Next Villa manager

[Ozzjim]

If he comes and gets us up I don't care.  Don't really want Bertschin reading about why he was sacked. Quite like our backroom group.

[Tony Erdington]

i hate blues as much as the next mother Teresa but anybody thinks Bruce gives a flying euro about the urchins is very much mistaken, when we smack them on the 30th watch brucey jive.

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Big Fat Bruce's Claret and Blue army?

[TonyD]

Lump hammer face's claret n blue army

[PaulWinch again]

If he gets us winning games and towards to top the table that'll do for me. Frankly I'm so sick of seeing Villa fail every week I'm not that fussed about style at the moment as long as we're winning. In the long term I want us to be a good footballing side, but in the short term we need to get back to a foundation of winning games.

[Villafirst]

Appointing Bruce virtually guarantees promotion. A tall order this campaign but not impossible. Whatever misgivings some people might have, he gets teams promoted, end of.

[TonyD]

I just hope he doesn't see Villa as a cushy pay cheque for a season.  He will need to really put everything in his locker to get the squad playing as a team.

[Dave]

Appointing Bruce virtually guarantees promotion. A tall order this campaign but not impossible. Whatever misgivings some people might have, he gets teams promoted, end of.

Didn't you say the same about Pearson over the summer?

[PaulWinch again]

Yes I wouldn't say there's a manager in the world who 'guarantees' us promotion.

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A new manager could come in and win all three games that we play that week; Wolves, Reading and Fulham.

Reading away apart, that's not too much to ask for. Yet they'd be winning more games in 7 days than we'd won in 12 months.

It's a really low bar that the new man needs to achieve for modest improvement.

[Ozzjim]

The thing is 2 years of stability before inevitably having to move Bruce on could prove vital for the new football structure to get everything else in place.  We need to get up and stay up.  Bruce with the right backing will get that as much as it will be tough to swallow.  He won't much like our central midfield options though and I don't think Grealish will thrive with him.

[tomd2103]

Don't believe it, I'll wager Dr Tony is still shortening his list.

Rego on the WM phone-in tonight reckoned there is a shortlist of ten and no one has been interviewed yet.  Sounds to me like Clarke could well be in charge for at least the Wolves game.

[saunders_heroes]

Don't believe it, I'll wager Dr Tony is still shortening his list.

Rego on the WM phone-in tonight reckoned there is a shortlist of ten and no one has been interviewed yet.  Sounds to me like Clarke could well be in charge for at least the Wolves game.

He's just read that in the Mail.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Have Olof Mellberg applied for the job ? Just asking.

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Have Olof Mellberg applied for the job ? Just asking.

Laursen managed a team in the Danish 2nd division for a season and managed to keep them up...