Dean Smith - Confirmed

[kippaxvilla2]

I’m going to give Bruce or whoever it was advising him credit.  There’s no doubt he bought in quality players that we have benefited from.  McGinn, Tuanzebe to name all two.  But in terms of setting up a team in that third season it was atrocious.

Now admittedly we had our fair share of financial problems last summer but if we had to sell all our best players I’d have more sympathy but he didn’t.  He was a busted flush and deserved to go.

[kippaxvilla2]

I’m going to give Bruce or whoever it was advising him credit.  There’s no doubt he bought in quality players that we have benefited from.  McGinn, Tuanzebe to name all two.  But in terms of setting up a team in that third season it was atrocious.

Now admittedly we had our fair share of financial problems last summer but if we had to sell all our best players I’d have more sympathy but he didn’t.  He was a busted flush and deserved to go.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

McGinn is the only thing he did that deserves credit

I think he did enough to convince Axel he's not a right back. Does that count?

[paul_e]

I’m going to give Bruce or whoever it was advising him credit.  There’s no doubt he bought in quality players that we have benefited from.  McGinn, Tuanzebe to name all two.  But in terms of setting up a team in that third season it was atrocious.

Now admittedly we had our fair share of financial problems last summer but if we had to sell all our best players I’d have more sympathy but he didn’t.  He was a busted flush and deserved to go.

I struggle to agree on Tuanzebe because Bruce seemingly got him in as a right back and he was awful there, i also struggle to give huge amounts of credit to signing loan players who we then have no option to keep so the only loanee I'd say he did well with is El Ghazi. Going back further I'll give him credit for Hourihane as well though.

[pauliewalnuts]

re DS - there's no question, the owners have backed him to a staggering level with our spending this summer.

The flip side of that is that there is now considerable pressure on him to deliver with the tools he's been given.

It's going to take a while to get so many new players to gel, that is to be expected, but worth noting, with such spending comes elevated pressure on the manager to get it right. I am sure Purslow, Sawiris and Edens will see it similarly.

[not3bad]

McGinn is the only thing he did that deserves credit

"McGinn is the type of player the owners wanted" said Bruce in his press conference, trying to shift the blame away from himself.

Quite a bizarre quote.

[not3bad]

McGinn is the only thing he did that deserves credit

I think he did enough to convince Axel he's not a right back. Does that count?

Abrahams? El Ghazi?

[john e]

McGinn is the only thing he did that deserves credit

"McGinn is the type of player the owners wanted" said Bruce in his press conference, trying to shift the blame away from himself.

Yeah I’ve got the feeling it probably wasn’t all down to Bruce

but you know what, I was Bruce’s fiercest critic on here I wanted him out before he arrived
it ended up being my worst ever period of supporting Villa I can remember I hated virtually every minute of everything he did

McGinn is all I’ve got to give him, so i will just to be nice

[Dazvillain]

An amazing summer, never to be repeated I’d imagine. Deano over to you, you have the backing of thousands .
Toughest job is to keep all this very bid squad happy 😊

[Hookeysmith]

Of course the Manager will be under immense pressure after the spend we have just completed but the single biggest difference is that every single player has been bought based on

Good scouting
Statistical reporting
Manager / Coaches actually going to see them play

but most of all

Every player is bought against a plan of how and where they are to play - not the Bruce approach of buying someone then trying to figure out what to do with them.

The seamless unity of thinking between  Coaching team / CEO and Head of recruitment has been exceptional and I bet not once can Deano state he has a player that he did not want

so excited

[West Derby Villan]

Of course the Manager will be under immense pressure after the spend we have just completed but the single biggest difference is that every single player has been bought based on

Good scouting
Statistical reporting
Manager / Coaches actually going to see them play

but most of all

Every player is bought against a plan of how and where they are to play - not the Bruce approach of buying someone then trying to figure out what to do with them.

The seamless unity of thinking between  Coaching team / CEO and Head of recruitment has been exceptional and I bet not once can Deano state he has a player that he did not want

so excited

It's such a simple approach to transfers, so refreshing......I'm so bloody excited as well

[mr underhill]

The new owners came in late and limited Bruce's ability to do things in the market, but nothing can outdo the fuckwittery of getting rid of all but one CB, playing Axel at right back when we had six or seven already on the books, having just one specialist left back and then splashing 70k a week on Bolaise , who we really didn't need at all.

[wittonwarrior]

I think in the past 2 days has proved as to why he is managerial quality.  Ruthless as in Jed Steer and Andre Green.

[Steve67]

Dean sees what we see.  We all knew that Green wasn't good enough. Gone. 

[colin69]

I have a feeling Deano is going to take to premier league management like a duck to water.