Christian Purslow - Resigned

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Purslow got it wrong in the summer of 2021, when he said we brought 3 players in to replace one (a stupid statement).
He got it wrong last November when he appointed his inexperienced mate saying we needed to make continuous progress after getting shot of Smith. We were an established pl team into our 3rd season. We'd already done the inexperienced pl manager bit with Deano who deserved the chance after getting us promoted. We certainly didn't need to repeat it (and effectively return ourselves to the August of '19)
Of course all managerial appointments are gambles, but to give ourselves the best chance of making continued progress we needed an experienced top end manager back in November '21, as we do now (maybe even more so).
Purslow is culpable for where we find ourselves through bad decisions. He needs to stand up, take responsibility and correct his mistakes, otherwise he can go too.

[Mister E]

There is something very wrong, it started with the Greasy saga and somehow we have not recovered.
This is despite substantial investment In the team and a change of manager.
This is an organisation that can not even get basic catering on match day right, has no plan to sort out access to and from the ground and has covered the stadium with bill boards and is squeezing the last penny out of its fan base through a shit ticketing system and ticket prices.
Why on earth should we expect them to get it right on the pitch, the first team reflects and represents the club and it is a shambles.
We need to start again and the most important decision is to get rid of the bloke who is sitting in the CEO office because this shit show is on him.

You make a very good argument for getting rid of Purslow. Whether it should be done now or at a later time is moot.
We HAVE to get the on-pitch stuff sorted pretty quickly, which means getting in a manager who can turn things around, and the owners need to do some serious due diligence on Purslow and other potential CEOs.

[brontebilly]

Pochittino - really don't get the hype over him. He was as good as expected (bang average) at Southampton, Continued the Bridesmaid, never the bride role at Spurzzzz.
3rd the season they should of won the league and lost in Champs league final - the trend being almost but never enough

Won a single championship in France aided by the greatest player to have played the game, The most expensive footballer of all time, the highest paid footballer in the world and a CH that has won every major honour there is to win.  To be fair they should dominate the French league like City does ours - but they do not.  Not for me

Potter - lots of positives (Local, Fan, tries to play decent football) and would not be against him but my nagging doubt is that our current "poor" tactical Manager beat him both home and away last year!!

Rogers - never really liked him and using the same gauge as Poch he lost the league title from a winning position (with a certain Coutiniho and Gerrard in the team) and was out thought by Tactics Tim in the FA cup semi.

But due to Leicester league placings, FA cup win and his impressive record in Scotland i would have him as my choice out of these 3

Poch 4 x top 4 finishes at Spurs while they were building their new stadium. Really improved a number of players too with coaching that we badly need.

Rodgers talks a lot of crap but a line should be drawn under his record in Scotland. The SPL was in a really bad state at the time.

Potter has done really well at Brighton but the other two have a lot more on their CV.

[ChicagoLion]

Seems good on the business side of running the club.

What evidence do you have of this?

[Chico Hamilton III]

Purslow’s 4th anniversary at Villa today. We’re second from bottom, likely to be looking for another manager and still unable to serve a pint to everyone who wants one at half time. We have some very ambitious looking drawings of Villa Park though, which I wonder if he will still be around to see completed.

[Ads]

Things definitely look infinitely better than they did in 2018.

[Chico Hamilton III]

What improvement have we seen in the last 12 months though? Isn’t it suppose to be continuous

[Ads]

Nothing in the last 12 months, we've stagnated post Grealish.

[David_Nab]

Be delighted to see him go as well at this point , SG is his ego trip as was signing the likes of Ings and Digne

We have regressed and been overtaken but other teams whilst spanking a crap load of money on fee's and wages up the wall.As it stands this is turning into another fight to stay up season ..continuous improvement was in ..

[Ads]

Why is it an ego trip or a vanity project? I see it mentioned but I don't understand the core of the argument.

[Simon Page]

Why is it an ego trip or a vanity project? I see it mentioned but I don't understand the core of the argument.

Nor me. I didn't agree with the appointment but only because I think these things don't tend to work out well for us, however I could see the logic in going for him. I don't think our owners are in the business of massaging a CEOs ego, nor that Purslow fancied taking a punt based on having something to brag about. They tried it, it has failed. Move on or make it work.

[aj2k77]

What was the logic in going for a manager from non league football? If he had been called Graham Turner would we have chased him?

[Simon Page]

What was the logic in going for a manager from non league football? If he had been called Graham Turner would we have chased him?

Big name, big character, driven, respected in the game, apprenticeship at a high pressure big club (albeit with only one rival but that is a pressure in itself). His next job after Rangers was always going to be lower half Prem and we were the ones to take the punt. When Gerrard was appointed, the slow tedium we've been served was only one of the possible outcomes.

[aj2k77]

So just because of his name then. Well done Villa. Messi will be retiring soon he can be our next manager.

[caster troy]

If I was going to give Purslow the benefit of the doubt I'd say he thought he was getting a package deal of Gerrard + Beale for the foreseeable future. Possibly behind the scenes we'd been struggling to attract 'big name' signings and he saw Gerrard as the solution to that, and hoped that overall we'd be better off with better players and a top class tactically astute assistant even if SG was still learning. Then maybe by the time Beale did leave he'd be up to scratch on his own. Unfortunately Beale didn't even make it to pre-season and Gerrard has totally lost the plot both on and off the pitch.

For me the real test of Purslow is what he does right now, the longer it goes on like this the more it does in fact look like a vanity project.