That's a pretty piss poor West Brom side he has. But they've been safe as houses really.
However we're down. The damage is done. Now is the time to rebuild and instil some kind of footballing philosophy in a league which is more forgiving on teams trying to do so. You can get away with mistakes and still fly through the Championship. Without breaking ourselves financially we can still throw our weight around a bit but the new set up has to be right. We can't do a Fulham.

Mortimer's view on Pearson was spot on. He knows what he wants from his players, how they're going to play, which players will suit that way of playing and he sets about doing that. That's the kind of manager we need, and Pearson is no great shakes, but we've had dire managers of late, or in Garde's case someone woefully unsuited to the job at hand (and then having his hands tied on top of that). Lambert kept buying players with no real idea of how he wanted to play or whether they'd fit, or indeed even end up good enough (in most cases...no). Sherwood came in and we had the Riley set up. Sherwood bought in his players. Riley bought in his players. The two didn't gel and neither man made what you could convincingly call a genuinely good signing. We had average at best on Riley's side, but indeed, if anything they failed to integrate even more than the drek that Timmeh bought. Again...fucking piss poor set up and delivery. And this does indeed need to change.

[SashasGrandad]

It's all gone very quiet. Well more quiet. I can only assume that

a)They have their man and are just waiting for the formalities of  finishing the season and letting Black leave with a bit of grace.
b)They're still waiting to see who loses their job in the summer before deciding
c)They scrubbed the list Bernstein gave them, and are now running around like headless chickens trying to find managers who will do exactly what they tell them for less money than our previous ones.
d)Lerner with his long running man U fixation is waiting for Mourinho to get the job so we can have Giggs

I hope its a) or b), but its more likely to be c) and d)

Or e) Were about to be taken over and the new owners know exactly who they want and it will be announced when the takeover is complete ( Praying it's not Pulis as reported in the Sun)

Do the Sun ever tell the truth?

I wouldn't know as I have refused to look at it since 1982 and their reporting on the match in Anderlect.

[oswald funkletrumpet]

Here's an  outside the box thought:
Arsen Wenger leaves Arsenal at the end of the season.
Could our new owners tempt him to build a team?

never in a million years, sorry make that a billion