Manager suggestions - Now with added poll

[andyh]

Bournemouth are bottom 3 in the PL. Howe is a superb manager but it might be that he has taken that club as far as possible. Now he might not want to leave them in that position, but it would be a very ambitious move on our part to go after him. I love how he tries to play the game.

He has been a favourite of mine for a long,long time.
I just can't see it happening though, but what a coup if it did.

[VinnieChase84]

I'd love Dean Smith but as others have said the pressure & expectation from him being a local Villa man could crush him within months . Other than that he'd be perfect fit for us .

Who ever it is the expectation level of the fans needs to drop .

I think the opposite. Being a Villa man would bye him more time and less pressure IMO. He just has a Gregory feel about him

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I think we're much too big a job for somebody like Howe.

[cdbearsfan]

Howe would be ideal but we are too big for Dean Smith. To date his managerial accomplishments are fewer than Graham Turner had managed when we appointed him.

[aj2k77]

Eddie Howe is head and shoulders above Bruce ability wise. You'd have to be Comical Ali or Alex Bruce to think otherwise.

[SoccerHQ]

Eddie Howe has emotional attachment to Bournemouth.

He wouldn't walk out on them during a season in any case.

[Damo70]

Howe would be ideal but we are too big for Dean Smith. To date his managerial accomplishments are fewer than Graham Turner had managed when we appointed him.

Yes, but Dean Smith isn't taking over a top flight team who have spent the last four years winning the league, European Cup, Super Cup and finishing mid table in the top flight last season.

I wouldn't mind Dean Smith, he has done well at Brentford and Walsall before that. I just suspect that the only way Howe's career is going after Bournemouth (where admittedly he has done a fantastic job) is down.

[cdbearsfan]

It's a bit of a myth that he's "done well" at Brentford. When he took over, they were near the relegation zone... but it was still basically the same team that finished fifth under Warburton a few months earlier. They've had two mid-table finishes under him. Not bad, but far from enough to convince me that he's the man for the job. And they're currently in the relegation zone.

If our league position is enough for people, myself included, to think that Bruce should be sacked, why would we want to appoint someone who has managed to get a team doing even worse?

[VinnieChase84]

It's a bit of a myth that he's "done well" at Brentford. When he took over, they were near the relegation zone... but it was still basically the same team that finished fifth under Warburton a few months earlier. They've had two mid-table finishes under him. Not bad, but far from enough to convince me that he's the man for the job. And they're currently in the relegation zone.

If our league position is enough for people, myself included, to think that Bruce should be sacked, why would we want to appoint someone who has managed to get a team doing even worse?

Just look at what their fans say about him though and how he plays football. He would do brilliant,y for us and would for certain know how to get hogan firing too

[cdbearsfan]

They play good football AGAINST US.

They clearly don't play good football most weeks or they wouldn't be twenty-third.

And I'm sure Shrewsbury fans spoke highly of Graham Turner before he left. It doesn't mean he was the right appointment for a club with our ambitions.

[olaftab]

Surely playing good football and keeping Brentford in the Championship is a major achievement. Their natural base is probably League 2?
By the way I am not advocating Dean Smith for us.

[olaftab]

I think we're much too big a job for somebody like Howe.

Why? Isn't it just about sorting the footballing side and making it work regardless of name, history location etc?

[cdbearsfan]

They were fifth the season before he joined. So, I don't see avoiding relegation as a major achievement. In any case, they aren't even currently on course to "achieve" that. They're twenty-third. Below Steve Bruce Villa and such giants of the game as Burton Albion, Barnsley and Small Heath.

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I think we're much too big a job for somebody like Howe.

Why? Isn't it just about sorting the footballing side and making it work regardless of name, history location etc?

He works at a club who have a ground that has a capacity 3500 less than the Holte. There is no pressure on Bournemouth to play in the top flight or the 2nd Division.

How would he cope with a 0-0 draw being met with furious outcry? He's never had anything like that and the closest he got at Burnley, he failed.

Aston Villa is a huge job. Flavour of the months or one club wonders need not apply.

[VinnieChase84]

More I think about who next the more I can see Terry being given the job