Next manager?

[villa `cross the mersey]

What's Juninho up to these days? Maybe we could try and get him again ....or Beckenbauer/Klinsman

[tomd2103]

All of this conversation is driven off media speculation which day after day has been completely wrong. Truth is nobody knows who has been approached, interviewed, offered anything at all. Moyes last week, Henry signed and sealed not longer after, Faria sending text messages to the Villa players on Saturday. It really is all a bit mad out there.

Yep.  My one concern is that some of those mentioned have spoken to the club or been interviewed and have been put off by what they have heard.

[Damo70]

Smith's odds at best are 4/6 at worst with Bill Hills 1/8!!

I'm pretty sure both Henry and Terry have both been heavily odds on too in recent days, possibly Faria too. What concerns me more is that all through the process David Moyes has been lurking in fourth or fifth place in the betting like a middle distance runner waiting to time his late run.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Dean Smith with Bob Wesson - who will be first to get the bullet?

[Phil from the upper holte]

Kendrick seems to think Smith is a goer

[TonyD]

Some of the arrogance in recent posts is absolutely breathtaking. Expecting it to be realistic fir a manager to leave a successful premier league side to join us in
Lower championship is pure crazy. It’s not 1982 anymore.

I know.

If Howe was lucky enough to be offered the Villa job, he would crawl all the way over broken glass to VP. 

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I've had my reservations about Smith. The fact is however there is no ideal candidate. They all have their draw backs.

Faria I find massively underwhelming. Henry started to intrigue me, but by and large I'm against a novice.

Brenda doesn't impress me at all. He's moaning at the moment about his bloated squad...that he bloated. I think he's tactically suspect and defensively woeful.

Smudger seems very switched on. He did a number on that Bielsa, who seems to have people choking it till the end turns purple. He's got Brentford playing well, very well in fact and consistently over a number of seasons. He's also used to working in a system where he has an input on signings, but is not the main man. Seems good enough for Pep so why not.

It was just the size thing and the pressure. But then Bruce couldn't cope in the end.

The fact he is a Villa fan, is relevant. We're his club. Just like we were Littles. It means more and you give more. You're apart of it.

[pauliewalnuts]

What concerns me a little about Smith is there is an air of 'nobody else fancied it' about him, which makes me wonder what put the others off.

Then there's the fact that, if he wasn't a villa fan, we wouldn't have so many people keen on him.

Finally, doing alright with Brentford is one thing. Turning this shit-filled juggernaut around, and quickly, is another thing entirely.

[London Villan]

Little, along with Big Ron are two Villa men who ‘got’ the club and were relatively successful. Henry would have felt he was doing us a favour... Let’s get Smith in and get on with it.

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I don't think we are in that bad a way.

If you can't get a tune out of the attacking talent we have, which is better than anybody else in the league in quality and quantity, then you belong in that TB infected badger filled sack.

[Taylor]

What concerns me is our financial position. Who can we actually afford? Aren't we bound my FFP? As far as I can see it, (and I'll admit I know nothing about FFP or football finances) we have to pay off Bruce, we will need to pay compensation for a manager if he is already in a job, plus we have to pay the new guys wages. Maybe Henry was offered the job, but was told "well, we can't pay you much, plus we may have to sell our best players in the summer if we don't go up". It's hardly surprising he'd rather go to Monaco.

If this is the case, maybe we will end up with Mick MCCarthey or Moyes. Jesus wept!

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£750k to buy Smith out apparently.

[Lastfootstamper]

Smith's odds at best are 4/6 at worst with Bill Hills 1/8!!

I'm pretty sure both Henry and Terry have both been heavily odds on too in recent days, possibly Faria too. What concerns me more is that all through the process David Moyes has been lurking in fourth or fifth place in the betting like a middle distance runner waiting to time his late run.

Did you miss it? Friday(?), Moyes piled right in. Fairly sure he scraped into odds-on. There were some very shredded nerves on here that day.

[hilts_coolerking]

Then there's the fact that, if he wasn't a villa fan, we wouldn't have so many people keen on him.

Quite.  Some have said, 'You'd like him if his name was Dean Smithio'.  Well that cuts both ways; would people have considered him if was an Albion fan?

[steamer]

I await the announcement
There have been so many in the last few years I have almost forgot my initial reactions.
ONeil definitely in favour at the time, that turned out well
Lamberk, cautiously optimistic , also worked out well
Houllier, left of field, did not excite me, too much Liverpool baggage
Tactics Tim, thanks for keeping us up and going to the final, should have left after that with a handshake and best wishes.
The Scottish one, beyond credulity, I thought I had been beamed up to the  twilight zone.
Those in between, a blur
Bruce, almost in the twilight zone, I voted against him in every poll, but secretly hoped for the promotion specialist bullshit to be true.
whoever it is, unless its Pepe, will get a at best cautious nod from me.
Good luck whoever it is, I also was disappointed initially with Saunders as I always lived in hope that Clough would come.
A subdued wait and see whoever it is.