Manager for next season

[PeterWithesShin]

So RDM is only successful because everything was already in place, but each time the previous manager couldn't succeed? Jammy bastard.

[Louzie0]

I'd quite like us to have a lucky manager.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

So RDM is only successful because everything was already in place, but each time the previous manager couldn't succeed? Jammy bastard.

Ha! No, what I said is that he's never yet built a team, something I'm guessing we expect him to do due to the fact our team is full of wasters. What he's managed to do at his previous clubs is tweak the team to get results.

[adrenachrome]

So RDM is only successful because everything was already in place, but each time the previous manager couldn't succeed? Jammy bastard.

Maybe he has "an eye to the main chance" as bewigged barristers for the prosecution are wont to declaim. If that is indeed the case, I put it to you that we should engage him forthwith as it must mean that he can see light at the end of the tunnel, which no other fucker can, as far as I can see.

[Axl Rose]

I think Di Matteo will be a coup in our position. I understand why some people would like Pearson, and feel he would also do well for us.

However, my dad as a born and bred Leicester supporter, remarked that Pearson 'thinks he's better than he actually is, and that the story that all Leicester fans loved him is more than slightly exaggerated'. Of course, it's only one person's view, and my dad is an emotional old bugger. He loves Villa almost as much as me, simply due to my affinity for the club.

It's Di Matteo for me.

[Sexual Ealing]

I guess you could say the same about his fellow-Champion's League-winning manager, Mourinho. He simply tweaked Abramovic's and Moratti's money in the right direction and then fucked off elsewhere having failed to build an enduring dynasty.

Not that I'm saying that RDM is in Mourinho's class, but we're in the second division. He's worth a go.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

So RDM is only successful because everything was already in place, but each time the previous manager couldn't succeed? Jammy bastard.

Maybe he has "an eye to the main chance" as bewigged barristers for the prosecution are wont to declaim. If that is indeed the case, I put it to you that we should engage him forthwith as it must mean that he can see light at the end of the tunnel, which no other fucker can, as far as I can see.

Four or five year contract? He certainly can spot "an eye to the main chance", just ask Abramovich.

[PeterWithesShin]

Wasn't that Abramovich's fault though for failing to sort out a pay off agreement so he ended up paying RDM around £130k a week for about 18 months after sacking him?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Absolutely. I don't blame RDM for milking it. I'd do the same given the chance.

[PeterWithesShin]

And me. Actually after a year i'd have asked for a pay rise!

[ChicagoLion]

I am in the not convinced by RDM but an improvement on Moyes.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I am in the not convinced by RDM but an improvement on Moyes.

Agreed

I'm not worried about troublesome players because most will leave. I can't see how people are so convinced about his temperament because we've never seen him behind the scenes?

[passitsideways]

I am in the not convinced by RDM but an improvement on Moyes.

Agreed

I'm not worried about troublesome players because most will leave. I can't see how people are so convinced about his temperament because we've never seen him behind the scenes?

I think the point which has been made is that it's not just a few troublemakers who could be clearly named and subsequently flushed out, but the possibility that they've poisoned (so to speak) plenty of others in the squad with their attitude, so that it would somehow take a particularly strong personality to reverse the trend, even after removing the alleged root of the problem. I personally don't subscribe to that notion, but I feel like it's not an entirely unreasonable theory.

[avfcpg]

Be happy with RDM given his credentials. Don't care if some think he simply took over an already winning team, the fact is he kept them winning and has been sucessful.
It's more important the quality of players we / he can get in...as a general rule (given Leicester this season), the better the players, the better the team is going to be.

[brian green]

I agree avfcpg.  Above and beyond the mountain of trouble and calamities that brought us to where we are the single factor that has stared us in the face for the last six years is that overall quality of our players is too low.  Our way out of this mess begins with getting better players in.  Plus all the other stuff of course but recovery must begin with better players.