Manager for next season

[KevinGage]

Not good enough.

If he is not in place by 12am on June 1st we will have been lied to again and will probably go out of business.

And BTW:

SunSport can reveal the 45-year-old Italian has been notified the job of returning Villa to past glories is his, following a positive meeting with Villa chairman Steve Hollis last Thursday.

Is Smegg Evans scribbling for the Sun now?

[Louzie0]

Rather glad that we have a manager, that he has his first choice of coach in place and that it is RDM, who has a bit of a spark about him.
Good luck, RDM. You'll need it!

[ozzjim]

I'll gladly take RDM. Now hopefully he can set about clearing the poison out of the squad.

Yep. There's a hell of a lot of work to be done.

Confidence and belief is all 70% of our players need, that was Pearsons legacy to Leicester.

Incredible really considering he was sacked the night he throttled James McArthur that they went on that run. I genuinely think the shit storm he created and the backs to the wall feeling there, which would be very tough to replicate, was the reason for the results. I think they did play with that confidence coming into this, but a couple of games coming from 2 down early in the season was much, much more important. We gave our result to them, and the other I don't recall, but Ranieiri played a blinder with Kante and Ozaki(sp) and setting them up to purely counter. I don't think has Pearson still been there they would have been much more than mid table at best.

Interesting group of managers that did the pro license in 2010 with Di Matteo. Adkins, Dyche, Eddie Newton, Poyet, Steve Staunton. But then also, Tony Parks. Is that our keeper coach Tony Parks I wonder?

[four fornicholl]

Was he not sacked after the season ended? Because of his son? McArthur always strikes me as a twat anyway.
He definitely instilled something there though.

[Villa in Denmark]

Was he not sacked after the season ended? Because of his son? McArthur always strikes me as a twat anyway.
He definitely instilled something there though.

He was sacked and reinstated within 48 hours (maybe even 24 hours) for the incident ozzjim described, then sacked again at the end of the season for the end of season tour, of which the incident with his son was just the most widely publicised / infamous if I recall, although  may be getting various obnoxious / distasteful / downright disgusting behaviours of professional footballers confused and it was just the incident with his son.

[cdbearsfan]

I don't like Pearson, but surely if they sacked him because of the behaviour of a relative, he could've sued them?

[Villa in Denmark]

I'll gladly take RDM. Now hopefully he can set about clearing the poison out of the squad.

Yep. There's a hell of a lot of work to be done.

Confidence and belief is all 70% of our players need, that was Pearsons legacy to Leicester.

Incredible really considering he was sacked the night he throttled James McArthur that they went on that run. I genuinely think the shit storm he created and the backs to the wall feeling there, which would be very tough to replicate, was the reason for the results. I think they did play with that confidence coming into this, but a couple of games coming from 2 down early in the season was much, much more important. We gave our result to them, and the other I don't recall, but Ranieiri played a blinder with Kante and Ozaki(sp) and setting them up to purely counter. I don't think has Pearson still been there they would have been much more than mid table at best.

Interesting group of managers that did the pro license in 2010 with Di Matteo. Adkins, Dyche, Eddie Newton, Poyet, Steve Staunton. But then also, Tony Parks. Is that our keeper coach Tony Parks I wonder?

I think you're probably right.  It was either total backs to the wall all in this together, or a "what have we got to lose, it can't get any worse" attitude, but I doubt we'll ever see a club in their situation going into that game then go on the run they managed in the following 15 months.

From fighting with QPR to see who could be the absolute shitest in the class of 14/15 to staying up comfortably to league champions. Be interesting to see what happens when they inevtiably start to return to their normal placings over the next 12-18 months and how they cope with the CL matches.

At least they've got a manger who knows what he's doing there and what kind of discipline in the training regimes works.

[Villa in Denmark]

I don't like Pearson, but surely if they sacked him because of the behaviour of a relative, he could've sued them?

He was in charge of the tour which was official club business. His responsibilty to oversee what was going on.

[ozzjim]

I don't like Pearson, but surely if they sacked him because of the behaviour of a relative, he could've sued them?

Over 3 of the players he was managing videoing a night of being as degrading as they could to some prostitutes from the country they were on a promotional tour of? How would he keep his job after that?

He was in charge of the tour which was official club business. His responsibilty to oversee what was going on.

[peter w]

Is RDM the first manager to have hi salary expressed as a weekly figure, like players, rather than per annum?

[cdbearsfan]

I don't like Pearson, but surely if they sacked him because of the behaviour of a relative, he could've sued them?

He was in charge of the tour which was official club business. His responsibilty to oversee what was going on.

I don't know if he could be expected to watch his players at all times. Would he even have been there? Weren't they reserve/youth players? I don't remember any big names being implicated. May be wrong.

[ozzjim]

His son, and 2 other U21 players that were there.

He is the manager. What the players do comes to his door. If one of them is his son, who he has employed, then it makes it worse.

[VancouverLion]

Two champions league winning managers now plying their trade in the championship, going to be interesting season I reckon.
Happy with Di Matteo he'll be well respected by the players one would hope, massive job to turn us around and I think he will, welcome and good luck RDM..
Glad it's sorted, onward and upward, UTV!!!

[Dante Lavelli]

My memory was that Pearson left Leicester in one of those mutual decisions where no-one knows whether he was pushed or jumped. 
I thought he was strongly against his son's sacking and - presumably - the conversations which took place on that topic made his position untenable.

[Dave]

My memory was that Pearson left Leicester in one of those mutual decisions where no-one knows whether he was pushed or jumped. 
I thought he was strongly against his son's sacking and - presumably - the conversations which took place on that topic made his position untenable.

Pretty much everywhere reported it as him being sacked.

Their club statement says that he was "relieved of his duties "