Manager for next season

[Nunkin1965]

He is I....Italian?

[Nunkin1965]

Are we getting a touch of the "Hendersons"here??

[passitsideways]

Don't know what to make of Di Matteo becoming boss. He fluked a Champion's League with someone elses team but hasn't done a great deal else of note. Did OK in the Championship with the Baggies I suppose but I'm struggling to work up much enthusiasm, but that goes for football in general.

I'm not sure that you can fluke a European Cup win. Especially if you have to beat Napoli, Benfica, Barcelona and Bayern en route.

They did it by packing all 11 behind the ball and hoping for the best. There was no great tactical masterplan beyond that.

They only did that against Barcelona and Bayern, and packing 11 behind the ball in a way that avoids conceding a lot isn't actually as easy as it sounds, which should be apparent given some of our past efforts at that strategy. But before that, they beat Napoli and Benfica, two good teams miles and miles ahead of any Championship teams, with what you might regard as a perfectly standard approach.

[andyh]

It's being 'reported' RDM will get a £2m bonus if he gets us promoted.

If he can do it one season, he will be worthy of every penny!

[PaulWinch again]

Don't know what to make of Di Matteo becoming boss. He fluked a Champion's League with someone elses team but hasn't done a great deal else of note. Did OK in the Championship with the Baggies I suppose but I'm struggling to work up much enthusiasm, but that goes for football in general.

I'm not sure that you can fluke a European Cup win. Especially if you have to beat Napoli, Benfica, Barcelona and Bayern en route.

They did it by packing all 11 behind the ball and hoping for the best. There was no great tactical masterplan beyond that.

Or he worked out that his team wasn't going to be able to win by going all out attack, which his previous teams had done, and adjusted his tactics accordingly.

[Drummond]

Don't know what to make of Di Matteo becoming boss. He fluked a Champion's League with someone elses team but hasn't done a great deal else of note. Did OK in the Championship with the Baggies I suppose but I'm struggling to work up much enthusiasm, but that goes for football in general.

I'm not sure that you can fluke a European Cup win. Especially if you have to beat Napoli, Benfica, Barcelona and Bayern en route.

They did it by packing all 11 behind the ball and hoping for the best. There was no great tactical masterplan beyond that.

Or he worked out that his team wasn't going to be able to win by going all out attack, which his previous teams had done, and adjusted his tactics accordingly.

Did Tony Barton fluke our European Cup win?

[Tom_Mc9?]

Are we complaining about how the potential new manager beat Barcelona and Bayern Munich on the way to winning the European Cup?

[VicMackey]

Are we complaining about how the potential new manager beat Barcelona and Bayern Munich on the way to winning the European Cup?

How dare he!

[UK Redsox]

Are we complaining about how the potential new manager beat Barcelona and Bayern Munich on the way to winning the European Cup?

Tis the Villa way

[Villa in Denmark]

Don't know what to make of Di Matteo becoming boss. He fluked a Champion's League with someone elses team but hasn't done a great deal else of note. Did OK in the Championship with the Baggies I suppose but I'm struggling to work up much enthusiasm, but that goes for football in general.

I'm not sure that you can fluke a European Cup win. Especially if you have to beat Napoli, Benfica, Barcelona and Bayern en route.

They did it by packing all 11 behind the ball and hoping for the best. There was no great tactical masterplan beyond that.

Or he worked out that his team wasn't going to be able to win by going all out attack, which his previous teams had done, and adjusted his tactics accordingly.

Did Tony Barton fluke our European Cup win?

I guess Simeone got lucky in this year's CL quarter final against Barcelona and semi final against Bayern too.

[avfcpg]

Not won any trophies or got promotion or has experience in both the champ and the prem; no good for us, we need winners.
Won the Champions League, managed in both leagues and won promotion; doesn't count, he fluked it.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

RDM also managed to beat Real Madrid 4-3 with Schalke at the Santiago Bernabeu.

[Bottom Right 89]

Alex McCleish managed to win a league cup with Blues beating Arsenal in the final. That's almost as seismic as Leicester winning the Prem League but he hardly pulled up trees at our place. Like most managers RDM has had mixture of success and failure in his career but the general consensus is he's a decent appoitnment, he gets a clean slate when he walks into Villa Park and should be judged on what he does from here on out.

[not3bad]

Are we complaining about how the potential new manager beat Barcelona and Bayern Munich on the way to winning the European Cup?

He should've beaten them by a wider margin. He's shit.

[N'ZMAV]

Should bring in eidur godjensen as atracking striker. 

And Jody Morris to teach the midfielders.

May as well get in Frank Sinclair too.... :|