Next manager?

[dave.woodhall]

I'm almost beginning to think the club isn't right for anyone. Since MOM left - the last time we had any semblence of success - everyone has been an unmitigated disaster. Shit, even MON was a disaster.

Christ I'd quite like the disaster of 3 consecutive top 6 PL finishes !

With hindsight, in my opinion, MON was the start of the decline. He binned a lot of promising youngsters (see how many of them went on to build careers elsewhere - Steven Davis and Gary Cahill stand out) and replaced them with old/high wage players. Plus the downturn in our home form started then; he turned us into a counter-attacking team that did well away but struggled when expected to drive the game at home. The league placing was good - as was were the cup runs - but when he left, he left us in the sh**t.

I've heard it said that a good manager is someone who leaves a club in a better state than when they found it. By that definition, MON failed - as so many others have.

Hang on a second - I've got no more time for O'Neill than most but it's completely wrong to say we were worse when he left than when he arrived.  Granted he'd spent the GDP of a small African nation, but the team he inherited was going down.

[eamonn]

But I thought the consensus was that O'Dreary had dismally under-performed with the players at his disposal in 2005/06?

[TonyD]

MoN most definitely left us in a worse place.   Spunking Lerner’s money up the wall was one crime. But his biggest offence was that he started the rift and disconnect that developed between fans and club.   He left fans totally disillusioned with the club.   

[Steve67]

Wow, another MON debate begins. 

Anyway, next Manager for Villa?  I wonder if we need a young and old combo?  Perhaps something like a John Terry/Harry Redknapp type combo, but not Harry Redknapp.

[Des Little]

Wow, another MON debate begins. 

Anyway, next Manager for Villa?  I wonder if we need a young and old combo?  Perhaps something like a John Terry/Harry Redknapp type combo, but not Harry Redknapp.

I’d rather have Louise Redknapp. In any way you care to interpret that as well.:

[cdbearsfan]

Wow, another MON debate begins. 

Anyway, next Manager for Villa?  I wonder if we need a young and old combo?  Perhaps something like a John Terry/Harry Redknapp type combo, but not Harry Redknapp.

Quite like the sound of that management team apart from John Terry and Harry Redknapp.

[Sexual Ealing]

Wow, another MON debate begins. 

Anyway, next Manager for Villa?  I wonder if we need a young and old combo?  Perhaps something like a John Terry/Harry Redknapp type combo, but not Harry Redknapp.

Quite like the sound of that management team apart from John Terry and Harry Redknapp.

Not sure about the John Terry and Harry Redknapp elements in that equation.

[sickbeggar]

Wait till the summer. Offer Eddie Howe a "project" not a job. The Project is to get us in the Premier league and once there, the chance to manage a big club with rich owners and build towards all the possibilities not open to him at Bournemouth because of their size. SGT went for it, and despite the riches now available to even the smallest clubs in the PL, he knows he's never going to be anything but overperforming at Bournemouth. He's gonna leave sooner or later because someone will take a chance on him, and i'd rather it was us.

[Louzie0]

If our new owners are so loaded that they can offer anybody anything they like, then they have to have a compelling reason for Steve Bruce still to be in a job.

Perhaps it’s lack of anybody above him in the infrastructure of the club.
Perhaps it’s being in the top 6.
Perhaps it’s SB’s gift of the gab.

It’s about where they see the Villa, ultimately, really. If higher than this, and I hope that’s the case, there are big choices to be made and hopefully very soon.

[Dave P]

Can you imagine if we got Redknapp?

[Three Spires Villa]

Can you imagine if we got Redknapp?

No, I cant and I wont. Stop it

[mr underhill]

Rafa looks like a man who wants out?

[Steve67]

Wow, another MON debate begins. 

Anyway, next Manager for Villa?  I wonder if we need a young and old combo?  Perhaps something like a John Terry/Harry Redknapp type combo, but not Harry Redknapp.

Quite like the sound of that management team apart from John Terry and Harry Redknapp.

Not sure about the John Terry and Harry Redknapp elements in that equation.

It was an example rather than a suggestion.  Honestly.

[Jon Crofts]

Rafa looks like a man who wants out?

He's waiting for his House Of Fraser stock grant.

[john e]

Rafa looks like a man who wants out?

the Newcastle performance against Chelsea was a hundred times worse than anything Bruce has produced which is saying something
it was unforgivable and one of the most anti football things I’ve ever seen

of course he might have been making statement to his board and Mike Ashley

I wouldn’t want him for either of those reasons