Manager for next season

[ozzjim]

Erm, tin hat on, but I think Steve Bruce would be a safer appointment than RDM. There, I said it.  I wonder who RDM's backroom staff will be, hopefully they will know the league and players we might need.

i do too , gutted we have missed out on pearson , he would have sorted the wankers out  and got us up, now will be stuck with matteo thinking he can get the best out of gabby , lescott and bacuna by being nice

You are nearly as obsessed with that mentally unhinged thug as the guy on here was with Jermaine Beckford. Do you not see that selling your soul to the likes of Pearson or Pulis basically just kills a little bit of the wonderment of football.

Re the Di Matteo at Albion thing. It is an interesting one, why was he so distracted in that season in the Premier league and if he does not love football he is eminently rich enough to walk away completely now, so why keep going. Certainly he could have waited for a more comfortable job than Villa.

He needs a strong backroom team, not just an assistant. I really hope he can somehow get Holland out of Chelsea, get Newton on board. He might even keep Duverne on as fitness coach, but we have to replace Parks, and IMO get a couple of specialist forward and defensive coaches in too. Guardiola takes a team of 5-6 coaches with him. So do people like Mark Hughes. We have to improve that structure.

[conman]

you got to hand it to matteo , he is a good dresser and wears smart suits ,

[cdbearsfan]

Didn't take Derby long to sort their manager. Villa have messed around for weeks on the manager appointment. If it's RDM, why is it taking so long? Disappointed that Pearson has moved to Derby while Villa continue to dither as usual.

We have to wait for our new owner to pass a Fit and Proper Person's Test.

This isn't taking place yet.

It's not Villa's fault it's not talking place yet.

Not sure how you can say we've "messed around"?

[sickbeggar]

When we are talking of sorting the wankers out then best way to do it , if possible is to get rid of them. I'd hate to see any of this seasons negativity and the split between fans and team carry over next season. I don't particularly want to see a team with the c***s in from this season that have caused shit and took the mick and I don't think the majority of people do either.

The best way to sort them out is get rid. There will be mug punters for most of them and Flabby I'd pay off if no one was interested.

That's realistically not going to happen though. Common sense says those that leave will be the (better?) rated players like last time and those that we can ditch without long contracts with big wages that other clubs can afford. If clubs wouldn't buy the deadwood MON left, then players that have spent all season stinking out the league are hardly going to attract more interest.  SGT did promotion with a high percentage of the abysmal team that went down still in the team, with some youth and new players added. The new guy will have to do the same.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

Erm, tin hat on, but I think Steve Bruce would be a safer appointment than RDM. There, I said it.  I wonder who RDM's backroom staff will be, hopefully they will know the league and players we might need.

So if we can't have a British Bulldog hoofball-peddling breast-beating knows-the-Championship type manager, hopefully we'll get a whole team of British Bulldog hoofball-peddling breast-beating knows-the-Championship type coaches in the dugout to make up for it?

[Dave]

you got to hand it to matteo , he is a good dresser and wears smart suits ,

And got a relegated team promoted at the first time of asking.

And won the European Cup.

[paul_e]

you got to hand it to matteo , he is a good dresser and wears smart suits ,

And got a relegated team promoted at the first time of asking.

And won the European Cup.

Yeah but apart from that what has he ever done?

[cdbearsfan]

I'm wondering what all the people dismissing Di Matteo as being "too nice" know that I don't?

Have they all been in his teams' dressing rooms? For all I know he could be a ruthless bastard behind the scenes. Who knows?

In any case, the last manager to get us promoted, the last manager to win us a trophy and the manager who has just win the league are all widely perceived to be "nice", so maybe it's not that much of a handicap?

[cdbearsfan]

you got to hand it to matteo , he is a good dresser and wears smart suits ,

And got a relegated team promoted at the first time of asking.

And won the European Cup.

Yeah but apart from that what has he ever done?

The aqueducts?

[PeterWithesShin]

you got to hand it to matteo , he is a good dresser and wears smart suits ,

And got a relegated team promoted at the first time of asking.

And won the European Cup.

Yeah but apart from that what has he ever done?

Won the FA Cup.

But he's no Nigel Pearson!

[sickbeggar]

I'm wondering what all the people dismissing Di Matteo as being "too nice" know that I don't?

Have they all been in his teams' dressing rooms? For all I know he could be a ruthless bastard behind the scenes. Who knows?

