Manager for next season

[aj2k77]

Apparently Guzan has two PL offers and an MLS offer I read yesterday.

As what a matchday steward or working on the concession stand?

[kippaxvilla2]

Amazing how he kept a clean sheet for the US in their game this week.

[aj2k77]

Amazing how he kept a clean sheet for the US in their game this week.

Good, hopefully it will bring a few suitors to him over the Summer as he's complete pap for us at Premier league level and a total liability.

[Clampy]

Personally, I think he's a decent enough keeper who's confidence took a battering. If he can get back to the form he showed when he replaced Given, he'd be fine. It might well be away from here though.

[Villa in Denmark]

Personally, I think he's a decent enough keeper who's confidence took a battering. If he can get back to the form he showed when he replaced Given, he'd be fine. It might well be away from here though.

Completely agree.

There's a complete lack of trust in his back 4 and vice versa.

I have a feeling that a few of the "Not good enough for League 1" players will end up doing OK elsewhere, showing up the coaching at Bodymoor Heath as the major problem on the footballing side of the club.

[Clark W Griswold]

Hopefully that useless injury crock gobshite fucking wanker Okore will be shoved out of the door at the earliest possibility by whoever the new manager turns out to be. And if it's Pearson hopefully he can sit on his throat for a bit beforehand.

[castlefields_villan]

I agree with that as about Guzan well.

I didn't rate Guzan at all when he was first around, but for a couple of seasons I thought he was outstanding.

How much of the confidence thing was down to that unfortunate blooper at Man. City ?

Like a few others on here, I think he'll be gone.

[old man villa fan]

Personally, I think he's a decent enough keeper who's confidence took a battering. If he can get back to the form he showed when he replaced Given, he'd be fine. It might well be away from here though.

It has to be away from here.  He cannot be put back in the team on current form, so how long do we wait?  He is an expensive 2nd choice and only has one year to go on his contract (I think).

[Clark W Griswold]

Amazing how he kept a clean sheet for the US in their game this week.

Who were they playing, Pigeon Island?

[Dante Lavelli]

Personally, I think he's a decent enough keeper who's confidence took a battering. If he can get back to the form he showed when he replaced Given, he'd be fine. It might well be away from here though.

It has to be away from here.  He cannot be put back in the team on current form, so how long do we wait?  He is an expensive 2nd choice and only has one year to go on his contract (I think).

Maybe we have Steer as #1 and Guzan as back-up for the season.  If Steer cannot step up then Guzan is an acceptable understudy.

I always thought of Guzan as a good influence in the dressing room, for example I vaguely remember he was critical of the drinking culture at the club.  No idea what went wrong this year other than his poor form.

[ajmant]

I disagree. I think Guzan is a decent shot stopper but that's it. Struggles with his kicking and general command of the box. Yes he lost confidence with those that were in front of him and that's certainly not helped, but I see a below average premier league keeper in a shite team.

[Malandro]

I'd have got on the phone to Ibrahimovic - player manager. He's got the ego for it.
Media interest and a bit of positive feeling back.

I must have had too much coffee!

[Chris Smith]

Guzan has always been a decent shot stopper but poor on crosses and his kicking is terrible, he also strikes me as being a bit thick. The days when that is enough have gone.

[passitsideways]

His kicking is the worst I've seen of any keeper who's played in the PL, except for where he occasionally spotted the opportunity to start a quick break with a long kick, but I thought his command of the box was fine, at least in his first couple of seasons. That completely went at some point in 2014 though.

[ClaretAndBlueBlood]

His kicking is the worst I've seen of any keeper who's played in the PL, except for where he occasionally spotted the opportunity to start a quick break with a long kick, but I thought his command of the box was fine, at least in his first couple of seasons. That completely went at some point in 2014 though.

I raise you with Mark Bosnich, close call but I think Bossie just edges it