Manager for next season

[cdbearsfan]

I hope he's better with us than he was at Schalke. After getting off to a good start, he ended the season with 2 wins in 10.

I'm pretty sure you could make any manager look good or bad if you only selected a small number of matches to suit your argument.

On a ten game spell from 3rd March last year, Villa won seven and drew one of ten games.

We should get Sherwood back, he's fantastic.

[Steve67]

Started when they were in 11th spot, they finished 6th. I think that's a bloody great result! Ask Mr Klopp if he'd accept that with Liverpool, or any other manager for that matter.

[PaulWinch again]

I'd like RDM to be hired now, so we can start looking forward.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Exactly it's all just nit picking to try and make out we are appointing another dud. Bullshit like Mowbray had primed West Brom for success and just couldn't put the final touches on it? What? They'd just been relegated, they were shite, Di Matteo brought them straight back up, no one thinks of Mowbrays team as unlucky to go down, they were crap and rightfully sank.

Di Matteo might turn out to be a failure here but calling everything he's done so far at other clubs as lucky or taking over other peoples teams (failing teams might I add) is disingenuous.

If there's still time before the men in the white coats come to take you away, go back a few pages and read where I compliment him on the season he had at Albion in the Championship. You may also want to read where I mentioned he was PL Manager of the Month in September. Whilst you're at it, read the post on here from a Baggie that pretty much summed up my thoughts based on what I've read?

My comment on his time at Schalke is more than fair. Two wins in ten is a statistic that should raise more than your eyebrows. They missed out on Champions League football due to losing against a struggling Hamburg side on the last game of the season. As I've already mentioned, I like Di Matteo but that doesn't mean I want to blow him.

[russon]

Any sign of us getting a manager soon? Don't get much Villa mood music up here in Aberdeenshire.

[Leicester_Villian]

I think its simply a cost cutting measure not to appoint a manager .............

[Clampy]

I think its simply a cost cutting measure not to appoint a manager .............

Or maybe not.........

[Villa in Denmark]

I think its simply a cost cutting measure not to appoint a manager .............

Is that for real or an ironic pisstake of people worrying too much?

[brian green]

I don't care who the new manager is so long as it is not Eric Black.  All I want is to see a Villa team without Guzan, Agbonlahor, Richardson, Bacuna, Richards or Lescott in it or on the bench.  Now, where's my aphid spray?

[Steve67]

I don't care who the new manager is so long as it is not Eric Black.  All I want is to see a Villa team without Guzan, Agbonlahor, Richardson, Bacuna, Richards or Lescott in it or on the bench.  Now, where's my aphid spray?

That should be the blueprint from which Roberto works. Great post Brian.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I don't care who the new manager is so long as it is not Eric Black.  All I want is to see a Villa team without Guzan, Agbonlahor, Richardson, Bacuna, Richards or Lescott in it or on the bench.  Now, where's my aphid spray?

I just hope they're easier to get rid of than aphids, Brian.

[OCD]

Well Richardson's out of contact so, barring any crazy contract extension, that's him gone. Same goes for N'Zogbia too. So there's the starting point.

[Ron Manager]

As soon as Xia assumes control he is going to flash a huge wad of money at our new manager....

Diego Simeone!!

and then give him even more....and more.

[aj2k77]

Exactly it's all just nit picking to try and make out we are appointing another dud. Bullshit like Mowbray had primed West Brom for success and just couldn't put the final touches on it? What? They'd just been relegated, they were shite, Di Matteo brought them straight back up, no one thinks of Mowbrays team as unlucky to go down, they were crap and rightfully sank.

Di Matteo might turn out to be a failure here but calling everything he's done so far at other clubs as lucky or taking over other peoples teams (failing teams might I add) is disingenuous.

If there's still time before the men in the white coats come to take you away, go back a few pages and read where I compliment him on the season he had at Albion in the Championship. You may also want to read where I mentioned he was PL Manager of the Month in September. Whilst you're at it, read the post on here from a Baggie that pretty much summed up my thoughts based on what I've read?

My comment on his time at Schalke is more than fair. Two wins in ten is a statistic that should raise more than your eyebrows. They missed out on Champions League football due to losing against a struggling Hamburg side on the last game of the season. As I've already mentioned, I like Di Matteo but that doesn't mean I want to blow him.

I never mentioned your points in particular because I wasn't posting about you specifically, just some general comments I've heard during the last week.

[paul_e]

I think what his drop in performance at West Brom and Schalke shows is that once he feels there's nothing left for him at a club (west brom he clearly wanted out and Schalke there's plenty of rumours of disagreements over the support he'd have got in the summer, I'm fairly sure even the club have said as much) he struggles to not let translate to the players.  It's something to be wary of but if Xia is everything he says he is then it won't be a problem for the next 2 years and after that I'd hope we'd be shopping in a new market for his replacement.

For me that's the only legitimate concern, most of the rest seem to be related to the fact that people don't like him and are looking for things to justify it (such as suggesting that he had no part to play in the champions league win or that Mowbray left him a side destined to be promoted).