Manager suggestions - Now with added poll

[john e]

Are we going overboard on Smith because he is a Villa man?

I ask as I've heard murmurs of Brentford fans saying he has no Plan B, and struggles to close a game out. Their results this season so far back that up, very early days of course for him to improve things, but he's only had one season at this level so far, albeit a pretty good one.

I'll be honest and say most of the knowledge I have of the above names apart from the obvious ones came from this site
and the same goes for most of the players we sign to

[KRS]

Playing devils advocate with the Fat Sam thing should he decide to come out of "retirement"...it may not be pretty at times (but not as bad as some ppl would have you believe) but he would probably be the best bet to get us out of this mess and have us in contention for promotion with the current squad. All other likely and realistic candidates would be more of a gamble.

[cdbearsfan]

Brentford is not a big club. He's doing very well to have them competing and playing as they are.

Warburton did better there.

Not against Smith, just providing some context.

I do think we may be overplaying his achievements based on him being One of Us, and the fact that their two best performances of the season both seemed to be against Villa.

They were the best team I saw against us last season. But those performances must have been the exception, based on their so-so final league position.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Lol yes Tuchel is as likely or unlikely as Bielsa.

No idea how accurate these wages are but Tuchel wanting a champions league club could just as easily be code for I want champion's league wages, which Villa arguably do pay.  Dortmund do not appear on the list whereas Palace (Benfica?), West Ham, Watford and Everton are all in there.  The stupid wages paid in the UK also means that you get better value abroad, the difficulty is identifying the right man.

http://www.totalsportek.com/money/highest-paid-football-managers/ 

It's highly unlikely but it'd be almost negligent not to make enquiries in my opinion.

For the price of Ashley Westwood we could have a Top 10 manager (for a season). I'd much rather see us spend money on bringing in the best manager available than signing an at best average player every summer. The only problem now is we appear not to have a pot to piss in.

[Rico]

Dwight Yorke anyone?

Only joking!!!

[dave.woodhall]

Lol yes Tuchel is as likely or unlikely as Bielsa.

No idea how accurate these wages are but Tuchel wanting a champions league club could just as easily be code for I want champion's league wages, which Villa arguably do pay.  Dortmund do not appear on the list whereas Palace (Benfica?), West Ham, Watford and Everton are all in there.  The stupid wages paid in the UK also means that you get better value abroad, the difficulty is identifying the right man.

http://www.totalsportek.com/money/highest-paid-football-managers/ 

It's highly unlikely but it'd be almost negligent not to make enquiries in my opinion.

For the price of Ashley Westwood we could have a Top 10 manager (for a season). I'd much rather see us spend money on bringing in the best manager available than signing an at best average player every summer. The only problem now is we appear not to have a pot to piss in.

The other problem is that if it was that easy everyone would do it.

[CT Villan]

Wouldn't think affording top managerial wages would be difficult for us - loaning McCormack somewhere could offset 1.5-2m in wages alone, then there may be a loan fee too...and if Richards goes we'd have a whole lot more than that to play with. Pay what it takes to get a top manager and do it before it's too late.

I'm surprised Smith is so fancied, the job is clearly too big for Bruce with all of his experience, how will Smith cope with the expectation and the intense pressure ? I think he would struggle.

[ChicagoLion]

How many on that poll have had a bigger or more difficult job than this?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Lol yes Tuchel is as likely or unlikely as Bielsa.

No idea how accurate these wages are but Tuchel wanting a champions league club could just as easily be code for I want champion's league wages, which Villa arguably do pay.  Dortmund do not appear on the list whereas Palace (Benfica?), West Ham, Watford and Everton are all in there.  The stupid wages paid in the UK also means that you get better value abroad, the difficulty is identifying the right man.

http://www.totalsportek.com/money/highest-paid-football-managers/ 

It's highly unlikely but it'd be almost negligent not to make enquiries in my opinion.

For the price of Ashley Westwood we could have a Top 10 manager (for a season). I'd much rather see us spend money on bringing in the best manager available than signing an at best average player every summer. The only problem now is we appear not to have a pot to piss in.

The other problem is that if it was that easy everyone would do it.

Sure but with all the money in the PL now I'm sure more will. We should have done it last summer when we had the money to spend. I remember you telling me the cost of paying off MON. Add to that all the other pay-offs we've made since, I'd imagine we'd be close to breaking into the Top 10 on that list, what with paying two managers at a time.

[KRS]

What's most surprising with all those names on the list is that a few ppl have actually voted for Steve McLaren, Nigel Pearson, Alan Pardew...and John Terry! The interwebs really is a crazy place!

[Des Little]

Can we get Ads listed please?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

What's most surprising with all those names on the list is that a few ppl have actually voted for Steve McLaren, Nigel Pearson, Alan Pardew...and John Terry! The interwebs really is a crazy place!

Football's a funny old game. Last summer I had people lining up to tell me how lucky we'd be to have David Moyes as our manager. Right now he has one vote on here.

[KRS]

Well its a a good job there aren't many Twitter or Facebook followers on here otherwise Tim Sherwood would be top of the poll judging by some of the stupid comments I've read on there over the last few months. No wonder this country is in such a mess when these very same ppl are allowed to vote!

[German James]

As that Bluenose said a few pages back, if we're seriously considering Sam Allardyce (a retired Sam Allardyce at that) or any of the other of the usual knackered old suspects, then we may as well stick with Bodger Bruce.

[cdbearsfan]

How many on that poll have had a bigger or more difficult job than this?

Rodgers and Moyes. You could make a case for McLaren.