Manager for next season

[john e]

i'd personally take Pearson over RD,
i don't think de Matteo would last 5 mins with our bunch of wazocks,
and I'm not sure he has the passion or work ethic to drive us out of the mire

I don't think we will be having a mass clear out either as many are on contracts and no one will buy them, so they will have to be 'handled' or a new overflow camp set up

[cdbearsfan]

I'm not sure how often I have to post his CV on here to convince people that Di Matteo is not "meh"!

I give up. In Ostrich-Obsessed Strangling Wanker we trust.

*sobs.

[Ian.]

I'm not sure how often I have to post his CV on here to convince people that Di Matteo is not "meh"!

I give up. In Ostrich-Obsessed Strangling Wanker we trust.

*sobs.

I believe you! He'll do for me.

[dave shelley]

I'm not sure how often I have to post his CV on here to convince people that Di Matteo is not "meh"!

I give up. In Ostrich-Obsessed Strangling Wanker we trust.

*sobs.

I think you should ask one of the Mod's to sticky it for you.

[paul_e]

I don't know who I want now, in all honesty. Di Matteo is meh, Pearson is mental. What I would like is some assurance that this takeover's all it's cracked up to be, and I think I'll be a lot more comfortable with whatever manager they offer the job to. Unless it's Pulis, in which case I'll assume everyone involved in the deal is either insane or a sadist.

What makes RDM meh?

That's an honest question, his stats are 1 promotion in from 1 season in the championship and then got sacked for being midtable.  Then won the champions league and fa cup as a caretaker before getting sacked very early the next season which was pretty harsh.  Finally he had a pretty decent season in in Germany before quitting because of disagreements with the board over summer signings. On paper he's out of our league so he'd be just as big a statement as Moyes for me.  I don't recal lany of his teams being terrible to watch either.

[auntiesledd]

Bugger. I was beginning to think Moyes was finally going to take the plunge. Ah well, here's to us getting somebody in who actually wants the job; and that there won't be another stat-obsessed recruitment shyster employed to make the manager's job even harder than it already will be. Talking of which, I'm chuffed to learn Comolli won't be stinking Villa out now.

[john e]

I'm not sure how often I have to post his CV on here to convince people that Di Matteo is not "meh"!

I give up. In Ostrich-Obsessed Strangling Wanker we trust.

*sobs.

instead of putting success next to all his jobs you could also put Sacked,
apart from the MK dons one where he didn't turn up half the time and was lazy

[Marlon From Bearwood]

I'm not sure how often I have to post his CV on here to convince people that Di Matteo is not "meh"!

I give up. In Ostrich-Obsessed Strangling Wanker we trust.

*sobs.

"Ostrich obsessed strangling wanker's Claret and Blue army!"

[curiousorange]

I think I'd be more impressed by Di Matteo if he'd had the full season at Chelsea and achieved what he did. It seemed like those players didn't like Villas-Boas at all, and it appeared to me that all Di Matteo did in response was to let Terry, Lampard and Drogba run the dressing room just as they had in the past. I stress, as it appeared to me - I know you can wave a European Cup and an FA Cup as high and proud as you like. I'm just underwhelmed by him personally.

[paul_e]

I'm not sure how often I have to post his CV on here to convince people that Di Matteo is not "meh"!

I give up. In Ostrich-Obsessed Strangling Wanker we trust.

*sobs.

instead of putting success next to all his jobs you could also put Sacked,
apart from the MK dons one where he didn't turn up half the time and was lazy

Sacked from the Baggies despite them being safely midtable which was a good performance for them, I suspect, because he was looking for another job.
Sacked from Chelsea because it was a Tuesday (I don't know if it was, insert your own arbitrary day in here) and Abramovich had run out of shreddies (or maybe coco pops).
Walked out of Schalke because they had a bust up over th esummer spending plans after a decent (but not brilliant) season.

