Next manager?

[Axl Rose]

http://www.skysports.com/share/11516658

McCarthy, no thank you.

Osorio, yes please.

[sickbeggar]

Could you imagine if they employed McCarthy. They'd be cabbage shortage within 50 miles of Birmingham

[PeterWithesShin]

Mick McCarthy, great gif, mediocre manager.

[Monty]

Osorio just might be awesome.

[Toronto Villa]

Welcome Sam

Nervous LOL. You bastard

[sickbeggar]

Well i've seen the arguments put forward for the various candidates, and now the verdict.

Henry - Great player. Do great players automatically make great managers?
Appleyard - above applies although he seem to "get" us and doesn't come across as someone slumming it because he wants to manage his idols someday.like DOL, and MON
FSW - Sort of a slightly higher quality foreign Bruce "have coaching certificates, will travel" character
Fonseca - got binned at Porto, looks promising, Not gonna come i reckon
Allardyce - NO, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY
Smith - Dunno. Like his football, worried he'd get eaten alive
Arteta - seems to have a great reputation based on precisely no experience as a manager. Doesn't mean he's shit but who knows.?
Moyes - see Allardyce
Ranieri - Always liked him as a manager, plays good football. gettable. Possible
Rogers - Done well in scotland but who doesn't at an old firm club? to be fair hasn't really failed anywhere.
Carvalhal - Not really sure why he's on this list.
Kinky Flores - great name
A N other - Won everything in the game there is to win. Gettable. The only real choice.

[cdbearsfan]

Well i've seen the arguments put forward for the various candidates, and now the verdict.

Henry - Great player. Do great players automatically make great managers?

Yes. See, as evidence... Bruce, S; Di Matteo, R; Sherwood, T; Lambert, P; McLeish, A; O' Leary, D; McNeill, W.

[wittonwarrior]

Well i've seen the arguments put forward for the various candidates, and now the verdict.

Henry - Great player. Do great players automatically make great managers?
Appleyard - above applies although he seem to "get" us and doesn't come across as someone slumming it because he wants to manage his idols someday.like DOL, and MON
FSW - Sort of a slightly higher quality foreign Bruce "have coaching certificates, will travel" character
Fonseca - got binned at Porto, looks promising, Not gonna come i reckon
Allardyce - NO, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT'S HOLY
Smith - Dunno. Like his football, worried he'd get eaten alive
Arteta - seems to have a great reputation based on precisely no experience as a manager. Doesn't mean he's shit but who knows.?
Moyes - see Allardyce
Ranieri - Always liked him as a manager, plays good football. gettable. Possible
Rogers - Done well in scotland but who doesn't at an old firm club? to be fair hasn't really failed anywhere.
Carvalhal - Not really sure why he's on this list.
Kinky Flores - great name
A N other - Won everything in the game there is to win. Gettable. The only real choice.

A lot of sense spoken above. I personally don’t want smith we would simply ruin him

Much will depend on who is willing to take the job but please we do not want to turn into some conveyor belt like Leeds or derby

[PeterWithesShin]

Matt Law
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Paulo Fonseca would be an amazing appointment for Villa, but my information is that he is not looking to move to England to manage in the Championship. Think Villa will (sadly) have to look elsewhere #avfc

[PeterWithesShin]

And for anyone that doesn't know, Matt supports the greatest club and has excellent taste in reading material.

Matt Law
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Always a great read and always grateful my dad picks me one up. Far better than the programme.

[Axl Rose]

Osorio just might be awesome.

Superb. What a character, and of course, good manager.

[geolex]

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.

MON took over in 2006 we had just finished 16th..left in 2010 we had just finished 6th.. i may be wrong but i think that qualifies as  better state..if it doesn't then i don't mind having a manager that ruins us   even more

[geolex]

Who is this Smith evrybody is talking about? i have never heard of him and i think the Aston Villa job is to big for him.

How can you say the job is too big for him if you dont know who he is?

[jwarry]

Matt Law
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Paulo Fonseca would be an amazing appointment for Villa, but my information is that he is not looking to move to England to manage in the Championship. Think Villa will (sadly) have to look elsewhere #avfc

But you ignore the Mendes connection

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