Manager for next season

[N'ZMAV]

and Sean Dyche - who would be my first choice, sadly, not happening.

[aj2k77]

The thing about Pearson I don't get is he's had 5 seasons in the Championship and got promoted once and some people are talking about him like he's a nailed on success, they then spent 80% of the Premier League season being shit before pulling off a Wigan. I don't see it, I must be blind.

[N'ZMAV]

I'm with you on that, for about 30 games during 14/15 Leicester were absolutely Blues. We even beat them at home twice that season.

[Concrete John]

I think a lot of people tie what happened this season into their good run last season and give him some credit for Leicester's success.

I don't personally, but there you go.

[john e]

Why are people still banging on about Pearson,
He's gone to Derby

[N'ZMAV]

Let's just get Martin O'Neill back..


*grabs the Popcorn.

[ASHTONVILLA]

I'd have liked us to approach Hughton or Warburton but I am warming to the idea of RDM, mostly due to how well he did with Albion.

Not too worried about missing out on Pearson who hardly set the world on fire at other clubs and is a bit unlikable. Not too bothered about Moyes either, although he has the right profile I just find him a bit taciturn.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Why are people still banging on about Pearson,
He's gone to Derby

Apparently we (and presumably every other team in the Championship) are doomed to relegation without him.

That means the final league table for next season is going to be Derby winning the thing by a clear 60+ points and then a 23 way relegation battle at the bottom.

Exciting times!

[godzvilla]

Anyone writing off Di Matteo's Champions League win as nothing to do with him must have a rather low opinion of Tony Barton.

I can separate the humble man who'd worked for years with the group from the lucky man that sat back and let Terry and Lampard run the show, then screamed "I did it!" Like a demented 5 year old at a clearly unimpressed oligarch.

A friend of mine reminded me a couple of days ago that he knows the father of Ross Turnbull  who was at Chelsea in the season when they won the Champions League. He will try and find out from his son what RDMs style of management was like when he was there. I must admit I can only vaguely recall a player called Ross Turnbull. A centre back I think. Or maybe not.

You may be thinking of ´Fearless´ Fred Turnbull  who played Centre Half for the Villa from 1966 to 1974.................Godzvilla!

[ldavfc4eva]

Not that I want him but Pearson is not Derby manager yet is he? Would have liked Moyes but if it's RDM then let's get him in so he can start to sort things out

[Tony Erdington]

I'm trying to be positive, about the whole thing , but how come we aint got A top manager if the deal has gone through and theres a shed load of money to take ud straight back up??

[Stirchley Villain]

I'm trying to be positive, about the whole thing , but how come we aint got A top manager if the deal has gone through and theres a shed load of money to take ud straight back up??

I'm not trying to be confrontational but who outside of the PL would you suggest? The pool is not that big as far as I can see...

[Dave]

Those knocking the likes of McCarthy and Pearson need to have a wakeup call and be realistic about the position we currently find ourselves in.  If we were still a top flight club then maybe we could set our sights higher, but as it stands I think we are more likely to drop another division than return to the PL.  Given that I think our options are limited, and managers of their irk maybe as good as we could hope for right

Yet you're the one knocking a manager who has a record that Pearson and McCarthy won't match if they manage for the next hundred years.

To be fair, Dave, there probably won't be another manager in the next 1000 years that will match RDM's record of winning the Champion's League and FA Cup inside 2 months.

I agree. Yet apparently this is something that should be disregarded for some people for some reason.

Or that it was only because John Terry was allowed to do the team talks for a couple of months. Because that's all it takes to win a European Cup.

[Dante Lavelli]

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.

It's all relative, they got rid of Paul Clement in February if I remember right.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Those knocking the likes of McCarthy and Pearson need to have a wakeup call and be realistic about the position we currently find ourselves in.  If we were still a top flight club then maybe we could set our sights higher, but as it stands I think we are more likely to drop another division than return to the PL.  Given that I think our options are limited, and managers of their irk maybe as good as we could hope for right

Yet you're the one knocking a manager who has a record that Pearson and McCarthy won't match if they manage for the next hundred years.

To be fair, Dave, there probably won't be another manager in the next 1000 years that will match RDM's record of winning the Champion's League and FA Cup inside 2 months.

I agree. Yet apparently this is something that should be disregarded for some people for some reason.

Or that it was only because John Terry was allowed to do the team talks for a couple of months. Because that's all it takes to win a European Cup.

Indeed. And Tony Barton received calls from Ron Saunders every game at 1.45pm to pick the team and give the team talk.
I prefer the wise words of Ashtonvilla, "I am warming to the idea of RDM, mostly due to how well he did with Albion".