In any case, the last manager to get us promoted, the last manager to win us a trophy and the manager who has just win the league are all widely perceived to be "nice", so maybe it's not that much of a handicap?

Well i certainly wouldn't have wanted to get on the wrong side of SGT in his Villa days. Decent, respected, maybe even nice but you wouldn't want to cross him imo. Don't think RDM has quite the same feel about him.

[aj2k77]

When we are talking of sorting the wankers out then best way to do it , if possible is to get rid of them. I'd hate to see any of this seasons negativity and the split between fans and team carry over next season. I don't particularly want to see a team with the c***s in from this season that have caused shit and took the mick and I don't think the majority of people do either.

The best way to sort them out is get rid. There will be mug punters for most of them and Flabby I'd pay off if no one was interested.

That's realistically not going to happen though. Common sense says those that leave will be the (better?) rated players like last time and those that we can ditch without long contracts with big wages that other clubs can afford. If clubs wouldn't buy the deadwood MON left, then players that have spent all season stinking out the league are hardly going to attract more interest.  SGT did promotion with a high percentage of the abysmal team that went down still in the team, with some youth and new players added. The new guy will have to do the same.

So you think we are going to start next season with all the trouble makers that the fans have turned against?  It seems very unlikely to me, that with a new owner, new board, new positions all throughout the club and new manager but keep the players that the fans openly mocked after they displayed either complete stupidity or contempt for the club. Hardly the way to kick start the push. I can't see it myself. I think Xia has bigger plans than kids and the shit we can't get rid of.

[cdbearsfan]

I'm wondering what all the people dismissing Di Matteo as being "too nice" know that I don't?

Have they all been in his teams' dressing rooms? For all I know he could be a ruthless bastard behind the scenes. Who knows?

In any case, the last manager to get us promoted, the last manager to win us a trophy and the manager who has just win the league are all widely perceived to be "nice", so maybe it's not that much of a handicap?

Well i certainly wouldn't have wanted to get on the wrong side of SGT in his Villa days. Decent, respected, maybe even nice but you wouldn't want to cross him imo. Don't think RDM has quite the same feel about him.

Why? How can you possibly know what he's like to the players behind closed doors?

[sickbeggar]

When we are talking of sorting the wankers out then best way to do it , if possible is to get rid of them. I'd hate to see any of this seasons negativity and the split between fans and team carry over next season. I don't particularly want to see a team with the c***s in from this season that have caused shit and took the mick and I don't think the majority of people do either.

The best way to sort them out is get rid. There will be mug punters for most of them and Flabby I'd pay off if no one was interested.

That's realistically not going to happen though. Common sense says those that leave will be the (better?) rated players like last time and those that we can ditch without long contracts with big wages that other clubs can afford. If clubs wouldn't buy the deadwood MON left, then players that have spent all season stinking out the league are hardly going to attract more interest.  SGT did promotion with a high percentage of the abysmal team that went down still in the team, with some youth and new players added. The new guy will have to do the same.

So you think we are going to start next season with all the trouble makers that the fans have turned against?  It seems very unlikely to me, that with a new owner, new board, new positions all throughout the club and new manager but keep the players that the fans openly mocked after they displayed either complete stupidity or contempt for the club. Hardly the way to kick start the push. I can't see it myself. I think Xia has bigger plans than kids and the shit we can't get rid of.

Lets hope he has the money then, because persuading 8-10 players to sling their hooks and buying replacements is going to take a fair chunk of it. I'd be very surprised if someone like Gabby who is probably on treble the average Championship wage even with a relegation clause can be persuaded to jump ship without us paying him to leave,

[sickbeggar]

I'm wondering what all the people dismissing Di Matteo as being "too nice" know that I don't?

Have they all been in his teams' dressing rooms? For all I know he could be a ruthless bastard behind the scenes. Who knows?

In any case, the last manager to get us promoted, the last manager to win us a trophy and the manager who has just win the league are all widely perceived to be "nice", so maybe it's not that much of a handicap?

Well i certainly wouldn't have wanted to get on the wrong side of SGT in his Villa days. Decent, respected, maybe even nice but you wouldn't want to cross him imo. Don't think RDM has quite the same feel about him.

Why? How can you possibly know what he's like to the players behind closed doors?

I don't. Maybe he turns into a raging beast. I just doubt it. Garde didn't strike me as the type either. He probably wasn't.