Dean Smith - Confirmed

[SoccerHQ]

Poch: Open to offers

Apart from Everton who he quickly dismissed when they approached him two weeks ago. He's not going to come to us. Plenty of other good managers would do.

[malckennedy]

Poch: Open to offers

Apart from Everton who he quickly dismissed when they approached him two weeks ago. He's not going to come to us. Plenty of other good managers would do.

Maybe the Villa project is more attractive and with better financial backing than Everton?

[hilts_coolerking]

Poch: Open to offers

Apart from Everton who he quickly dismissed when they approached him two weeks ago. He's not going to come to us. Plenty of other good managers would do.

Maybe the Villa project is more attractive and with better financial backing than Everton?

Poch may or may not be interested (probably not) but if Smith does go we really do have to look at bringing in a top quality manager and not an up-and-comer or someone who has won the Finnish league twice in a row or someone who has been number two to a much better manager.

[Villafirst]

Is that 7 defeats in 9 games now? 4 points from 27? The writing is on the wall. Really wanted Deano to succeed but I can't see it happening. We need 2 or 3 experienced loan players in January to try and somehow stay up.

[VinnieChase84]

I just read WM are saying the players held a meeting - without DS - to discuss our tactics after the Leicester game.

If - if - that’s true, it doesn’t augur well.

If there’s any truth in this then the writing is on the wall isn’t it?

Tactically, questions around DS has constantly been around him his entire career. Saw some Brentford at new st earlier and they were saying the same. Has no other plan than 433

[Risso]

Every week he says the same thing, we can't keep on giving cheap goals away.  Every week we keep giving cheap goals away.  His formation is all wrong and the players he has bought are poor.

[SoccerHQ]

Poch: Open to offers

Apart from Everton who he quickly dismissed when they approached him two weeks ago. He's not going to come to us. Plenty of other good managers would do.

Maybe the Villa project is more attractive and with better financial backing than Everton?

Poch may or may not be interested (probably not) but if Smith does go we really do have to look at bringing in a top quality manager and not an up-and-comer or someone who has won the Finnish league twice in a row or someone who has been number two to a much better manager.

If you want to go left field I think this guy would be well worth looking at. Suso certainly would've heard of him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelino_Garc%C3%ADa_Toral

[OzVilla]

The reality is he has 2 games to save his job.  If he didn’t have the Villa fan credit in the bank I’m not even sure he’d have that as more fans would’ve turned by now.

As for replacements, I’ve absolutely no doubt calls will be being made now in case, just no idea to who.

[Toronto Villa]

Here is what I hope doesn’t happen. That if he’s going to be fired it’s not a prolonged thins over many weeks where we eek out a draw even a win but the fundamental issues remain. He’s still a Villa fan. He’s still one of us. He still got us up. And I would hope that his reputation as all of those things don’t suffer. For him or his family. Make it quick so he doesn’t start taking proper pelters from the fans. That would be very sad.

[LukeJames]

This is my fear to be honest, he deserves to go down in history as the guy that got us back. Im hoping the longer he stays that that doesnt diminish.

[AsTallAsLions]

Agreed, now is the time to get rid. Any later and the rot has set in, and the opportunity for a new man to come in with enough time to make a significant signing or two is lost.

But I fully expect they'll let him keep his job until after the Norwich game, by which point we could be effectively dead and buried.

[tomd2103]

Poch: Open to offers

Apart from Everton who he quickly dismissed when they approached him two weeks ago. He's not going to come to us. Plenty of other good managers would do.

Maybe the Villa project is more attractive and with better financial backing than Everton?

Poch may or may not be interested (probably not) but if Smith does go we really do have to look at bringing in a top quality manager and not an up-and-comer or someone who has won the Finnish league twice in a row or someone who has been number two to a much better manager.

If you want to go left field I think this guy would be well worth looking at. Suso certainly would've heard of him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelino_Garc%C3%ADa_Toral

Suso worked with Benitez at Valencia as well didn’t he?

[ROBBO]

The team we put out today will not beat Norwich.

[AsTallAsLions]

The team we put out today will not beat Norwich.

Agreed. It's all going to end in tears (and cabbages?) if it's allowed to drag on

[AVH87]

Let's be honest, Grealish was by far the biggest factor in us going up last season.

We won 2 in 13 while he was injured, then 10 in a row when he came back and showed he was head and shoulders above anyone else in the division. If he'd been injured a couple of weeks longer, we'd have finished mid table, Grealish would have been sold and we'd still be mid table there now.