Next Villa manager

[Villa in Denmark]

Everything about Moyes screams out that he's lost interest after getting a top job and fucking it up, he just gives the impression of someone doing it because he doesn't know what else he'd do with his time.

I didn't want him in the summer because all the signs suggested he was on a steep slope and his Sunderland side just back that up, they look as bad as anything we've served up in the last 5-6 years.

That sums up Moyes for me too.

If it was choice between Sheerluck coming back or Moyes, I'd take Moyes.  Other than that, pretty much ABM for any reasonably sensible suggestion.

[Villa in Denmark]

I've just sent my CV to the club.

You can talk sense - you're over qualified!

Paul, you flatter me, mate. Though I'll take it as a compliment. Fancy being my assistant?

If it's jobs for boys can I pitch in as well? My highest qualification that I always buy my round!

This I can vouch for!

[Villa in Denmark]

Heimir Hallgrimsson and Lars Lagerback.

Sorted!

Oh you and your infatuation with nordic names

Of course, Olaf

Look what they did for Iceland, though!

A prawn ring from Fjarðabyggð isn't quite the same

[damon loves JT]

Whoever does the job needs to have something at stake. Too many being linked with the appointment wouldn't be that arsed if they failed. If they made a go of it they'd look brilliant; if they failed they'd just shrug and walk away and say 'hey, it was an impossible job, what could I have done?'

But only somebody who is utterly desperate to succeed, somebody with their back to the wall, somebody with nowhere else to go, can make a success of Villa from here. That's the top and bottom of it.

Rowett for me. It would be shit or bust.

[Pat McMahon]

I've just sent my CV to the club.

You can talk sense - you're over qualified!

Paul, you flatter me, mate. Though I'll take it as a compliment. Fancy being my assistant?

If it's jobs for boys can I pitch in as well? My highest qualification that I always buy my round!

Not my decision Aftab, it's up to the gaffer. But sounds like you'd be good as head of corporate entertainment

[260475]

Don't know what defines 'Next Permanent Manager' in bookie speak, (or any other speak!) but Clarke at 10/1 is my pick.

[Pat McMahon]

Christ the BBC are still dumping Pat Murphy on us? Havent we suffered enough?

With all due respect to your opinion, Pat Murphy has reported on us for years and is a well respected reporter who I like a lot. Despite his obvious annoyance at being pretty much cut out of the loop by Lerner (along with everyone else) I have found him respectful and informative since Dr X took over. But hey, it is all about opinions.

I like him too. He calls it as he sees it.

[Sexual Ealing]

I'm a Murphy fan also.

[john e]

Whoever does the job needs to have something at stake. Too many being linked with the appointment wouldn't be that arsed if they failed. If they made a go of it they'd look brilliant; if they failed they'd just shrug and walk away and say 'hey, it was an impossible job, what could I have done?'

But only somebody who is utterly desperate to succeed, somebody with their back to the wall, somebody with nowhere else to go, can make a success of Villa from here. That's the top and bottom of it.

Rowett for me. It would be shit or bust.

totally agree with this,
journeyman managers just haven't got the fire in the belly for the job at hand

I don't mind Rowett or someone else where it's all or nothing at all
 ( copyright F Sinatra)

[Dave]

i think the  thing  is with  Bruce is this  would be his  biggest  job. He has a good  record  of promotion  on limited  resources . I think that affects  the style  of play. If he had been able  to go and buy more  quality , perhaps the playing style  would be different . If he does come, this  would  probably  be the first time  he has an  expensive  squad

His sides get worse the money he spends.

A inoperable case of markhughesitis

Haha, indeed.  He really does get himself in a mess when buying players.

It feels like we need an old hand who will sort shit out with minimum fuss.  We have a great squad for this league, it just needs organising.  I wonder if somebody like Allardyce might turn out to be just good timing, a bit like when Redknapp ended up at Spurs.

I reckon Mark Kelly nailed it earlier up the thread. Steve Clarke gets the job short-term while we "whittle our shortlist down", Moyes loses a couple more matches and gets the Spanish archer at Sunderland.

Round and Wyness wrack their brains for a suitable manager that they know and trust and just at the right time...

The jigsaw pieces just slot into place.

But what makes anyone think that Moyes, who could have joined us in the summer, thought himself too big for a reclamation project in the Championship? Will his ego have been reduced sufficiently to come to us now? Also is he that a big a deal now given how he hardly made any kind of impact at Sunderland? That would be three managerial failures in a row.

I'd say there would be a difference between being approached by some random Chinese bloke (assuming he ever was), and being approached by his right hand man for the last half decade who presumably has the influence to effectively take the decision of who our new manager will be.

Our senior management is now the people in charge at Everton with Moyes when he was there.

We don't have a manager and Moyes will probably be fired before we have a new one.

It's hard to see why Round and Wyness wouldn't go in that direction if it's an option available to them.

[Salsa Party Animal]

For me Marcelo Bielsa would be best option as long the club don't fell out with him. But I think Sam Allardyce would be best bet for British experience manager despite the fall out from England job. I hope we are successful with the like of David Wanger or Dean Smith but too scared with inexperience manager as they seem to get overwhelmed. 

I don't want to see Harry Redknapp or Steve Bruce in manager job. 

[Toronto Villa]

Didn't Moyes do a very public ruling out the Villa job in the summer? Granted, doesn't mean he was approached but he did distance himself. But there is something the theory that this could be the right time. He will see his former colleagues at the club. The owner seems to genuinely care and has invested heavily in a side that should be challenging for promotion. The question will be does he actually want to do the work that comes along with it? The last thing we need right now is more passengers least of all at manager level.

[cdbearsfan]

Fuck Moyes. If we want to appoint a manager on the basis they were good six years ago, we may as well just get Lambert back.

Moyes has failed horrifically at every job since Everton (and he wasn't hugely popular there with many of their fans towards the end).

[cheltenhamlion]

It isn't Steve Coterill. I called him earlier and asked. I would file mosr press stories on this as bollocks.

[Sexual Ealing]

Fuck Moyes. If we want to appoint a manager on the basis they were good six years ago, we may as well just get Lambert back.

Moyes has failed horrifically at every job since Everton (and he wasn't hugely popular there with many of their fans towards the end).

Amen to that.