Manager for next season

[tomd2103]

No Moyes.  Great news.

Yep which means there is now a strong chance it is either going to be Pearson or Di Matteo.  Let's get the bunting out.

[CJ]

Re-set the pole? And for those whose sole criteria is to have managed/won promotion before, the likes of Warnock, McCarthy, Adkins and Holloway should be right there at the top of the list

i would love to have mick mcarthy on a 12 month rollover

Really! You're joking,right?

[andyh]

for me the worry is that we don't actually have a 'manager in waiting', who is just waiting for the rubber stamp of the authorities to allow him to start work.
Someone who may have been lined up for a while, who has assessed the squad and had the start of an idea of what will be needed to get us moving forwards.

It seems to me that whoever comes in will be starting from scratch, and with the players having been on their holidays since February, where the fuck do you start?   
 

[conman]

No Nigel Pearson. We are supposed to conduct ourselves with a little more class.

And in any case I don't want someone who took the next season's Champions to 14th.

a manager who got a team promoted from the championship then finish 14th , first season in the prem will do for me

[pooligan]

He is probably going back to Everton

[mattjpa]

if he thinks he is too big for this club and the championship then hes obviously not the man for this club. I honestly think this would be ideal for both parties but maybe he has delusions of grandeur. He was building up a good reputation within the game that was demolished by his time at old trafford then further ruined by his disastrous time in Spain. There is a real opportunity here to pick up the pieces of a broken club and restore it to former glory. You would imagine that if he could get us back up to top 10 in the premier within 3 seasons he would have his standing in the game restored but it appears its not meant to be. I think he could really live to regret this one, I cant see where he can go that is a better fit for him. Watch him take the Newcastle job now....

[Clampy]

If what Pat Murphy is saying is true and he wasn't willing to drop to the championship, then we're better off without him, his heart wouldn't have been in it. As for the swift decision, if that's true as well then it sounds like he wanted to keep his options open. We can't wait and neither should we.

[passport1]

Why would he want to be bounced into a quick decision when the ownership is not yet confirmed.  If (as seems increasingly likely) it falls through he could end up working fot Lerner.

[Chris Jameson]

Moyes has ruled himself out according to the bbc

there is a god

Yet you would like Mick McCarthy?

[kippaxvilla2]

Exactly and who's to say he wouldn't have walked when a PL job came along as inevitably it would have done.  He will end up at Smethwick whilst we get..............

[ozzjim]

Spot on. Was my first choice but if he wants to dally about wanting for a prettier lady let him carry on

[conman]

Moyes has ruled himself out according to the bbc

there is a god

Yet you would like Mick McCarthy?

i would prefer pearson

[frank black]

That's a shame I think he would have done a good job. Seems that Tony's plans of world domination didn't attract him?

[AVH87]

How many times is that Moyes has prick-teased us now? Well sod him, a less talented manager working at their maximum will achieve more for us than him thinking he is doing us a favour dropping down to the Championship.

We were right to want a fairly swift turnaround, we need a manager in by 1st June, and that only gives just over 2 months to be ready for the new season.

[mr underhill]

I can't say I'm not disappointed, but Villa is a lot bigger than David Moyes , even in our diminished state. We go again - I would personally prefer RDM to Pearson but it's probably a straight fight now between the two, although the fact that we are still in limbo won't reassure either.