So sacked as many times as Moyes who was being seen as a messiah by some on here and less times than Pearson who is the other favourite.  Can you name many managers who've been at 4 clubs who don't have 2 or more sackings?

[Steve67]

I wonder if RDM is trying to hard bargain and playing us off against the Italian club he's said to be having talks with. Surely he'd rather go serie A than the Championship? I wonder if Dr X is prepared to consider other manager's at this late stage, well, late ish.

[cdbearsfan]

I'm not sure how often I have to post his CV on here to convince people that Di Matteo is not "meh"!

I give up. In Ostrich-Obsessed Strangling Wanker we trust.

*sobs.

instead of putting success next to all his jobs you could also put Sacked,
apart from the MK dons one where he didn't turn up half the time and was lazy

Can't have been too bad as he got them to the playoff semis in their first season after promotion.

He got sacked by Albion and Chelsea, he wasn't sacked by MK or Schalke.

Pearson was sacked by Leicester, and Southampton and mutually consented by Carlisle.

I'm not sure that is the best argument in favour of the psychopath with the oversized head.

Actually, it probably is.

[Steve67]

I'm not sure how often I have to post his CV on here to convince people that Di Matteo is not "meh"!

I give up. In Ostrich-Obsessed Strangling Wanker we trust.

*sobs.

instead of putting success next to all his jobs you could also put Sacked,
apart from the MK dons one where he didn't turn up half the time and was lazy

Sacked from the Baggies despite them being safely midtable which was a good performance for them, I suspect, because he was looking for another job.
Sacked from Chelsea because it was a Tuesday (I don't know if it was, insert your own arbitrary day in here) and Abramovich had run out of shreddies (or maybe coco pops).
Walked out of Schalke because they had a bust up over th esummer spending plans after a decent (but not brilliant) season.

So sacked as many times as Moyes who was being seen as a messiah by some on here and less times than Pearson who is the other favourite.  Can you name many managers who've been at 4 clubs who don't have 2 or more sackings?

I'm told that he is very much a big time Charlie and arrogant with it. Thought he was way too good for the Dons and Albion. Jeremy Peace clocked on and got rid because one or two of the players tipped him off.  Chelsea essentially managed themselves.

[john e]

I'm not sure how often I have to post his CV on here to convince people that Di Matteo is not "meh"!

I give up. In Ostrich-Obsessed Strangling Wanker we trust.

*sobs.

instead of putting success next to all his jobs you could also put Sacked,
apart from the MK dons one where he didn't turn up half the time and was lazy

Sacked from the Baggies despite them being safely midtable which was a good performance for them, I suspect, because he was looking for another job.
Sacked from Chelsea because it was a Tuesday (I don't know if it was, insert your own arbitrary day in here) and Abramovich had run out of shreddies (or maybe coco pops).
Walked out of Schalke because they had a bust up over th esummer spending plans after a decent (but not brilliant) season.

So sacked as many times as Moyes who was being seen as a messiah by some on here and less times than Pearson who is the other favourite.  Can you name many managers who've been at 4 clubs who don't have 2 or more sackings?

no,
 but I was just trying to point out to cd bully that his post wasn't persuading those who arn't for turning

I wont be massively upset with De Matteo at all,
 but I don't think he's head and shoulders above Pearson that's all, and I also think Pearson would be the sort of character we need to sort out the mess

but hey its only what i would prefer

[cdbearsfan]

I wonder if RDM is trying to hard bargain and playing us off against the Italian club he's said to be having talks with. Surely he'd rather go serie A than the Championship? I wonder if Dr X is prepared to consider other manager's at this late stage, well, late ish.

He has a house round here apparently. The fact that he's spent most of his managerial career here suggests that he likes it in the UK.

If he gets us to the Premier League we'll probably pay more than all but a tiny number of Serie A clubs anyway. The Southampton manager is on more money than the all Italy-based managers with the exception of Inter and Juve. I expect a Villa manager who negotiated his deal after the increase in Premier League TV money would be on at least as much.