Christian Purslow - Resigned

[itmustbe_it is!]

Why? To what end? I only use it on mobile, and it's a mess. It's just a huge unstructured pile of videos that are a pain to scroll through. It's shit.

To get everyone using it , then to make it a subscription model?

[ChicagoLion]

Purslow Suso and Smith have fucked up.  This is where the. BLame game starts.
A few points,
1.people saying the ambition was 17th, it wasn’t , they were expecting much better than that.
2: they left a big hole in the central midfield position, attempt to close it with Drinky?
3. Going with an unproven and not very good Centre forward and playing him out of form until he got injured.
The strategy recruitment and team management has been wrong.
Let’s see who is left when the owners get their heads around this.

[Risso]

This Purslow bit of a hoodwinker.
Loves to talk longer term and strategy goals but he's full of it with misrepresentation being honoured to be at Villa.
He was a Liverpool season ticket holder and isn't interested in raising Villa to great football heights.
He's just text book business and marketing speil. Only interested in raising commercial aspects
Club owners and directors put very high value on managers who are able to achieve sustained success with very modest spending.
For me a lot of time with Purslow it's all a load of let them hear what they want to hear.
Fox and Wyness had the initial love too.
But now Purslow is running show very badly Gary Neville summed him up by once calling him a clueless fool.

I think I agree with you, he's full of his own self-importance, but has put together a Director of Football and Head Coach structure that has failed miserably.  A poor set of players, that are badly coached and organised.  I hope that Purslow is first out of the door come relegation day, closely followed by Pitarch and Smith.  Failures one and all.

[ChicagoLion]

Risso, do you think there are any circumstances under which Smith can be absolved of blame?
That is where some fans are, that he did not get the right backing, hands were tied, not the right tools to do the job.
Maybe DW will get the gig to do the book, Dean Smith -Where it all went wrong.

[aev]

If we get relegated I would be delighted to get £180m for those 3. The real concern is we get less than half that.

[hilts_coolerking]

That is where some fans are, that he did not get the right backing, hands were tied, not the right tools to do the job.

Is there any proof of that?  I'm not having a pop, I genuinely don't know.  I haven't read any.

[ChicagoLion]

If we get relegated I would be delighted to get £180m for those 3. The real concern is we get less than half that.

I will take the bet we get more than 90 for those 3

[tomd2103]

Risso, do you think there are any circumstances under which Smith can be absolved of blame?
That is where some fans are, that he did not get the right backing, hands were tied, not the right tools to do the job.
Maybe DW will get the gig to do the book, Dean Smith -Where it all went wrong.

I think there could be some shifting of blame away from Dean Smith if he was given no input at all in the general transfer approach and the players that have been bought.  It has been a squad that has been assembled with massive holes in it to the extent where you cannot put together a starting XI without there being some glaring problems in one area or another.

Where Dean can't escape any blame though is the lack of tactical flexibility, the failure to make substitutions that impact on the game and issues like conceding at set pieces.  He and his coaching staff are firmly on the hook for those faults,

[Risso]

Risso, do you think there are any circumstances under which Smith can be absolved of blame?
That is where some fans are, that he did not get the right backing, hands were tied, not the right tools to do the job.
Maybe DW will get the gig to do the book, Dean Smith -Where it all went wrong.

I suppose he could and maybe will argue that he didn't get to choose most of the player purchases, and that he's done the best he can with them.  But for me the almost complete lack of any sort of organisation or learning from mistakes makes him just as culpable as Pitarch.


edit: or what Tom said!

[ChicagoLion]

That is where some fans are, that he did not get the right backing, hands were tied, not the right tools to do the job.

Is there any proof of that?  I'm not having a pop, I genuinely don't know.  I haven't read any.

There have been comments on here and elsewhere. Even Percy article suggests that Suso is under pressure

[VinnieChase84]

If we get relegated I would be delighted to get £180m for those 3. The real concern is we get less than half that.

I will take the bet we get more than 90 for those 3

If those 3 were to leave we would be looking at £120m minimum

[aev]

If we get relegated I would be delighted to get £180m for those 3. The real concern is we get less than half that.

I will take the bet we get more than 90 for those 3

What bet ?

[hilts_coolerking]

There have been comments on here and elsewhere. Even Percy article suggests that Suso is under pressure

Ta.  There seems to be a bit of blame avoidance going on at the club when the reality is that they are all to blame for where we are.

ETA.  It was only a few days ago that he was defending the recruitment, saying it wasn't a risk, they had no other options and "there was no other way to do it."

[ChicagoLion]

If we get relegated I would be delighted to get £180m for those 3. The real concern is we get less than half that.

I will take the bet we get more than 90 for those 3

What bet ?

Let’s say £100 that if we sell Mings Grealish and McGinn this summer we get more than £120 million. Happy to up it if you like.

[aev]

If we get relegated I would be delighted to get £180m for those 3. The real concern is we get less than half that.

I will take the bet we get more than 90 for those 3

What bet ?

Let’s say £100 that if we sell Mings Grealish and McGinn this summer we get more than £120 million. Happy to up it if you like.

So you are taking a bet I hadn’t made, and now taking your own bet?

Anyway, asking a slightly different question what % reduction in transfer fees would relegation cost us?