Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Mister E]

... I wouldn't have minded an 8 year contract let alone 4 ...

Commercially ridiculous idea.

Well exactly . I feel these owners and CEO are  very business minded but that's why they have been success.
On purely football decision Smith would be given a longer term deal than 4 years.
I read hear someone claimed Pardew had an 8 year deal ? Well it's exactly same . Pardew was a palace man I believe so they invested and backed their own .
Smith is a villa man and could have given similar just as statement on how they want the club to be run.
Its not very current to do that however as Pardew and Palace , though he didn't do 8 years , had a loyalty then Dean could be rewarded. But we are realistic to know it occasionally happens as its shown with a club and a former player .

Look what happened to Palace and Pardew.
Please do not use that odious man as an example of anything other than how not to do things.

[Dante Lavelli]

Pretty sure Potter has just signed a long term deal (six years?) so they’re still about.
I wasn’t aware that the standard pay off is 12-months.  If that’s the case then it doesn’t really matter.

[Drummond]

I'm pleased for him, and we're moving in the right direction, but I do think it's slightly strange timing.

Perhaps Arsenal and Spurs came sniffing.

[Scovilla]

I am pleased about that for vill and for him. Brings stability.

[Drummond]

I can safely say there isn't a chance in hell it's any of those.

[The Edge]

IIRC, it's text shorthand for, "if I recall correctly".

Thanks

[Mister E]

Well I think it was something to do with beating Steve Bruce so he demanding a new contract !
Or it was a negotiated clause .
Basically saying look I beat the old regime !
Reward me !

May even be one of those clauses beat an the ex manger within a year period and get 4 years deal.
Kinda like the black Friday deals

Errrrrrrrrr; not.

[OCD]

More likely there's been discussions for a while now and the timing of it all being done was just a coincidence.

[villa `cross the mersey]

I'm pleased for him, and we're moving in the right direction, but I do think it's slightly strange timing.

I'm with you there Risso - pleased for the guy but we should have been looking at the reward of a new contract at the business end of the season - maybe the thinking is that he is the right man to get us promoted should we be relegated
That sounds odd now I've typed it, however he does know the Championship and his management of our run in last season was quite impressive - let's see how the owners back him in the upcoming transfer window

[OzVilla]

Not keen on awarding new contracts to managers mid-season. It inevitably leads to a run of defeats.

[Risso]

More likely there's been discussions for a while now and the timing of it all being done was just a coincidence.

I’m not sure. Would have looked very odd if we’d lost to Newcastle. Would have been four defeats in a row, and we’d now be in the bottom three.

[AsTallAsLions]

Not keen on awarding new contracts to managers mid-season. It inevitably leads to a run of defeats.

I'm all for Dean Smith and his approach, but it does seem a bit at strange alright.

[clash city rocker]

Good luck to him. I am enjoying our football now more than I have done for bloody years.

[Demitri_C]

Smith for me is our best manager since O'Neill.  I think he will actually exceed him if we stay up

[Rudy Can't Fail]

O'Neill was a chancer that eventually got found out. Dean Smith, for all his growing pains is the manager O'Neill pretended to be. Also, O'Neill is and always has been, a c**t.