Faria or Henry

[Mortimer's Bear]

Whoever it is I hope they don’t employ the former Chelsea number 26.

I'm in complete agreement.

Why?

[VillaAlways]

The thread title needs changing to Rodgers or Henry

[Axl Rose]

Whoever it is I hope they don’t employ the former Chelsea number 26.

I'm in complete agreement.

Why?

Because I don't like John Terry.

[olaftab]

Whoever it is I hope they don’t employ the former Chelsea number 26.

I'm in complete agreement.

Hear hear or is it here here?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

How's Rémi Garde doing these days...?

How's Gary Neville doing these days?

[olaftab]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...n-Villa-job-John-Terry-assistant-manager.html

Not at all sure about this as I can’t see it working and almost no coaching experience at all☹️

[sickbeggar]

Loads of people sound knowledgeable discussing the game. That's not the gig. Plus you've got the "accent" thing. It's amazing how ex-foreign players don't sound so clever if you imagine them speaking it in fat sam's accent.

Ok, so what don't you like?

It's more an observation than an attack on Henry. There is an in-built bias with most people to take someone more seriously if they have a certain accent. It's like cantona, spent his career attacking various refs, players and spectators and speaks bollocks 24 hours a day, yet he's viewed as this artisitic gaul wit. If he spoke like robbie savage or vinny jones he'd be seen for what he is.  Football is especially bad for it. it's like the old Guiseppe Verdi thing. Joe Green doesn't sound so cultered somehow

Savage and Jones aren't spouting shite in a second or third language for a start.

point still stands. We just hear someone speaking english in a french accent and accord it more gravitas than say geordie,cockney, brummy or scouse. I presume someone french-born hearing Henry speak in his native language hears the regional accent of Paris and may well hear their version of cockney . Maybe steve Mclaren sounded knowledgeable in Holland

[brontebilly]

World of difference between being a successful assistant manager and a successful first team one. Kidd, McClaren, Querioz, Meulensteen all come to mind. Tony Barton and John Gregory for us. At least Faria is an experienced assistant manager at club level, Henry isn't even that.

[Chris Jameson]

Whoever it is I hope they don’t employ the former Chelsea number 26.

I'm in complete agreement.

Why?

Because I don't like John Terry.

What Axl said.

[Bad English]

Loads of people sound knowledgeable discussing the game. That's not the gig. Plus you've got the "accent" thing. It's amazing how ex-foreign players don't sound so clever if you imagine them speaking it in fat sam's accent.

Ok, so what don't you like?

It's more an observation than an attack on Henry. There is an in-built bias with most people to take someone more seriously if they have a certain accent. It's like cantona, spent his career attacking various refs, players and spectators and speaks bollocks 24 hours a day, yet he's viewed as this artisitic gaul wit. If he spoke like robbie savage or vinny jones he'd be seen for what he is.  Football is especially bad for it. it's like the old Guiseppe Verdi thing. Joe Green doesn't sound so cultered somehow

Savage and Jones aren't spouting shite in a second or third language for a start.

point still stands. We just hear someone speaking english in a french accent and accord it more gravitas than say geordie,cockney, brummy or scouse. I presume someone french-born hearing Henry speak in his native language hears the regional accent of Paris and may well hear their version of cockney . Maybe steve Mclaren sounded knowledgeable in Holland

No, 'we' don't. Some of us listen to what is being said and then decide whether it is reasonable discourse or disjointed gibberish.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

World of difference between being a successful assistant manager and a successful first team one. Kidd, McClaren, Querioz, Meulensteen all come to mind. Tony Barton and John Gregory for us. At least Faria is an experienced assistant manager at club level, Henry isn't even that.

Faria must be the most successful Assistant Manager in the world today and he's only 43.

This talk of Henry and Terry reminds me of out last star struck owner wanting to hang around with his hero. The only question for me right now is who is more likely to get us performing to a higher level and get us promoted this season? Whoever it is, they get my support.

[KevinGage]

Loads of people sound knowledgeable discussing the game. That's not the gig. Plus you've got the "accent" thing. It's amazing how ex-foreign players don't sound so clever if you imagine them speaking it in fat sam's accent.

Ok, so what don't you like?

It's more an observation than an attack on Henry. There is an in-built bias with most people to take someone more seriously if they have a certain accent. It's like cantona, spent his career attacking various refs, players and spectators and speaks bollocks 24 hours a day, yet he's viewed as this artisitic gaul wit. If he spoke like robbie savage or vinny jones he'd be seen for what he is.  Football is especially bad for it. it's like the old Guiseppe Verdi thing. Joe Green doesn't sound so cultered somehow

Savage and Jones aren't spouting shite in a second or third language for a start.

Savage is-was tiswas.

He's still a helmet though.

[sickbeggar]

Some do, some don't i'd say. I certainly prefer my tactics spoken in a soft french accent rather than say yamyam. That's why if i ever find myself seduced by a foreign speaking pundit i do the allardyce comparison test.  It's hot-wired into the brain for most of us. Doesn't mean Henry is talking bollocks but that's how it is. Would somone like Stephen Fry be seen as some incredible wit and ranconteur if he had a west country accent? I don't think so

[tomd2103]

It's going to be Henry isn't it?  Those rumours in the summer can't have come from nowhere, so it would seem he's been on the radar for some time. 

[Pvb1968]

Those rumours in the summer didn't come from knowhere, Henry will be a breathe of fresh air and John terry would be great, he was class last season and a born winner.